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The Depth Psychology of Ancient Egypt
April 25, 1998 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Five thousand years ago, vital Egyptian minds were expressing humankind’s concerns about the know, the unknown, and the unknowable. Just as we do, they confronted tensions between order and chaos, and sought balance between harmony and tension, attraction and aggression, good and evil, life and death, light and dark, mortal time and a timeless eternal.
The great conceptions of Egyptian myth, such as Hathor, Maat, and Thoth, reached toward the comprehensive understanding which gives breadth and depth to our interface with the universe. The story of Isis and Osiris dramatizes the intra-psychic struggles, interpersonal intensities, and transformative possibilities of a depth connection to experience. Using Egyptian images and texts, this seminar offers a glimpse into the resonance between the Egyptian sensibility and the Jungian understanding of the inclusive life.
Related Lecture: Creation and Recreation: Ancient Egypt and Modern Life
Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian Analyst, a founding faculty member and past President of New York’s Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA; associate editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology, (JAP) London; Board Member of The Philemon Foundation which is producing the unpublished works of Jung. Her sixty publications include “Time and Tao in Synchronicity” in The Pauli-Jung Conjecture and Its Impact Today (Imprint Academic, Exeter UK, March, 2014); “Psychic Energy and Synchronicity” (in press) Journal of Analytical Psychology, London. 2014; “A Meeting of Rare Minds,” the Preface to Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Correspondence, (Princeton University Press, 2001) “Synchronicity and the I Ching: Jung, Pauli, and the Chinese Woman” (JAP, 50, 2005.) Her 2007 Fay Lectures at Texas A & M addressed “Transformation Through Emotion: From Myth to Neuroscience.”