Relationships, of all kinds, are complicated to navigate. Our social bonds are among the strongest forces in our lives – vehicles carrying both creative or destructive potential. Many of our conflicts within them spring from the multiple wounds in every individual participating in the dynamic. When this happens, everyone communicates from their woundedness, causing a major loss of empathy, compassion, understanding, and creativity. The common archetypal symbols in the myths of The Fisher King and Demeter and Persephone will be used as frameworks to analyze the process of identifying our wounds and how to recover the ability to create life beyond the wound. We will close with an active imagination exercise, to ground the concepts covered in our own experience.
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Dual Wounds and Conflict in Relationships: A Simultaneous Analysis of The Fisher King and the Myth of Demeter and Persephone
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José Leal
José has an M.A in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies from the University of Essex, where Andrew Samuels was his academic supervisor, and an MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy from the Milton Erikson Institute from Monterrey. Since 2013, he has trained with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. He works as a psychotherapist in private practice and writes the column ‘The Spiritually Ambivalent Therapist’ for Thresholds, a Journal of Psychotherapy and Spirituality, from the British Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy.
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