Episode 36 - Adulting: Leaving the Parental Path

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What does it mean to separate from one’s parents and parental complexes—the attitudes and values that have been deeply instilled since infancy? How do we discern when we are in a parental complex, whether we are aligned with it or rebelling against it? What can we do to resolve the hold these complexes can have over us and become more of our unique, individuated selves?

The Dream:

I was in front of a white house. I felt like it belonged to me. Some creatures attacked. I remember two of them, one was blue and the other one red. The red one was called Prometheus. I also had allies with me, but I paid no attention to them as they were behind me. It was a fierce fight. We fought with the creatures and after awhile the creatures fled, except Prometheus. I fought with him, and in the end I subdued him, grabbing him by the head and speaking some kind of banishment to him. He collapsed. After the battle I withdrew to the house to rest. As I was catching my breath, I turned around and see Prometheus, now transformed into a lion with a fiery mane and glowing eyes. I roared like a lion trying to protect its territory and he roared back. We stood there for awhile and then he comes closer and tells me: “Don’t you see you’re everything to me?”

Kwame Scruggs’ work with young men can be accessed through:

alchemyinc.net/g-kwame-scruggs-ph-d/

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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	Hi, this is Lisa from this Union Life podcast.
0:35.0	Joseph Deb and I have been deeply moved by your responses to our work.
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1:15.0	Thank you.
1:17.0	Today we're going to be talking about adulting, leaving the parental path.
1:29.6	As the three of us have been sitting around hashing out topics. One of the things that naturally surfaced as we were comparing notes in our practice was how frequent the issue of separating from the attitudes and expectations of our parents
1:48.0	continues to be throughout the lifespan and even though many people assume that they're finished with
1:55.7	separating from their parents by the time they've gone through their teenage
1:59.9	rebellion or just by the time they've moved out of their parents house, many people are surprised
2:05.8	to find out that mom's values or dad's expectations are really cooking in the background influencing decisions for the next 40 years if we haven't been thinking about it.
2:18.0	Well, I mean, usually they influence us for life in one way or another, but right, I mean, there's the actual physical separation
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