Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.

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.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. Today we're going to explore the intersection of skin and psyche and

exploring the

intersection of skin andy and exploring the skin not just as our largest organ

but as a psychophysical symbol

Skin is a vast communication network and it betrays our ego that often wants to appear in control.

So we often feel uncomfortably seen when we flush with embarrassment or go white when we're afraid or we

suddenly sweat when we're on a first date and it also parades through our common metaphors.

Something is skin deep, thick skin, thin skin,

getting under my skin, saved my skin.

I got skin in the game, skinning a cat. It's kind of all over the place like our skin and it's more than a physical barrier

protecting us from the external environment.

It also represents a boundary between our inner selves

and the outer world, and skin can communicate all kinds of psychic tensions.

From basic defenses to complexes,

it's an interface between our psychological selves and the outer world.

And so we're going to talk about skin.

Well, maybe I'll start off with this kind of famous psycho-elitic observation that Freud said that the first ego is a body ego,

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