ON-DEMAND TALK

The Act of Reading as Mythic and Poetic Motion of Soul

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Dennis Patrick Slattery
TOPIC
Archetypes
Format
audio talk 
DURATION
50 min

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Reading deeply and contemplatively is a form of the hero’s journey. Any reading sets the reader on this adventure into the depth, but it seems to be the richest in reading narratives. There, as one reads, one remembers and in remembrance makes rich associations between the story being read and the story the reader has lived.

In this audio lecture, Dennis Patrick Slattery’s invitation will allow you to think of reading not as data-processing but as a psychological lived reality. A psychological lived reality that uncovers deeper dimensions in the reader’s life.

Talk Description

The act of reading, especially if it is not in search of data, information, facts, and explanations, is closer to a journey of what C.G. Jung has called individuation. In this process, one strives to become the fullest expression of who and what one is destined to be.

This lecture will explore the presence and effectiveness of an energy field constructed between the reader, the text, and the relationship as the third thing that springs up between them. To read is always to be reading from an in-between state or disposition. Reading is then a rite of passage through the written passages that comprise the plot or the argument of the work being read. Both the text and the reader bring something to the conversation, such as their own intensity and type of vitality. They exchange these vitalities in the act of reading as a form of interpenetration. 

Dennis Slattery suggests in this lecture that both the reader and the text come to the act of reading and being read as both reciprocal, with each having their own form of consciousness and unconsciousness.

This TALK is ideal if you want to:

  • Learn how the act of reading is a mutually interactive exploration of the work read and the work’s reading us the reader.
  • Approach reading as a way of meditation and dialoguing with the unconscious.
  • Learn how reading can be perceived as a rite of passage

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.
1 audio recording
Accurate Subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Dennis Patrick Slattery

Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 54 years, the last 27 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

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