The Jungian Drift

San Francisco Jungian analyst Paul Watsky, PhD, interprets three volunteer "person on the street" volunteers' dreams to demonstrate how he would approach dreamwork in his practice. 

Though Dr. Watsky suggests possible meanings for the dreams, he is clear that these are only hypotheses to guide further inquiry. The purpose here is not to make a clinical assessment, rather it is to illustrate a Jungian analyst's approach to dreamwork with the caveat that there is not enough information in these vignettes to make any definitive conclusions. 

This episode would not be possible without the generosity of our three dreamers who granted us permission to share their dreams plus a few details about their lives. We don't use their real names in the episode. To be clear, our volunteer dreamers are not psychotherapy patients.

The Jungian Drift podcast is intended for educational purposes only and any statements made in this episode should not be considered to be mental health treatment advice.

Recorded on February 12, 2025. Edited by Claire Kohne. The thumbnail image was sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Sarah Camenson.

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Join host Sebastian Sheldon, PhD, in conversation with his fellow candidate in analytical training at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, Robert Carriger, LMFT, as they explore the theoretical possibilities when Jung's concept of unconscious complexes is applied to consciousness in general. Expanding Jung's original concept of complexes to include all conscious experience leads to such surreal possibilities as full consciousness being a sort of daytime waking dream, and even points to a potential for dual centers of sentience that operate simultaneously in one mind.

This episode was our third try at recording a podcast back in 2024, an experiment with no thoughts that it would ever be published. Given the freedom to just say what he thinks without needing to worry about qualifying his ideas or citing the literature, Robert runs with it, accompanied and encouraged by fellow student Sebastian.

We hope that whatever this episode lacks in academic niceties, it makes up for in the passionate energy of the conversation: a conversation between two students wrestling with questions which really matter to them. We invite you to listen in.

The Jungian Drift podcast is intended for educational purposes only and any statements made in this episode should not be considered to be mental health treatment advice.

Recorded on November 1, 2024. Edited by Claire Kohne. Thumbnail image is from a painting called Sun Breaking through Clouds above the Roman Campagna, by  Swiss landscape painter Johann Jakob Frey, circa 1844. It was sourced from the public domain via The National Gallery of DC. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Mitch Brown.

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Host Robert Carriger sits down to speak with art scholar Janeita Singh about the controversial modernist painter from Goa, India: Francis Newton Souza. Janeita approaches Souza's paintings from a variety of perspectives including the collective western shadow and repression of the feminine. She sees recent interest in Souza's work as signaling a return into collective consciousness of the ancient Indian traditions of the fierce feminine, traditions long buried under centuries of colonial rule. She has explored these and other themes in her recently released book, "F.N. Souza: The Archetypal Artist." 

The Jungian Drift podcast is intended for educational purposes only and any statements made in this episode should not be considered to be mental health treatment advice.

Recorded on October 14, 2025. Edited by Claire Kohne. Thumbnail image sourced from Wikimedia Commons. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Kirsten Maier.

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In this episode host Claire Kohne interviews two candidates in the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco analytic training program (Megan Van Vlack, LPCC, LMFT & Elaina Barulic, LMFT)  about their experiences on their journeys to become Jungian analysts. 

Since this recording Claire was accepted into the program herself and began analytical training in the fall of 2025. Congratulations, Claire!

The Jungian Drift podcast is intended for educational purposes only and any statements made in this episode should not be considered to be mental health treatment advice.

Recorded on November 26, 2024. Edited by Claire Kohne. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Natalia El-Sheikh.

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*Content Warning: Episode contains discussion of an age-old conspiratorial belief that a secret society is carrying out ritualized child abuse in order to extract a fabled life giving elixir.*

At the 2025 International Association of Analytical Psychology conference in Zurich, Robert Carriger and Claire Kohne got the opportunity to talk to conference presenter Jungian analyst Vlado Šolc about his application of Jungian theory to the understanding of conspiracies and cults. Dr. Šolc draws from Greek mythology and the legend of Odysseus' seven year captivity on the island of Ogygia under the spell of the nymph Calypso to explain the phenomena of dark religion and cults. In mythology Calypso is the personification of concealment - or covering - from which the Greek word apokálypsis  - apocalypse - is derived which means "uncovering" or "revelation."

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Recorded on August 28, 2025. Edited by Claire Kohne. Thumbnail image sourced from Wikipedia Commons. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Naomi Azriel.

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In conversation with host Robert Carriger, psychologist and analytical training candidate Sebastian Sheldon shows us how the quirky characters in the 1990's American hit situation comedy "Seinfeld" illustrate Jung's theory of psychological types.

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Recorded on September 20, 2024. Edited by Claire Kohne. Thumbnail silhouette image is original artwork. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro readers, Aiden and Avi.

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While visiting the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco to speak on the release of "Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung", editor Ann Conrad Lammers took a moment to share her experiences sifting through the personal writings of both Carl and Emma Jung, material which she has helped bring to the public over the course of her career as an editor and translator of collections such as "The Jung-Kirsch Letters" and this most recent publication of previously unavailable writings and art by Emma Jung.

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Recorded on May 10, 2025. Edited by Claire Kohne. Episode thumbnail image sourced from Wikipedia Commons. Special thanks to this episode's guest intro/outro reader, Claire Costello.

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In this episode, C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco librarian and archivist, Miranda Lindelow, orients us to the resources available at our institute's library while offering an overview of the important role of libraries in the development of analytical psychology clubs and training institutes around the world. The episode includes musings on the Egyptian goddess of writing and libraries, Seshat, and reflections on the temple-like qualities of libraries as repositories of our collective past.

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