“This Jungian Life” Podcast: The Music of Metaphor

Metaphors transfer meaning between domains of experience.

To understand and engage another’s internal world requires language which speaks in harmony with the unconscious. Metaphor speaks beyond ego and traverses the realms between past and present, bodily sensation and feeling, conscious and unconscious. It infuses lived experience with connection and creates shared space for healing.

[Carl Gustav] Jung says, “Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthralls and overpowers, while at the same time he lifts the idea he is seeking to express out of the occasional and the transitory into the realm of the ever-enduring.”

from Stewart, D., Marchiano, L., & Lee, J. (2021, August 26). Episode 178 – The Music of Metaphor: Healing in Therapy & Life – This Jungian Life.