Personal, Communal, and Universal
We live in a moment marked by rapid shifts—psychological, cultural, ecological, and
political. The metaphors of water, flow, and turbulent currents reflect both the
destabilizing nature of ongoing personal, communal, and global transitions as well as
the potential for new forms of living to emerge.
Held near the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, the 2027 Jungian Society
for Scholarly Studies (JSSS) conference invites scholars, artists, clinicians, and
community organizers to explore “Navigating the Currents of Change: Personal,
Communal, and Universal.”
Our goal is an integrative dialogue where no single perspective dominates. We seek
to hold the tension between the personal inner worlds of the psyche, the communal
realities of lived experience and political life, and the universal structures of
archetypal reality.
at the University of St. Thomas in
Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The theme of this conference, Rewilding the Psyche: Jungian and Post-Jungian Perspectives, provides an interpretive framework for exploring Jung’s concept of individuation in a manner that considers both internal and external nature. As we seek to integrate wild parts of the psyche by engaging the unconscious as our inner, untamed wilderness, we are asked to re-examine and reanimate our relationship with the natural, other-than-human world as well.
Lewis and Clark College
Portland, Oregon
