Canberra Jung Society 1st March 2024: Craig San Roque: “The Lemon Tree”
March 1, 2024 at 12:18PM
Friday 1st March 2024
“The Lemon Tree – Stillness Turbulence and Pressure –
a personal story from Central Australia”
With Dr Craig San Roque
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham ACT (and by Zoom)
Individuation is dependent upon relationships with others. Jung went so far as to say: “The self is relatedness…’ Schmidt
“The Lemon Tree” is the story of a remarkable man, Paul Quinlivan whose family live/d in Canberra and Central Australia, where Paul managed a remote aboriginal community and then a health clinic.
I will introduce you to my home in Alice Springs and surrounding sacred sites. It was here by the lemon tree in my yard where Paul and I met for three conversations on individuation, the civilisation of relationships and the dynamics of cultural pressures in Central Australia. He intended to contribute a chapter to Placing Psyche.
I see his story as revealing his relationship with the solar plexus of this country – a story of telos, of stillness and turbulence, of self-gathering and self-dispersal – specific to Australia’s cultural ferment and some hard dynamics of indigenous reality. Paul’s story and mine overlap.
As some of you may know I had a hand in the development of the local Jungian community from 1986 when I returned from London and began to practise in Sydney/ Canberra. In 1992, unexpectedly, I took on unique intercultural therapeutic projects in Central Australia, remaining there over 30 years, intimately involved in Aboriginal affairs, yet also able to stay involved with ANZSJA trainings, the Uni. of Western Sydney Masters in Analytic/Cultural Psychology and the Social Ecology/ Environmental Psychology linkages.
This personal integration of Jungian practice, indigenous involvement and ecological thinking expanded my sense of the nature of ‘Jungian individuation’ in an Australian context – such themes are also explored in Placing Psyche by David Russell, Amanda Dowd, Ute Eickelkamp, Patricia Please, Peter Bishop and others who you may know.
Please see this helpful account of Jung’s notions of individuation.
https://ift.tt/qUrRonP
This is the first of two talks for the Jung Society, set within the context of relationships.
In September In ‘The Grey Eyed Owl’ I will reflect upon and pay homage to the works and days of Glenda Cloughley.
Dr Craig San Roque: As well as psychological practice in diverse settings, Craig’s published works include:
* the award winning graphic novel The Long Weekend in Alice Springs, Sydney/Purgatorio,
* “The Second Goya (on the American oligarch) in Singer’s Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America”
and a keynote talk:
* An Older Voice – Things I heard in Warlpiri Country @ the 2023 Freud Conference, Indigenous Voice/s Psychoanalytic Listening.
We meet from 7:30 pm for tea and coffee and snacks, music, discussion and library.
The Guest Speaker’s presentation is at 8pm for an hour or so,
then we resume for questions and discussion, finishing by 10 pm.
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