Dissociation: Encountering Our Inner Exile
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Jung discovered the psyche’s dissociative nature through his Word Association Test. Subjects would delay or make nonsensical responses to ordinary words associated with troublesome personal memories or traumas. Dissociation, our autonomous psychic “circuit breaker,” exists on a spectrum from ”spacing out” to disorders that interfere with life functioning. Psychotherapy could be considered the practice of healing dissociations, as treatment entails bringing banished contents into consciousness with feeling and understanding. Fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty frequently depict dissociation as enchantment, abduction, or dismemberment. Reconnection with consciousness is the happily-ever-after resolution, for dissociation takes psychic energy that should be available for life. Giving our inner exiles a seat at the table of consciousness is crucial to wholeness.
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| 1:09.3 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:11.7 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:17.2 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological |
| 1:22.3 | perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:30.9 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:53.3 | This week, we are going to talk about dissociation, a topic that was suggested by a listener, |
| 2:04.3 | and that is really very much at the heart of Jungian theory and concepts. We're going to talk about it from just a very human experiential viewpoint, because from a Jungian viewpoint, it refers to an unconscious kind of |
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