SHITHOLE: what are we projecting when we say it?

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

We discuss the symbolic meaning of shit, and shithole, and wonder about shadow projection. What does Trump’s use of this term have to tell us about his psyche – and ours?

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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 young
0:24.3	I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a
0:28.6	youngian analyst on Cape Cod. And today we are going to join the rest of the country in reveling in the idea of the
0:37.9	shithole. We are going to probe this archetype. We are going to splunk its deep meanings and get our sleeves
0:48.4	rolled up and plunge in to the whole idea of the shit and the shit hole which is appearing everywhere, a word that
0:59.3	normally is not used in polite society.
1:02.6	We're turning on the television.
1:04.8	Newscasters are saying shit hole.
1:07.7	People are embarrassed about it,
1:09.9	but they can't seem to stop saying it.
1:13.6	So what is it about the idea of the shihole
1:17.2	that we just can't move beyond?
1:23.0	Partly, I think everyone has caught onto this phrase because the President of the United States said it and said it about African countries and our
1:37.2	geographic neighbor Haiti and it is such a shock to hear not only the language but the horrible sort of pejorative, if I may, feeling about these things,
1:51.6	that people are jolted by it.
1:54.4	And in some peculiar way, it seems to have legitimized
1:57.9	the use of this word shithole,
2:00.2	since the president said it, we might as you know all go for it and of course it's a way of
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