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 Virginia Beach, Virginia.

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

And today we wanted to talk about sin and transgression.

Profound ancient ideas at around a long time.

Yep.

So why don't we start with what our understanding of sin is and how it overlaps with and is different

from transgression.

Years ago, someone had let me know that the word

sin is an archery term, that when someone is shooting at a target

and they miss the bull'se that it's recorded in the tally sheet as a sin.

So one way that I think about sin is missing the mark of perfection.

Which then begs a second question of who is determining the bullseye?

Who is it the culture that tells us what we should be shooting for?

Is it the individual that has self-determined,

you know, what they're shooting for?

And on a certain level, any time we set a goal or a bullseye at a conscious level and that's

thwarted or we fail it, there is a reaction inside of us, a change in our self-esteem, our self-confidence, even if missing

the bullside was good for us, perhaps ultimately, that something better came out of it, but not being able to chart our own course to the bullseye is a painful thing.

I can see a difference. I'm thinking about this missing the mark, of that if a student wants to get good

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