Emotional Affairs
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We take a look at emotional affairs and imaginal affairs. Both are more common than you might think and can lead us into an experience of our own depths.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.0 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. |
| 0:31.0 | Today we're exploring in a manner of speaking emotional affairs. So what |
| 0:38.5 | are we thinking about emotional affairs versus physical ones. |
| 0:44.4 | I assume that that's why we're being careful to call them emotional affairs. |
| 0:50.6 | The first distinction that I would make in my own thinking is the difference between an emotional affair and an imaginal affair. |
| 1:00.0 | Oh. |
| 1:01.0 | Because I think that an emotional affair is founded on actual interactions with a living person. |
| 1:12.0 | And in my practice practice I've often seen |
| 1:14.6 | imaginal affairs where one person is fixated |
| 1:19.7 | with a tremendous amount of focus and dedication on another person that is not founded in reality at all. |
| 1:26.0 | Oh, that is so. What an interesting differentiation. |
| 1:30.0 | And both can be experienced as a form of betrayal to the spouse. |
| 1:35.0 | Sure. |
| 1:36.0 | Because all of this life force, all of this energy and attention, |
| 1:40.0 | has left the marriage. |
| 1:42.0 | But I think, of course, one is less threatening than the other. |
| 1:45.0 | Are you thinking about an imaginal affair as being something that takes place perhaps online? |
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