Midlife Crisis: Renewal or Stagnation
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own midlife crisis he found himself so surprisingly generative. We tend to spend the first half of life oriented to familial values and cultural norms for success. Education, work, partnering and child rearing are some of the mile markers for speed and distance on the road of life—until midlife strikes. We may then discover that worldly successes feel flat, or blame discontent on bad breaks. Although dramatic lifestyle changes at midlife are the stuff of story, malaise at the midpoint is psyche’s signal to attend to unlived inner life. It is time for meaningful encounter between ego and unconscious, worldly rewards and true fulfillment, obligation and freedom. Midlife crisis is a call to deepened feeling and the unique meaning of your life.
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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. |
| 0:09.4 | Jung wrote, dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul. |
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| 0:23.6 | world. Our 12-month program provides the support, knowledge, and guidance you need to reach within, |
| 0:31.1 | decipher your personal dream code, and harness it to optimize your life. By enrolling, you'll join an affirming community of fellow travelers, |
| 0:40.8 | each pursuing a unique quest. |
| 0:43.6 | And it's fun. |
| 0:45.0 | Join us on an adventure to wholeness and healing through understanding your dreams. |
| 0:50.1 | Go to thisyongyeinLife.com and click on Dream School. |
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| 1:01.7 | You can get started right away. |
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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:12.0 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:17.5 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:27.1 | 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, in Cape Cod. |
| 1:52.3 | Today, we are going to talk about Midlife, which a number of listeners have requested, |
| 1:58.3 | and which was a really significant part of Carl Jung's work. |
| 2:05.7 | He was really the first psychologist to map the trajectory of the second half of life. Most before that focused on the formative childhood years and traumas and so on. |
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