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The C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe is a non-profit organization for persons interested in the depth psychology of Carl Gustav Jung. The Institute offers a variety of programs to both professionals and the general public to introduce and deepen understanding of Jung’s psychology individually and in the world.
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January 2020
Lecture: Facing Climate Disruption and Extinction with Jungian and Moral Perspectives
Guilford Dudley, Ph.D. and Monika Wikman, Ph.D. As we continue to pass scientific thresholds of no return, two major psychological issues are emerging. One is our proclivity for self-deception and avoidance — dissociation from a reality staring us in the face like the barrel of a shotgun. Those who do look away from the shotgun as though it were not there can be appreciated with great compassion, since the reality can simply be too much to bear. The other issue…
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Lecture: From Gregorian Chant to Rap: Music is always the Bridge
Pamela Power, Ph.D. Jung wrote that visionary art provides a compensatory function to the time in which it is produced. If we can recognize what art expresses, we can be more deeply aware of the culture in which we live. This presentation will provide a brief overview of the evolution of Western music and describe the spirit that has propelled it since the early church. We then turn to the ‘music’ of Rap culture that today plays a powerful, and…
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Lecture: Spiritual Democracy, Jung, and the American Psyche
STEVEN HERRMANN, Ph.D., MFT and LORI GOLDRICH, Ph.D. Jung described active imagination as a technique for discovering the mythopoetic images hidden in the emotions. Jung modeled this method in his Red Book. A related technique is what Walt Whitman called Vocalism. Poets who have used this method have helped to articulate what our national myth is in the United States. One of our central myths is “Spiritual Democracy.” Spiritual Democracy is a way to sacred action, whether through political activism,…
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Lecture: Violence in Fairy Tales: a Symbolic Key to Violence in our Culture and its Possible Transformation
Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. When Bruno Bettelheim published The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales in 1989, controversies erupted about how all the violence in the Grimm’s tales might traumatize our children or provoke them to violent behavior. Bettelheim said this was nonsense—that violence was part of life and that children were actually helped by having imagery for violence that placed it in the context of the human imagination and surrounded it with meaningful stories. Today, the…
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New Light out of Darkness
In this time of the great darkness turning toward a new light, we at the Jung Institute of Santa Fe wish all of you —all the earth— a time of rest, rejuvenation, and deep joy. While the winter sun’s light is weaker and further off, the stars seem to draw closer, cold...
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