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Cape Town 2007

Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural

Edited by Pramila Bennett

illustrated, 288 pages in print + 1142 pages on CD (included with book, not available separately) ISBN 978‑3‑85630‑728‑8, Daimon

The 17th Triannual Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (I.A.A.P.) took place in Cape Town, South Africa from August 12‑17, 2007. The theme of Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural was reflected in events and presentations throughout the week. The plenary presentations are printed in this volume, and a CD with all of the Congress presentations and numerous illustrations is included inside the back cover.

From the Contents:

Preface by Pramila Bennett  13

Opening of Congress by Astrid Berg  17

Welcome Address by Hester Solomon   19

Journeys – Encounters. Clinical, Communal, Cultural by Joe Cambray  23

How Does One Speak of Social Psychology in a Nation in Transition? by Mamphela Ramphele  26

Forgiveness After Mass Atrocities in Cultural Context: Making Public Spaces Intimate by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela  36

Shifting Shadows: Shaping Dynamics in the Cultural Unconscious by Catherine Kaplinsky  55

Jung and Otherings in South Africa by Renos K. Papadopoulos  74

Journey to the Centre: Images of Wilderness and the Origins of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts by Graham S. Saayman  84

Race, Racism and Inter-Racialism in Brazil: Clinical and Cultural Perspectives by Walter Boechat & Paula Pantoja Boechat  99

The Stranger in the Therapeutic Space by Uwe Langendorf  114

My Heart Is on My Tongue – The Untranslated Self in a Translated World by Antjie Krog  131

Panel: A Passage to Africa, Part II, Contemporary Perspectives on ‘Jung’s Journey to Africa’ moderated by John Beebe  146
      Life and Soul by Karina Turok  151
      The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Michael Vannoy Adams  159
      The Journey to Africa: Cultural Melancholia in Black and White by Samuel Kimbles  165

The Containing Function of the Transference by François Martin-Vallas  169

Encounter with a Traditional Healer: Western and African Therapeutic Approaches in Dialogue by Suzanne Maiello  185

Brain Mechanisms of Dreaming by Mark Solms  204
      Response by Margaret Wilkinson  218

New Direction Home: African Oracles and Analytic Attitudes by Sherry Salman  225

Panel: The Idea of the Numinous moderated by Ann Casement  242
      Jung, the Numinous, and a Surpassing Myth – The Inevitability of the Numinous by John Dourley  243
      On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the Alchemy of Individuation by Murray Stein  250
      Before We Were: Creating in Being Created – Encounter and Journey in Our Analytic Profession by Ann Belford Ulanov  255

Closing Remarks by Astrid Berg  265

The IAAP Looks Far Ahead – President’s Farewell Address by Christian Gaillard  266

Author Index  289