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 young

analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on

Cape Cod. So today we're going to talk about a very subtle and delicate process that I think all of us are familiar

with and that we see throughout nature the impulse to hide.

When I get in touch with this in myself in a soulful way, the image of a sea anemone rises up and thinking about

you know that part of myself that if anything touches it that there's a part of me that will just, you know, back down to the bottom there and perhaps not come back up and relax into the water again until things feel very safe and very calm.

And I think about Jung talking about man's spiritual faculties being so delicate that they are like flowers that only bloom at night.

So the parts of us that are deeply vulnerable and perhaps not even

vulnerable but delicate that use hiding as a way of being in the world.

I wonder if there's something we can say about that.

I'm thinking about how hiding appears in fairy tales,

which I think of as our sort of psychic bones.

They've been around for thousands and thousands of years because they're deeply

embedded in the collective in the human psyche. So I go there first and think of

Jack after he made that really seemingly bad deal and sold the cow for some seeds and climbed up and there was the big

place in the air, house in the air with the giant and the giant's wife.

And he hid of when something is bigger than we are,

when we're up against something that's giant, and it's big and we're up against something that's giant and it's big and we're small, which of course is the story of

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