Stoicism and Jungian Psychology: A Recipe for Resilience

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

🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Stoicism and Jungian psychology are a natural fit. The first invigorates and organizes the reasoning mind, and the second ensouls it.

The amalgam of Stoicism and Jungian Psychology generates a natural resilience. It offers a frame to understand the interplay of reason, emotion, and imagination in service to inner growth. Integrated philosophical reflection empowers us to confront societal crises and develop autonomy through rational self-awareness. Inclusive Stoicism connects personal development to shared human values. The ancient discipline of clear thinking can heal us through narrative coherence, emotional management, and the integration of unconscious material. Combined with imagination, we gain tools to interpret emotions that help us navigate life. From this vantage, the modern epidemic of anxiety is seen as unmet potential in search of purposeful action and the cultivation of virtue as a template for a meaningful life. The ancient stoics explored the concept of the greatest good and found it in the wholesome and generous interconnectedness of individuals and society.

Prepare to discover what shapes the interplay between reason, emotion, and imagination, how practices of self-cultivation foster resilience, adaptability, and a deeper meaning, which virtues and approaches lead to the integration of inner life with collective well-being, whether balancing rationality and emotional insight can support wholeness, why cultivating inner strength and understanding interconnectedness are essential for navigating complexity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:04.2	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,
0:09.7	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:19.4	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,
0:24.9	and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,
0:31.1	and Cape Cod.
0:48.8	Thank you. Well, hello. You may be wondering what happened to Joseph. He looks a little different today.
0:59.1	Now, Joseph couldn't join us this morning. He was feeling a little under the weather, but we are so delighted to have our colleague, John White, with us here today.
1:06.9	John and I were in training together, and I think the first time I met you, we wound up going to dinner together. And I laughed so hard. My stomach hurt. So, yeah, it's just always so fun to be with you,
1:14.8	John. And I've been wanting to get you on the podcast. And there's so many things, honestly,
1:20.5	that we could talk about with John. But today, we asked him to come on to talk about stoicism.
1:25.9	So we're interested in the connection between stoicism and
1:29.0	psychoanalysis, between stoicism and Jung, and also between stoicism and just, you know, living a good
1:35.8	life now. So John White is a Jungian psychoanalyst and mental health counselor in private practice in
1:42.2	Pittsburgh, PA. He is the coordinator of the
1:45.8	C.G. Young Institute analyst training program in Pittsburgh and president-elect of the board of
1:51.9	the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center. Besides his work as a psychotherapist and training analyst,
1:57.4	he is a doctorate in philosophy and is a scholar in residence at the Simon
2:03.0	Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Among his recent publications
2:09.9	are the book Adaptation and Psychotherapy, Langs and Analytical Psychology, which I'm really
2:16.3	looking forward to reading.
2:21.7	He has a recent co-edited book with our colleague Laura Tule,
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