What: Lecture
Who: Bonnie Damron
When: Friday
Fees: $15:00, members in advance; $20.00, general; $10.00 sen/stu
In our everyday way of speaking, we casually refer to very large ideas such as "the journey, "the holy grail," or "the wound," but do we stop to reflect on what we are really saying, or what images of this magnitude mean? Do we comprehend what it is that we are shaping within ourselves and our world when we speak in symbolic and archetypal language? Tonight we will take one such image, the wound archetype. We will share a story about a wounding, and contemplate what it evokes on three levels: the individual (micro-cosm), the culture (mesocosm), and the world (macrocosm). This story is called "The Elucidation." It was considered a prequel to Perceval, or the Story of the Grail, by its author, Chretien de Troyes, and symbolizes the original primordial wound in the World Soul. This story reveals the wound in its female or feminine form, as it is found in the Grail Legend, and stands with the better-known story of the Fisher King's wound, the male and masculine element. It will be helpful to find the balance and to value the wound archetype in feminine symbolic language.
For this program, we intend to offer CEUs for Social Workers.
Bonnie Damron, Ph.D.,LCSW, is a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist in private practice in Northern Virginia. In addition to her clinical work she conducts contemplative retreats, study tours, and offers seminars in fairy tales, myths, Shakespearian and Classical Greek theater, and the writings of C. G. Jung. Bonnie also teaches for the Jung Society of Washington, and the Washington Society for Clinical Social Work. She holds a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work from The Catholic University of America, and a Doctoral Degree in American Studies from The University of Maryland. Her dissertation is entitled "Encounters with the Goddess: an Ethnographic Study of the Emergence of Feminine Forms of Consciousness." She is currently writing a book on the figure of Penelope in Homer's Odyssey.
View Larger Map
|