Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal

Elizabeth Brodersen is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Frankfurt, Germany and an accredited training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. She completed her doctorate in psychoanalytic studies at the University of Essex and is co-chair of the IAJS Executive Committee with Michael Glock. She is author of Laws of Inheritance: A post-Jungian study of twins and the relationship between the first and other(s) (Routledge). Michael Glock is CEO of Bloom Factor Inc., creative director, digital architect and author platform expert, and gained his doctorate in philosophy from Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. He has developed concepts such as Cultural Futuristics, Way Forward Engineering, Designing Destiny and is co-chair of the IAJS Executive Committee with Elizabeth Brodersen.

Section 1: The Phoenix as symbol 1. Phoenix Rising: A Comparative Study of the Phoenix Symbol as a Goal of Alchemical Work and the Individuation Process Section 2: Native America 2. Re-establishing Dialogue between the Western Psyche and the Psyche-Left-Behind 3. Seeing the forest for the Trees: Birthing Symbolic Life Section 3: Synchronistic symbols as liminal place/space 4. The Burden of Modernity: Three ‘Takes’ on the Snake and Recombinant Visionary Mythology 5. Rebirthing Biblical Myth: ‘The Poisonwood Bible’ as Visionary Art Section 4: India 6. Life’s Threads: C.G. Jung’s 1938 and 1944 ‘Orissa’ Awakenings 7. Parama Pada Sopanam: The Divine Game of Rebirth and Renewal 8. Responses to a Film ‘Monsoon Wedding’ about Integrity Section 5: Primordial archetypal feminine 9. Remembering Eve’s Transgression as Rebirth 10. Symbolic Renewal; Renewal of symbols, the Rebirth of the Trickster Goddesses in Mysteries Section 6: Ancestral memories: familial constellations of rebirth and renewal 11. Adam and Eve as a Kleinian Narrative of Infancy 12. Symbols of Creation in Myth and Dreams: Directive, Orientative, Regenerative 13. Trickster, Trauma and Transformation; Vicissitudes of Late Motherhood Section 7: Eco-psychological, synchronistic carriers of rebirth and renewal 14. Archetypal Images in Japanese Anime Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers) 15. Prometheus in Our Midst: The Planet’s Overdependence on oxygen 16. Artic Calving: Birthing A New Vision of the Earth through the Symbol of Ice Section 8: Mythopoetic, psychological dimensions of rebirth and renewal 17. Visionary and Psychological: Jung’s 1925 seminar and H. Rider Haggard’s ‘She’ 18. A Native American Tale within Miss Frank Miller’s Fantasies- How The Psyche Guides