VOCATION: Answering the Call

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

🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Vocation, once associated with serving God through service to others, is now most strongly associated with a career having personal worth. Vocation spans a range of needs and values: commitment to making ends meet, striving for material rewards and social status, or the more internal satisfaction of research, helping others, and artistic expression. Freud considered love and work the cornerstones of our humanness, and Jung said, “In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” A discernment process is essential to determining the difference between a true calling and ego ambitions, what we want versus what we can have, and distinguishing dream from dedication. Ultimately, however, vocation is a state of being—so perhaps we can invest the work we have with a sense of call.

HERE’S THE DREAM WE ANALYZED:

“I was at the beach with my mother and grandmother. My mother was driving a red car. My grandmother in the passenger seat, me in the back. It was stormy; the waves were wild and aggressive. My mother was determined to drive as far as possible to find old family members who we no longer speak to, to enact revenge. I was silent. The waves were angry, the wind swirled and howled and rocked the car. She was on a mission.”

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James Hillman. A Blue Fire.

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James Hillman. The Soul’s Code. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0399180141/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_DKSW982XDDP53F2WM610

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0:00.0	We want to let our listeners know that some of our colleagues have organized a fundraiser for Ukrainian Jungian analysts and trainees.
0:10.0	And on Saturday, the 21st of May, on Zoom, there will be an event and all of the proceeds will go to our Ukrainian colleagues.
0:21.8	There's going to be a social dreaming matrix.
0:25.6	There will be a presentation by Anne Yulinov called Ukraine and Jung's Red and Black Books,
0:32.3	making the unsayable experiential.
0:35.4	And there will be an auction, an opportunity to bid for an hour on Zoom
0:40.1	to meet personally with one of a number of prominent Jungians for perhaps some supervision,
0:46.0	mentoring our conversation. And I, Lisa Martiano, will be one of those unions for whom you can bid for time.
0:56.5	So the website is for Ukrainian unions.com.
1:02.7	That's F-O-R-U-K-R-A-I-N-I-N-I-N-G-I-N-S.com for Ukrainian-Y-Y-Yans. Thank you so much.
1:21.1	Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, 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.
1:39.0	I'm Lisa Marcheano and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1:48.0	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.
1:57.0	The word vocation comes from the Latin vocatio, which in medieval times was a term described
2:05.6	as a call away from the secular world and into a dedication to a life of prayer and contemplation.
2:14.6	And over the centuries, the idea of vocation has changed, and with the onset of the
2:22.4	industrialization of society came incorrectly to be associated with a career choice or
2:30.6	with a work choice.
2:32.5	And this redefinition has marked most of our modern lives.
2:41.1	Career counselors are often advising people based on their ego strengths or their persona interests,
2:49.9	which work environments might be easiest for them or most congruent
2:55.9	with the persona and what the ego favors in that time.
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