Speaker 1: It happens when you're alone, late at night, phone in
Speaker 1: your hand, mind, restless, heart numb. You tell yourself it's lust,
Speaker 1: that you just need a release, that it's normal. Everyone
Speaker 1: does it, just one more scroll, one more fantasy, one
Speaker 1: more body to imagine. But if you were honest with yourself,
Speaker 1: really honest, you'd feel it too, the emptiness, not just after,
Speaker 1: but during, even while you're chasing it. You think it's desire,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's hunger for something deeper than skin.
Speaker 1: It's grief for something you can't even name. Carl Jung
Speaker 1: understood this long before modern psychology dared to speak about it.
Speaker 1: He said, people will do anything, no matter how absurd,
Speaker 1: to avoid facing their own soul and lust. This constant, grasping, craving, consuming,
Speaker 1: is not about pleasure. It's about escape from boredom, from pain,
Speaker 1: from loneliness, from the aching silence inside your own heart.
Speaker 1: You tell yourself you want her, but what you really
Speaker 1: want is to feel alive, to feel held, to feel seen,
Speaker 1: to feel something anything beneath the surface of this empty,
Speaker 1: performative life. But instead of turning inward, you chase the body,
Speaker 1: You chase the image, You chase the surge of dopamine
Speaker 1: that disappears just as fast as it can, and the
Speaker 1: moment it's over, you're left with the same void, the
Speaker 1: same silence, the same self untouched. You see, lust isn't
Speaker 1: the enemy, it's the symptom. It's your soul trying to
Speaker 1: get your attention, because beneath that craving is something much deeper, disconnection.
Speaker 1: You're not connected to your body, you're not connected to
Speaker 1: your purpose, you're not connected to your emotions. You're not
Speaker 1: connected to you. So you reach for the easiest substitute,
Speaker 1: the illusion of closeness, the illusion of control, the illusion
Speaker 1: of being wanted. But Youwing would say, this is the
Speaker 1: shadow in action. The part of you that was never
Speaker 1: loved in the right way now sir for love in
Speaker 1: the wrong ways. And it's not just about sex. It's
Speaker 1: about all the ways you run. The compulsive texting, the
Speaker 1: porn at two am, the meaningless conversations that feel almost intimate,
Speaker 1: the constant mental replay of someone who made you feel
Speaker 1: desired once. But what you're really doing is avoiding the
Speaker 1: loneliness that lives under your skin, because to sit with it,
Speaker 1: to really feel it, is to admit that you don't
Speaker 1: just want release, You want rescue from your own isolation,
Speaker 1: from your own numbness, from your own buried needs that
Speaker 1: you were never allowed to have. Young saw this in
Speaker 1: the patients who came to him, not with sexual issues,
Speaker 1: but with spiritual hunger disguised as does. He didn't moralize,
Speaker 1: he didn't judge. He went deeper because he knew the
Speaker 1: real question wasn't why do I feel lust, but rather
Speaker 1: what is this lust trying to distract me from? And
Speaker 1: that is the question you have to ask yourself now,
Speaker 1: because if you don't, you will keep feeding the craving
Speaker 1: but never touch the wound. You will keep chasing bodies
Speaker 1: but never feel intimacy. You will keep fantasizing but never
Speaker 1: feel seen. You will keep finishing, but never feel whole.
Speaker 1: So here's the truth. No one tells you you don't
Speaker 1: need more pleasure, you need more presence. You don't need
Speaker 1: another body. You need to come back into your own
Speaker 1: because the part of you that keeps reaching outward is
Speaker 1: the part of you that was never met inward. And
Speaker 1: that's what Carl Jung's read book was really about. Not sex,
Speaker 1: not power, not control, but integration, the reunion of all
Speaker 1: your lost pieces, the return to the self, the courage
Speaker 1: to look at your own emptiness and not run from it.
Speaker 1: So before you open another app, before you send another text,
Speaker 1: before you let your craving lead you ask yourself, is
Speaker 1: this lust or is this loneliness in disguise? And if
Speaker 1: you finally stopped escaping, what would you find waiting inside you?
