{"id":103721,"date":"2023-09-11T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/?post_type=mec-events&p=103721"},"modified":"2023-09-11T09:53:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T08:53:54","slug":"assenza-di-compassione-absence-of-compassion-and-forgiveness-living-with-transgressions-hoping-for-redemption","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/jungian.directory\/fcxfougk\/jungian-events\/assenza-di-compassione-absence-of-compassion-and-forgiveness-living-with-transgressions-hoping-for-redemption\/","title":{"rendered":"Assenza di Compassione: Absence of Compassion and Forgiveness: Living with Transgressions, Hoping for Redemption"},"content":{"rendered":"

MORNING SESSON:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assenza di Compassione: Absence of Compassion<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beginning in childhood, we are taught the virtues of compassion, and that compassion demonstrates a profound sense of empathy and the capacity to care deeply about another.\u00a0Conversely, we see those lacking empathy as autistic, excessively narcissistic, and even psychopathic.<\/p>\n

However, we do well to remember that the archetypal and etymological roots of the word \u201ccompassion\u201d refer to an act of “suffering together\u201d and to \u201cthe feeling that arises when you are confronted with another’s suffering and feel motivated to relieve that pain.” \u00a0While it is a gift to feel deeply for another, it is also a great challenge to realize that another\u2019s transgressions can be so extreme that we no longer care or feel the need to share in their suffering.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Sunflower, The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness<\/em>, Simon Wiesenthal writes of his experiences in Auschwitz, where he was asked to forgive a dying Nazi soldier. Many people in many different situations also suffer moral conflicts when withholding compassion.\u00a0 However, to consciously experience an absence of compassion for one who has created such pain within our family, and our culture may in fact represent\u00a0a great act of individuation.<\/p>\n

In this\u00a0presentation, I will discuss those situations that may have us turning away from compassion and the archetypal imperative and significance of this decision.<\/p>\n

\n

AFTERNOON SESSION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forgiveness: Living with Transgressions, Hoping for Redemption<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Jung writes,\u00a0“Morality is not imposed from the outside, we have it in ourselves from the start — not the law but our moral nature without which the collective life of human society would be impossible.\u201d (CW 7, \u00b6 30).<\/em><\/p>\n

Many years ago, I had the great honor of speaking with Elie Wiesel in a private interview about forgiveness.\u00a0He explained that forgiveness is a relatively simple matter when it concerns two people. However, the hope of forgiving many people for their collective transgressions is not a personal issue but belongs \u201cin God\u2019s hand.\u201d It was Wiesel\u2019s brilliance and spiritual understanding of life that allowed him to capture the profundity of this deeply complicated issue.<\/p>\n

Forgiveness involves a conscious recognition of those transgressions we have committed as well as those done to us, our family and culture. Since the beginning of time, humanity has sought to expiate guilt through the creation of the scapegoat, the sin-eater, and later, the confessor. Each speaks to the difficulty of living with our transgressions and the hope of exiling these disturbing contents.\u00a0 It is the universality of this need that speaks to this being an archetypal issue and imperative within the Psyche.\u00a0 Our denial of our transgressive behaviors deeply disturbs the psyche, and is often\u00a0 converted and manifested into unconscious guilt, accompanied by self-injurious behaviors. As we age, it is imperative to face these\u00a0deeper issues of\u00a0transgressions and forgiveness.\u00a0 We will discuss\u00a0the archetypal nature of both, and how we can find our way to redemption.<\/p>\n

Learning Objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. 1.\u00a0\u00a0 Evaluate clients\u2019 relationship to compassion and to understand when it is a generative or a defensive response
    \n2.\u00a0\u00a0 Discuss the consequences of an undifferentiated compassionate response, and what this serves in the patient\u2019s unconscious
    \n3.\u00a0\u00a0 Recognize symbolic representations of patients\u2019 transgressions in dreams, unconscious communication and replicative behavior.
    \n4.\u00a0 \u00a0Recognize the conversion, migration, and representation of transgressive behavior and its relationship to unconscious guilt
    \n5. \u00a0 Discuss the psychological and spiritual meaning of redemption
    \n6.\u00a0\u00a0 Describe the psychological processes which create conditions for the emergence of redemption in the patient\u2019s life.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Suggested Readings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    –C.G. Jung. \u00a0 (1945).\u00a0 “After the Catastrophe”\u00a0 in\u00a0Civilization in Transition<\/em>\u00a0 (Collected Works, Vol. 10).\u00a0 NJ: Princeton University Press.\u00a0 pp. 194-217.
    \n–Simon Wiesenthal.\u00a0 (1998).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sunflower: The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. NY: Schocken Press.
    \n–Elie Wiesel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0(1995). \u00a0\u00a0The Forgotten,<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0NY: Schocken Press
    \n–Elie Wiesel.\u00a0 \u00a0(1995).\u00a0\u00a0The Trail of God<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0NY: Schocken Press<\/p>\n

    Suggested viewing:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Eva Kor, \u201cSurviving the Angel of Death”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bCVZPSzTqZU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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