1st JUNGIANEUM/Biennale: DEMOCRACY ON THE COUCH (IN SEARCH FOR THE FORGOTTEN SELF)

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Is it possible to live peacefully on Earth? If not, who or what hinders humanity from achieving this ideal?
This event, organized by JUNGIANEUM and supported by the IAAP, draws inspiration from Jung’s book “The Undiscovered Self” (published in German as “Present and Future”). In this work, C.G. Jung seeks to address a question that demands renewed attention today: “Who or what is hindering humanity from living peacefully on Earth”? This event will help to convey Analytical Psychology’s Proposals for Today’s Unhinged World.

Speakers: STEVE AIZENSTAT, NAOMI AZRIEL, PAUL BISHOP, STEFANO CARPANI, JOSEPH CAMBRAY, POLICE OFFICER AZ- OOLAY, ELANA LAKH, IMANY AYAD, BROOK LAUFER, NOA FEUERSTEIN, ARTHUR NIESSER, NATALIIA PAVLOVSKAIA, ANDREW SAMUELS, TOM SINGER, MURRAY STEIN, RUTH WILLIAMS, MARY WATKINS, and POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH.

Manifesto:

Through the words of British band Archive (2024), we hear a lament for disintegration: “These are times to kill / These are days to say ‘goodbye’ / Tomorrow brings a silence inside my heart / You are wrong / You are right / We are Disintegration.” Similarly, The Cure’s Robert Smith (2024) declares in stark simplicity: “We are born to war.”

James Hillman describes war as “a human work, an inhuman horror, and a love that no other love has been able to overcome.” For Hillman, “there is no practical solution to war” because “war belongs to our soul as an archetypal truth of the cosmos.” Though he believed we could strive to understand and delay war, and remove it from the crutches of hypocritical religion, he warned: “war, as such, will remain until the gods themselves depart.”

Why are these “times to kill”? Why are we “born to war”? Why does “war, as such, remain until the gods themselves depart”? What can we do in the face of such profound and unsettling archetypal truths?

Building on Boris Groys’ assertion that “there are conflicts that the intellectual cannot escape, that force him into politics whether he wants this or not,” we must ask: what conflicts are Jungian analysts called to confront, and how do they engage politically, whether they wish to or not?

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