Assessing Our Psychic Inheritance

Jung said of the parent-child relationship: “Nothing exerts a stronger psychic effect upon the human environment, and especially upon children, than the life which the parents have not lived.” Jung understood that parents can unconsciously compel children to fulfill parental dreams or compensate for disappointments. Parental shadow creates an urgency to purge, perfect, or prolong a psychic legacy. It may manifest by taking on a parental aspiration, making up for a parental deficit, rebelling against parental constraints, or being subsumed by parental dictates. When personal libido is tied to parental needs, energy for life is hijacked by anxiety, ambivalence and ambiguity--and it is up to us to reckon with it. If we do the work of differentiating from our parents, we discover ourselves. By doing so we may truly redeem them and free ourselves. We serve life best by claiming it.
HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:
"I am in what seems to be a decrepit apartment building, and I get the sense that the rooms of the building are interconnected and continuous. There are emaciated animals roaming the rooms, and there are two figures aside from myself: a large grotesque man sitting at a dining table, and a tired looking baker. The grotesque man seems to demand food and the baker brings him cake and other food. The large man begins eating like an animal, with his bare hands, throwing scraps behind, resulting in the animals fighting over them. In a climax, from the door leading to the other rooms I can hear the sounds of hundreds of footsteps and the screams of children running toward the door into the room. The dream ends just as hundreds of hands begin to pass the threshold of the door."
REFERENCES:
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
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[@yootoob1001001]

Timely listen and food for thought toward my own Big Picture. Thank you all as always.

[@poorvasharma8807]

One of my favorite ones yet! 🙏

[@decemberbreidel]

Needed this 🥰

[@siyaindagulag.]

10:50 Good point Lisa. The statement reflects the ambiguity (?) Of love / hate Good / evil , action/ inaction . Etc. Ok Ill be quiet now & listen lol.

[@andywatson1776]

I am pleased to happen upon these recordings and have been busy binging on the works. I am a DNP student and am most interested in this approach being integrated with entheogen assisted therapies. I am surprised a bit here there was no biblical account of Sins of the Father instead relying on strictly mythologies and Shakespeare. I have myself been quite interested in the topic of inheritance and ancestors worship. The best to you all (especially Lisa)-AW

[@elbradavid533]

Yes! More please!

[@arcadianwings2662]

Beautiful episode, Thank You! :-) I was wondering: Could this "psychic residu" also be A GENERATIONAL PHENOMENON? There are quite a number of SONGS in the 80s that seem to express that. Please listen carefully to the LYRICS of the following songs, and let me know what you think! :-) Mike and the Mechanics - Silent Running; Queen - A Kind of Magic; Jean Beauvoir - Feel the Heat; Simple Minds - Belfast Child

[@schumikel8387]

This was gooooood !! I'm wondering if it's the fathers stuff gets transferred to the boy or if it doesn't matter who the parent is and who the child is ?

[@siyaindagulag.]

17:10 Damn Joe! That is some insight.

[@AzitaGandjei]

This jungian life love

[@gwendolynmurphy9563]

Imagine a young woman, not yet married, who learns to fly a plane in the 1930s. Then she marries and her husband is killed in WWII. Subsequently when the war ends she meets and marries my father. But her childhood trauma and the defenses constructed to protect her from a chaotic household include the yearning that her daughter remain with her always, to take care of her in her old age. But the daughter absorbed the unconscious wish of the mother to fly away from that dysfunctional family misery, thus simultaneously failing and fulfilling her mother's conscious/unconscious wishes.