Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ We explore the Personal Equation - a crucial key to understanding and navigating your core identity. Once you’ve uncovered your Personal Myth, what remains is the question: what truly makes you, 'you'? And more importantly, what comes next? With an emphasis on vigilance, adaptability, and ego strength, this discussion provides practical insights on how to stay aligned with who you truly are, no matter what challenges life throws your way.
Hosted by Steve and Pauline Richards and James P Dowling.
Intro/Outro created by Gareth Richards
Jung To Live By, presented by the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis, is creating videos and podcasts on Jungian-based Depth Psychology for personal development, study, and clinical practice.
Psycho-Systems Analysis, founded by Steve and Pauline Richards in 1988, is the New Paradigm, 21st-century evolution of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychophysiology. As the original and ground-breaking fusion of Scientific Systems-Based Medical Holism with Jungian-based Depth Psychology, Respiratory Psychophysiology, and Hypnotherapy, it offers a dynamic, non-'psycho-reductive' approach to psychotherapy. Crafted to address real-world challenges, not abstract theory, the model stands firmly aligned with the emerging frontier of Neuropsychoanalysis.
🌐 Visit our website:
jungtoliveby.com
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✨ Take your journey further:
➡️ Shadow Integration Manual (free download)
Complete introductory guide the psychodynamics of the Shadow
jungtoliveby.com/shadow-integration-manual
💬 Discord Server
Instant access to our Personal Development/Deep Study server, with thousands of posts by Steve Richards & a community of peers
jungtoliveby.com/product/jung-to-live-by-discord-membership
🏛️ Professional Training
Online, directly under the direct tutorage of Steve & Pauline Richards
jungtoliveby.com/professional-training
🌠 Discover your Personal Myth
Become Who You Are, & "Know Thyself"
jungtoliveby.com/discover-your-personal-myth
🌍 International Society of Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis:
isjn.cc
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🕑 Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to After Dark!
00:20 Link between Personal Myth, Personal Equation, & Individuation
01:54 Hello from the Team!
02:22 Personal Equation in relationship to Jung
02:57 Defining the Personal Equation (an understanding of yourself)
03:56 Jung’s Personal Equation and his Typology model (Collected Works 6)
04:16 One of James’ favourite books (Anthony Stevens)
05:00 The Personal Equation is an open question for you to answer (including your complexes)
05:52 The connection with 2001 A Space Odyssey
08:17 The question – “What are you going to do now?”
09:22 The Personal Equation is your Waystation for the journey ahead
12:29 You audit not just the positives about you, but the negatives too
13:04 The Positive and Negative Shadow (Jung)
14:01 ‘Real’ alchemy is about engaging with your Consciousness properly
14:30 Don’t approach your Personal Equation with an eye for the ‘Shadow’
16:10 Navigating the Father Complex (Jung as case study)
17:06 Freud VS Jung’s understanding of Instinct (Id vs teleology)
19:04 Jung’s theory of archetypes came from his Mother Complex
19:47 Adler’s theory of Inferiority (endorsed by Jung)
20:12 Steve’s Personal Equation
21:15 Complexes are natural, and many are positive (don’t try and have ‘no complexes’)
23:25 The Wounded Healer Archetype (w/ real-world example)
28:12 Janetian Complexes always form in the ‘Bardo space’, when a problem cannot be solved
30:09 Understanding and dealing with Health Anxiety (hypochondria and OCD)
37:55 The Personal Equation grows as we grow
38:54 How linear is the process?
39:43 The two kinds of Individuation (natural vs deliberate)
42:23 Freud, Adler and Jung in Ancient Greek civilisation
44:25 Instinct for Survival - COVID and Project Fear
46:21 We’re now in an enantiodromia (Jung) – how to adapt to it
48:45 Retroflection – turning your instincts against yourself
49:14 The Personal Equation NEEDS TO CHANGE when your environment changes
49:26 Pauline’s associative word….
50:13 Goodbye!
