The sense of home is fundamental for humans. To attain a valid realisation of our identity we need to be rooted in a firm base – whether a literal place or an interior psychological reality.
How these relate is often the stuff of a Jungian analysis. This talk, by London based Jungian analyst and psychotherapist Jim Fitzgerald, will explore the idea of Home, the significance of leaving it and the necessity of return.
Venue: The Taylorian Institute, Oxford.
Date: 16 July 10am to 1pm
For more information contact Carmen Reynal on 01451 821947
Home is also the topic of John Hill’s latest book At Home in the World: Sounds and Symmetries of Belonging. Hill explores home not only as a particular dwelling place, but also as a cultural or national identity, as a safe temenos in therapy and as a metaphor for individuation. He does not focus exclusively on the collective idealisation of home, but also on the dark shadows that home evokes for many of us.
Chapters include:
- Homes of fate, homes of destiny: individuation and the transcendent function
- Lost homes, lost nations
- Transient spaces: between the languages of containment and reflection
- Developmental perspectives
- Homecoming: a metaphor in therapy
- At home in a global society?
John Hill is a Jungian analyst practicing in Zurich. His book will be of interest not only to those engaged in psychotherapy, but to anyone searching for ‘home’. To order a copy, please click here.
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