Episode 49 - Dietary Over-regulation and the Pursuit of Purity

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Preoccupation and obsession with food–a condition called orthorexia--can take the form of the quest for health and purity, with rigid rules about food categories, such as the need for all-organic ingredients or omitting food groups such as dairy, sugar, and gluten in the absence of identified physiological intolerances. This overall effort to banish anxiety can take the form of an implicit bargain (eating “right” guarantees health), a strong need for ego control, elitism, specific community values, and banishing shadow by projecting it onto “bad” foods. The person may be also be seeking connection with the archetypal, or religious realm that has become concretized around food.

The Dream:

I am in a large multilevel food court in a mall which is very empty. I'm carrying a tray of food and I'm looking for my mom who I know is somewhere in the food court and I want to sit and eat with her. As I walk through the food court I become distracted looking at the food stalls. One stall, in particular, catches my attention, through a window behind the service counter I see a bustling kitchen scene, many chefs cooking, lots of steam and smoke and fire leaping into the air. I want to eat the food from this stall. As I'm looking through the window at the kitchen, I realize the window is a TV screen and the kitchen scene is just a video. I awake.

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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	We wanted to start our episode off today by saying thank you to all of
0:37.4	our patrons who support us on Patreon. Your support makes such a difference to us. It helps us produce and
0:44.8	distribute these podcasts and it lets us know that you value them so we
0:49.3	appreciate you very much and we also wanted to express our appreciation to everyone who writes in
0:56.7	via email or on Facebook or on Twitter you all say such lovely things and it means so much to us and I just want to let you know if you
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1:18.1	But we're always interested in having more so if you would like to kind of give us a tip, you can do that in a non-monetary way by
1:26.9	reviewing us on iTunes. Thank you. And today, thanks to a listener, we are going to talk about dietary over-regulation and the pursuit of purity.
1:40.0	And our listener, Elena Potopchuck, whose name I hope I've pronounced correctly, wrote in with a lot of back and forth discussion subsequent to our podcast on food addiction.
1:54.0	And that has led us into today's topic,
1:58.0	which is an over-regulated interest in eating foods that are supposedly very, very healthy or very pure,
2:09.3	very particular.
2:11.2	So it's not dieting, but it is an over focus on food.
2:17.0	So what are we thinking of in particular here?
2:20.4	What are some examples? First, let me start with the name that Elena has for this.
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