"Image and Word Workshop:
Healing and Transforming through Soul Journaling"
The creative, intentional marriage of words and images holds incredible potential for healing and transformation of the individual that can lead to larger changes. This workshop introduces a form of active imagination that I call "Soul Journaling," utilizing images from newsstand magazines and a variety of written/word techniques.
"Black is Not Enough"
This paper explores the racial concept 'black' from a contemporary Jungian perspective conceptualizing 'black' as a traumatic, divisive, cultural complex. Reconsidering race, several questions arise including, what are different relational coordinates, beyond the black/white binary, that would dismantle race trauma and promote healing?
"Octavia E. Butler’s Speculative Fiction: Trans(per)forming Embodied Narrative"
This paper focuses on the intersections of Octavia Butler’s the speculative fiction and Jung’s understanding of individual healing and collective transformation. Butler (re)visions individual experiences within history, culture, and society. Butler’s works exemplify the postmodern, multicultural expressions of the birthing of new myths that are simultaneously trans(per)formative, embodied, and regenerative.
“Hermaphroditus as Image-Maker: Connecting a Hermetic Imagination to Healing”
Through image (Hermes, Aphrodite and Hermaphrodite) and commentary, marked by philos and poiesis, we will consider in the context of education: What have we done that has led to the loss of our twin given with the soul? What can be done to reunite the twins? What healing and transformation might these image-makers bring to education?
"The Content of Their Complexes: The Wounded Leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Barack Obama"
Since his first major appearance before the collective psyche at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Barack Obama has constantly been compared to Martin Luther King, Jr. While the content of their characters may be similar, this talk takes up the dissimilar content of their complexes, exploring how this may affect their (wounded) leadership.
TJSSS CONFERENCE
In August of 2009, three Depth Psychology students and two faculty members presented papers at the 8th annual conference of The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies.
Student Presentations
Faculty Presentations
The conference took place at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, with a theme of "Healing and Transformation of the Collective." Susan Rowland was the keynote speaker.
The three students who presented were Deanne Bell (left), Ayana Harris (middle), and Robin Barre (right)
Note: Click on each presenters' name to open a new page where you can see their picture and read a full abstract of their conference talk
LINKS TO
(electronic journal)
Conference Photographs by Ayana Harris
