IDENTITY CRISIS: When Our Story Falls Apart
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
How can understanding and reshaping our personal narratives help us navigate and overcome identity crises during major life transitions?
A Narrative Identity Crisis occurs when the evolving story we create to make sense of our lives—integrating past experiences, present realities, and future aspirations—becomes disrupted, leading to profound disorientation and psychological distress. This crisis can be triggered by significant life changes, traumatic events, or conflicting social and cultural pressures, causing our coherent self-narrative to fragment. Memory, meaning-making, and emotional regulation are all impacted as we struggle to reconcile our self-concept with new experiences. Addressing a Narrative Identity Crisis involves reflection, support, and often therapeutic intervention to rebuild a stable, adaptive narrative that restores our sense of meaning, direction, and psychological well-being.
Prepare to discover what a personal life story is and how it integrates past experiences, present realities, and future aspirations into a coherent sense of self; how individual narratives shape our psychological well-being, influence our emotions, and guide our understanding of life events; which cognitive and emotional processes contribute to constructing and maintaining a coherent self-narrative; whether disruptions in our self-concept can lead to identity crises and the potential for growth and transformation through these crises; why engaging with and reconstructing personal narratives is crucial for emotional regulation, resilience, and overall psychological health...and so much more.
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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. Today we are going to talk about the stories we create, the narratives we create, the way we make meaning out of what |
| 0:47.1 | we experience. So there is a big differentiation between you know all kinds of mental processes in between |
| 0:55.9 | what we feel what we experience in the moment and then how we remember it, what we think it means, how we make sense out of it. |
| 1:07.0 | And both of these systems which date back to Plato and all the way up to a recent book called Thinking Fast and Slow |
| 1:17.6 | are as old as time and as difficult for us to step back, think about, and be choiceful about. |
| 1:27.4 | So with that, let us begin. |
| 1:31.5 | The first time I ever came across this idea was I was reading and somebody |
| 1:36.1 | quoted in proverbs as a man thinks in his heart so is he. |
| 1:43.6 | And I came across that in my teenage years |
| 1:46.9 | when I was getting involved in kind of mysticism. |
| 1:49.6 | And it was the first time that I really |
| 1:51.9 | came to appreciate that there is a profound relationship |
| 1:55.8 | between the way I think about myself and things and how the world is shaped around me. And that was a revelation as a kid that I had never heard such a thing. |
| 2:06.3 | That's great. That's great. You know, Tubb, you mentioned Plato and Joseph, you mentioned the Old |
| 2:12.1 | Testament. And you know know there's some thinking about this that that you know Carl Jasper's coined the term the axial age and it was this time period you, sort of roughly around 800 |
| 2:23.4 | BC when all of these wisdom traditions were beginning, |
| 2:26.7 | both, you know, Plato and the Old Testament |
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