Maps and stories emerge out of memory, preserve memory, and at the same time invite the future. They contain the story of an experience -- of going somewhere, whether real or imagined, or of some insight -- cosmic, religious, political, physical, or psychic. They condense and expand time and offer the map-reader/story-hearer an orientation by which to proceed.

Because we are mapmakers and storytellers, because we create images to describe experience, we can have such a thing as analytical psychology. Without this innate capacity to connect the dots, to draw connections and place ourselves into story, both personal and mythological, we could not have Jungian analysis. 

Memory, that is both implicit and explicit in maps, functions the same way in analysis. And just as a map can hold time, place, and experience, so our complexes, with their archetypal cores, emerge when the experiences of our personal times, places, and memories get activated.

In this presentation we will look at many maps, and we will explore how we are always connecting our inner and outer maps to understand our orientations, our complexes, our individuation journeys.

Margaret Klenck MDiv, LP, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in New York City. Margaret has lectured and taught nationally and internationally. She is previous past President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where she also teaches and supervises. She served as the JPA representative to the Executive Council of the IAAP from 2014-2019. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Her most recent publications include Jung and the Academy and Beyond: the Fordham Lectures 100 Years Later, for which she served as co-editor, and two books in which she is a featured interviewee: Visible Mind: Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious by Christopher Hauke, and There’s a Mystery There, the Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott. PBS viewers may remember her as a panelist in the popular series, The Question of God, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud.