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The Trauma of Exile through a Jungian Lens
October 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
We will focus on how the trauma of political exile splits and shapes the psyche of displaced individuals, making their lives psychologically conflicted and leading to feelings of incongruity. Through the amplification of a fairy tale, dreamwork, active imagination, and the transcendent function, we will explore how Jungian psychology can assist displaced persons in fashioning a new mythic center that grounds the uncentered, culturally diverse self-states that have developed from acculturation. We will also discuss the universality of the exile complex as a human experience that often causes one to feel conflicted and displaced from family, community, and society.
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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.