ON-DEMAND TALK

Motorcycling as Myth and as Metaphor

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

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In our culture, motorcycles have occupied a mythic space for decades. What is their allure? What do they offer individuals who ride them? What hunger resides in and is satisfied in their experience?

Dennis Patrick Slattery invites you to go on the road with him to explore what this adventure has done for him for 52 years and thousands of miles. This audio lecture will allow you to dream of these arenas in your own life, calling to you to be fulfilled.

Talk Description

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Dennis Slattery has been riding motorcycles for fifty-one years. In all that time, he has never not owned a motorcycle or two. As both matter and myth, what does the motorcycle capture in its attractions for millions of riders worldwide? It makes the journey qualitatively different than if it were traversed in a four-wheel vehicle. 

Part of the myth and mystique of motorcycling goes well beyond functional transportation to help us begin here and arrive there. Motorcycling does not make the point of the journey the destination. Instead, the destination is the excuse for the journey itself. That journey and taking it on a motorcycle seems to be different for women than for men. Does the metaphor of the motorcycle differ between the genders? 

Motorcycling is one way that being on the road can be expressed, reflected on, imagined more deeply and fully, even allowed to reveal to us who and what we have been, are, and are becoming.

This TALK is ideal if you want to:

  • Discover the yearnings and hungers that motorcycling addresses and satisfies.
  • See motorcycling as a way to activate the hero’s journey that Joseph Campbell developed.
  • Learn about the perspective that the journey itself matters more than the destination.

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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