Loyalty to Self and the Death of Illusion
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 August 2024
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Loyalty is deeply tied to our identity and evolves unconsciously, shaping our relationships and expectations.
This evolution is influenced by attachment styles and can be manipulated in political contexts, distorting our sense of fairness. Disillusionment occurs when our loyalty to people, institutions, or ideas meets harsh reality, leading to the painful but necessary process of individuation. Mourning the loss of illusions requires taking responsibility for our lives and listening to the wisdom of the unconscious. Choosing Self over the system—whether through personal decisions like coming out, whistleblowing, or defying societal norms—demands courage and authenticity. This choice often comes at a great cost but is essential for true personal growth. Embracing our uniqueness and living authentically leads to true freedom and belonging. Loyalty to Self is about identifying and following the wise voice within, despite external pressures. It involves facing the consequences of stepping away from collective norms and rejecting external expectations. Ultimately, it is through this loyalty to Self that we align with our true purpose in life.
Prepare to discover what drives the unconscious forces of loyalty and the impact of disillusionment on personal growth, how to navigate the complexities of choosing self over societal expectations and align with your true nature, which patterns of attachment influence your relationships and decisions, leading to either authentic or misguided loyalties, whether embracing individuality and rejecting illusions can lead to true freedom and belonging, why it is essential to confront and integrate the unconscious for personal authenticity and fulfillment…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 loyalty and the flip side. |
| 0:37.0 | Today we are going to talk about loyalty and the flip sides of betrayal, transgression, and more. |
| 0:51.4 | So just to start us off with a framework here is a definition for loyalty. |
| 0:58.8 | A commitment to support, believe, or buy from someone or something, even one faced with challenges or alternatives. |
| 1:10.0 | Loyalty has to do with how we perceive ourselves, it can have to do with identity, and it certainly |
| 1:18.9 | is part of social glue that ties people to groups and fosters feelings of security and |
| 1:27.4 | belonging we all have to have some basic rules that we agree on for conducting ourselves and what we can depend on from others. |
| 1:38.0 | And we start out having to |
| 1:45.0 | parent figures and caretakers. |
| 1:49.0 | And then where does it go |
| 1:51.0 | as we start to grow up and encounter all the things life faces us with? |
| 1:57.1 | So this seems like a particularly timely topic because so many people are clinging to an idea of political loyalty, being loyal |
| 2:08.7 | to a particular political party, being loyal to a philosophy, being loyal to one political leader or another, |
| 2:19.4 | and sometimes either to ourselves or as we observe other people we may find this mysterious |
| 2:27.2 | and hard to understand. So hopefully today's podcast is going to shed a little bit of light on what are we seeing and how |
| 2:36.7 | can we understand something about human nature secondary to whatever we happen to be loyal to. |
| 2:45.0 | The first thing that I'd like to just throw on the table is that |
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