Book Description

The 17th Triannual Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (I.A.A.P.) took place in Cape Town, South Africa from August 12‑17, 2007. The theme of Journeys, Encounters: Clinical, Communal, Cultural was reflected in events and presentations throughout the week. The plenary presentations are printed in this volume, and a CD with all of the Congress presentations and numerous illustrations is included inside the back cover. From the Contents: Preface by Pramila Bennett 13 Opening of Congress by Astrid Berg 17 Welcome Address by Hester Solomon 19 Journeys – Encounters. Clinical, Communal, Cultural by Joe Cambray 23 How Does One Speak of Social Psychology in a Nation in Transition? by Mamphela Ramphele 26 Forgiveness After Mass Atrocities in Cultural Context: Making Public Spaces Intimate by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela 36 Shifting Shadows: Shaping Dynamics in the Cultural Unconscious by Catherine Kaplinsky 55 Jung and Otherings in South Africa by Renos K. Papadopoulos 74 Journey to the Centre: Images of Wilderness and the Origins of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts by Graham S. Saayman 84 Race, Racism and Inter-Racialism in Brazil: Clinical and Cultural Perspectives by Walter Boechat & Paula Pantoja Boechat 99 The Stranger in the Therapeutic Space by Uwe Langendorf 114 My Heart Is on My Tongue – The Untranslated Self in a Translated World by Antjie Krog 131 Panel: A Passage to Africa, Part II, Contemporary Perspectives on ‘Jung’s Journey to Africa’ moderated by John Beebe 146 Life and Soul by Karina Turok 151 The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by Michael Vannoy Adams 159 The Journey to Africa: Cultural Melancholia in Black and White by Samuel Kimbles 165 The Containing Function of the Transference by François Martin-Vallas 169 Encounter with a Traditional Healer: Western and African Therapeutic Approaches in Dialogue by Suzanne Maiello 185 Brain Mechanisms of Dreaming by Mark Solms 204 Response by Margaret Wilkinson 218 New Direction Home: African Oracles and Analytic Attitudes by Sherry Salman 225 Panel: The Idea of the Numinous moderated by Ann Casement 242 Jung, the Numinous, and a Surpassing Myth – The Inevitability of the Numinous by John Dourley 243 On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the Alchemy of Individuation by Murray Stein 250 Before We Were: Creating in Being Created – Encounter and Journey in Our Analytic Profession by Ann Belford Ulanov 255 Closing Remarks by Astrid Berg 265 The IAAP Looks Far Ahead – President’s Farewell Address by Christian Gaillard 266