ON-DEMAND COURSE

shadow of culture 

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
James Hollis
TOPIC
Jungian Psychology
Format
4 Class Course
DURATION
3 hours

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James Hollis draws from Heart of Darkness to show the cultural shadow we all carry. He explores how our inner darkness shapes the outer world, often in unconscious and harmful ways. By recognizing this shadow, we cultivate greater personal accountability and inner authority. This process reduces the harm we do to ourselves and others, offering relief to the collective burden carried by the world.

Course Description

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We are born into cultures with standards and values that deeply shape our lives. We sometimes experience these influences as unquestionable truths, absorbing them without realizing it. These cultural norms shape usually outside our conscious awareness our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors. They determine how we see the world and how we engage with it.

Every culture carries a shadow, including ours. Our cultural shadow harms both ourselves and others. At its darkest, the cultural shadow manifests as cultural complexes, enacting atrocities and self-justified inhumanity. Recognizing this shadow is essential to understanding how it shapes our thoughts and actions, often without our conscious awareness or agreement.

Hollis uses the book ‘Heart of Darkness’ as a mirror to show how cultural shadows lead to destructive complexes. From a distance, we can observe a culture possessed by blind loyalty and arrogance, justifying imperialism and atrocities.We may believe we are different or that history has taught us lessons. However, Hollis reminds us that while circumstances change, the psyche remains the same. What is wrong in the world reflects what is wrong in us. Each culture operates under the influence of complexes, and each of us carries fragments of these within our own psyche. In our times we might unknowingly embrace values like success, individualism, shallow spirituality, and denial of mortality, unaware of their harm.

Hollis invites you to journey into your own dark interior for greater accountability and freedom. Our beautiful and in-depth companion guide will support you in identifying your cultural shadow complex and reclaiming authority over its influence. This process cultivates personal authority, authenticity, and minimizes suffering for yourself and the world.

This program is being offered by the Jung Center of Houston and the Jung Platform. The original recording of this lecture took place at the Jung Center. The recording has been remastered. The lectures are available now.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Look at the hurt and suffering you experience due to an unconscious identification with the cultural shadow.
  • Do something for the world, which involves inner shadow work. You are motivated for greater self-awareness and personal authority.
  • As a therapist or other therapist, healer, or helping professional help clients understand cultural shadows, their role, and how accountability lifts the world's burden.  

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 video & 4 audio recordings
Companion Guide
Auto-generated/Accurate subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teachers

James Hollis

James Hollis, Ph.D., is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2016, and one of the best Jungian teachers of our age.

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