Speaker 1: Carl Jung never saw lust as just a physical impulse.
Speaker 1: To him, it was a spiritual signal, a coded message
Speaker 1: from the unconscious, a warning that the soul had been
Speaker 1: starved for too long. Because when you haven't faced your
Speaker 1: inner world, desire doesn't come from wholeness. It comes from fragmentation.
Speaker 1: You don't lust because you're bad. You lust because you're divided.
Speaker 1: Jung wrote in the read book, I must learn that
Speaker 1: the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech
Speaker 1: of my soul. So when lust shows up suddenly, urgently, irrationally,
Speaker 1: Young would say, it's not about the person you're thinking of.
Speaker 1: It's about the part of you you've lost contact with.
Speaker 1: Here's what he meant. In Jungian psychology, the inner feminine
Speaker 1: in men is called the anima, and when this animal
Speaker 1: is unconscious, you don't know how to feel, You don't
Speaker 1: know how to surrender. You don't know how to love
Speaker 1: without attaching, So your soul reaches out the only way
Speaker 1: it knows how. Through projection. You place your lost tenderness,
Speaker 1: your vulnerability, your inner light onto her. Not because she
Speaker 1: is all those things, but because she reminds you of
Speaker 1: the part of yourself you can't access anymore. So when
Speaker 1: you lust after her, her body, her presence, her softness,
Speaker 1: you're not actually craving sex, your craving reunion with your
Speaker 1: lost soul. This is why it hurts, because no matter
Speaker 1: how many times you chase it, you never reach it.
Speaker 1: You can't because you're chasing yourself in someone else's body.
Speaker 1: And the more disconnected you are from your anima, the
Speaker 1: more violent, desperate, and emptier your lust becomes. You scroll endlessly,
Speaker 1: You fantasize about people you barely know. You replay images
Speaker 1: that made you feel something, anything, and yet every time
Speaker 1: it ends, you feel more distant from yourself than before.
Speaker 1: Jung said, this is how the shadow seduces you, not
Speaker 1: with evil, but with illusion. You don't see a person,
Speaker 1: you see your unmet needs, your suppressed pain. You're forgotten warmth.
Speaker 1: And because you never integrated these parts within. You try
Speaker 1: to possess them outside. But lust, when it's disconnected from love,
Speaker 1: always collapses because no one can carry the weight of
Speaker 1: your unlived emotions. No body can complete your broken identity.
Speaker 1: No moment of pleasure can heal a soul that hasn't
Speaker 1: been felt. So what happens next? You start needing more,
Speaker 1: more stimulation, more novelty, more intensity, because now your soul
Speaker 1: isn't just craving, it's starving. And you think the answer
Speaker 1: is in more content, more experiences, more people. But all
Speaker 1: you're really doing is running faster in a maze that
Speaker 1: leads right back to your emptiness. Carl Jung believed that
Speaker 1: to break the cycle, you must stop asking who turns
Speaker 1: me on and start asking what part of me have
Speaker 1: I turned off? Because when you reconnect with your emotions,
Speaker 1: your dreams, your intuition, your longing lust transforms. It becomes sacred,
Speaker 1: it becomes creative, It becomes a bridge, not a trap.
Speaker 1: Young called this integration bringing back the parts of you
Speaker 1: that were cast into the unconscious and lust that's the
Speaker 1: fire of your soul. Trying to get your attention, not
Speaker 1: to shame you, not to scare you, but to show
Speaker 1: you how far you've drifted from yourself. You don't just
Speaker 1: want someone to touch your body, You want someone to
Speaker 1: witness your being. You don't just want release, You want
Speaker 1: relief from the ache of being unseen, untouched, unheld even
Speaker 1: by yourself. So here's the hardest truth Young offers. Until
Speaker 1: you face your soul, your desire will always be misdirected.
Speaker 1: You'll keep chasing shadows, you'll keep calling it love. You'll
Speaker 1: keep falling into arms that don't feel like home, because
Speaker 1: the home you seek is the part of you you
Speaker 1: stopped visiting long ago. So the next time you feel
Speaker 1: the wave of lust rise in you pause, don't repress it,
Speaker 1: don't act on it blindly, just ask it, what are
Speaker 1: you trying to show me about myself? Because once you
Speaker 1: learn how to feel the energy without losing yourself in it,
Speaker 1: you don't become cold. You become clear, and in that
Speaker 1: clarity you can finally choose something deeper than the craving.
