Jungian Psychology
2 episodes tagged "Jungian Psychology".
You aren’t "finding yourself." You’re hiding.
Are you actually "finding yourself," or are you just hiding from the responsibility of being a man? In this episode of Sober Psychology, we tear down the "Neverland" fortress of the modern man-child. Psychology calls it Peter Pan Syndrome. Carl Jung called it the Puer Aeternus—the Eternal Boy. I call it the Rot of the Modern Soul. Whether you're struggling with "failure to launch," weaponized incompetence in your relationships, or a dopamine addiction to video games, it's time to kill the boy so the man can live.
Carl Jung's Shocking Insights on Addiction & Spirituality
🔥 “Before AA was born, Carl Jung cracked open the soul of addiction.” Let’s rewind the tape to the roots of recovery. Before 12 steps, before The Big Book, before “Hi, I’m [insert name here], and I’m an alcoholic” — there was a Swiss psychiatrist named Carl Jung, staring addiction in the face and saying, “This isn’t just a disease. This is a spiritual crisis.” Yeah. Jung — the same guy who gave us shadow work, archetypes, and the collective unconscious — was the spark behind AA’s origin story. When nothing else worked, when psych wards and theories failed, he had the audacity to say what no one in the scientific world dared: the alcoholic needs a spiritual awakening to recover. And that insight passed from one man to another… until it landed with Ebby Thatcher, who carried it to Bill Wilson, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. That chain of conversations? It wasn’t just small talk. It was a spiritual transmission that launched the recovery movement. In this episode, I break down the forgotten psychological and spiritual backbone of addiction recovery — and why ignoring either is like trying to fix a sinking boat with duct tape and denial. Jung wasn’t just ahead of his time. He defined the time that came next.