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Archetypes, Aesthetics & Culture in the Art of African Diaspora
February 18, 2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
This talk lays the foundation for understanding the universal nature of archetypes and their environmental expressions in personal and collective cultural complexes that are mediated by the environmental culture. We take the archetype of the Life Cycle, common to all living beings, and ground it in visual arts as expressions of the aesthetics, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. We’ll explore how the commonalities and differences in Pan African sculpture, as metaphor, bridge consciousness to multiculturalism and world view.
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Alan Vaughan, J.D., Ph.D., is a member of the C.G Jung Institute of San Francisco where he serves on the editorial board of the Jung Journal of Culture & Psyche and the committee on Diversity and Inclusivity, while in private practice as an analyst and a clinical and consulting psychologist. He is on the Saybrook University clinical psychology faculty and director of the Jungian Studies specialization. His scholarship interests are at the intersections of analytical psychology, U.S. Constitutional jurisprudence and African Diaspora Studies. His most recent publication is “Every voice, every vote counts: challenges to Multicultural Democracy” in Cultural Complexes and the Soul of America, Myths, Psyche and Politics (Routledge, 2020).