Speaker 1: You can choose connection, not escape, not performance, not fantasy,
Speaker 1: but presence, and from that presence comes the kind of
Speaker 1: love lust could never give you. You keep telling yourself
Speaker 1: it's harmless, a release, a phase a need, but slowly
Speaker 1: it starts to reshape you, not in one big moment,
Speaker 1: but in tiny, invisible fractures. You stop feeling your emotions fully,
Speaker 1: You stop seeing people as whole. You start mistaking attention
Speaker 1: for love and stimulation for intimacy. This is what Carl
Speaker 1: Jung feared most, because lust, when disconnected from the soul,
Speaker 1: doesn't just distort how you see others, it breaks how
Speaker 1: you see yourself. At first, it's small. You stop making
Speaker 1: eye contact, You avoid deep conversations. You retreat into fantasies
Speaker 1: that feel safer than reality. You smile and public, but
Speaker 1: feel numb inside. Then it gets worse. You lose motivation,
Speaker 1: not just sexually, but in life. You stop writing, you
Speaker 1: stop building, you stop creating. Because lust, when indulged mindlessly
Speaker 1: consumes the same fire meant to fuel your purpose. It
Speaker 1: becomes your shortcut to a liveness. But the cost is
Speaker 1: your soul. Young believed that every time you feed a
Speaker 1: craving without consciousness, you strengthen the complex behind it, a
Speaker 1: psychological loop trigger, reaction, relief, guilt, repeat, and the more
Speaker 1: you repeat it, the more you believe that this is
Speaker 1: just who you are. But it's not who you are.
Speaker 1: It's who you became after you stopped feeling shame in
Speaker 1: your own skin. You weren't born addicted to bodies. You're
Speaker 1: born craving connection. You wanted warmth, not friction, love not lust,
Speaker 1: presence not performance. But when life didn't give you those things,
Speaker 1: you turned to fantasy. Because in fantasy, you control the narrative.
Speaker 1: You're wanted, you're powerful, you're never rejected. But here's the cost.
Speaker 1: You stop showing up for the real world. You lose
Speaker 1: the ability to sit in awkward silence, to endure longing,
Speaker 1: to build something with someone, to fail in front of
Speaker 1: love and try again anyway. Because lust teaches you escape,
Speaker 1: not courage, not patience, not resilience, and so you get stuck.
Speaker 1: You keep chasing highs that never touch your heart. You
Speaker 1: keep looking for women who make you feel something, just
Speaker 1: enough to distract you from how disconnected you are, and
Speaker 1: may be worst of all, you start to resent yourself.
Speaker 1: You tell yourself you're weak, that you're broken, that you'll
Speaker 1: never find real love. But young would say, it's not brokenness,
Speaker 1: it's disconnection from the inner feminine, from the soul's ability
Speaker 1: to nurture, to hold, to feel. You have fire but
Speaker 1: no warmth. You have desire but no devotion, and without integration,
Speaker 1: lust becomes violence, not outwardly, but inwardly. You betray your
Speaker 1: own values. You promise yourself never again, only to fall
Speaker 1: back into the same loop the next night, And over time,
Speaker 1: your mind becomes scattered, your heart becomes calloused, your dreams
Speaker 1: become dry. Because nothing that once made you feel alive
Speaker 1: can compete with the intensity you've wired into your system.
Speaker 1: The high is short, the aftermath is long, and the
Speaker 1: worst part, you start needing more and feeling less young.
Speaker 1: Called this psychic possession, when a complex hijacks your will power.
Speaker 1: When you no longer act, you are acted through. And
Speaker 1: in this case, it's not you who's chasing lust. It's
Speaker 1: your shadow, your loneliness, your unloved inner child, searching for
Speaker 1: someone to hold him in the only way he's ever known.
