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Straying from the Path: Fairy Tales, Queer Theory and Queer Energy as Models of an Analytic Attitude [LECTURE]
March 10, 2023 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm MST
by David Solem, MSW, MAPC, MA, MM
Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced because they are not mirrored by the culture in which they find themselves. Fairy tales fail to mirror our human experience in many ways. And yet, these stories offer archetypal images that may provide a path towards a new mirror, if one is willing to stray from the offered path. To Queer an experience is to resist defining it.
Beginning with the legacy of the Grimm brother’s collections, the Friday evening lecture will focus on a willingness to transgress traditional views in service to psychological and spiritual development, which involves conscious suffering. This authentic capacity is fragile and currently threatened by our society’s Zeitgeist—that of polarization, cancel culture, and overt demonstrations of violence towards anyone who cannot perform the hegemonic narrative being imposed.
Saturday’s workshop, “Jouissance Determines the Necessary Path,” will further explore how to apply Queer Theory in clinical work through amplification and deconstructive narrative work. Jouissance is a French term that connects us with the primal drive to TRANSGRESS in service to authentic individuation. To be in connection with one’s jouissance means embracing one’s personal ‘fate’ and cooperating with what connects one to Source.
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.
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Pre-registration for the Live event is now closed (as of Friday, March 10 at 9:00 am Mountain Time). In person tickets will be available at the door. If you registered to attend via Zoom, the link will be sent on Friday, March 10th at 12:00 pm Mountain Time.
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This event will be recorded. Everyone who registers and attends the live lecture (in person or on Zoom) will receive access to the video one week after.
*NOTE: You must attend the live presentation (In Person or on ZOOM) to receive CEU credit. Doors and the ZOOM room open 30 mins prior to the lecture at 6:30 pm Mountain Time.
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