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We are honored to welcome for our Jung 150th-Birthday Lecture, Carolyn Bates, the North American Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Analytical Psychology and Jungian analyst in Austin, Texas.  When we talked about topics, she suggested that she did not want to be "a downer."  We reassured her that we were already braced to hear whatever she was thinking about.  When she said, "War," we said that our members of and visitors to the Jung Society of Washington are ready to hear about that.  We can hear about the wars that affected Jung and how they affected his development.  We are also prepared to think about the larger image of war, whether the effects are internal, interpersonal, cultural, or international.  We hope that you will join us for this bold and topical subject.  This is our "Free Fundraiser" — if you are in need of a gift, please come as our guest.  If you are in a position to support us and others by giving a donation to our scholarship fund or to our operations, please donate.  We all have periods when we need a gift and when we need to give.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

C.G. Jung was born into a world recovering from the effects of the Franco-Prussian War, the restructuring of empires, and a rising tension between European powers. The Panic of 1873, a major international financial crisis that triggered a years-long global economic depression, had only just ended its acute phase. Jung’s descent into his creative illness occurred at the brink of the outbreak of the Great War, and in the aftermath of World War II, in his essay After the Catastrophe, he emphasized humankind’s need for psychic renewal and symbolic reckoning.

How might the presence and effect of wars have influenced Jung? How might they influence us now? As Europe began its long recovery after WWII, Jung wrote that effective analytic work requires mutual transformation, wherein both practitioner and patient are open to being transformed throughout the process. This necessity for mutual influence reflects how we are never isolates, but rather, we live within, and are affected by, wheels within wheels of personal, cultural, and political dynamics.

As we gather to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Jung’s birth, this presentation and participant discussion will invite us to explore how the presence and effects of war marked each of these three pivotal moments in his life: his birth, his descent, and his reflections on war. In exploring how war may have influenced Jung’s development and his perspectives, participants will be invited to discuss how, in kind, the presence and effects of war – whether it is an internal, interpersonal, cultural, or international war – are influencing their own lives.

Carolyn Bates is a psychologist and senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has served on the Executive Committees of both the Texas Seminar and the IRSJA and currently serves as the North American Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (https://thejap.org). She practices analytical psychology in Austin, where she offers case consultation to mental health professionals and trainees. Over the last three decades she has presented both nationally and internationally on ethics and treatment boundaries, technology’s influence within the collective, the phenomena of synchronicity and collective trauma, the reconsideration of myth through the lens of feminist politics, the socio-political dynamics of patriarchy and the epidemic of gun violence in the United States. She has been in private practice in Austin since 1991.

DETAILS OF THE PROGRAM

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