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Episode 22: C.G. Jung and the Collective Unconscious

Lives of the Unconscious. A Podcast on Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy

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Postpartum Depression - The Experience of Birth and Motherhood

Yung: The experience of birth and motherhood touches on collective im ges deeply rooted in the woman's psychological life. She says these images are derived from the so called archetypes, primeval psychological structures that pre form the experience of every human being. Yung: Post partum means, after the separation, the proto images of motherhood appear to the expectant mother in her dreams, fantasies, emotional life or fears. And are signs of a mental conflict, as when she dreams of a dense, dark, devouring forest in which she becomes lost and cannot find her way out.

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