Shifting Shadows. Shaping Dynamics in the Cultural Unconscious - Cathy Kaplinsky
Date: 15 May 2010
9.45am - 12.30pm
Chair: Daphne Lambert
Jung has suggested that wars, social upheavals and religions are ‘but the superficial symptoms of a secret psychic attitude unknown even to the individual himself, and transmitted by no historian.’ With a focus on South Africa and some dream material, I would like to explore this further with particular emphasis on the cultural unconscious and the emerging theory of cultural complex.
Different cultures demand the repression of different aspects of the self and have different ways of actualising a moral code. These repressions are part of what make up a cultural complex, which is dynamic and shifting. The ‘secret psychic attitude’ is partly made up of conflicts between personal, group and cultural shadow dynamics and inevitably plays a part in historical change. In turn, historical change plays its part in shifting these dynamics.
Cathy Kaplinsky is a Professional Member of The SAP and a former Assistant Editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology. She is also a Training Analyst for the BAP (Jungian Section) and an accredited Training Analyst for the Association of Child Psychotherapists. She has worked in various NHS settings and is at present in private practice in Sussex.
Daphne Lambert is a Training Analyst Emeritus of The Society of Analytical Psychology.
Venue: Friends Meeting House, 91-93 Hartington Grove, Cambridge
Cost: £17 including coffee
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