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September 9, 2021

II. The Other

Jung’s Decolonial Vision of the Psyche

Toward a post-heroic, imaginal practice

Theoretical focus

Jung’s encounter with Mountain Lake and the Aryan bird of prey
Critiquing and re-imagining Jungian psychology through a de-colonial lens
The psyche as Other: honoring alterity rather than conquest
The ego as servant of the totality, not its ruler

Practical focus

How to meet imaginal figures without domination or interpretation
Dialogue as relationship: listening, responding, and ethical presence
Differentiating projection, fantasy, and imaginal reality
Developing humility, curiosity, and trust in imaginal encounters

We are still as much possessed by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases (...) It is not a matter of indifference whether one calls something a “mania” or a “god”. To serve a mania is detestable and undignified, but to serve a god is full of meaning and promise because it is an act of submission to a higher, invisible and spiritual being.

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Suggested Sources

Literature:

Jung, “Commentary to the Secret of the Golden Flower.
Jung, “Liber Novus” – Mysterium. Encounter”
Jung “Memories. Dreams. Reflections” Chapter
Hillman “Revisioning Psychology” (Chapter on personifying)

Videos:

Hillman, “Jung and the profoundly Personal”