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This Jungian Life Podcast — Dark Forces in the Psyche: Our Self-Destructive Impulses
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Dark Forces in the Psyche: Our Self-Destructive Impulses

This Jungian Life Podcast · 422

Why is it that we sometimes fail to rise to life’s most important challenges? Why do we instead procrastinate, withdraw, self-sabotage, or feel unable to move toward the life we want? This week, at a listener’s suggestion, Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart explore the concept of anti-libidinal forces…

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Another great episode! I wonder if that phenomen that Lisa mentioned, where women are extra vicious to themselves is related to different societal expectations between men and women or partly? A man gets frustrated or disappointed and exter…

@fricod4396 · YouTube comment

The saboteur, in my experience, is an old child part that wasn't allowed any autonomy. In order to regain some sense of autonomy, that part rebels against the "shoulds", the being told what to do, even if it's told by the self. The spontane…

@wandaad · YouTube comment

Thank you for making this video. I have struggled with suicidal ideation for the last five years. I feel like mine is like a spell that I had fall under and I can’t break the spell. I call it “the ick”, have you ever done a video on suicida…

@amandatrouette8455 · YouTube comment

The gnostics referred to these destructive forces as archons

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