Analytical psychology

don't think so.

She was a somatic educator for a while, and then she moved into Jungian work, and now she runs a – her company is called Jungian Somatics.

Fascinating individual.

Really, really quite fascinating.

And we worked with a hypnotist.

I guess you'd say he's a hypnotist.

He studied hypnosis and a Jungian analyst.

And then that developed further into working with other people.

As far as I could see, and I would love for somebody to let me know whether or not they agree with this assessment, but it seemed to me a movie about a man who is in midlife.

And that is, I mean, it's very Jungian as far as I could tell.

Midlife, he was one-sided.

The whole movie is really about a person having, I would say, a breakdown around being one-sided in midlife.

I would love to talk to the person who wrote this because I know they're really young and I'm like, what were you using as a basis for all this great information or content? Now, to be fair, I could also, I mean, learning that they were in their 20s isn't totally a surprise to me because I think it could have been mildly more elegant on that particular theme if I'm accurate about that being the theme.

I don't know if it was like a conscious theme or just attuned into an archetype theme.

and the tuned into the archetype concept, which also felt very Jungian.

It felt very, like the whole thing feels Jungian to me.

having integrated her dark sister.

And Pereira is also a Jungian analyst, which is why I have to give Carl Jung credit because his work spurred so much of this other work.

She reads this as the feminine path to power.

And I feel like it's a must read going down to the parts of yourself, right? That society has rejected rage, grief, desire, raw instinct, intuition, and coming back as this fuller, more sovereign queen.

So I don't get too out there with my heady.

This is, I'm very Jungian.

So for your audience, think about Michael Jackson.

Michael Jackson lived in a place he built called Never Neverland, which is from Peter Pan.

I don't want to talk to ghosts.

I've been doing that for 20 years at this point, almost 20 years, 16 years.

And I'm like, I kind of want to try just talking to my higher self, a very Jungian concept.

Let's talk to our greatest self, higher self, inner self.

And it's because that allows you to move the balloon in certain ways.

And so the inner guide meditation, you close your eyes and Edwin's time records sort of boiled down a load of different things, Jungian therapy, symbolism, dream symbolism and shamanism and astrology, most importantly, to this simple method.

You close your eyes, you imagine that you're on a shore, a shoreline, a beach.

The sea is always behind you, so you have to visualize that the sea is behind you.

James Hostie, sound and movement artist, myself as well.

And then there's a Jungian psychoanalyst called Roshin Tangni, who we will be interviewing about the collective subconscious.

And then there is Lor Amin, who is an ADAPTCA researcher.

visual artist who uses DAPCA to explore the creation of new community.

Heider speaks there about having an honest conversation.

Radical honesty is difficult.

We'll be having a conversation with a Jungian psychoanalyst about dreams, about the collective subconscious, about how that relates to theatre, how it relates to storytelling, how it relates to fairy tales in different places in the world, how these ideas are shaped differently in different contexts, but they all can communicate together and why theatre is important ultimately.

Yeah.

It is not phony baloney.

This is a Jungian concept that has been developed for over 100 years.

And it's the name for a non-voluntary life transition or life stage change that occurs to most people in their 40s and 50s.

50s is kind of comical because very few people can expect to live past 100.

does.

Yes.

Look, my favorite of Carl Jung's quotes, and I'm going through a Jungian phase at the moment.

I see.

Because the 1950s saw a surge in popularity of psychology and studies on the work of Karl Freund and other terminology like the id, the ego and the superego come into popularity.

You know, there is a lot of Freudian and Jungian sort of stuff in this, isn't there? And certainly in terms of the id monster, this creature that is born out of the subconscious.

And I have found contrasting things in my research for this episode about whether or not the links to The Tempest were intentional or whether or not they were an afterthought and people reading into the story and looking to kind of pair this off with The Tempest as being a kind of loose adaptation of Shakespeare.

I've always thought it was based

So over the coming months, I want us to look at some of the many ways human beings have learned to understand and support themselves.

So we will spend time exploring many different psychological modalities, such as internal family systems, transactional analysis and Jungian work, as well as CBT and ACT and other approaches.

And my hope in this new season is to give you a baseline awareness of the many different ways to dive deeper into understanding ourselves and working on ourselves.

And so that we can understand what these approaches offer and how we can bring them into the complexity of a real human life.