Trauma Can Be Rewritten: The Use of Art to Reimagine our Past and Grant Us New Life

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

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!

⁠⁠⁠Viviane Silvera animated 30,000 of her hand-painted images to explore how traumatic memories are formed, stored, and ultimately transformed. Her animated documentary, SEE MEMORY, traces the intimate story of a young woman caught between past and present; her film captures the fragmented texture of trauma and the healing that becomes possible when painful memories are witnessed. In our conversation with Viviane, we explore her process of recovering lost memories and how opposing perspectives can constellate new attitudes toward trauma. We discuss cutting-edge findings on the way the brain stores and changes memory and reveal the intersection of art, science, and psyche.

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About Viviane:

Viviane Silvera is an award-winning artist and filmmaker whose work blends painting, animation, and neuroscience to illuminate memory, trauma, and the unconscious. She holds a dual B.S. in Psychology and Political Science from Tufts University and an MFA from the New York Academy of Art.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:04.2	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,
0:09.7	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:19.4	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,
0:24.9	and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,
0:31.1	and Cape Cod.
0:52.0	Thank you. Today we are going to talk about memory, and we are delighted and honored to have Vivian Silvara with us as a guest. She has made an incredible film called
0:59.2	See Memory, in which you get to see her animation and memories being mutable, malleable, growing and changing,
1:12.0	in combination with a series of leading neuroscientists
1:18.1	from all kinds of leading organizations
1:21.0	who talk about the neuroscience of memory.
1:26.1	So the film and Vivian's work, the narration, really sets up all kinds of
1:33.0	bridges. There's a bridge between art and science, the past and the present, what is fact
1:40.3	and what is meaning, what is what we remember, and how is it fueled by imagination, and all of it
1:51.2	is a guided tour to healing. Vivian has done all kinds of work of note and been part of Basel, Miami and the Berlin Art Week and
2:03.9	Imagine Science Film Festival and much, much more. So with all that said, let's launch into
2:15.1	exactly what is memory.
2:19.0	We think we know what it is. Can I bring in one more thing?
2:20.9	Because I think this is really relevant.
2:22.4	Vivian, your film is going to be shown on PBS.
2:25.4	Is that correct?
2:26.7	Can you just give us that date and tell us a little bit about that?
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