When Despair Prevails: Facing Suicidal Darkness
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! There are few more painful thoughts or frightening events than suicide, a phenomenon unique to the human species. Depression, rage, and powerlessness can overwhelm ego functions, leading someone to believe that escaping life is the only option. Affects of archetypal proportions can act like tsunamis in the psyche. What can help?
A supportive other can offer protection, options, and hope. Willingness to engage in mental health and medical treatment is critical, as is the development of a symbolic attitude: what value, belief, or ambition may need to die instead of being concretized as physical death? Similarly, what maturational task, sacrifice, or fate is asking to be met?
Facing suicidal thoughts can bring the potential for new life, but when death occurs bereavement can be especially painful for families and friends. One of the tasks of mourning is accepting that each of us is ultimately, and sometimes tragically, responsible for our life.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Join us in DreamSchool at thisyunginlife.com and find out. |
| 0:09.4 | Jung wrote, dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul. |
| 0:15.5 | DreamSchool is a unique, self-paced online program you can start at any time that unlocks access to your inner |
| 0:23.6 | world. Our 12-month program provides the support, knowledge, and guidance you need to reach within, |
| 0:31.1 | decipher your personal dream code, and harness it to optimize your life. By enrolling, you'll join an affirming community of fellow travelers, |
| 0:40.8 | each pursuing a unique quest. |
| 0:43.6 | And it's fun. |
| 0:45.0 | Join us on an adventure to wholeness and healing through understanding your dreams. |
| 0:50.1 | Go to thisyongyeinLife.com and click on Dream School. |
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| 1:04.0 | We look forward to seeing you there. |
| 1:08.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:10.9 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:16.4 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 1:19.9 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:26.1 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, |
| 1:31.5 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, |
| 1:37.9 | in Cape Cod. Today, we are going to talk about a difficult subject, but certainly is something that's very much a factor in the world for friends and families. |
| 1:55.0 | And that is suicide. |
| 1:59.0 | So we will try to do what we always do and to circumambulate it and talk about suicide. So we will try to do what we always do and to circumambulate it and talk about |
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