doping - Blogs - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T14:17:34Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/feed/tag/dopingAre We Implicated?--A Depth Psychological and Cultural Take on the Fall of Lance Armstronghttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/are-we-implicated-a-depth-psychological-and-cultural-take-on-the-2013-01-31T23:30:00.000Z2013-01-31T23:30:00.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><div class="boxHeaderOuterContainer"><div class="boxHeaderContainer"><div class="d1"><div class="d2"><div class="d3"><div class="d4"><div class="d5"><div class="d6"><div class="d7"><div class="d8"><div class="d9"><div class="inner"><h4 class="boxHeaderTitle">Are We Implicated?--A Depth Psychological and Cultural Take on the Fall of Lance Armstrong </h4><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;">I was out of town for a conference the weekend the two-part Lance Armstrong interview with Oprah broke and missed it entirely, but the fall-out is hard to miss. Normally I am a bit of a media addict, fascinated and equally reactive to what I consider to be a culture in decline, symptomatic even, of impending collapse. Our priorities seem so out of whack; our values in tatters, our goals absurd. I’m speaking for myself as well as the collective of course. Each of us is quite embedded in our values, beliefs, and behaviors--a result of our upbringing, education, religious ties, political views, social status, and so much more that we tend to take for granted. As a whole, we shore up the culture, buying into the “way things are,” enabling practices that are less than generative.</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="boxBodyOuterContainer"><div class="boxBodyContainer"><div class="d1"><div class="d2"><div class="d3"><div class="d4"><div class="d5"><div class="d6"><div class="d7"><div class="d8"><div class="d9"><div class="inner"><div class="boxBodyContentOuterContainer"><div class="boxBodyContentContainer"><div class="d1"><div class="d2"><div class="d3"><div class="d4"><div class="d5"><div class="d6"><div class="d7"><div class="d8"><div class="d9"><div class="inner"><div class="blogPostBody"><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><font size="2" face="Verdana"><img src="http://www.depthpsychologylist.com/Resources/Pictures/hero-Child-33380249-pd.jpg" title="" alt="" width="400" height="300" border="0" align="right" /></font></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><font size="2" face="Verdana">Regarding the “Lance” story, though--as one of my peers in the <a href="http://www.depthpsychologyalliance.com/">Depth Psychology Alliance</a> community recently pointed out--nobody does the kind of thing Lance has done in a vacuum. Our fallen heroes are ours in the making. We collectively have a vested interest in creating heroes and putting them on a pedestal--where the only way out is down.</font></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana, geneva;"><font size="2" face="Verdana">We need our heroes. Who else are we to worship? America is built on a legacy of heroes: gunslingers, pioneers who conquered the wild west, U.S, marshals, militia, inventors, gold diggers and even the Saturday morning cartoons of my childhood in which the Super Friends always came out on top. How are we to dismiss the rugged individuals who actually <a href="http://www.depthpsychologylist.com/Depth-Psychology-Practitioners-Blog?mode=PostView&bmi=1194307" target="_blank">(Click to read the full post....)</a></font></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Patterns of the Fall: Lies, Lance and Life Patternshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/profiles/blogs/patterns-of-the-fall-lies-lance-and-life-patterns2013-01-28T23:28:49.000Z2013-01-28T23:28:49.000ZDr. Michael Confortihttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DrMichaelConforti<div><p><a href="{{#staticFileLink}}9142443683,original{{/staticFileLink}}"><img width="400" src="{{#staticFileLink}}9142443683,original{{/staticFileLink}}" style="padding:5px;" class="align-right" alt="9142443683?profile=original" /></a></p><p><span>Elie Wiesel once commented that </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> true hero cares more </span><span class="searchword">about</span><span> </span><span class="searchword">the </span><span>spiritual welfare of </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>ir community than for </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>ir own needs. So how is it that with </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> perennial wisdom on heroes taught to us by Wiesel, Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung, </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> Marie Louise von Franz, we persist in falsely identifying </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> projecting this archetypal pattern onto individuals whose frail shoulders will never carry </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>se cultural </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> spiritual responsibilities?</span><br /><span> </span><br /><span>Is </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> saga of Lance Armstrong yet ano</span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>r story in </span><span class="searchword">ou r</span><span>cultural </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> psychological tendency to glorify </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> inflate </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>n take great pleasure in seeing </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> demise of </span><span class="searchword">our</span><span>ill-fated “heroes”? In part, Armstrong’s story speaks to </span><span class="searchword">our </span><span>illusions </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> mistaken ideas </span><span class="searchword">about</span><span> </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> nature of </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> hero archetype. Unfortunately, </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>se individuals, </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> great athletes, movie stars, members of </span><span class="searchword">the</span><span> nobility, </span><span class="searchword">and</span><span> all those </span><span>o</span><span class="searchword">the</span><span>rs ask to carry </span><span class="searchword">the (<a href="http://www.assisiinstitute.com/1/post/2013/01/patterns-of-the-fall-lies-lance-and-life-patterns.html" target="_blank">Click here to read the full post...</a>)</span></p></div>