[SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Is My Wanderlust Related To My Mother Complex?

Welcome to Jung Love where we answer questions and interpret dreams from our subscriber community. And here's today's question. I'm wondering if you can talk about the issue of place, the ability to settle down somewhere, and how this could relate to a mother complex. And for context, she writes, I've always felt the need to move and can find anything to be unhappy about in my surroundings. Sometimes I wonder if it's related to how I was mothered. My mother could be very distant at times and made me feel strange for wanting her or having opinions or feelings certain ways. She would often make fun of me and I believe there could be a connection here and that I can't take myself seriously for creating my own life. I desperately want to move back to my hometown, but I wonder if it is just an unconscious longing to get back to my mother, a mother type that I never actually had. I like her self analysis. She's really done a great job self reflecting on this. Yeah. I mean, the first thing that comes to my mind is what they what they talk about in AA as a geographic. So they they talk about, don't you know, you can't do a geographic cure, they talk about. So we do sometimes have an impulse to to move, to change, and that that can be a way of externalizing or concretizing, an inner dynamic. And so, therefore, the taking action in the outer world is is unlikely to change anything. Now I I wanna say that I I think that it's a little more complicated than that because sometimes moving is the right thing to do. But just in general, that that language from AA is a caution against thinking that just changing locations is going to change you. And I think she, we assume, a she is already aware of that. And one of the paradoxes of being human is that we can't just go inside ourselves and do all our work internally. We have to get out in the world and have experiences in the world, whether, you know, jobs and relationships and places that we live and, recreational activities we engage in. The list is on and on. And then use that as our, listener is doing to say, you know, what what how does this inform me and my inner world? What is the meaning that I make of it? I will say I have had some number of people in my personal life and as clients that have had this exact issue. And it really goes to the issue of home. The hope is that we find the home inside us of that place where there's a wholeness, a collection, a connection between, our physical selves, our emotions, our thinking and feeling, and so on. And if there has been a difficult, relationship with the mother who who first provides that home, she is our …