Jung and Life Scripts

 A recording for the Suffolk Jungian Circle about Eric Berne's notion of Life Scripts (part of his practice of Transactional Analysis) and how it relates to Jung - and to Greek mythology. This got cut short by a few minutes due to someone knocking ta the door (and me not knowing how to pause a recording).In the last few minutes I was going to add that Berne argued that not only did individual people have scripts but that organisations, communities, even entire nations could have scripts that they played out (though it is much less obvious how they develop scripts). At the national level the transmission route for the script is partially via the mass media.

From a Jungian stance the scripts tie in to an idea that was partially discussed at the June meeting, around individuation being the path (a positive script, if you like) of the Self archetype and James Hillman arguing that other archetypes had their own trajectories or paths which might be followed instead - we spoke about this with relation to Dionysus. Berne's six scripts could be considered archetypal, in as much as they are common features of human existence, but more of a Shadow-nature, derailing the Self from achieving true individuation.

The July meeting of the Circle will take place on Wednesday 30th July at 7.30pm via Teams. If you would like the link, drop me a request. For this session we can do things slightly differently in that I have an exercise recommended by Berne for helping people identify their own life script.