Episode 50 - Shopping
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Everyone shops—we have access to an astonishing choice of products. Internet shopping has multiplied our range of options beyond what nearby retail stores may have to offer. Desired items range from mountain climbing trucks to gold jewelry to highly specialized cookware items. What are we seeking for our inner selves as we shop for outer objects? For some, utilitarian objects carry libido, whereas for others shopping is an aesthetic, adventurous, relational, or aspirational experience. Joseph, Deb and Lisa explore the possible personal meanings of shopping.
The Dream:
Winter. I'm in a remote cabin with a group of young people. Cabin is old and empty, with holes in the walls, and freezing drafts going back and forth. I feel terribly out of place, unsure who are these young people, and why I'm here with them, in this god forsaken place. Under the floor we find a frozen body of an old man: white beard, white hair, calm face as if in deep contemplation. We don't know who he is.
Suddenly, a swarm of reptiles coming at us - strange snake-like chimeric creatures. Their attack is vicious. I have a clay tablet in my hands and I use it as a shield against them. Suddenly, the attack is over. I look at my clay tablet and I see that where the reptiles attacked there is a writing in the ancient language that I wish I'd understand but I don't. I want to leave but the young people are begging me to stay. I open the door and find myself face to face with an old and gorgeous winter forest. My heart aches with longing to walk into the forest, and I decide to stay.
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 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 | So today we're going to be talking about shopping which is |
| 0:34.8 | something that many of us have a lot of energy for and can take on significant |
| 0:40.7 | meaning. This topic was actually suggested to us by my sister so we just |
| 0:46.3 | want to sort of dedicate today's episode to my sister. I don't know where the two of you are exactly with this but I am very enthusiastic about it. |
| 0:58.0 | There is something of the call to adventure for me in shopping. |
| 1:05.0 | The treasure is out there and I am on the hero's journey, |
| 1:11.0 | the quest. I am quest after the gold and I can also volunteer that this is a week |
| 1:19.8 | that I am back in Brooklyn. And so there are many opportunities |
| 1:25.6 | that I'm delighted to avail myself of |
| 1:28.7 | for poking my nose into a shop here and there and seeing what no treasure might await me. |
| 1:37.0 | So it evokes this image of the cornucopia that you know these boutiques are just endless cornucopias with goods and |
| 1:44.9 | wonderful things just flowing out of them. I also think shopping is so |
| 1:49.8 | so informed by family dynamics like in family, we came out of a real working class family, |
| 1:56.8 | so shopping was deeply integrated with the bargain, finding the bargain. |
| 2:04.0 | So it was a huge event like any time you shopped, |
| 2:07.8 | you had to like bring it home and then you had to show it off |
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