Speaker 1: So the cycle repeats. Relationships fall apart, You sabotage connection.
Speaker 1: You can't sit with discomfort, so you swipe. You can't
Speaker 1: deal with silence, so you scroll. You can't face yourself,
Speaker 1: so you chase someone else's body. But what you never
Speaker 1: realize until it's too late is that lust doesn't just
Speaker 1: keep you from love. It keeps you from becoming you.
Speaker 1: It robs you of creative energy, of attention, span of soul,
Speaker 1: depth of spiritual clarity. And the longer it goes on,
Speaker 1: the more you start to wonder, why don't I feel
Speaker 1: anything anymore? That's the consequence, Not shame, not hell, not punishment,
Speaker 1: but numbness. And young would argue that is worse than pain,
Speaker 1: because when you're numb, you stop evolving, You stop listening,
Speaker 1: you stop hearing the voice inside you that says this
Speaker 1: isn't who I came here to be. You don't need
Speaker 1: to hate yourself to heal, You don't need to repress desire.
Speaker 1: You just need to ask one question, what is this
Speaker 1: craving trying to teach me about me? Carl Jung never
Speaker 1: told you to kill the fire. He told you to
Speaker 1: understand it. Because the fire of lust, when ignored, becomes addiction,
Speaker 1: but when faced, it becomes transformation. And that journey doesn't
Speaker 1: start by closing your eyes. It starts by finally opening them.
Speaker 1: No more lying, no more blaming, no more saying this
Speaker 1: is just how I am. You're not broken, You're just lost,
Speaker 1: and you've used lust to avoid the map. But the
Speaker 1: night was never outside of you. It was never in
Speaker 1: her body, never in that video, never in the next message,
Speaker 1: the next app, the next escape. The map was always
Speaker 1: your soul. So how do you begin Step one? Stay
Speaker 1: not with her, not with them with you, Stay in
Speaker 1: your body, stay with the ache, Stay through the craving
Speaker 1: without feeding it. At first, it will feel impossible. You'll shake,
Speaker 1: you'll scroll, you'll itch for escape. But if you breathe
Speaker 1: through it, just one moment longer than you usually do,
Speaker 1: you'll hear something new. Silence, not the numb kind, the
Speaker 1: sacred kind, And in that silence a voice will whisper,
Speaker 1: I miss you. It's the part of you you left behind,
Speaker 1: the boy who learned to earn love through performance, the
Speaker 1: soul who mistook touch for truth, the man who forgot
Speaker 1: that his craving was not evil, just unmet young believed that.
Speaker 1: You don't kill your shadow. You integrate it, You sit
Speaker 1: with it, you learn from it, You bring it back
Speaker 1: into the light. So what does that look like? You
Speaker 1: start writing again, not just to express, but to feel.
Speaker 1: You create, not to impress, but to release. You sit
Speaker 1: in nature, you let yourself cry, You breathe into your
Speaker 1: chest and ask, what do I actually want right now,
Speaker 1: and you listen, not just once every day, because healing
Speaker 1: lust isn't a one time fix. It's a daily relationship
Speaker 1: with your own soul. And over time the cravings lose
Speaker 1: their grip, not because they disappear, but because you no
Speaker 1: longer fear them. You welcome the heat, You thank the desire.
Speaker 1: You hear what it's really saying. I want love, I
Speaker 1: want beauty, I want meaning, I want me. You don't
Speaker 1: need to shame yourself anymore. You don't need to prove anything.
Speaker 1: You just need to come home. Because when you reclaim
Speaker 1: your anima, your inner feminine, you don't chase it outside.
Speaker 1: You live it. You feel your emotions, You honor your softness,
Speaker 1: You become magnetic because you're finally whole. And then when
Speaker 1: someone does come along, you don't need to possess them.
Speaker 1: You don't need to be rescued. You don't need them
Speaker 1: to complete the parts of you you abandon because you
Speaker 1: already did that in silence, in darkness, in the sacred place.
Speaker 1: Lust could never reach, but your soul always could. So
Speaker 1: if this hits something inside you, then you've already begun
Speaker 1: the journey back. Sit with it. Listen again