Episode 31 - Food Addiction
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Compulsive eating is a complicated psychological and biological problem. Food addiction can be a way of defending against unmet needs by displacing emotional hunger onto food. We discuss how infant experiences with eating and soothing can shape one’s relationship to food in adulthood. Two fairy tales tell of parents with insatiably devouring babies and illustrate the consequences of failure to develop affect regulation and how that can lead to various vulnerabilities to addiction.
The dream:
My skin (not sure what body part) had green mold on it, like the intense green mold that grows on an orange. When I try to peel it off, I discover it is about a centimeter thick and that it comes away in spongy chunks leaving a very uneven skin surface—once again, like the contrast between peel, pith, and segments of an orange. I feel alarmed. I stop peeling worrying the whole structure will collapse.
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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 young |
| 0:24.7 | Ian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian |
| 0:29.4 | analyst on Cape Cod. Hi, this is Joseph from this Union Life podcast. |
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| 1:14.2 | listeners for dream interpretations. Thank you. So we've been sitting around for a little while thinking about unquenchable desires and impulses. |
| 1:35.0 | And our conversation landed on food addiction, |
| 1:39.0 | which in one way is a national problem, |
| 1:42.0 | as obesity is rising, |
| 1:45.0 | not just across the United States, |
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