Dr. James Hollis is a Jungian psychoanalyst, author, and public speaker who has written seventeen books and served as the executive director of the Jung Society of Washington. He stopped by the podcast for a short conversation on the search for meaning in a modern world, the way that mythology allows us to take some of the load off of our shoulders, and how the disappearance of the gods from Mount Olympus means that we are operate in a disorienting era of personal responsibility without any of the guideposts that we used to rely on.

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00:00:00 Go!

00:02:33 J functions and P functions

00:05:39 The Cliff of Isms

00:07:50 Humans haven't changed much

00:13:10 A solution to addiction

00:18:15 A tradition of shamanic healing

00:22:07 When the gods leave olympus

00:25:48 Depth psychology and the god of rage

00:31:58 A vapid cosmology

00:40:44 a modern fracture

00:43:53 Mythological escape

00:51:07 An individual or collective process?

00:53:55 Escaping commercial culture

00:55:46 Shifting the task of meaning

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