Over the last year we have struggled to remain consciously engaged in a discussion of what Jung called “these times.” We have entertained the complexes, cultural and personal, at work and the inexorable trend toward corruption amidst the barrage of words and images meant to demand we submit to an ever-narrowing world view.
While the center of our national stage is occupied by one character, we have attempted to cast our net wider and deeper, looking for what our era has constellated. We have explored the tyranny and threat to women and the feminine, the consequences for Nature and the human community, and for individual meaning amidst a flood of shadow-driven emotions, personal animus, not to mention our normal human tendency toward dissociation and denial.
We have continued to use our imaginal and analytic tools on the underlying dynamism of the psyche—of the shadow, the mythic representations of Mercurius, as well as attacks on linking, both within and without. Additionally, we have wondered about the predominance of left brain reasoning, at the cost of right-brain feeling, to address our current crises.
Amidst it all we contend with our unsettling feelings of rage and hopelessness while holding the possibility for change. What, we ask, is the fate of love and eros in such a time?
Depth Psychology, emphasizing the symbolic and imaginal, engages the underlayment of our cultural and political life. We will again each offer a brief topic salient to our situation. These presentations will be followed by an inter-panel discussion and time for questions and comments from the audience. We hope you will join us.
