


Fri 22 Apr
|Cambridge Jungian Circle Zoom Event
Donald Kalsched: Inner and Outer Democracy: Healing Our Polarised World" Renowned Analyst, Author, International Speaker
In this lecture, Dr. Kalsched will describe a totalitarian or fascistic inner ‘system’ of archetypal defensive powers typical of the dissociative psychology found in survivors of early trauma, and will contrast this with the more democratic conflict psychology found in more integrated individuals.
Time & Location
22 Apr 2022, 19:30 – 21:30 BST
Cambridge Jungian Circle Zoom Event
Details
Donald Kalsched Ph.D, Psychoanalyst, Author, International Lecturer
https://www.donaldkalsched.com
Inner and Outer Democracy: What Trauma-Psychology has to teach us about Healing Our Polarised World
In this lecture, Dr. Kalsched will describe a totalitarian or fascistic inner ‘system’ of archetypal defensive powers typical of the dissociative psychology found in survivors of early trauma, and will contrast this with the more democratic conflict psychology found in more integrated individuals. While both these psychologies exist side by side in everyone, the more primitive totalitarian system, with its binary extremes of good and evil, and its reliance on both violence and illusion, tends to take over in times of individual or collective stress such as we are living through collectively today, where much of outer reality is simply more than we can bear. The result is a radical and polarized psychology which, by violently ejecting the ‘painful’ or ‘bad’ aspects of experience from the boundaries…
Cost
Guest ticket
£10.00
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