The Sufferer

Symbols

House, Lion, Seagull, Cypress Tree, Ocean, Fog, Waxing Gibbous

Keywords

Defeat: surrender, breakdown, collapse, fall apart, brittle, friable, cranky, easily upset, irritable, moody, weakness, failure, powerless, pushover, gull, victim, martyr, easy target, losing it

Fear: apprehension, withdrawal, anxiety, angst, stress, PTSD, panic, survival instincts, danger, threat, yelling, uproar, tearing apart, fight-or-flight, freeze, paralysis

Grief: frustration, holding a grudge, sorrow, despair, darkness, repressed anger or hostility, distress, injury, pain, hurting, broken, trauma, suffering

For Example

Movie Clips & Videos:

It's not your fault – Good Will Hunting

A short film to the music On The Nature of Daylight

The Two Fridas

What This Painting Tells Us About Frida Kahlo,
You're Entering a World of Pain – The Big Lebowski,
Therapist Reacts to Movie Therapist: Good Will Hunting,
Hurt People Hurt People – Greenberg,
Two Days, One Night (the fight to keep one's job)

Philippines Eagle's Growing Pains – Our Planet,

Initiation Through Trials – Joseph Campbell,
The Problem of Anger - How to Use the Power of Your Dark Side,
Feelings: Handle Them Before They Handle You – Mandy Saligari,
The Importance of a Breakdown,

Podcasts:
About That Farm Upstate (This American Life),
If You're Often Angry Or Irritable, You May Be Depressed (NPR),
Healing Trauma with Science and Self-Care with Dr. James Gordon

"... the child in the adult is the source of suffering; it is that which suffers because with the grown-up part of oneself one can take life as it is and therefore one does not suffer so much... But in childhood there are such terrific tragedies, which shows that the child within is the genuine part, and the genuine part is that thing which suffers, that thing which cannot take reality, or which still reacts in the grown-up person like a child...

So one could say that what is genuine in a person and what is naive like a child in them is the source of suffering. Many grown-ups split off this part and thereby miss individuation, for only if one accepts it and the suffering it imposes on one, can the process of individuation go on."

– Marie-Louise Von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus

Writings:
Fables of the Lion and the Bird, Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger,
Strategies to Cope With Tough Times,
How to Make Use of Our Suffering, The Pain Chronicles,
Van Gogh on the Beauty of Sorrow and the Enchantment of Storms,
The Wounded Deer by Frida Kahlo,
The Inner World of Trauma, Archetypal Defenses of the Spirit

Emotional Purging: Physical Signs Of Emotional Detox,
When the People You Trust Hurt You (and How To Stop It),
Ancient Akkadian Poems and Medical Texts Reveal Grief’s Universals

Grief, Psychological Stress, Despair, Sorrow, Pain, Anger, Resentment,
Frustration, Sabotage, Breaking Point, Abreaction, Catharsis, Surrender,
Bhagavad Gita, Psychological Trauma, Defeatism, Fatalism, Pessimism,
Learned Helplessness, Failure, Martyr, Martyr Complex, Victim Mentality

"Jung says that the fiery lion – a passionate emotion – is a preliminary stage to the realization of the unconscious contents. So it is absolutely necessary to brave the lion, that is, to overcome one's emotions before one can enter the unconscious, or eternity."

"Standing the fire of the emotions is the one thing that gets one near to the fire of the psychological Self. Some people, of course, have a strong moral sense and then the fire means accepting the shadow." [see the Judge]

– Barbara Hannah, The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals

Songs:
Je Suis Parti (Jean Leloup),
L'Exil – L'heptade (Harmonium),
The Lion's Roar (First Aid Kit)