Seeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy Theories
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2020
⏱️ 64 minutes
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DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!In times of uncertainty truth is hard to discern, collective cohesion frays, and social factions become embattled. Unmediated shadow then seeks expression through the archetypal realm and takes on extra-ordinary attributes. Persecutory mythologies arise, for big psychic situations need big stories to compensate for big feelings of anxiety, powerlessness, and marginalization.
Insecurities are projected onto the outer-world as clandestine enemies of mythic proportions: alien rulers, government cabals, and other images of secret domination. Understanding conspiracy theories as symbolic expressions of unconscious contents can allow us to take them seriously without taking them literally. We may then respond with consciousness and empathy instead of judgment--and begin to shift the collective psychic field toward wholeness.
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| 1:08.4 | 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. Welcome to this Jungian life and our topic for today, which is conspiracy theories. |
| 1:51.8 | I wonder if it has seemed to you, as I think it seems to many of us, that we are living in kind of a post-fact world. |
| 2:00.3 | And there are many, many stories and all kinds of activation |
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