Irish Society of Jungian Analystsin conjunction with the
Irish Analytical Psychology Association
Presents live on Zoom
Thursday, 5th December 2024: 19:30–21:00 (Irish time)
Listening to the Call of the Self in the Ecological Crisis:
A Psychecological Approach
Brigitte EggerJungian Analyst
1 - Light pollution: energy wasted in projection blinds us to the starry sky (nasa.gov).
2 - Starry sky of the Milky Way: inspires us to reflect (eso.org).
Listening to the call of the self is nowadays summoned not only by an inner, personal soul need, but by the very outer ecological crisis. Remarkably indeed, the ecological ‘sufficiency’ response required by the outer crisis, mirrors many elements of traditional spiritual practices and even religious vows. The ecological crisis is a psychic crisis for it reveals a deficient worldview, a loss of rootedness in the larger dimension. Both crises call for the revivifying of our mystical relationship to earth and soul. The symbolic analysis of ecological (and societal) issues, taken as symptoms, reveals in word images the unlived soul life of our time. These images can help develop a more deeply grounded perspective for this doubly needed turnaround. Light pollution will serve us as example, with the twofold question: where would it be meaningful to bring light into darkness, and where to treasure the creative power of darkness.
Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training and supervising analyst (ISAP, Zurich), as well as an ecologist (Dr.sc.nat.ETH). Her research explores the psychic and symbolic dimensions of ecological issues. She works at introducing this healing perspective into practical environment protection, thus building up the field of psychecology. She shares this engagement with her husband Luca Vetterli, a committed environmentalist. She further likes to work out the biological roots of psychic phenomena, is interested in creativity at large and in creative ways to communicate depth psychological insights. And, she loves Dante.
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Registration closes on Wednesday, 4th December@ 18:00
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