TRIGGERED: Understanding & Transforming Complexes

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4 жыл бұрын

When we speak of being triggered, what exactly is it that sends us into a familiar arc of feeling and behavior we may later regret? That mysterious force seems external and can elude our ability to locate it within. Jung called these autonomous and unconscious incursions complexes, and he discovered them through his Word Association Test. A subject’s delayed or inappropriate reaction to a stimulus word such as tree or house indicated an unconscious disturbance that could then yield to understanding. Complexes are a fundamental part of our inner landscape: our experiences cluster around innate human patterns, emotions, bodily sensations, and personal memories. We are complexed when we are automatically, emotionally and physiologically aroused, often in ways that are out of proportion to the situation. We begin to transform a complex by noticing, naming, and claiming it as our own. Then we can catch it before we react-and instead, respond. Complexes are constellated, clustered together like stars-and they can shine their light on our unconscious patterns.
HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:
"I am going to become the next queen of England. But first, I had to clean a lot of food and trash from an audience seating area (like stands at a sports arena). I asked the Queen if I was making a mistake by becoming the next queen. She said yes, and that I will have no time to give to my own children (once I have them). A young male advisor to the Queen was assisting her and helping to set everything up for the transition. On a break from cleaning, I went down to a craft fair and visited some old ladies and talked to them about the beautiful art they made. My grandmother was there, trying to print a photograph I took of a Legislature building. I returned to my task and at 6:00 PM, I made my way to sit on the right arm of the Queen's chair, ready for the ceremony."
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@gwendolynmurphy9563 11 ай бұрын

This was not a dream. This happened to me in waking life. When I told my grandmother, my mother's mother, that I had been accepted into law school, she screwed up her face and spat out with disdain, "You think you're smarter than the rest of us." I live with a complex that thinks I'm some sort of "less than" being. Yet I also know I live a life my female ancestors would and did die for! Autonomy, freedom, independence, and the resources to enjoy all that on the physical, psychic and spiritual levels.

@LasVegasSand_s Жыл бұрын

Joseph’s metaphor of complex as a bright sun that eclipses countless possibly positive things really resonated with me. Very grateful I found this episode. ❤

@JoshuaMiller-rw3sj 3 күн бұрын

Miss you Jennifer Christine lamprecht, you mean alot to me , hope your alright.

@cosmicdissonance9888 2 жыл бұрын

What a fanastically elucidating candour emanating from each speaker in this humble conversation. I'm a young man trying to grasp with the rudiments of Jungian psychology and on a quest to restore certain developmental arrests, complexes (specifically my Puer Aeternus..) and a history of complex childhood trauma. I feel rejuvinated and introspective now and take keen notes towards my own comprehension. Thank you for the content and channel.

@meghbhavsar3968 Жыл бұрын

Ditto! These podcasts are so insightful. Helps me with my journaling and coming to terms with my puer aeternus

@tappingyourpurpose6330 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful episode. I've always had difficulties understanding the concept of the complex. You've made it very clear and practical. I need to re-listen while taking notes! Thank you.

@upendasana7857 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love your podcasts.Nice to actually hear people talk about Jungian ideas who know what they are talking about.There has been somewhat of a revival of Jung but few people seem to really understand many of his ideas and theories".You elucidate and explain them so well

@caysonrowan172 2 жыл бұрын

InstaBlaster.

@danmaertens7872 2 ай бұрын

This was a very helpful presentation, thank you!

@ShadowTechAlchemy 2 жыл бұрын

This was super good! I'm going to send this around because it's such a thorough analysis. I thought the dream analysis hit a lot of angles and was quite complete. I might add that the queen could also the alchemical archetype of the individuated woman and the cleaning of the trash, while it did seem to be in the context of the "audience", also points to the necessary shadow work which is the prima materia or first work of individuation.

@braudhadoch3432 2 ай бұрын

Complex are emotions that gather around ideas about self and the world usually feelings of inferiority whether sexual or social

@LasVegasSand_s 10 ай бұрын

30:0 lisa’s point here is very insightful.

@LasVegasSand_s 9 ай бұрын

This episode is one of my all time favorites.

@shanebowles6335 2 жыл бұрын

Emotional Complexes ≠ Rational Feeling Tones Cognitive Function. There might be an Animus conflating these two very distinct experiences. Introverted Feeling Tones are extremely distinct experiences from Emotion. Maybe this isn’t the case with Extraverted Feeling, but there is definitely a distinction between Fi and Emotions.

