JUNGIAN.DIRECTORY

Rewriting the Myths of Time

Dr. Monica Mody
Start Date: 16/07/2025
End Date:06/08/2025
Scheduled course
Online
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Overview

This course is designed to examine, liberate, and reconfigure the mythic and archetypal images and stories of time functioning in our lives. The time of modernity yokes together understandings of self and the other with colonial-technological narratives of progress. It has helped ordain the hegemony of the Eurowestern capitalist order. We will consider the politics of time and link to the lineages and tellings of time that draw us into repair and revitalization. In the process, we will reflect on and transform our relationships to work, rest, play—and, life and death.

  • Individuals interested in understanding the relationship between control and cultures of time.
  • Individuals seeking to be aware of their relationship to time and timelessness.
  • Individuals exploring decolonial possibilities.

 

  • Critically analyze dominant cultural constructions of time, including their roots in colonial-modern paradigms, and assess how these constructions shape individual and collective experience.
  • Articulate the relationship between time, identity, and power, with particular attention to how capitalist and Eurowestern frameworks influence concepts of productivity, rest, and linear progress.
  • Identify alternative, ancestral, and decolonial temporalities that foster reciprocal and regenerative relationships with self, community, and the more-than-human world.
  • Describe reflective and creative practices to transform personal and cultural relationships to time, work, rest, play, and mortality, inspired by mythological, ritual, and philosophical approaches.
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