Healing the Negative Father Complex
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The archetype of the father is associated with gods, kingship, and other images of authority and order. As the image of a “personified affect” fueled by an archetypal core, the father complex is powerful. In its negative aspect it may arise from a father who was experienced as absent, emotionally unavailable, passive, critical or abusive. Jung’s father complex influenced his adult relationship with Freud, to whom he wrote, "Let me enjoy your friendship not as that of equals but as that of father and son." Although the eventual break with Freud caused Jung years of inner turmoil, he later realized that they were also the deep source of all his subsequent work. Similarly, Charlotte Bronte and her sisters were able to use their father wounds for their literary creativity. Although healing the father complex can be difficult, taking on this inner task can provide energy for living more fully, freely, and individually.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Join us in DreamSchool at thisyunginlife.com and find out. |
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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:11.6 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:17.6 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective |
| 1:23.6 | to important issues of the day. |
| 1:26.6 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:30.3 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:35.3 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:51.1 | Today we're going to talk about the negative father complex and how we can heal from it. |
| 1:56.9 | We've done a previous episode on healing from a negative mother complex and several listeners wrote into us asking for us to address this topic and we agreed it was an important |
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