THE PSYCHOLOGY OF STRIFE: What Lies Beneath Our Conflicts?
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
How does resolving inner conflicts enhance external relations?
Conflict, both inner and outer, is a fundamental part of the human experience. We engage in conflicts externally with others and internally within ourselves, reflecting the complex nature of human relationships and the psyche. Our external conflicts often mirror internal struggles, serving as manifestations of unresolved or unacknowledged inner turmoil. Recognizing the projection of our inner conflicts onto external situations can lead to deeper self-awareness and understanding. Delving into inner conflict necessitates introspection and the willingness to confront uncomfortable aspects of ourselves. This involves exploring our desires, fears, and contradictions to gain insight into our true motivations and feelings. Experiencing ambivalence—holding conflicting desires or feelings simultaneously—signals the presence of inner conflict. Acknowledging and exploring this ambivalence can be a path to understanding and resolving internal struggles. Projecting our inner conflicts onto others can obscure their true source, leading to misunderstandings and unnecessary external conflicts. Recognizing projection as a defense mechanism allows us to address the root causes of our struggles. Engaging with and working through inner conflicts can lead to significant personal growth and development. This process can enhance our relationships, increase our self-acceptance, and contribute to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Cultivating self-awareness is essential for effectively navigating both external disagreements and internal dilemmas. Understanding our own part in conflicts enables us to approach them with greater empathy and insight. By resolving our inner conflicts, we can improve our external relationships. A clearer understanding of our inner selves allows for more authentic and harmonious interactions with others. The process of understanding and resolving inner conflicts is ongoing. As we grow and change, new layers of the Self emerge, requiring continuous exploration and integration.
Prepare to discover…who explores inner and outer conflicts, including Carl Jung's insights; when inner conflicts require deeper introspection across one's life stages; how inner conflicts are projected externally and the importance of self-awareness; what differentiates inner from outer conflicts, focusing on personal struggles with ambivalence; where conflicts appear, in relationships and within, showing the interplay between internal and external worlds; whether conflicts are internal or external, underlining the need for introspection; which methods, like Jungian analysis, help resolve conflicts for growth and better relationships; why confronting inner conflict is key to a balanced life and transformative for self and relations…and so much more.
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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 youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. Hello, today I say with a big smile on my face, we are going to talk about conflict, aka fighting, how to fight |
| 0:48.8 | fair and is it outside? Is it inside? what exactly are we talking about and how do we deal with it? |
| 0:59.2 | You know, sometimes when we broach a topic, what I'll do is I'll go to my Kindle version of the |
| 1:04.7 | Collected Works and just text search the word and conflict is a word that |
| 1:09.8 | appears many many many many times in the collected works. So we want to talk about outer conflict |
| 1:18.3 | which is pretty self-explanatory. We all have conflicts all the time. We have |
| 1:22.2 | conflicts in our marriages, we have conflicts with our business partners, |
| 1:25.0 | we have conflicts with our friends. |
| 1:27.0 | We of course never have conflicts with our podcast partners. |
| 1:30.0 | That just doesn't happen. |
| 1:31.0 | Of course. |
| 1:32.0 | Pure peace. that just doesn't happen. Of course. |
| 1:33.0 | Pure peace. |
| 1:34.0 | But we're also interested today in looking at inner conflict. |
| 1:40.0 | And this is usually Jung being such an introvert and his psychology being such an introverted |
| 1:45.8 | psychology most of the time when he's talking about conflict he's talking about an inner |
| 1:50.3 | conflict so before we go sallying forth, let's just define for a second, what do we mean by an inner |
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