Retirement
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The life transition we call retirement mandates a major readjustment in how time, energy and money are spent, whether retirement means becoming a “snowbird” or having a stepped-down lifestyle. Work has structured the rhythm of life and time; most have found aspects of identity, status, and socialization at work, regardless of how fulfilling, arduous or well paid it may have been. Shakespeare’s King Lear and the Greek myth of Baucis and Philemon illustrate contrasting inner attitudes and their outcomes. Jung believed that the second half of life had a prospective and healing function in the psyche. If retirement can be considered redirection, these years hold promise: life can now be oriented to internal life and meaning, especially awareness of the ego’s secondary place in relation to the Self.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, |
| 0:07.0 | Deborah 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 Marchiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:22.6 | I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.5 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. |
| 0:36.9 | So today's podcast is going to be on retirement. |
| 0:41.5 | And although this may seem ubiquitous to many of us in the culture, |
| 0:46.4 | retirement issues show up in the consulting room very, very frequently. |
| 0:51.7 | There are powerful statistics that a large percentage of people are depressed |
| 0:57.1 | shortly after retiring, that other kinds of health concerns can suddenly skyrocket after people |
| 1:02.8 | retire. But when they come into the consulting room, they're struggling with feelings of uselessness. |
| 1:09.0 | They're struggling to find where the meaning is in their |
| 1:12.2 | lives again. And on the other side, some people retire into a kind of blissful expansion of |
| 1:18.4 | their lives. But for everybody, retirement is a very complicated transition. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, and maybe the thing to start out with out of the gate is that many people can't |
| 1:30.8 | retire, at least in the traditional sense that we think about it, because they haven't |
| 1:36.3 | been able to save enough. |
| 1:37.3 | And so they're looking at kind of later years having to continue to try to earn. |
| 1:43.3 | So that's an important consideration too. |
| 1:46.6 | The reality of modern life. But I'd like to start just with looking at the word retirement. |
| 1:53.5 | Oh, that's just where I am. Yeah. To retire, you know, people, you might see in an old movie, |
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