Matthew Quick on Jung, heartbreak, and healing in his new novel We Are the Light.
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
Matthew Quick, author of The Silver Linings Playbook, shares himself and his new book, We Are the Light. Writer’s block led Quick to This Jungian Life podcast, analysis, and letter writing as a literary device. Letters free us even as the privacy of the page dares us to reveal ourselves, risk intimacy, and express our longing to be received. Lucas, the main character, rediscovers himself through faithful letters to his former Jungian analyst after a movie theater shooting takes 18 lives, including his wife’s. Fragile, valiant, and humorously naive, Lucas Goodgame plays the game of life that Jung termed individuation. Lucas plays with all his heart, and his alliance with an alienated teen ignites the magic of healing in surprising ways. Did Quick create Lucas—or was Lucas waiting for Quick to unblock and let him in? Our conversation sheds light on the relationship between author and character, creativity and healing, Jungian analysis and soul. This book is about the angels and grace that lead us from grieving to living—and love.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:03.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Martiano, |
| 0:07.0 | Debra Stewart and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 0:12.0 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm Lisa Martiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Debra Stewart, a Jungian analyst and Cape Cod. |
| 0:38.0 | Today on the podcast, we are delighted to have with us Matthew Quick. |
| 0:43.0 | And Matthew is the New York Times best-selling author of the Silverlinings Playbook, |
| 0:50.0 | which was made into an Oscar-winning film and eight other novels. |
| 0:55.0 | His work has been translated into more than 30 languages, |
| 0:59.0 | received a Penn Hemingway Award Honorable mention, |
| 1:03.0 | was an LA Times book prize finalist, |
| 1:06.0 | a New York Times book review editor's choice, |
| 1:09.0 | a number one bestseller in Brazil, |
| 1:12.0 | a 2016 German youth literature prize nominee, |
| 1:16.0 | and selected by Nancy Pearl as one of the summer's best books for NPR. |
| 1:21.0 | The Hollywood Reporter has named him one of Hollywood's 25 most powerful authors, |
| 1:27.0 | and Matthew lives with his wife, the novelist, Alicia Beset, |
| 1:31.0 | on North Carolina's Outer Banks. |
| 1:34.0 | And we have Matthew with us here today because he has a new book coming out, |
| 1:40.0 | which is just released on November 1st. |
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