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This event is part of the free Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Celebration.
The celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage month is a wonderful opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate the cultural diversity of the Pacific Islands and the contributions of Pacific Islander mythology to the emerging models of more diverse and globally representative narratives that shape not only our w…
A Re-mapping of Womanhood and Creativity investigates the diverse ways in which women set out to find a matrilineal line as a well-spring for creative transformation, and, through a lens of analytical psychology, how we read women’s literary history and narratives about womanhood.
While following the feminine influences that forged her own search and nature as a writer, this book re-maps the life and work of Clara Oropeza’s literary mother, Anaïs Nin, focusing on …
Absolute freedom is understood by Carpani as psychic and social freedom from the influences of authorities. Within this book, the fields of analytical psychology and sociology combine to examine and explore current social theory and the concept that the author has termed ‘absolute freedom’.
This work serves as a vital contribution to contemporary social and psychoanalytic research, unveiling the intricacies of psychological and social d…
A Pacifica Online Author Interview with Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci
In their soon-to-be-released book, Lockdown Therapy, analysts and authors, Stefano Carpani and Monica Luci, offer Jungian perspectives from world recognized analysts and their patients regarding how the Covid-19 pandemic profoundly changed the way psychoanalysis not only is practiced, but the ways in which psychoanalysts think about how and why they practice. Based on a se…
Join Stefano Carpani in conversation with Joseph Cambray, Susan Rowland, Fanny Brewster, Mary Watkins, Patricia Berry, and Lionel Corbett as they discuss some of the themes included in this newly released anthology edited by Stefano.
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This 2 volume anthology of contemporary classics in Analytical Psychology brings together academic, scholarly and clinical writings by contributors who constitute the ‘Post-Jungian’ generation. Carpani brings t…
Focusing on one of the most significant and critical issues facing the world today, this important book explores multiple aspects of climate change through the use of Jungian symbols and “signs” of this environmental shift, while diving deep into the politics of loss in reaction to climate chaos, uncertainty, and ambiguity.
Despite the imminent threat of ecological crisis, many treat this existential crisis as something that can be pushed to the side, ignored, and denie…
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Join us for this author spotlight with Nancy Furlotti as we discuss her book: Eternal Echoes: Erich Neumann’s Timeless Relevance to Consciousness, Creativity, and Evil, which explores the profundity of human nature and psychological development through the lens of Erich Neumann’s (1905-1960) expansive research. Prevalent themes explored encompass the issue of evil, the nature of consciousness, creativity, and the mystical experience…
History of Psychology Through Symbols Author Spotlight with Jim Broderick
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Through symbols and active engagement, Volume One provides the Historic Roots of modern Psychology through the Axial Age (800 BCE -200 BCE) which includes Greek thought, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Judaism. The Volume explores the influence of the Christian and Islamic eras which resulted in the Renaissance, Scientific Revolution and Enlightenme…
The astounding omnipresence of the virtual in contemporary consciousness is radically restructuring our psychology, changing our societies and culture, and having profound effects on who we are, how we behave with one another, and on the kind of world we are inhabiting. The speed and instantaneousness of digital communication radically unsettles both time and space. “Real time” and “virtual space” are new categories in our existence that introduce dramatic transfor…
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Glen Slater’s recent publication Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age contends that the industrial disruption of the outer world is being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. The shadow side of the online world as well as the impact of algorithms and AI on the society and culture exemplify this disruption. Prominent plans to merge humans and machines, focused on the joining of minds and computers, are shown to …
This book develops a new concept―“martial culture”―with which to problematize and reframe thinking surrounding the lifeways of US servicemembers, by exploring the values, beliefs, norms, and rituals they are exposed to and practice during military service.
By reuniting the two concepts of servicemember and veteran into one overarching cultural model, the author shows how the concept of martial culture can be used to acknowledge the unbroken, holistic…
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Susan Rowland’s fictional detective Mary Wandwalker is back. Murder on Family Grounds: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery, goes back to the origin story of the triple goddess detective. ‘She’ arises in a mystery that examines the element of earth, which C. G. believed means family ground in the deep psyche. Indeed the novel not only digs into the traumatized earth of Mary, Caroline and Anna, it also mines the complex architecture of their families. Families are …