VOLCANO: ARCHETYPE OF CREATION AND DESTRUCTION
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Volcanoes appear in our myths, movies, and dreams. Their awesome destructive power fascinates us and serves as a reminder that we are not in control of nature’s primordial forces. Offering access to the earth’s molten core, volcanoes have been believed to be the entryway to the underworld or Hell. The Greeks believed that the fiery bursts from volcanoes were the sparks flying from Hephaestus’ forge, thus underscoring the creative aspect of volcanoes – Hephaestus created items of incredible beauty and power in his underground workshop.
Volcanoes create new rocks and new land mass. Their mineral-rich output fertilizes the surrounding soil, producing abundant and delicious crops. The volcano serves as a potent image of the unconscious – unpredictable, sometimes explosive, powered from the depths – but also capable of bestowing its fructifying blessing upon us.
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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 Marchiano 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. God. Well, today on the podcast, we're going to be doing a topic that I'm going to confess |
| 0:41.7 | was my choice. I have always been interested in |
| 0:45.8 | volcanoes. I think you know if I had another eight lifetimes to live perhaps at some some point I become a volcanologist. |
| 0:55.0 | I just find them really fascinating. |
| 0:58.0 | Some of you may have noticed I wasn't here for a couple of weeks. |
| 1:01.0 | I actually took a trip to visit some volcanoes and so today I |
| 1:06.3 | said can we talk about the archetype of the volcano. Volcanoes are really interesting, scientifically. I won't pretend to have much knowledge. I will try to talk about what I do know today and I'm sure I will butcher it all. So all of those geologists and volcanologists that are listening, feel free to write in and correct me. |
| 1:26.5 | But of course they're also very interesting. |
| 1:28.6 | Mythologically, there's a ton of great mythological stuff from various sources about volcanoes. |
| 1:36.4 | And they're also just a wonderful, I suppose symbol for psychological processes. And this enters our language we talk about we talk about |
| 1:45.8 | things feeling volcanic or or emotions erupting so we're going to be just having fun with all of this today and I'm I'm personally really excited for this one so Joseph thank you for |
| 1:58.6 | Going along with this with me and we should just mention also that Deb took some time off to have an adventure of her on this week so it will just be me and Joseph. |
| 2:09.0 | So I thought that I would just jump in and read a quote of Jung's from the symbolic life and he's talking |
| 2:17.5 | about our relationship to nature. |
| 2:20.7 | Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. |
| 2:33.3 | Thunder is no longer the voice of a God, nor is lightning his avenging missile. |
| 2:38.2 | No river contains a spirit, no tree means a man's life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom. No |
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