@KENYAN-IS-BE 4 жыл бұрын

Her nightmare dreams "One... I'm in a dark room. I can see an old friend of mine. We were so perfect. She is walking away with another girl. Looks like they are talking about me and laughing. I try to catch up but they walk away and the start making fun of my mental health. My arm starts bleeding from some open cuts. She screams and points at my arm making everyone look. People start laughing at me, calling me an attention whore." This one was earlier in my relationship with my current boyfriend before complete trust was established. I'd dream about him leaving me for a friend I introduced him to... Details are sketchy Another was one where I'd died... I was attending my funeral.. I don't think I've ever cried like I did that day when I woke up

@bogaume 2 ай бұрын

Complexes are similar to “parts” in Internal Family Systems

@shanebowles6335 2 жыл бұрын

I think Jung made a distinction between Feeling Tones and Emotion[al] Complexes. I’m not sure if these in some way might be conflated or combined in Extraverted Feeling dom, but I’ve had the pleasure of experiencing Introverted Feeling Tones and these were a very different experience to emotions. Emotions are irrational and reactive. At least Introverted Feeling is rational evaluating based upon Feeling Tones. When we combine Rational Feeling Tones with Emotional Complexes in our conceptualization we’ve completely destroyed the understanding of Rational Introverted Feeling Function.

@LasVegasSand_s Жыл бұрын

45:00 wow. This is really powerful.

@LasVegasSand_s Жыл бұрын

17:10 brilloant suggestiom. Wow!

@harpforGod 4 жыл бұрын

Fascinating. When you were talking about DID, I found myself thinking about interviews I've heard with serial killers who describe blacking out/being possessed by something that sounds like it could be a complex. I wonder if that is actually what's happening with them.

@lessandra602 3 жыл бұрын

me too. i wonder

@advocate1563 2 жыл бұрын

Micharl thats fascinating. We had a tenant try to kill a fellow tenant in a co-living house with a knife and then set fire to the property (arrested, bailed, pending prosecition). We are now disputing her deposit eith evidence and Police documentstion, crime references, etc. She attests no damage done. I, too, wonder if this is a complex with extreme repression going on. Still remains an extremely dangerous individual, of course. Further support for this idea is that it emerged there is a long history or knives and arson (including parental property). I believe the presence of a pattern sugfests complex.

@Liyah-encyclopedia333 6 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

@LasVegasSand_s Жыл бұрын

5:20 autonomy of complexes.

@harpforGod 4 жыл бұрын

Btw, speaking of the numinous, did Jung ever speculate as to who/what the Dreammaker is? Book recommendations appreciated!

@LasVegasSand_s 10 ай бұрын

16:45 ❤

@corpus001 28 күн бұрын

When the sun sets you can see the stars ..and a broccoli complex hehe.

@silentwitness9255 10 ай бұрын

Identity is the most powerful auto pilot in the world

@krisphiles Жыл бұрын

Some thoughts about the symbolism of the dream at the end: I follow an artist who does work on symbolism, who said that, religiously, the number 6 is the number of "a man," or humanity, and that 7 is the perfect number because it allows for the remnant, or the things that don't fit in or are on the border or "margin." It was interesting to me that at 6:00 the dreamer is sitting on the "right hand of the mother." That seems to me to be all her terrestrial work and responsibility to be the feminine "right hand man" of the matriarch. Sitting on the right hand of the throne is a place of honor, but the ascendence is taking on the mantle for yourself and assuming the heavy crown. There's a lot of anima/animus in these archetypal roles to me. Like the yin/yang of ruling, order, chaos, and the tyranny of that job. The dreamer is being warned that the work is thankless and not fulfilling of self, but she is being given the choice to take it on. Standing with one foot in order and one foot in chaos is balance between responsibility and creativity, and is by that nature, fulfilling. This artist I follow also pointed out that things that are on the right are drawn in, and things on the left are pushed away. You see this in Christian iconography with the two fingers on the right, uplifted and the left hand down and pushing away. This is your choice. You can be drawn in or pushed away, but you can't have them both at the same time. I think this means she should not tie herself down, but remain flexible so she can respond when she wants to participate in the order, and leave when she wants to live for herself.

@kevin_heslip 9 ай бұрын

Is it that complexes are similar to large, unexplored lands, and that to gain liberation, one needs to slowly explore said land over a long time and with many experiences? (In essence, creating a counter-complex.) Or is the process of liberation more like a super-cooled fluid? Where exploration doesn’t yield many obvious results until one day, there is a sharp change and (like the fluid instantly freezing) the ego suddenly frees itself from the complex?