REUNIONS: Is there value in remembering our younger selves?

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Deb and Joe are Jungian Analysts, authors, training analysts, and co-creators of This Jungian Life Podcast. [Lisa was away lecturing this week.]

Most of us feel anxious at the thought of reliving the complicated and often painful experiences of our youth. When we receive a school reunion notice, we might be tempted to ignore it. Yet, on an archetypal level, we are drawn to re-unifying our current and past identities. If we accept the invitation, we may find unexpected joy and forgotten memories that restore something inside us.

Prepare to discover why we plan and attend reunions, whether healing comes from reexperiencing our younger self, how Deb and Joe were affected by attending their reunions, whether it's worth the effort to reconnect with school friends, what's the best attitude to bring to a reunion, and even more…

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Martiano,
0:07.0	Debra 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.
0:18.0	I'm Lisa Martiano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.0	I'm Debra Stewart, a Jungian analyst and Cape Cod.
0:37.0	Today, we're going to talk about reunions.
0:42.0	And the reason this topic came up is that I have just returned from a undergraduate reunion this weekend.
0:51.0	A bunch of us went and traveled to upstate New York to meet at the wonderful home of a friend of ours tucked in the mountains.
1:02.0	And I suppose maybe it's a fact that we're all in our 60s that there was a deeper soulful.
1:11.0	This is this is the class of 1925.
1:15.0	For that age, but no, this was this was the we all came into the school of 1980.
1:22.0	And it was as it has been so impactful to me in each several years when we come together.
1:30.0	There's a different tone that is brought forward.
1:36.0	There was something a little more soulful and sober in some ways about this reunion.
1:43.0	Some of us were wondering if that's because we're in our 60s, but we also were reflecting on who came to the reunion, who didn't come, who's too anxious to come.
1:56.0	Why we speculate that would be why some of us are almost euphoric to see each other again.
2:03.0	And it brought up just how remarkably complicated it is to return and to gather together.
2:12.0	And sit in all of the different kinds of memories that are revoked in each other's presence.
2:20.0	So today we just thought we would we'd riff on reunions and try to make a better sense about it.
2:27.0	You know what comes up for me in this context is our usual chat about asking people to support us on Patreon.
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