Panel Discussion – Re-Visioning the American Psyche
September 18, 2024 at 04:50AM
Given current political polarization and raging culture wars across the United States, the task of interrogating conscious and unconscious aspects of the national psyche has become ever more pressing. The newly released book of collected essays, Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections, seeks to respond to this dire need.
In this panel discussion, the book’s editor Ipek S. Burnett will be joined by three authors who contributed to the volume: Edward Tick, Dennis Patrick Slattery, and Glen Slater. Together, they will offer a close look at the American psyche by examining some of its most prominent myths, images, and archetypal fantasies. Using various interpretative processes—from psychoanalytic to literary—they will reflect on pressing matters including intergenerational trauma due to colonialism and racism, the psychological cost of wars and violence, and the emotional dimensions of political polarization. Beholding the tensions and complexity of the American psyche to illuminate the eclipsed corners and unconscious realities within it, the panelists will provide insights into the narratives, voices, and images that are often overlooked by dominant ideologies. As with the book itself, their discussions will affirm the importance of critical thinking and imagination in the service of collective self-knowledge and transformation.
Ipek S. Burnett, Ph.D., is a Turkish-American author who provides a psychological critique of social, cultural, and political issues. She is the author of, A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence (Routledge, 2020), the editor of Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections (Routledge, 2023), and a contributing writer at CounterPunch. In Turkey, she is the author of two published novels. Burnett is the Chair of Human Rights Watch’s San Francisco Executive Committee and serves on the boards of nonprofit organizations and foundations that specialize in social justice, human rights, and democracy.
Glen Slater, Ph.D., has taught for over twenty-five years at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program. He has written articles and book chapters for Jungian publications, edited the third volume of, James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer (Spring Publications, 2005) and co-edited the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience (Daimon-Verlag, 2008). His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age (Winter Press/Spring Publications) was published in January, 2024.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D., has taught for 58 years, years, the last 27 in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform. He is the author, co-author, editor or coeditor of 33 volumes, including 7 volumes of poetry and one co-authored novel. His recent titles include the award-winning, Deep Creativity: Seven Ways to Spark Your Creative Spirit, co-authored with Deborah Ann Quibell and Jennifer Leigh Selig, and The Way of Myth: Stories’ Subtle Wisdom. His most current book is The Fictions in Our Convictions: Essays on the Cultural Imagination. He has written over 200 articles, book reviews and op-ed pieces. For two years he taught student inmates in a California prison by mail, using Campbell’s, The Hero with a Thousand Faces. https://ift.tt/XpLeyoN
Edward Tick, Ph.D., is an archetypal psychotherapist, author, educator, and international journey guide. An expert on ancient Greece and the origins of medicine and psychotherapy in the Asklepian tradition, his book, The Practice of Dream Healing is a modern classic. Director Emeritus of Soldier’s Heart, Inc., he also has pioneered archetypal and culturally-based healing with veterans and trauma survivors for over 40 years. In addition to his private practice, Dr. Tick works in Greece, Viet Nam, and internationally on holistic and spiritually-based healing and the restoration of ancient practices. He has led 20 healing pilgrimages to Greece and 19 to Viet Nam. He is the author of seven previous books including the award-winning, War and the Soul. He uses the Greek tradition extensively in healing, writing, and teaching.
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