Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies

2025 JSSS Conference: Memory: Reflecting on the Past; Dreaming of the Future
2025-06-19 - 2025-06-22 | Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL, 60626, United States
Please join us for the 2025 Conference. Information on the Conference theme, the Call for Proposals, and logistics and registration information can be found at https://jungiansociety.org/2025-conference/.
Location: Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626

JSSS Online: Remembering Ourselves Wild
2025-06-06 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Zoom
The Wild Woman archetype is an integral piece of feminine nature that is so often degraded and ignored. Through film, we can see the transformation that occurs when the feminine encounters the Wild Woman. Join us in a discussion of what it means to slow down and remember our wildness.
The viewing of the short film and the discussion will take place on Zoom from 9:00 to 10:30 Pacific Time on June 6, 2025. Please register to attend.

Bios of the Presenters

Sydney Chatterton, MA
Sydney is a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her research interests are the intersection of depth and somatic studies, psychosis from a Jungian lens, Jungian typology, and the affectual experience of autism spectrum disorder. She remembers chasing the boys at recess and trying to kiss them, climbing trees, and peeing in the woods.
Zia Durnin, MA
Zia is a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute and a trainee counselor at New Beginnings Counseling Center. Her interests include the relationship between intuition, self-trust, and anxiety, as well as the role of creative expression in healing. She remembers running in the backyard at dusk, bare feet touching the grass, gleefully chasing fireflies.
Erin Ginder-Shaw, MA
Erin is a doctoral student at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Her research interests live at the intersection of post-traumatic growth and the role of embodied lived desire. She remembers sleeping under the stars, surrounded by fog, and the sense that she was becoming herself just by being alone among the trees.
Kenlyn Mirbach, MA
Kenlyn holds an MA in clinical psychology from Pacifica, and is currently studying acting. She remembers running into the waves in her lacy red bra and panties. The innocence of her flesh reflected in the brightness of the moon. The mirror unfogged. The wildness of her womanhood unfolding without choice, just as the euphoric bud of a rose erupted in its true nature each spring.
Event Summary
Encounter with the wild feminine: From the research depths, this short film invites us to slow down and remember our wildness.
Description
Too often, we forget what we know, moving through the world with only half the picture, stifling the emergence of archetypal possibility. We cut off the parts of ourselves that don’t fit or cause too much pain, memories repressed in the unconscious and hidden in our bodies as symptoms. Psyche prefers slowness; without it, “memory often suffers from the disturbing interference of unconscious contents” (Jung, 1969, p. 282). In these moments, the deepest parts of us are forgotten and left behind. The forgotten archetype of the wild feminine lives in our collective unconscious until we have the courage to look back into her wild eyes and remember the women we once were.
Based on a dissertation by Lillian Lohr Lewis (1998), this film explores the process of remembering and integrating feminine wildness. It employs a hermeneutic methodology to illuminate the depth of mythological integration. It follows a non-linear path of individuation and explores themes of initiation, death, and rebirth. Jung wrote that “myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science” (Jung, 1963, p. 3). In this increasingly complex time, we need mythological precision. We need to be able to assimilate the unknown and remember who we are and who we truly want to become (Jung, 1969).
References
Jung, C. G. (1969). Conscious, unconscious, and individuation (R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). In H.
Read et al. (Eds.), The collected works of C. G. Jung: Vol. 9 pt. 1. Archetypes and the collective unconscious (2nd ed., pp. 275-289). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1939) https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400850969.275
Jung, C. G. (1963). Memories, Dreams, Reflections. United Kingdom: Pantheon Books.
Lewis, L. L. (1999). The wild woman archetype: Myth, magic, and the feminine personality (Order No. 9987401). Available from Dissertations & Theses @ Pacifica Graduate Institute. (304567806). https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/wild-woman-archetype-myth-magic-feminine/docview/304567806/se-2

2024 JSSS Conference: Theory to Action: Taking Jungian Ideas into the World
2024-06-13 - 2024-06-16
Please join us for this year’s JSSS Conference at the Hotel Andaluz in Albuquerque, NM. Learn more about the conference.

Conference Program

Abstracts and Bios

Registration Information

For regular and student attendees, the conference fee covers attendance for all four days of the conference and one year’s membership in JSSS.

The registration fee for a One Day Attendee, for non-presenters only, is $125.

Cancellation Fee Policy

If you cancel your registration before April 24, 2024 you will receive a full refund minus the transaction fee (for regular registration, $11.55; for student registration — $10.00). If you cancel your registration between April 24, 2024, and May 15, 2024, you will receive a 50% refund minus the transaction fee (for regular registration, $11.55; for student registration — $10.00). There will be no refund if you cancel after May 15, 2024.

Participants are asked to rely on their own travel insurance plans should it become necessary to cancel their conference attendance for any reason.

JSSS Online with Dr. Cynthia Cavalli: Synchronicity and the Goddess of Meaning
2024-03-09 09:00 - 10:30 | Zoom
Please join us as we explore the feminine soul-making structure of meaning in synchronicity!
Book your spot for this JSSS Online March 9th event, 9:00 am – 10:30 am PST.
For a free ticket, RSVP by clicking on Going and filling in your information. For a donation, please use the donation options under Tickets.
Jung’s conceptualization of synchronicity, with its controversial element of acausal meaning, posed a dilemma for Jung’s scientific credibility. His formal definition, therefore, focuses on a scientific exploration of the acausal connection and the presence of archetypes as essential structuring features. But the experience of deep meaning that accompanies big synchronicities possesses a deeply emotional feeling tone that is often lost in such intellectual discussions.
In this webinar, we explore the phenomenon of meaning from the perspective of feminine structure, not to contradict Jung’s approach but to round it out through a wholistic, soul-inclusive approach.
Bio: Cynthia Cavalli, Ph.D. is an executive leadership coach and organizational transformation consultant. Her education includes degrees in physics, business administration, and human systems. Her corporate experience includes nearly 30 years in aerospace engineering, project management, and strategy development. An avid student of Jungian psychology, she underwent extensive analysis and began incorporating the principles of synchronicity and symbolism from dreams and mythology into her coaching practice. Dr. Cavalli is passionate about the deep interconnectedness of all things, and offers seminars and workshops weaving together insights from complexity science and ancient wisdom traditions. She loves helping people navigate radical change through deep inner work.

2023 Conference: Jung & the Numinous: Arts, Science & Psyche
2023-07-27 - 2023-07-30 | Asheville, NC, United States

2022 Conference: Liberty and Justice: Shadows of Freedom?
2022-07-07 - 2022-07-10 | Des Moines, WA, United States

2019 Conference: Chaos and Interdisciplinarity
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-29 | Asheville, NC, United States

2018 Conference: Emerging . . .
2018-06-27 - 2018-06-30 | Portland, OR, United States

2017 Conference: Complexity, Creativity, Action
2017-06-22 - 2017-06-25 | Washington, DC, United States

2016 Conference: Earth/Psyche
2016-06-26 - 2016-06-30 | Santa Fe, NM, United States

2015 Conference: On Nature & the Feminine
2015-06-11 - 2015-06-14 | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

2013 Conference: Psyche and Society
2013-07-24 - 2013-07-27 | Loyola University Chicago, Lake Shore Campus, 1032 W Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL, 60626, United States

2012 Conference: Affect and Action
2012-08-02 - 2012-08-04 | New Orleans, LA, United States

2010 Conference: On the Edge
2010-08-10 - 2010-08-14 | Ithaca, NY, United States
Held jointly with IAJS
