CERBERUS THE THREE DOG AND GUARDIAN OF THE PSYCHES SHADOW

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today we look at Cerberus, the three headed hound who
guards the gates of Hades, preventing souls from escaping and
the living from entering unbidden. Psychologically and philosophically, Cerberus represents
more than a mythic beasts. He's a powerful symbol of
the internal boundaries re erect between consciousness and the unconscious
from a young in perspective, Cerberus guards the threshold of

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the shadow, the repressed, denied, or feared aspects of the self.
His three heads may represent the fragmentation of the psyche,
the past, present, and future selves we juggle, or the
id ego and superego and Freudian terms. To descend into Hades,
the realm of the unconscious, one must face this guardian
our inner resistance to self examination. Philosophically, Cerebus Cerberus embodies

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the paradox from freedom and limitation. He restricts access. It
also protects the order of the underworld. Like the internal
critic or moral compass. He may seem oppressive, but serves
as a necessary function to preserve psychological integrity. If you
look at it through an existential way, Cerberus represents the
boundary between authentic confrontation with mortality and the denial of it.

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To look into the underworld is to confront death not
only as an end, but as a mirror for living meaningfully.
Heroes like Heracles and Orpheus do not destroy Cerberus. They
face and outwitted him to suggest that psychological growth is
not about annihilating our defense mechanisms, but integrating them and
learning when to heed them and when to pass through. Thus,

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Cerberus is not merely a monster, but a symbol of initiation,
guarding the path to deeper wisdom and self knowledge. In
the end, to face Cerberus is to face our inner self.
That's it for now.