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C.G. Jung Public Lectures,
Bristol

New Programme - Next Lecture

12 Oct 2024: Jay Griffiths

Feral Angel

 

In Wild, Jay Griffiths relates her personal odyssey to wildernesses of earth and ice, water and fire, listening particularly to the voices of Indigenous peoples who live in so-called wilderness.  A consideration of the tender connection between human society and wild lands, the book is also a journey into that greatest of uncharted lands — wild mind. 

In her talk, Griffiths will consider how the call of the wild is part of our psychological health, how there are codes of wildness and kindness braided together. The dominant culture has tried for centuries to portray nature as mindless, but Indigenous people do not see it that way. While the West has long operated an intellectual apartheid, arrogantly certain that its own expertise is the only knowledge worth the name, for indigenous cultures, it is a minded world. Shamans in particular, and indigenous people in general, perceive that animals have their own ways of knowing and that some plants can teach humans. This talk will explore the words and meanings which shape our ideas and our experience of our own wildness.

Jay Griffiths is the award-winning author of Wild: An Elemental Journey, Why Rebel and Nemesis, My Friend amongst others. She has written for Radiohead and the RSC and for Mark Rylance in a short film Almost Invisible Angels. John Berger noted of her: 'If bravery itself could write, it would write like she does.' She is a wild skater, whenever the Welsh lakes freeze.

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General information

Since the early eighties, the C.G. Jung Public Lectures have played an important part in establishing and maintaining Bristol's reputation as an acknowledged centre of interest in Depth Psychology.

The monthly lectures are on current issues and topics broadly related to the field of analytical psychology and are given by a variety of professional and established speakers. They are open to everybody with an interest in depth psychology, the therapies, philosophy, religion, mythology, life and the arts.

The aim is to provide a friendly, informal space for Jung's ideas and philosophy to reach a wider public. There is time for refreshment, socialising, and networking after the lecture followed by participative discussion with the speaker in the round.

 


A reduced-price bookstall is sometimes provided by Bookmark, Bristol. Their website includes a good selection
of Jungian and Analytical Psychology titles (also at reduced prices)!
Tel: (0117) 9672928  www.psychologicaltherapybooks.co.uk

 

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