What you will receive:

• 4 Live Webinar Sessions with Q & A
• 4 Links to the Recordings

Course Description

The Suffering of Ghosts is a four week webinar series with Jungian analyst, Samuel L. Kimbles, Ph.D.,  that will explore how the cultural unconscious is organized by complexes that manifest in archetypal story formations, which Samuel calls phantom narratives.  Drawing from his newly released book: Intergenerational Complexes in Analytical Psychology, this series will focus on how human suffering relates to unacknowledged traumatic cultural histories that continue to haunt us in the present.

This series will explore the many ways that our internal lives are organized and patterned by racial, ethnic, and national identities, as well as personal experiences. Samuel will lead students through to an understanding of how the emotional dynamics generated by these phantom narratives can act as holding containers that allow us to work with these issues psychologically and offer opportunities for individual and collective healing.

This course is ideal for students, clinicians, therapists or individuals who want to learn how to develop a psychological attitude toward the following:

• Group narratives and their organization by collective emotions and sociogenic fantasies and factions
• Group conflicts and polarizations as expressions of unprocessed, unacknowledged, denied historical violence.
• Addressing the construction, transmissions and preservation of these processes psychologically will be the focus of these talks.
• The recognition of historical trauma, the role of sociocultural context, sociocultural narratives, oppression, microaggressions
• Cultural complexes and their role in identity processes

Course Overview:

Week 1:         Introduction and overview to the theory of cultural complexes and phantom narratives.

Week 2:         Developing an understanding of phantom narratives through understanding collective emotions and their ideological underpinning of beliefs, superstitions around cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, religious differences.

Week 3:         Approaches to healing and transforming cultural complexes through understanding collective emotions and their relationship  to unacknowledged historical traumas.

Week 4:        Intergenerational processes, transmissions, preservation of cultural complexes and their healing-the role of social justice.

By the End of This Course You Will Be Able To:

• Identify how suffering is rooted in unrecognized traumatic cultural histories
• Analyze cultural histories that continue to haunt us today
• Differentiate three ways racial, ethnic and national identities pattern our internal worlds
• Distinquish the phantom narratives informing a cultural complex
• Formulate a process to work with the emotional dynamics to create a holding space in moving towards healing

CEC Learning Objectives:

• Identify three characteristics of phantom narratives that present in the clinical consult
• Distinguish two qualities of suffering that is rooted in unrecognized traumatic cultural histories
• Differentiate three ways racial, ethnic and national identities pattern the internal locus of control
• Design a process to work with the affect of unrecognized cultural trauma

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