Early Abandonment

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing traumas of early relational abandonment. Jung articulated the archetypal foundation of what later psychologists came to call attachment theory. In an infant’s primal state of identification with a mothering other, lack of caregiver availability and attunement constitutes psychic abandonment. This is depicted in fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and the more recent film, Pan’s Labyrinth. Both image of the inner world of the emotionally abandoned child: the archetypal world first comes forward to protect the abandoned child, only to become persecutory, like the witch in Hansel and Gretel. Abandonment may become internalized, manifesting as denial of one’s own feelings and needs. Getting in touch with one’s longing for a loving other, and grieving early loss is often the road to redemption.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano,
0:07.0	Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
0:12.0	that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.5	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.5	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst in Cape Cod.
0:36.5	Today we are going to talk about a very big topic, the topic of abandonment.
0:44.0	It can be anything as profound as an infant that has been abandoned.
0:50.8	It's a topic that we very frequently find in mythology and fairy tales and movies.
0:58.0	It can be something that happens later in life if one feels abandoned by a partner, for example.
1:07.0	It relates to the archetypal world and to the Jungian complex idea and to trauma, of course.
1:17.3	So with that as a kind of very broad brush attempt at providing an umbrella or an arc for our topic today, let's begin. Well, when we started kicking this around,
1:30.6	the first place that it led me was into this important body of research and theory in
1:38.4	psychotherapy called attachment theory. There's been a lot written about it and a lot of research done and it's
1:45.7	something that we're understanding better all the time. And that is how very important our
1:52.5	early attachment to our caregivers is and how it kind of prepares us for how we're going to relate to others later in life.
2:06.0	And so any kind of childhood abandonment can have a profound effect on our psyches.
2:14.1	Yes, we come into the world wired for attachment. That is a defining characteristic of our species.
2:23.3	And the need for touch, the need for sound, all of that is so basic to our becoming truly human, that it's impossible to overstate it. I have been
2:38.8	absolutely taken with how physical touch can actually physically regulate a baby's body temperature,
2:46.8	that eye contact makes neurons in the right brain hemisphere fire, listening to language at,
2:55.8	you know, an hour after birth, and we sing to our babies and we talk to them when they're
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