Rupert Tower and Emilija Kiehl and Mary-Jayne Rust – Jung’s Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness Within
What in the world worries you most?
We have all designed this talk as an invitation towards living attentiveness. Rupert Tower will examine how we all make the “other” our enemy through projection (blaming and shaming the other outside ourselves), with whom we prefer not to dialogue. All of us are faced daily with individual and collective manifestations of Carl Jung’s concept of the Shadow – meaning, all that we fear, despise and makes us feel ashamed, including hidden positive qualities and creative potentials.
We will then apply Jung’s concept to the realms of politics and the ecological crisis. “No one stands outside the dark shadow of mankind,” wrote Jung in Civilisation in Transition (CW10). He also wrote: “As long as men remain unconscious of their personal and collective shadow, they will always need to make enemies.” Emilija Kiehl will briefly explore the urgency of the problem of mutual collective shadow projections on “evil others” in our time of the unprecedented proliferation of nuclear weapons.
Theologian Thomas Berry writes: “The Universe is a communion of subjects not a collection of objects.” Seeing ourselves as embedded within a living, ensouled web of life involves taking back our shadow projections onto the earth. Mary-Jayne Rust will look at some of these shadow projections and what it means to come back into relationship with Nature. Shadow work invites us to take back what belongs to us (the projection) and to bring it into consciousness, with the potential for spiritual transformation.
Two key questions for participants to discuss in their breakout groups are as follows:
(a) What in the world worries you most?
(b) Are you overwhelmed to the point of being paralysed in the face of the enormity of the Climate Crisis and fear of nuclear war?
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About the speakers:
Rupert Tower is a senior member, teacher and supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He studied psychology, worked in the Arts, and was an applied social psychologist and director of an international qualitative cross-cultural research consultancy prior to becoming a Jungian analyst in mid-life. He has published articles on social psychology, international market research, and Jung’s concept of the Shadow in organisations. Most recently he co-edited a book with Christopher Perry entitled “Jung’s Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves”, published by Routledge in May 2023.
Emilija Kiehl MSc. is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in London. She is a training and supervising analyst and former Chair of the British Jungian Analytic Association, and senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is former Vice President and current Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and member of the board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She lectures, teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad.
Mary-Jayne Rust is a Jungian Analyst and art therapist. Alongside her therapy practice she teaches ecopsychology, a growing field of inquiry into our complex relationship with the earth, our home. Her publications include Towards an Ecopsychotherapy, Confer Books 2019 and Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis. She grew up beside the sea and is wild about swimming.
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Speakers
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Emilija KiehlJungian Analyst, training and supervising analystEmilija Kiehl MSc. is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in London. She is a training and supervising analyst and former Chair of the British Jungian Analytic Association, and senior member of the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is former Vice President and current Honorary Secretary of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and member of the board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. She lectures, teaches and supervises in the UK and abroad.
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Mary-Jayne RustJungian Analyst, Art TherapistMary-Jayne Rust is a Jungian Analyst and art therapist. Alongside her therapy practice she teaches ecopsychology, a growing field of inquiry into our complex relationship with the earth, our home. Her publications include Towards an Ecopsychotherapy, Confer Books 2019 and Vital Signs: Psychological Responses to Ecological Crisis. She grew up beside the sea and is wild about swimming.
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Rupert TowerTeacher, supervisorRupert Tower is a senior member, teacher and supervisor of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He studied psychology, worked in the Arts, and was an applied social psychologist and director of an international qualitative cross-cultural research consultancy prior to becoming a Jungian analyst in mid-life. He has published articles on social psychology, international market research, and Jung’s concept of the Shadow in organisations. Most recently he co-edited a book with Christopher Perry entitled “Jung’s Shadow Concept: The Hidden Light and Darkness within Ourselves”, published by Routledge in May 2023.