By Lourdes Hernandez This presentation will discuss how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflictual and experienced incongruous. The thesis explores how Jungian theory can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that develop from […]

By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. […]

By Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson Nearly a century ago, when Freud and Jung witnessed the rise of fascism in Europe, they turned their keen depth psychological eye to cultural nigredo in works such as Civilization and its Discontents and “Wotan.” Jungians can follow their example by writing our way through today’s social, cultural, and political nigredo. […]

Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding With Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, this […]

Archetypal Dimensions in the Midst of Collective Flooding, With Panel: Barry Williams, Larry Rayburn, & Marilyn Mathews In these turbulent times we are flooded with information and opinion about our political condition. Editorials, blogs, and professional pundits reflect our desperate need to know, not just what is going on, but what it means. While understandable, […]