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Psychologizing in the Age of Corruption [POLITICAL PANEL]
By BARRY WILLIAMS, LARRY RAYBURN, & MARILYN MATTHEWS
November 13 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST
Over the last year we have struggled to remain consciously engaged in a discussion of what Jung called “these times.” We have entertained the complexes, cultural and personal, at work and the inexorable trend toward corruption amidst the barrage of words and images meant to demand we submit to an ever-narrowing world view.
While the center of our national stage is occupied by one character, we have attempted to cast our net wider and deeper, looking for what our era has constellated. We have explored the tyranny and threat to women and the feminine, the consequences for Nature and the human community, and for individual meaning amidst a flood of shadow-driven emotions, personal animus, not to mention our normal human tendency toward dissociation and denial.
We have continued to use our imaginal and analytic tools on the underlying dynamism of the psyche—of the shadow, the mythic representations of Mercurius, as well as attacks on linking, both within and without. Additionally, we have wondered about the predominance of left brain reasoning, at the cost of right-brain feeling, to address our current crises.
Amidst it all we contend with our unsettling feelings of rage and hopelessness while holding the possibility for change. What, we ask, is the fate of love and eros in such a time?
Depth Psychology, emphasizing the symbolic and imaginal, engages the underlayment of our cultural and political life. We will again each offer a brief topic salient to our situation. These presentations will be followed by an inter-panel discussion and time for questions and comments from the audience. We hope you will join us.
BARRY WILLIAMS, M.DIV., PSYD, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Taos, NM and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe. For twenty-five years, together with his wife and late son, he has been an initiated Mara’akame in the traditional healing path of the Huichol/Wixarika people of the Sierra of central Mexico. Dr. Williams’ particular interests are in dreams, healing, shamanism and depth psychology, and the archetype of sacrifice.
LARRY RAYBURN, MA, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and a member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe where he is the outgoing (2025) 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.
MARILYN MATTHEWS, MD, is a psychiatrist and Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Fe. A former president of the C. G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, she also has many years of experience on Exam Committees in the IRSJA. Her interest in women’s voices and silences has led to a number of published papers on those topics. Now what holds her attention is the changing pattern of ethics during the current societal and cultural upheaval.
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Select one of the ticket options below. Online pre-registration to attend this program live ends on Friday, November 13, 2026 at 9:00 am Mountain Time.
If you register to attend online via ZOOM, the ZOOM link will be sent out on Friday, November 13, 2026 by Noon (12:00 pm) Mountain Time.
This lecture will be video recorded. Everyone who registers will receive access to the video one week after.
**Note: You must attend the LIVE lecture — in-person or online via ZOOM — to receive CEU credit (ie: no CEUs offered for only watching the video recording after the event).
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