PHANTOMS AND DREAMS OF THE UNDERGROUND: SEEKING FREEDOM
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY Oct. 21-22, 2017
The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

SATURDAY 10AM - 4:30PM, SUNDAY 10AM – 5PM
FANNY BREWSTER, PHD, MFA; MEDRIA CONNOLLY, PHD; FORREST HAMER, PHD; SAM KIMBLES, PHD AND NAOMI RUTH LOWINSKY, PHD
11 Possible Continuing Education Credits Approved for MD, PhD, LCSW, MFT & RN
TUITION: $250/$275 (INCLUDES CEUS)
In an America haunted by phantoms of its undigested past and dreams trapped in the underground, how do we begin a conversation about what Toni Morrison called “unspeakable things unspoken?”
In the belief that poetry goes where culture fears to tread, our conference will open with a poetry reading, “Tell Old Pharaoh: Poems to Rouse the Spirits.” The presenters will read poems of their own as well as by ancestor poets.
We are in an explosive moment in American culture. What is bubbling up from the cultural unconscious—including undigested ghosts of slavery and Jim Crow which manifest in our own times—is terrible and illuminating. This phenomenon, “Phantom Narratives,” organize cultural experience. We will address this haunting from different cultural perspectives. We feel torn between the urge toward consciousness and the fear of knowing and being morally present.
Participants will explore these themes in groups, followed by a panel discussion. How do we experience our collective responsibility? How do we find ways for reparation?
On Sunday, “Dreaming in Black and White: Race in the Unconscious,” led by Fanny Brewster, participants will explore their own cultural dream symbols using active imagination, dreamwork and creative writing. Multicultural dream analysis can deepen our understanding of shadow issues and race relations and hopefully engage us in conversation about “unspeakable things.”




