Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.

I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.

Thank you. Unions have a sweet spot for fairy tales.

Marie-Louise von Frans made an art out of interpreting fairy tales,

and one of the reasons that were so interested in them is they capture a kind of collective wisdom, and some researchers suggest that these tales are

hundreds, thousands of years old. So, when we take on a fairy tale, we're looking to bring

forward some of this ancient wisdom,

which is encoded in the symbolism.

Today, we're going to examine a Grimm's brother tale called Maiden Without Hands.

A miller, who was so poor that he had nothing else but his mill and a large apple tree behind it,

went into the forest to fetch wood.

While there, he met an old man who said,

Why are you torturing yourself so much?

I'll make you rich if you promise to give me what's behind your mill.

In three years, I'll come and fetch what's my...

The miller thought to himself,

That's my apple tree.

So he said, Yes! And signed it away to the man.

When the Miller returned home, his wife said to him,

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