{"id":6273,"date":"2016-01-04T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T17:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jungchicago.org\/blog\/?product=west-fd2012-3-3gp"},"modified":"2023-08-20T19:45:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:45:18","slug":"west-fd2012-3-3gp","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/jungchicago.org\/blog\/product\/west-fd2012-3-3gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadow and Healing: The Power of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part of the symposium Conflict and Collision: The Cultural Complex in Public Life<\/a><\/strong>. Purchase the full symposium for 30% off individual titles!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Topics: Complexes & Complex Theory, Eco-psychology, Society & Culture.<\/p>\n

Shadow and Healing: The Power of Story<\/span><\/p>\n

This presentation will consider Shadow in Western Culture’s complex relationship with nature and natives; it will use Aeschylus’ Oresteia <\/span>and Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel, Ceremony<\/span>, to illustrate aspects of the cultural complexes involved and it will consider how these literary works represent healing.<\/p>\n

As a literary scholar and not a clinician, I use stories as case studies to provide insights about psychological dynamics. \u00a0I am specifically interested in Eco psychology, or the complex relationship between humans and the rest of the natural world. \u00a0Western culture has developed powerful technologies in part by creating a psychological divide between the human and “nature” which allows us to see other forms of life as resources for our use. \u00a0As a consequence, I believe, we have evolved what I think of as a relatively impermeable membrane between the unconscious and the ego, with a corresponding over-reliance on the reasoning faculty and a distancing from ways of knowing that are more intuitive or feeling. \u00a0 \u00a0In this talk I will look at a classic of Western culture and a recent novel by an American Indian (Pueblo) writer to explore areas of cultural complex and some deep similarities. \u00a0If you are interested, you can find some of this material in my book, Out of the Shadow: \u00a0Eco psychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land<\/span>.
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