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SEX and its Undeniable Power to Fascinate

This Jungian Life Podcast

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Freud and Jung and Sublimation

Freud had this idea of sublimation, which is where we take an impulse and translate it into a socially valuable way of expressing it. For Jung, the joke continues, religion is really about sex. So what Jung did was look at images of sexual coupling as a symbolic representation of a spiritual urge toward union with the divine.

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