CJC Members Present: Susan Rowland moderates their recent conference presentations

Gill Brown: "In nature’s embrace: Emotional emplacement and the search for an ‘eco-symbolic"

If it can be said that our emotions connect us not only with ourselves and the other but also with the world of nature how then might we understand our interrelationship with, and attachment to, this landscape of the other-than-human? Recent global events seem to have emphasised how much our emotional health is intimately bound up with a sense of connection to our natural surroundings, and we have seen a significant turning towards nature for containment and restoration in times of restricted interaction with others  ...... Jung himself spoke of feeling “a kinship with all things”, relating in Memories Dreams and Reflections how a profound sense of being part of the landscape at his lakeside tower in Bollingen led him to experience himself as deeply entangled in his containing environment. In this paper I will discuss how…