What Remains When All Is Taken: Standing in the LA Fires

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

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Fire strips everything away, leaving only what truly matters. In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, homes have become ash, familiar streets are unrecognizable, and life feels uncertain. But fire is not just destructive—it is also transformational.

Pamela Power, a Los Angeles Jungian analyst and author, joins us to explore the tensions within this experience. Fire erases yet reveals. It devastates yet clears space for renewal. Loss forces us to let go yet also asks: What endures? Though grief pulls us down, something in us reaches toward life. The weight of ashes is real, but so is the quiet, unseen stirring of what comes next.

Find the dream we analyze HERE: www.thisjungianlife.com/LAwildfires/

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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.
0:51.7	Thank you. We wanted to take this opportunity to address what's going on in Los Angeles with the fires.
0:57.8	And there is a vibrant community of Jungian analysts in Los Angeles,
1:05.0	many of whom are our colleagues. Joining us today is Pamela Power. She is one of our colleagues from the Interregional Society of Jungian Analyst, and she is also a member of the C.G. Young
1:09.6	Institute in L.A.
1:11.9	She's a clinical psychologist who trained initially as a classical musician.
1:17.5	She was a cellist.
1:19.3	She has written numerous articles.
1:21.8	She's been very involved in training in L.A.
1:25.7	And she is the author of the recently published book, Transitions in Jungian Analysis,
1:32.3	Essays in Illness, Death and Violence, which was published in February of 2024 by Rutledge.
1:40.5	So Pamela, thank you so much for agreeing to meet with us and discuss this really important and timely topic.
1:48.8	So Pamela, what's happening on the ground in Los Angeles?
1:52.9	What are you seeing?
1:54.4	What are you sensing?
1:56.2	What's happening inside of you in a visceral way as these fires are kind of ebbing and flowing
2:02.9	all around you, all around the city?
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