Episode 067 - Early Abandonment
This Jungian Life Podcast - A podcast by Joseph Lee, Lisa Marchiano, & Deb Stewart - Thursdays
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Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing traumas of early relational abandonment. Jung articulated the archetypal foundation of what later psychologists came to call attachment theory. In an infant’s primal state of identification with a mothering other, lack of caregiver availability and attunement constitutes psychic abandonment.