In 1913, Carl Jung followed his soul into the unconscious. This journey became the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile within modern psychology. The body has been relegated to the shadow.

Through the neuroscience of Iain McGilchrist, Erica Lorentz will explore why our healthy instinct, emotion, intuition, energy, imagination, the somatic unconscious, and the feminine were pushed into the cultural unconscious. Through a historical lens, she will also trace how the embodied soul came to be banished into the cultural shadow.

Jung states that we cannot live a soulful life or transform without connection to our body – they are inextricably linked.

Erica will demonstrate how his favourite method of working, embodied active imagination, offers a way to engage the body through the imaginal realm and the subtle body, allowing us to reconnect with the embodied soul and the inter-active field, and retrieve it from the shadow both personally and professionally.

Discussion of film clips and selected readings will help flesh out these ideas and deepen the experiential understanding of Jung’s legacy to us.