In this episode I sit down with the actor and educator Jeff Miller to explore Robert A. Johnson’s We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love through a Jungian lens, asking why romantic love has become the “single greatest energy system in the Western psyche” and how it often replaces religion as our main path to meaning, transcendence, and ecstasy. We unpack projection—how we place our own unlived life and inner feminine/masculine onto a beloved—then trace romantic love back to the 12th‑century troubadours and the myth of Tristan and Isolde to show what happens when a culture puts divine longing onto human partners instead of the sacred. Along the way we look at the wounded feminine in a power‑driven patriarchy, the imbalance between “masculine” values of control and “feminine” values of connection, and why this split fuels both our idealizations and our bitter disillusionments in relationship. We also talk about where that eros can go instead—into art, theatre, music, dreams, and other experiences of transcendence that connect us to something larger without asking another person to “cure our life”—and how the deeper Jungian task is to balance our inner opposites, withdraw projections, and honour the beauty of falling in love without making it our only doorway to the soul.