OPEN MONTHLY MEETING
Tuesday 6th March
2007 - 8.15pm at AJA
LYN COWAN, PhD
SEABISCUIT
The
Little Horse that Could, and Did, and Still Does
The word "hero" in our day, when applied to so
many so often, begins to lose its mythic sense.
The mythic Hero is larger than life, and must accomplish impossible tasks
at great risk, bringing hope and redemption to lesser mortals.
But the Hero stands in an important relationship to the Self, and implied
in the Hero's grand mission are ideas of personal responsibility and vocation,
two themes we meet frequently in Jung's theory of individuation but do not often
examine. This presentation, using
film clips, will invite a conversation about heroism as it appeared in the
collective psychological phenomenon that was a horse named Seabiscuit, a true
mythic Hero, and the human partners who engaged with him in a mutual process of
transformation.
Lyn Cowan, Ph.D.,
has been a practicing Jungian analyst since 1980, Director of Training
for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts for six years and past
president of the Society, held a Professorship for ten years in the doctoral
program in Clinical Psychology at Argosy University (Minneapolis), and recently
concluded two years of teaching and lecturing at the C.G. Jung Center of
Houston, Texas. She is the author of
three books: Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy and
Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture; and
Masochism: A Jungian View. Her
passion for horseracing began when she was 11 and continues unabated.
This meeting is open to
practicing analysts and trainees.
Advance booking is essential
as space is limited
AJA
Tel: 020 7794 8711 - email: aja@dircon.co.uk
Tickets
for non-AJA members: £10