An Evening With Susan Negley: Courage, Confession, and the Sacred in Individuation

Eight Jungian analysts, each seasoned by years of inner and outer work, were invited to contribute chapters to a volume exploring pivotal individuation experiences shaped by Love, Eros, and Relatedness.

What emerged across these writings was striking: again and again, the authors found themselves describing encounters with dimensions of the Divine—most often through the feminine face of the sacred. In Honor of the Feminine became both the spirit and the unifying thread of their shared endeavor.

Susan Clements Negley, Jungian analyst in private practice in San Antonio, Texas, and contributing author to this volume, will offer a reading from her chapter, “A Love Story.” She has previously presented her work on cooking and alchemy to the Jung Society of Washington.

Negley’s chapter has been described—as has the work of her fellow contributors—as deeply courageous: courageous in its willingness to reveal intensely personal material, to take psychic risks, and to expose one of the most intimate regions of analytic and human life.

In this presentation, she shares a story that is at once confession and reclamation—an act of recovering female sovereignty and transforming what has been held in secrecy and shame into something sacred. She invites listeners into a temenos of shared reflection, where private story becomes collective resonance.

As more women speak what has long remained hidden, individual voices gather into a larger chorus—at times dissonant, at times lyrical—forming a new songline of witness, truth, and the Feminine.

Join us for an evening of reading, conversation, and discussion.

Susan Clements Negley is a Jungian analyst in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. She is a Senior Training Analyst and Curriculum Coordinator for the Texas Seminar of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. In 1975, she earned the Grande Diplôme from the Cordon Bleu cooking school in Paris. Her training in the culinary arts later inspired a deep interest in alchemy and its symbolic dimensions within analytical psychology. This interest culminated in her diploma thesis, The Coniunctio Gastronomique, which explores the relationship between alchemical transformation and the art of cooking. She recently contributed a chapter to In Honor of the Feminine: Eight Jungian Women Analysts and the Complexities of Love, edited by Marilyn Marshall. The volume brings together the perspectives of eight Jungian women analysts on the many dimensions and paradoxes of love and relationship. Her firsthand account of the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, was published in Jung Journal. She is currently expanding this work into a larger essay to share a brief but meaningful experience with PTSD that emerged several months later.    .