LIBIDO: Tracking Inner Energy
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2021
- Jung understood libido as psychic energy: desire, will, interest, and passion. Libido includes instincts for fulfilling bodily appetites and engaging developmental tasks. Although energy infuses all human activity, it is not a function of ego alone, for many a worthy goal has lacked the libido to achieve it. Feelings and actions can veer into symptoms, such as neurosis or addiction.
Low libido is often a form of depression, and libido that is too high can be mania. Most often a problem with libido is experienced as “stuckness,” the stasis produced from conflict between our natural, instinctual selves and familial and cultural expectations--internalized “shoulds.” We can face fear and engage desire, for acknowledging the truth of where attraction lies creates pathways along which life energy can flow. Psychotherapy could be considered a quest for each person’s authentic psychic energy. The innate direction of libido, the enlivening wellspring of the soul, is in service to individuation.
HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:
"I am walking around a garden, praying. I'm not sure whether I'm praying to God or to the earth or the trees, but I'm expressing gratitude for the beauty around me. There are two huge beech trees next to each other at the end of the garden. The knotted and gnarled trunks make each look like a laughing face - two friendly giants. I look up at the canopy high above - they almost seem to fill the sky with leaves. Then I notice that one tree is rocking in the wind and there is a crack at the base of the trunk that opens and closes as it does so. I am concerned that the tree will fall. Behind the trees in the neighboring garden is a large, modern house which looks rather austere and forbidding. I wonder if I should warn the people in the house about the tree. Now two men in dark blue boiler suits arrive to examine the trees. Each reaches out a hand toward a tree, but before they can touch them both trees fall over with a crash. I am sure the house will be smashed, but instead the trees fall neatly onto two flatbed trucks which happen to be waiting. The men examine the trees and shake their heads. The trunks were hollow and it's clear they were not attached to the roots at all. The trucks drive off. The garden is left looking empty and forlorn."
REFERENCES:
Murray Stein. Jung’s Map of the Soul.
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Thank you for this beautiful enlightening conversation. I laughed out loud when Joseph made the comment about laundry in the exact moment I started folding my laundry! There’s synchronicity, telling me my libido is flowing the right way toward the Jungian life 🌈✨♥️
Thank you so much for this podcast love it! ❤️
Hi, Jungian Life! Super important theme, loved this episode. But can you please provide automatic subtitles in all your videos, if possible? It really helps to stay in touch with what youre saying (english aint my first language). Thank you!!
Boa tarde! Seria possível incluir legenda? Entendo alguns tópicos, mas facilitaria muito se houvesse legendas. Grata!
UA-cam used to do that for us. I'll look into it.
Hello Deborah, Joseph and Lisa! - I so much love the introduction, "Three good friends....", this phrase alone sets up and into the room a feel of empathic friendliness, and so much opens up to listening! You do fantastic work, and I listen to this podcast episode with full concentration. What really strikes me (although there are different therapeutic terminologies) is the parallel between Jung's concept of libido as energy flow towards some purpose that has its right on its own, and concepts of the person-centered approach (actualizing tendency of Carl Rogers/ life forwarding energy movement of Eugene Gendlin) I am trained in. And it comes to mind that what mostly is not supposed to be desired from a client's persective is the desire for curiosity, the desire to follow thrive for aliveness (in its fluid and ongoing changing qualities), ... which makes me think: the terminologies of 'individuation' (Jung), 'fully functioning person' (Rogers) and 'living from the carry forward direction of the bodily order' (Gendlin) hold the crucial purpose of intention (in its shape of completion) as universal principle. Thanks for the opportunity to articulate my thoughts. Best regards, Freda/Germany
I'm curious about the libido in persons with ADHD
Please allow me to chip in with a personal fantasy about this week’s dream. The image that arose in my imagination is that of moving to a new place. Moving represents a complex palette of emotions. The two trees which might stand for this couple’s life energy, habitat and lived experience, are no longer attached to the roots in the present garden as if they are now ready to move elsewhere. The dreamer says he is grateful and is praying. My hunch would be that the psyche gives its accord to this move.
When the two guys in boiler suits show up to examine the trees, in my mind these are two movers. It’s curious how the tree “falls neatly onto two flatbed trucks which happen to be waiting”. It’s like when we move we try to load trucks as neatly as possible to save space. To prove this point, the psyche gives us the following play on words. “Trunk” is the same word to denote the main stem of a tree AND a large rigid piece of luggage.
I feel there’s sadness in this dream related to one chapter ending. And there’s “mild concern” about the future. But overall, the dream exudes a rather natural energy of one thing ending and a new thing beginning. Like the change of seasons. Thank you!
Thanks.
why are they pronunciating 'mature' differently?
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فرحت لتعليقك , اتمنى مثل هذا التحليل يجد صدى في العالم العربي.
@@gorlag2462 انا ايضا اتمنى ان يكون هناك تواصل بين من يقدرون هذا التحليل .مااحوجنا اليه فى هذه الايام
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You've framed my current inquiry! And I'm noticing that perhaps I've misunderstood the message of certain "trauma-informed and attachment-theory experts" when I heard that I need to depend upon another i.e. a therapist, in order to "heal" because I just don't possess the inner resources (psychic energy).
The dream reminds me of Two Trees by William Butler Yeats.
33:00 wow. “Archetypes are like energy attractors”.
🖤🖤😷
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