Dear All,
IN PLACE OF WORDS, INCANTATIONS
Online presentation by Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi
on Thursday, 19th February (19:30-21:00 GMT) (11.30 PST) (14:30 EST)
Words and their silencing have shaped both our personal and collective experience of the genocide in Gaza. As Jung writes, the “paltriest and the mightiest” (2009) of words can forge profound connections or enact epistemic violence by negating existence itself.
Shrouded in duplicity, language has fragmented Palestinian life against the hard rock of erasure, fallacy, and indifference. This event reflects on the shattering of childhood. Asking, what does it mean to assault futurity, one of the “essential features of the child motif” (Jung, 1969)? The methodical policy of “un-childing” (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2020) has rendered the murder of thousands of children disturbingly normalised.
How, then, do we comprehend this “apocalyptic epoch,” and how might we discern seeds of a “different, unprecedented, and still inconceivable future” (Jung, 1955)? Does despair bring us closer to the essence of things, or does it collapse the very conditions of meaning? Songs of mourning and symbols of transformative work will be shared in communitas, releasing the dead into life beyond death.
You'll find further details in the attached flyer, and booking is now open on Eventbrite. Tickets from E17 (student rate).
Please note, ticket sales end on Wednesday, the 18th of February at 18:00 GMT.
Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifi GAP, UKCP, IAAP is a training Jungian analyst, supervisor and seminar leader. She has delivered talks at IAAP-sponsored conferences, including the Jungian Odyssey, and at the C.G. Jung Club–London, where she recently played ‘Soul’ in Jung’s Seven Sermons to the Dead. Leadership Trained in BodySoul Rhythms © at the Marion Woodman Foundation, she integrates depth psychology with embodied active imagination, voice, and dream work as well as energy-based therapies. Heba founded the Central London Authentic Movement Group. She is a published author in many academic journals and recently conceived and developed the Stand By The Mother lecture series.
If you are unable to attend on the night, the recording is included with registration, and the link will be available for two weeks from the date it is released.