"Every time there's progress something old is lost and for Tolkien it's having lived through the industrial revolution to see of course men develop a better way to kill each other" "I think these books among all the other great fantasy that's ever been written have stood such a strong test of time. I was like hi yeah I think I even wrote insults in my notes I was like it's like an insult stuff," he said.
Welcome back to the Tolkien-verse! We are diving back into the Lord of the Rings trilogy with The Two Towers. We are joined by Justine Mastin, therapist and author of Starship Therapise and The Grieving Therapist. We touch upon a variety of themes: grief and loss, ecological grief, individuation, Jung. We also discuss Internal Family Systems and how that is demonstrated via Gollum/Smeagol.
You can find Justine here:
website: justinemastin.com
social: @mindbodyfandom on fb, insta, and twitter
book: Starship Therapise: using therapeutic fanfiction to rewrite your life
book: The Grieving Therapist: caring for yourself and your clients when it feels like the end of the world
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