What: An Evening With . . .
Who: Susan Roberts
When: Friday
Fees: $15.00, members; $20.00, nonmembers;
$10.00, full-time students and seniors over 65
In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung makes clear that the spirit world was a powerful shaping factor for him throughout his life. Written when he was close to death and feeling the "necessary freedom to talk about" such things, the autobiography contains many astonishing assertions about his belief in spiritualist pheno-mena and the soul's continued existence after death. Indeed, if we take him at his word, we may be led to revision Jungian psychology as an activity closely allied to spiritualism, shamanism, and ancestor worship, as a psychology of and for the dead. In this evening program, we will explore Jung's ongoing dialogue with the dead, in particular the importance he accorded to the ancestors as agents of psychological wounding and healing. His willingness to talk about such "paranormal" subjects may have made Jung's theories suspect during a century dominated by scientific materialism. But in our more open-minded era, some of Jung's more far-out speculations are proving uniquely helpful in making sense of such emerging psychological phenomena as ancestral complexes, family karmas, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma.
Susan Roberts, MSW, LICSW, psychotherapist in private practice in Washington, D.C., and counselor to adolescents at the Washington Inter-national School. She is a candidate in the final stage of training with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts and has also trained in the intergener-ational family systems model of German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger.
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