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Plenary Videos 2023-24
Susan Rowland Moderating 16 Sept 2023
Dreams Workshop 14 Oct 2023 WORKSHOP NOT RECORDED
Archetypes of Place & Planet 18 Nov 2023
Plenary Videos 2022-23
Jung, Frye, and William Blake: Creativity and the Unconscious 16 Sep 2022 William Blake, one of the first figures in western art and literature to have invented his own mythology, has long been appreciated by Jungian commentators and psychotherapists as an artist working in the tradition of archetypes. Jung's own relationship to the work of Blake was more complex.
The Black Madonna 07 Oct 2022
Racial Legacies: Jung, Politics and Culture 18 Nov 2022 Review by Rossanna Echegoyén: LCSW, Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee for Race and Ethnicity at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis "This is a brilliant and creative piece of work that examines raciality from an Africanist and White perspective. It is also an act of empowerment and response to Jung excising the black experience. "
Plenary Videos 2021-22
'Red' Book Symphony 17 Sep 2021 A musical response to The Red Book. One of my lock down projects has been to compose RED, my 5th symphony inspired by The Red Book in concert with painting a series of 4 large canvases. Like the composer Schoneberg, I thrive on this syncreting interface.
Alchemy: Healing the Neglected Soul 15 Oct 2021 Psychoanalyst, Author, Historian, World Renowned international lecturer. 'Alchemy flows beneath the surface of Western civilisation like a river of gold, (helping us to ) understand our presence on this planet better than we do. Alchemy is the rainbow bridge between human and the divine .."
Alchemy & Dreams: Privilege & Otherness 26 Nov 2021 We explore the internalised experience of privilege and otherness and the internalised racism, sexism and homophobia, etc... especially through the language of dreams.
"Screen & Soul" 15 Jan 2022 Is online working less 'real' than meeting in person? Or is our experience of reality actually more 'virtual' than we think?
Racial Hybridity: Jungian & Post Jungian Perspectives 18 Feb 2022 This talk explores some possible contributions analytical psychology may make to theorising racial hybridity. In particular, Lu critically reflects on his hopes, fears, and fantasies that may in turn act as springboard.
Mythology & Modern Life: Archetype of Change 18 Mar 2022 Explores the late Octavia Butler's work, who in the 1990's envisions the sort of fear that permeates contemporary culture, dominated by Covid, rising Fascism, and Climate Crisis; engendering 'end of the world' fears & fantasies, globally in society.
Inner and Outer Democracy: Healing our Polarised World 22 Apr 2022 In this lecture Dr. Kalsched will describe a totalitarian of fascistic inner 'system' of archetypal defensive powers typical of the dissociative psychology found in survivors of early trauma, and will contrast this with the more democratic conflict psychology found in more integrated individuals.
Soul of the City: When Central Park Heals New York City 20 May 2022 Discovery of the plan of Manhattan embodied in the plan of Central Park; which has huge implications for the health and welfare of the city. The journey charts Manhattan's memory of life as a Native American sacred ceremonial island called Manatus, to current day Manhattan, proposing a memorial for Manatus and her beloved Peoples. The story of Manhattan is a microcosm of the story of planet earth, and has a global message.
Plenary Videos 2020-21
Hildegard Illuminations, Jung & The Red Book Friday 18th SEPT 2020 Carl Jung and Hildegard of Bingen were both powerful mystics whose connection to transpersonal forces led them to boldly embrace unconventional lives of healing and wholeness. Jung's visionary experiences in the 20th century became the basis for his celebrated Red Book from which all of his later theories on depth psychology emerged.
Synchronicity as Cultural Critique Friday 16 Oct 2020 Jung developed the concept of synchronicity as part of his critique of the cultural condition of his day, which he saw as characterised by excessive rationalism in science, loss of a sense of the sacred, and social mass-mindedness—a condition that could be aptly described in terms of Weber’s notion of disenchantment.
Towards an Ecopsychotherapy Friday 20th Nov 2020 In this talk I share some stories from the consulting room of deep love, attachment and loss in our relationships with the nonhuman world.
The Racial Complex Friday 15th Jan 2021 In The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race, Dr Brewster revisits and examines Jung’s classical writing on the theory of complexes, relating it directly to race in modern society.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections: A Symphony Analysis of Composing a Symphony Friday 19th Feb 2021 Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections is a challenging crucible in which to contextualise my love of Jung's thought, within music. I focussed on the chapter "Visions" in which Jung recounts his near-death experience from a heart attack.
The Ancestors Friday 12 Mar 2021 This talk considers the unconscious patterns which run through families and generations of families, as one generation inherits, responds and reacts to the complexes and archetypal energies of the previous generation – and even of the generation before that – parents, grandparents and beyond.. Image: Israhel van Meckenem - Ornament with the Tree of Jesse, 1480–90 With kind permission of The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Lilith: Culture and Diversity Friday, 16th Apr 2021 Eric Neumann has famously written about the "fear of the feminine"' But "fear of" is not something usually associated with the feminine, which has been and still is regarded as inferior and lacking authority in most cultures.
Philemon, Ka, and The Emergence of The Creative Spirit in Jung's Red Book and Art 1919-1923; Some Reflections Saturday Workshop Sat 22 May 2021 In my workshop/seminar, I identify several previously unrecognised representations of two of Jung’s most important personifications, the ‘dominant fathers’ Philemon and Ka. Video available upon member's request.