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This Jungian Life Podcast

Fairy Tales

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Why do Jungians care about fairy tales? What is their relevance in analysis? How do they differ from myths, and why do they matter to us still? Find out what fairy tales have mattered most to our clients, and why Lisa gets cranky when people criticize fairy tales for being sexist.
 
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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

And today we're going to be sifting through the topic of fairy tales

0:38.0

and their value in Jungian thought and Jungianian analysis.

0:44.0

Well, I love fairy tales.

0:47.0

Fairy tales are sort of my thing.

0:50.0

You know, there are many sort of areas of specialized interest in youngian work one of them is

0:56.5

alchemy and others mythology and other one's fairy tales religion there are some people who are really into typology. very to really come at Young through

1:12.5

psychodynamic theories like object relations.

1:15.8

And it's all good.

1:17.0

It's all good.

1:17.6

I mean, you know, it's like a house with many doors

1:20.4

and you can get in through any one of the doors.

1:23.0

Fairy tales, just for me, that's one of my doors.

1:26.6

What I'm thinking about is that things like neuroscience

1:30.5

typology and other kinds of things are not quite in the realm of symbolic material,

1:39.6

the way that fairy tales are, or mythology, religious symbols, forms and

1:47.1

symbols and themes in art, and that for or alchemy, the unconscious and how the unconscious and how the unconscious organizes and patterns archetypal material,

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