Neurosis: Befriending Our Broken Places
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although neurosis is no longer a clinical diagnosis, it is often used to describe anxious attitudes and behaviors that are maladaptive to life situations. Neurosis often entails a capacity to function well despite feeling bad; emotional suffering leeches ease and pleasure from life. A neurotic symptom—a phobia, compulsion, or addictive tendency—is no different from a dream.
It is important to hear the unconscious story ego has disallowed, welcome fantasies, fears, and instinctual life, and understand their symbolic meaning. Symptoms ask us to know ourselves as we really are so that we can live the life we are meant to be living. Jung says neurosis “must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.” The purpose of neurosis is to help us discover our purpose.
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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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| 0:31.1 | 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 thisyongi-in-life.com and click on Dream School. |
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| 1:04.0 | We look forward to seeing you there. |
| 1:08.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:10.9 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:16.4 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 1:19.9 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, |
| 1:31.6 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, |
| 1:37.9 | on Cape Cod. |
| 1:50.0 | Today on the podcast, we wanted to unpack this idea of neurosis. |
| 1:59.4 | Neurosis is an older term that doesn't get talked about much now outside of psychoanalytic circles. |
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