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The Coniunctio Gastronomique: God Becomes Flesh
February 17, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PST
Cooking, like alchemy, is the transformation of basic ingredients into refined substances. Psychologically, this alchemical process represents the development of the personality. Understanding the psyche through the art and practices of cooking can heal the mind-body split that is the primary wound of modern life. The food we purchase or grow, cook and eat, link us to the cosmos: then God becomes flesh, (in-carne). We become what we eat. The lecture invites us into the sensuous, alchemical temenos of the kitchen.
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Susan Clements Negley, M.A., LCP, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in San Antonio, Texas. Susan is a faculty member and training director for the Texas Seminar of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). A graduate of the Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Paris, her first career was as a professional chef. She then trained at the Texas Seminar of the IRSJA, where her diploma thesis, The Coniunctio Gastronomique, explored the individuation process expressed in the metaphors of cooking, food, and feasting.