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Roger Brooke joins us to discuss his book, Jung and Phenomenology. We hope you enjoy.
Jung and Phenomenology: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0415097126?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback
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What if phenomenology is a radically practical way to see guilt, dreams, symbols, and therapy more clearly?
In this conversation, Roger Brooke explores how a phenomenological lens changes our understanding of psychology and Jungian thought from the way guilt appears differently to a priest, a policeman, or a therapist, to why the “elephant in the room” may be the most important phenomenon present.
Daniel guides the discussion through Brooke’s book Jung and Phenomenology, examining phenomenology as a method of setting aside assumptions and studying experience on its own terms. Brooke shares vivid clinical examples to explain how mood, interpretation, and unconscious patterns shape the world we inhabit.
Together, they explore:
What phenomenology is and how it can be used in psychotherapy
Why therapists should listen more and hold theory lightly
How guilt becomes a whole way of being in the world
The relationship between Jung and phenomenological psychology
The distinction between psyche and mind
How dreams and nightmares reveal what is calling for our attention
Why archetypes are better understood as potentials for being in the world
The transformative power of symbols
The embodied nature of psychological experience
Jung’s concept of synchronicity and its philosophical limitations
Ancestral presence, object relations, and the meaning of lived experience
This is a rich and provocative conversation about how meaning appears in everyday life and why psychology can miss something essential when it reduces experience to theory alone. A thought-provoking listen for anyone interested in Jung, phenomenology, depth psychology, psychotherapy, symbolism, dreams, and the nature of the psyche.