An Evening With Susan Negley: Courage, Confession, and the Sacred in Individuation

Eight Jungian analysts, each seasoned by years of inner and outer work, were invited to contribute chapters to a volume exploring pivotal individuation experiences shaped by Love, Eros, and Relatedness.

What emerged across these writings was striking: again and again, the authors found themselves describing encounters with dimensions of the Divine—most often through the feminine face of the sacred. In Honor of the Feminine became both the spirit and the unifying thread of their shared endeavor.

Susan Clements Negley, Jungian analyst in private practice in San Antonio, Texas, and contributing author to this volume, will offer a reading from her chapter, “A Love Story.” She has previously presented her work on cooking and alchemy to the Jung Society of Washington.

Negley’s chapter has been described—as has the work of her fellow contributors—as deeply courageous: courageous in its willingness to reveal intensely personal material, to take psychic risks, and to expose one of the most intimate regions of analytic and human life.

In this presentation, she shares a story that is at once confession and reclamation—an act of recovering female sovereignty and transforming what has been held in secrecy and shame into something sacred. She invites listeners into a temenos of shared reflection, where private story becomes collective resonance.

As more women speak what has long remained hidden, individual voices gather into a larger chorus—at times dissonant, at times lyrical—forming a new songline of witness, truth, and the Feminine.

Join us for an evening of reading, conversation, and discussion.