This Jungian Life Podcast Early Abandonment
Jul 11, 2019
Explore the profound impacts of early relational abandonment through fairy tales like Hansel and Gretel and Pan’s Labyrinth. Discover how attachment theory links to our emotional wiring and the toll of caregiver unavailability. Learn about transformative processes of grief and self-compassion for those with insecure attachments. Delve into archetypal images, such as the mother figure and how they manifest in life. The discussion also touches on the significance of dreaming and relational healing as pathways to integration and recovery.
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Archetypal Mother Shapes The Ego
- Early attachment shapes lifelong psychic development through an archetypal mother mediating ego formation.
- Jung sees the mother archetype as preformed and the personal mother humanizes that potential.
Small Versus Traumatic Abandonment
- Small everyday abandonments can be integrated and support independence if they are limited.
- Excessive or repeated caregiver unavailability can become traumatic and shape chronic self-abandonment.
Substitutes Can Constellate The Mother
- The psyche will seek substitute objects to constellate the mother archetype when caregiving fails.
- Harlow's monkey experiments show infants prefer contact comfort over mere nourishment.
