Reconsidering Individuation in the 21st Century: When Archetypal Patterns Shift, a lecture with Joseph Cambray

LECTURE

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Individuation is a key concept of Jungian psychology.  In this lecture, we will look at the origins of the idea in Jung’s confrontation with the unconscious.  A contemporary reconsideration in light of the changes in our conceptions of nature and culture in the 21^st century will be examined from the perspective of complexity theory.  The disruptions and uncertainties at societal and global scales of the last several years point to a shift or transformation in the archetypal patterns emerging in the collective unconscious, as well as manifesting in our individual lives.  The figure of the hero, as the basis of ego identity, is declining while appreciation of interconnectedness as what sustains the psyche has become more manifest.  How can we best find our way through these times?  An archetypal systems approach will be offered from which we can explore a reimagining of Jung’s notion of individuation.

Joseph Cambray is a Ph.D.  is the Past-President-CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute; he is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology and is on various editorial boards. He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies; and former President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston. Dr. Cambray is also a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe, a newly edited volume, with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research and a volume edited with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology. He has published numerous papers in a range of international journals.

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