Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, 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.

I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.

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.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod.

Today we're going to be talking about this new buzz phrase that seems to be showing up in

media toxic masculinity.

What is it?

What isn't it? How is it being understood? Perhaps how it is being misunderstood? And how can we deconstruct this as

Jungian analysts in a way that we can metabolize it and maybe find a deeper meaning,

maybe there's something that the culture is trying to speak to and trying to find language for. So toxic masculinity, I'm wondering in terms of

in terms of the feminine, in terms of the social justice sphere, how is the term

being used? This has sort of caught my attention recently because it does seem like it's become a buzz phrase and I always find myself getting curious about phrases that sort of enter the common parlance in this way, sort of what is that about?

And you know, I think there's many ways to think about the term toxic masculinity and I think it could have some validity. I think it's often getting

used to imply that maleness itself is toxic. I think so too. I think that that's an old story, the kind of man-bashing.

And actually if we can look back to cartoons even from the 50s and you know seeing Dagwood as this kind of

of moronic husband who is constantly sticking his foot in his mouth or is clueless

about how to function outside of some narrow office position.

This is an old kind of story, but I think that with the Me Too movement coming forward,

there's a ferocity about this idea that men or toxic or anything that men touch

is somehow spoiled.

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