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.

On today's podcast, we're going to try to unpack the idea of narcissism.

What are the different kinds of narcissism and how can we relate to it in ourselves?

And I think try to approach narcissism from a broad

multi-leveled approach to look at the myth, when is narcissism healthy or unhealthy, some narcissists can be very dependent and people

pleasing, others can be very dominating, but it's a very broad and rich category of phenomena of the human psyche.

So let's start as we often do with a myth or a fairy tale because that connects us to the archetypal deep tap route of whatever it is we're talking about.

So there is a myth, the myth of narcissists, a couple of different versions.

So we'll talk about the Roman myth of narcissists, and it starts out that

narcissists parents were worried by the extraordinary beauty of their child.

And so they go and visit the Prophet Tyresius to consult about the child's future.

Tyresius tells them that the boy would grow old only if he did not get to know himself.

When Narcissus was a young man around 16,

he was walking in the woods and the nymph echo saw him

and fell madly in love with him, was following him, and when narcissists sensed that someone was near him and called out, who's there?

Echo would simply respond, who's there? there. to embrace the boy who rebuffed her and pulled away and ordered her to leave.

Echo was left heartbroken and spent the rest of her life in Glens until nothing but the

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