Episode 41 - Regret

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Along with a our guest podcast Brazilian Jungian analyst Leticia Capriotti, we explored the psychological underpinnings of regret. We considered that sometimes regret can arise as a result of self-betrayal. We link it to the unlived life that can haunt us and demand our attention. At times, this unlived life may reach into the ancestral past, as we struggle with inter-generational patterns. We discuss how sometimes this can lead to new creative endeavors, but at other times, there may need to be a painful sacrifice of fantasy before regret can be transformed. To avoid bitterness, we must come to love our fate, which involves sanctifying the ordinary.

We discussed the work of genogram expert Monica McGoldrick.

The Dream:

It is the middle of the night & I am in the shadowy living area of what appears to be an English mansion house. The room is large and high ceilinged, but is dark & shadowy. My attention is focused on a dimly lit table, where I am standing and packing to depart. I am packing my final suitcase with books - a companion is bringing the books to me but who that person is is unclear (perhaps my young adult son). The books are hard covered and old, thick & weighty. I don't know the titles - but they are from a prolific 19th century English male author who I have never felt the need to read, yet I'm taking the care to pack these. I'm sorting the books & packing with haste. While I'm in charge of the packing, I worry about what I am doing. The books are so thick and heavy & take up so much space - will I even be able to carry the suitcase? Is it a mistake packing these...will I read them?...why take these, why now, at this time? I seem to finish sorting, although I leave everything in the shadowy room. I open the heavy door made of dark wood to peer into the shadowy entryway where my other small suitcases are standing. I peak out into the darkness, keeping my eye out for danger but also for the unknown person who will come to take us away.

Transcript

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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 youngie and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a young
0:24.6	analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on
0:30.3	Cape Cod. So in today's episode, we're very excited to be in Cincinnati, Ohio.
0:36.6	We're all here for the Interregional Society of Youngian Analysts conference.
0:42.1	We're a bunch of youngians from all over the country and from all over the world
0:46.1	come together to share and revivify relationships and friendships and we are very excited to have a guest here.
0:57.0	Lecchizia Capriocchi, who practices in southern Brazil in the town of Curitiba is joining us and would you like to say a bit?
1:07.6	Of course I'd like to thank you for inviting me to be here. I'm a great fan of the show. I've been listening you from the start and I'd like to say that you do a great
1:18.0	service to the union community. I mean it's fabulous what you do and the way you do it I think I was once reflecting upon it and I feel that the way your conversation goes is much, it's very similar to an analysis session.
1:36.1	I mean things just flow and things come up and then all of a sudden you
1:41.1	weave together things and then you have something done and it's it's
1:46.4	fabulous to see that and I want to thank you for inviting us to listen to you and
1:51.4	when I listen to you I feel like I'm in you know at a bar with you
1:57.2	at the table and it's great to be really be a part of the conversation today. Thank you.
2:05.0	And I really hope I don't regret it.
2:08.0	Well, that's a great segue because that is exactly what we're going to talk about today is regret and how it may
2:18.1	relate to remorse and perhaps grief and we'll see where it takes us but we've all had regrets. It's a very human
2:27.2	emotion and process. So let's see if we can unpack it a little bit together.
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