Terry Ebinger – The Way of the Wise Elder in Film Exploring Conscious Aging Through the Mythic Powe
March 4, 2024 at 03:49AM
The most powerful movies about wise eldership serve as journeys into mythic territory, with its daunting trials, tests of character, turning points and healing transformations. Moving pictures bring the archetypes to life, gracing us with vivid and wide-ranging characters embodying essentials of authentic eldership: generatively, integrity, reflection, reconciliation and receptivity. Depth psychology, mythic imagination, and the cinematic language of symbol and dream will inspire our consideration of remarkable elders, as we use films to identify and amplify the values, attitudes, and tasks of later life individuation. This presentation will include multimedia lecture, depth analysis of film clips and images, and group discussion.
Terry Ebinger, MS, is a passionate film scholar and retired psychotherapist with nearly four decades of experience as a depth psychological practitioner, educator, dream consultant, spiritual director, and multidisciplinary group leader. Her film studies programs synthesize psychology, myth, film history, cultural anthropology, and the symbolic language of cinema. Terry’s approach to teaching is dynamic, scholarly, practical, and playful. She teaches at San Francisco Jung Institute, Houston Jung Center, Mythica Institute, Myth Salon, American Academy of University Women Forum, The Dream Institute, several Bay Area Lifelong Learning programs and her own Cinema & Psyche online salons.
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