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When Phantomatic Forces Come: The Effects of the Psyche on and in the Group
February 13 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
During these times of social and political upheavals, the cultural unconscious is bursting through its expressions and enactments of chronic historic racial injustices, political polarizations, the global pandemic, global warming, social media, and a multitude of other national and international political and cultural problems, which I call Cultural Complexes. These processes carry the phantom narratives of our collective legacies, ghosts, histories, and their intergenerational traumas. How can the understandings we gleaned from these processes help us to both see and deal with the extreme collective emotional states that are expressed and confront us in plain sight in our times today both clinically and in our daily lives?
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Samuel Kimbles, Ph. D., is a clinical psychologist, Jungian analyst, and member of the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, clinical professor (VCF) in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. He has served as president of the C. G. Jung Institute. He has lectured and presented papers on topics related to the theory and practical applications of analytical psychology nationally and internationally. He is a clinical consultant and has taught at the San Francisco Jung Institute, colleges and universities as well as trained mental health and analytic professionals. His published work on the cultural complex is a significant contribution to the application of analytical psychology to the study of groups and society. His previous books, The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society (Singer & Kimbles, eds.), Phantom Narratives: The Unseen Contributions of Culture to Psyche, and Intergenerational, Complexes in Analytical Psychology (The Suffering of Ghosts) explore themes of psyche in groups and society. He is preparing his latest book for publication: When Phantomatic Forces Come.
