Cambridge
Jungian Circle
Fri 19 May
|ZOOM EVENT
Susan Rowland: Jungian Scholar - "A Feminist Revision of Jung & Jungian Art-Based Research”
Although Jung was no feminist, he is also today seen as a pioneer of a new “feminine” research methodology, called Arts-Based Research. This is a great revolution in consciousness, a profoundly Jungian and alchemical methodology. Rowland's mystery novels explore and restore the lost feminine.
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19 May 2023, 19:30 – 21:30 BST
ZOOM EVENT
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"A Feminist Revision of Jung & Jungian Art-Based Research” by Susan Rowland (PhD), Friday 19th May
C. G. Jung is no feminist. He had no interest in the restrictive conventions of his social world changing to include women as full subjects. Indeed, he made silly remarks about women in his Collected Works, because he collapsed his notion of the feminine in men, the anima, into unsubstantiated opinions of the “true nature” of women. Like Freud, he also mistook sexuality as a developmental issue when it is an archetypal one. And yet, arguably, Jung offers feminism a lot. For Jung’s work is dedicated to restoring the soul of western modernity, which can only be done, as he knew, by excavating a lost, marginalized and despised feminine.
In the spirit of “dreaming onward” this great revolution in consciousness, Jung is also today recognized as a pioneer of a new “feminine” research methodology,…