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The Trauma of Exile through a Jungian Lens
October 21, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
This workshop will explore how Jungian analysis is uniquely suited to working with the exile complex. To deepen the understanding of the exile complex, participants will be prompted to recall a personal experience with the feelings of exile (e.g., where one felt like an outsider, unmirrored, out of place), briefly journal and follow its thread, and invite the “Third” to produce a new sense or image of mythic centering (as discussed in the Lady Liberty example on Friday night). According to each person’s comfort level, participants will be invited to share and discuss this opening to Jung’s Transcendent Function.
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Lourdes Hernandez, MA, Jungian Analyst Candidate, was marked by the traumas of war and political asylum when her family fled Cuba to take refuge in the United States. She holds postgraduate degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute and Regis University in Jungian & Archetypal Studies, hermeneutics, and counseling. After a period of study in Zurich, Lourdes returned stateside to complete her analytic training with the IRSJA and has a bilingual private practice in Boulder, Colorado. Lourdes is a lifelong musician and visual artist who values the curative power of the symbolic psyche and its restorative interventions.
