PARENTAL COMPLEXES: How They Shape Your Child’s Future
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Our parent's complexes influence their behavior toward us, causing unintended consequences. It's as if we were raised by their unresolved emotional issues.
Parental complexes shape our emotional and psychological development, influencing how we relate to others and perceive ourselves, often in ways we aren’t fully aware of. These feeling-toned webs of unresolved emotional struggles unconsciously shape our parent’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors. To some degree, we are raised by our parent’s complexes rooted in generational trauma, cultural pressures, and societal expectations. As children, we absorb not only their spoken words but also their unspoken fears and desires, which affect our emotional responses and relationships throughout life. Healing begins with conscious awareness, self-reflection, and differentiating our natural personality from the parental patterns that colonized our psyche. By confronting these inherited patterns, we can break free from their grip, fostering healthier relationships and paving the way for emotional growth and transformation.
Prepare to discover what parental complexes are and how they shape your emotional and psychological development, how unconscious emotional patterns inherited from your parents influence your identity, relationships, and decision-making, which generational traumas and societal factors contribute to the formation of these complexes and their impact on your life, whether it is possible to break free from inherited emotional burdens and how to begin the healing process, why becoming conscious of these complexes is crucial for personal growth, emotional balance, and healthier relationships.
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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 at listener request many listeners we are going to engage in the question of how |
| 0:45.4 | parental complexes affect children and interestingly each of us went in a somewhat different direction. |
| 0:55.2 | Lisa, unsurprisingly, has a really good fairy tale for us. |
| 1:00.2 | And Joseph and I have looked more at childhood and various implications of and impacts of parental and other impressions on children. |
| 1:14.1 | So with all that, here we go. |
| 1:17.6 | So I just want to actually start by saying |
| 1:19.7 | that this was a topic that was voted on by supporters in our Patreon community and just |
| 1:26.3 | to remind you that if you would like to vote on future topics you can consider |
| 1:30.9 | becoming a patron you can go to our website disunionlife.com. Go to our |
| 1:36.8 | podcast and there's a link there on that page to our Patreon. And it's wonderful to have the the votes and the suggestions. They help us and |
| 1:48.8 | give you something that you're interested in listening to. |
| 1:54.2 | So who wants to jump into the pool first? |
| 1:58.6 | Well, all right, I will, I'll jump in a little bit that you know what what I started with was you know the |
| 2:09.2 | very earliest beginnings of a child as an infant in myth how the child is strong enough, the baby is |
| 2:19.2 | strong enough to survive, but is also very weak and very vulnerable. We want children to grow up. They are the future. We want them to realize their potential. And the theme of abandonment, which today we might |
| 2:38.5 | really frame as emotional abandonment, is all over the place with fairy tales and in mythology. So this topic |
| 2:47.3 | of parental complexes on children is as old as we are as homo sapiens. |
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