Episode 125 - The Provisional Life: Redeeming the Real

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

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday. If early life circumstances made over-conforming to others’ needs and expectations necessary, persona can be over-developed and shadow denied.

The person may orient to external sources for self-definition, acceptance and direction, because deep roots in shadow’s dark, fertile soil of authentic feeling and experience are lacking. The recovery and discovery of the true self comes from engaging the inner world: dreams, reverie, creative endeavors, service to something greater—and perhaps a wise guide on the road to wholeness.

Jung says, “If the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to helpless staleness...” Or we can be alive while we’re alive.

Dream

I find myself in an old abandoned church. I am climbing up a ladder and next to me is a being, half-bird & half-human. I feel attracted to her; I kiss her. In the next scene, I push her away from me.

Now she is a bird. Another person helps me to get the bird out of the church. The bird wants to come back in. I have a guilty conscience because I try to push her away from me. Now the bird person is back in the church. And in the last image, I find myself with her walking around the church and the being tells me "people can't fly because they don't have wings."

References

Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki).

Mary Oliver. When Death Comes and other poems.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean?
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0:09.0	Young wrote, Dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul.
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0:24.9	Our 12-month program provides the support, knowledge,
0:28.4	and guidance you need to reach within,
0:31.2	decipher your personal dream code,
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0:39.3	of fellow travelers, each pursuing a unique quest.
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0:45.0	Join us on an adventure to wholeness and healing through understanding your dreams.
0:50.0	Go to this Yungi Life.com and click on dream school.
0:54.0	You'll be taken to our secure check out.
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1:01.0	You can get started right away. We look forward to seeing
1:05.0	you there.
1:07.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
1:11.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
1:25.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
1:30.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1:35.4	I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. This week we wanted to talk about this concept known as the provisional life, which was something that Jung spoke about periodically in the collected works and in his letters.
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