Live class starts Jan 21

Beloved

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Dennis Patrick Slattery
TOPIC
Deep Insights
Format
6 class course
DURATION
12 hrs

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

This course offers a direct way to deepen your individuation through Toni Morrison’s Beloved. The teacher is Dennis Patrick Slattery, a respected guide in literature and depth psychology. This ‘psychological book club’ style course will explore themes like home, inner bondage, fragmentation, dignity, and imagination. It will help you see your own story with new eyes. It will support inner freedom and a renewed sense of self.

Course Description

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Works of fiction can play a profound role in our individuation process. They help us clarify who we are becoming. Through the powerful analogies in Toni Morrison’s celebrated novel Beloved (1987), we are invited back into our own story and discover new ways to understand our inner life. Themes such as home and homelessness, literal and metaphorical slavery, and the liberating power of the spoken Word all come to the surface.

Dennis Patrick Slattery guides us into the depth of Morrison’s language, revealing the layers she described as “the heart of the story in the minds of the slaves themselves.” We explore themes that touch every human life: the Underworld as a realm of suffering and paralysis; the freeing power of Baby Suggs, Holy, as she speaks to the 90 former slaves gathered before her; and what Morrison calls “rememory,” those sudden returns of the past that hold both pain and sweetness.

We will learn together through discussion, conversation, and the teachings of Dennis P. Slattery.

Other areas of exploration include the strength of the imagination itself. As Baby Suggs declares, “Grace is what you can imagine, you can have.” We examine the power of assumptions, which can become a subtle but potent form of inner enslavement, keeping individuals locked in conflict with themselves. We also look at the wounded body as both a site of paralysis and a place of reclamation—one that must be consciously chosen.

After the live class, we open breakout rooms for an additional thirty minutes, where you can connect with fellow participants and share insights.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Seek inner freedom.
  • Let old stories still shape you.
  • Be motivated now to explore some of the paradoxes and contradictions that are also part of your evolving self.
  • Become aware that you do not feel “at home” in yourself and in the larger world you inhabit.

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.
6 videos & 6 audio recordings
Companion Guide
Auto-generated/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.

Scholarships

We here at Jung Platform want to make these programs available to anyone. If you would love to participate yet can’t pay for the full course, then please send us an email at scholarships@jungplatform.com and describe why you feel you qualify for a scholarship, how much you can pay, and what you will do to help the Jung Platform promote this and other programs.

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