Lecture | Friday 11 February 5pm-7pm | Letting My Heart Be Broken: Healing Cultural Trauma
Our society is deepening its understanding of raciality, racism and inter-generational trauma. As we increasingly awaken to the necessity of acknowledging the tragedy of the African Holocaust, we also begin to consider ways of collective healing. Letting My Heart Be Broken focuses on the history of American slavery from an Africanist psychological point of view. Slavery is also reviewed as an archetypal, somatic, and emotional collective event that has defined cultural inter-generational trauma.
Uncovering the poison of racialized psychological and political relations gives us the opportunity to discover the remedy for this poison. The adoption of selected Jungian psychology theories into our society did not allow for the acceptance of the ethnic diversity that makes up America. Our American psyche finds itself struggling with this absence while it seeks better ways to acknowledge us as one race with a multitude of ethnicities requiring respect for all our differences. We truly are a pantheon. Our 21st century requires movement away from 19th century racialized psychology theories that never spoke the language of healing racial cultural trauma of our American psyche. During our time together we will discuss how we have now arrived at that moment of potential collective racial healing.
Recommended Reading: Brewster, F. (2019). The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. London & New York: Routledge.
Workshop | Saturday 12 February 10am-3pm | Dreaming in Black and White: Race in the Unconscious
Participants will gather and share their perspectives on our American history in terms of collective cultural trauma, American Jungian psychology and considerations of how we begin to speak with one another regarding racism and racial relations. Included in these discussions will be a look at the psychological processes of the archetypal as well as the personal unconscious of complexes through exploration of our dreams.
Recommended Reading: Brewster, F. (2017). African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows. London & New York: Routledge.