CAN DREAMS CONNECT US TO THE ANCESTORS?

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Jung's concept of the collective unconscious emphasized the universal psychological substrate common to all humans. While he acknowledged the effects of the cultural unconscious, his work, at times, fell into the trap of perpetuating oversimplified and racially prejudiced stereotypes. Jung's writings that refer to Africanist peoples, in particular, suffer from offensive assumptions. Dr. Fanny Brewster, Jungian analyst and author, searches for the healing cultural elements in the dreams of the African diaspora. Dreams have always been important in traditional African cultures. In Zimbabwe, the traditional healer, or sangoma, is called to the work by a dream that features a snake. For the Xhosa, dreams were how the ancestors communicated their wisdom. Today, most of us are cut off from our ancestors, but they remain a potential source of strength and healing. Dr. Brewster has undertaken the work of renewing and widening Jungian thought to include Africanist perspectives. She addresses the importance of community as we go about the necessary work of evolving consciousness.

Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A. is a Jungian analyst, Professor of Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and member analyst with the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She is a multi-genre writer who has written about issues at the intersection of Jungian psychology and American culture. Her most recent book is The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race. (Routledge, 2019).

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:03.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,
0:09.0	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:17.0	I'm Lisa Marciano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm a youngie and analyst
0:25.0	We're so happy to have our friend and colleague
0:28.0	I'm Deborah Stewart, a young analyst on Cape Cod.
0:31.0	Has written a new book called Race and the Unconscious,
0:35.0	an Africanist depth psychology perspective on dreaming.
0:39.6	So we talked to Fannie today about this new book.
0:43.4	We discussed the importance of community,
0:46.4	of the ancestors in dreams and dreaming,
0:49.6	especially in African cultures.
0:52.3	And it was just a great all-round conversation and
0:55.4	lovely to have Fannie back on the podcast for the formal biography.
1:01.4	Fannie Brewster is a union analyst and a core faculty member at
1:06.3	Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her analytical training at the C.G.
1:11.7	Jung Institute of New York, and is a New York State licensed psycho analyst and certified school psychologist.
1:19.0	She holds an MFA degree in creative non-fiction from Gautcher College.
1:24.0	Dr Brewster is the author of several books including the racial complex, a
1:29.0	youngian perspective on culture and race, archetypal grief, slavery's legacy of intergenerational child loss,
1:36.8	African Americans and union psychology leaving the shadows and race and the unconscious and Africanist depth psychology perspective on dreaming.
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