Mar 3, 2020
In this terrific episode, Latter-day Faith host Dan
Wotherspoon brings on his good friend and a Jungian
analyst, Christine Chao, to talk about the
psychological insights of Carl Jung and, especially, how they
relate to good mental, social, and spiritual health. In their
conversation, Christine introduces us to Jungian terms and ideas,
many of which we likely already heard of yet don't really
understand all that well. If you've heard of concepts such as the
collective unconscious, archetypes, complexes, dream analysis,
individuation, Shadow, and others, Christine wonderfully elucidates
these, illustrating them from her own life experiences as well as
those of her colleagues and Jung himself. Following this tour
through many of the basic insights, the discussion turns to
difficulties she and others have with Jung the individual and also
with some of his teachings. In this section we can find many
similarities with Mormons who are forced to wrestle with bad ideas
and hurtful teachings from Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, and other
LDS leaders while still seeing and understanding the brilliance and
power they also brought into the world. C.G. Jung understood human
as well as spiritual development, and this episode closes with the
way he responded near the end of his life to questions about
whether or not he believed in God.
Listen in! You'll love meeting Christine and will find much here to
chew on.