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ We explore the Personal Equation - a crucial key to understanding and navigating your core identity. Once you’ve uncovered your Personal Myth, what remains is the question: what truly makes you, 'you'? And more importantly, what comes next? With an emphasis on vigilance, adaptability, and ego strength, this discussion provides practical insights on how to stay aligned with who you truly are, no matter what challenges life throws your way.
Hosted by Steve and Pauline Richards and James P Dowling.
Intro/Outro created by Gareth Richards
Jung To Live By, presented by the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis, is creating videos and podcasts on Jungian-based Depth Psychology for personal development, study, and clinical practice.
Psycho-Systems Analysis, founded by Steve and Pauline Richards in 1988, is the New Paradigm, 21st-century evolution of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychophysiology. As the original and ground-breaking fusion of Scientific Systems-Based Medical Holism with Jungian-based Depth Psychology, Respiratory Psychophysiology, and Hypnotherapy, it offers a dynamic, non-'psycho-reductive' approach to psychotherapy. Crafted to address real-world challenges, not abstract theory, the model stands firmly aligned with the emerging frontier of Neuropsychoanalysis.
🌐 Visit our website:
jungtoliveby.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
✨ Take your journey further:
➡️ Shadow Integration Manual (free download)
Complete introductory guide the psychodynamics of the Shadow
jungtoliveby.com/shadow-integration-manual
💬 Discord Server
Instant access to our Personal Development/Deep Study server, with thousands of posts by Steve Richards & a community of peers
jungtoliveby.com/product/jung-to-live-by-discord-membership
🏛️ Professional Training
Online, directly under the direct tutorage of Steve & Pauline Richards
jungtoliveby.com/professional-training
🌠 Discover your Personal Myth
Become Who You Are, & "Know Thyself"
jungtoliveby.com/discover-your-personal-myth
🌍 International Society of Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis:
isjn.cc
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🕑 Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to After Dark!
00:20 Link between Personal Myth, Personal Equation, & Individuation
01:54 Hello from the Team!
02:22 Personal Equation in relationship to Jung
02:57 Defining the Personal Equation (an understanding of yourself)
03:56 Jung’s Personal Equation and his Typology model (Collected Works 6)
04:16 One of James’ favourite books (Anthony Stevens)
05:00 The Personal Equation is an open question for you to answer (including your complexes)
05:52 The connection with 2001 A Space Odyssey
08:17 The question – “What are you going to do now?”
09:22 The Personal Equation is your Waystation for the journey ahead
12:29 You audit not just the positives about you, but the negatives too
13:04 The Positive and Negative Shadow (Jung)
14:01 ‘Real’ alchemy is about engaging with your Consciousness properly
14:30 Don’t approach your Personal Equation with an eye for the ‘Shadow’
16:10 Navigating the Father Complex (Jung as case study)
17:06 Freud VS Jung’s understanding of Instinct (Id vs teleology)
19:04 Jung’s theory of archetypes came from his Mother Complex
19:47 Adler’s theory of Inferiority (endorsed by Jung)
20:12 Steve’s Personal Equation
21:15 Complexes are natural, and many are positive (don’t try and have ‘no complexes’)
23:25 The Wounded Healer Archetype (w/ real-world example)
28:12 Janetian Complexes always form in the ‘Bardo space’, when a problem cannot be solved
30:09 Understanding and dealing with Health Anxiety (hypochondria and OCD)
37:55 The Personal Equation grows as we grow
38:54 How linear is the process?
39:43 The two kinds of Individuation (natural vs deliberate)
42:23 Freud, Adler and Jung in Ancient Greek civilisation
44:25 Instinct for Survival - COVID and Project Fear
46:21 We’re now in an enantiodromia (Jung) – how to adapt to it
48:45 Retroflection – turning your instincts against yourself
49:14 The Personal Equation NEEDS TO CHANGE when your environment changes
49:26 Pauline’s associative word….
50:13 Goodbye!
