Individuation and Racial Reparations: A Lecture, Discussion, and Workshop

While aware of the brutal history of white European colonialism and racism, Jung did not attend to how acknowledgment and redress of historical and present harms to others is part of the work of individuation. When white people take stock of how their ancestors’ and their own racialized privileges have impacted people of color, feelings of shame and reparative actions may emerge. Drawing on experiences of U.S. descendants of white slaveholders and inheritors of excess wealth who are committed to racial reparations, a developmental pathway to repair will be outlined and its possible intersections with individuation will be considered.

In the second half of our time together, interested participants will be invited to explore their own relationship to ancestors and to becoming an ancestor for their descendants.

Register by emailing Gustavo Beck, at gustavo.beck.u@gmail.com