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Political Panel: Mercurial Dynamics [LECTURE]
By Connie Romero, David Solem, and Larry Rayburn
November 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST
As we face the general and presidential election of 2024, hope and dread wrestle for dominance. Surely, we tell ourselves, things can’t go on as they have been. Conversely, we resign ourselves for a dystopian four years and beyond. In such moments as these, the perceptual tools C. G. Jung proposed are among the few that allow us to tolerate and reflect on extreme times in a genuinely psychological way. As his Red Book shows, Jung faced such disarray and psychosis with intelligence and heart. Indeed, his psychology was born of extremity.
Jung also wrote of the mercurial spirit that, like the volatile alchemical mercury, cannot be pinned down. The more we try to do so the more this element seems to move––even more freely and perversely in response to attempts at control, whether personal, cultural, or political. In this Friday evening forum, three Jungian Analysts, Connie Romero, David Solem, and Larry Rayburn will attempt to capture some of the mercurial dynamics in psychological phenomena attached to the political arena such as narcissism, queer theory, and the figure of the trickster. Each of these analysts will take a turn presenting and then face one another to question and further tease out their ideas through dialog. Following the panel’s conversation, the discussion will open up to include the audience and their questions.
Please join us on this Friday evening after the election as we address the realities and possibilities of a great national reckoning together.
CONSTANCE ROMERO, LPC, is a Jungian analyst practicing in New Orleans and a senior training analyst and clinical supervisor with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). She is currently co-editor of the Clinical Commentaries for The Journal of Analytical Psychology, and has published articles and reviews in that publication as well as The International Journal of Jungian Studies and Psychological Perspectives. She lectures on Jungian psychology in the US, Europe and Indonesia.
DAVID SOLEM, MSW, MAPC, MA, MM, is a diplomate Jungian analyst through IRSJA-IAAP and a training analyst on the faculties of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, the Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar, and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. His publications have appeared in Psychological Perspectives (2017), Quadrant (2018), and the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2019 & 2021). David is in private clinical practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is also a classically trained musician and holds the position of principal keyboard (harpsichord, organ, piano) with Santa Fe Pro Musica as well as the position of assistant organist at First Presbyterian Church in Santa Fe.
LARRY RAYBURN, MA, s a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is currently president. He is also a senior training analyst of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Larry is interested in male psychology, particularly that of boys and the father, and in the theories of play and psychic energy. He has presented and taught on the alchemical opus, contra naturam, or work against nature, as expressed in the flow and counter-flow of human life, the natural world, and clinical practice.
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Select one of the Ticket options below. Online preregistration for this program has ended as of Friday, November 8, 2024, 9:00 am Mountain Time. If you want to attend in-person, tickets will also be available at the door. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
Due to the recent snow fall in Santa Fe, everyone who bought tickets to attend the live lecture will also receive the ZOOM link so that in-person ticket holders can have the option of choosing to attend online.
The ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 8, 2024 by Noon Mountain Time.
This lecture will be recorded. Everyone who registers for the event will receive access to the video recording one week after.
**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — IN PERSON or via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).
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