The big sleeping project of the international community and Ukrainian Jungians started at the end of September

The big sleeping project of the international community and Ukrainian Jungians started at the end of September – these are “Riding Groups” – reading groups that will make sense of the war experience through En Ulanov’s article and K. G. Jung’s Red and Black Books.
Four Jungian analysts of UJA participate in this large reflective work: Olga Kasianenko, Inna Kyryliuk, Olena Pozdieva, Serhiy Teklyuk.

We wish you fruitful work!

Letter from the organizers:

Judy Cowell (BJAA) writes:

Why study Ann Ulanov’s paper “Making the Unsayable Experiential”?
Ann Ulanov’s paper reverberates with a call to the Soul, addressing the Ukrainian community of Jungian Analysts directly as “you”, describing in no uncertain terms the immediacy of the violence and violation of war that is their situation. Calling for his Soul is also how Jung starts his confrontation with the Unconscious which he describes and elucidates in Liber Novus.
In her paper, Ann draws on both Liber Novus and the Black Books. She quotes Jung, referring to the First World War, “The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of people may be smitten by a new madness.”
Ann reflects deeply upon the Ukrainian’s “gigantic catastrophe” drawing forth humanity’s capacity to suffer and to cause suffering. She draws three parallel themes from Liber Novus – Individuation; the Personal and the Collective, and the Voice of the Feminine – in order to witness the emergence of Soul in the Ukrainian population arising, too, out of the crucible of war.
She writes “What is war doing to you….? You can register two processes going on simultaneously – the psychic epidemic with collective patterns, and the individuation process where you learn from the heart as well as book, from madness as well as reason, from soul aliveness despite loss of meaning, admitting into awareness everything you had scorned as evil that now soaks the world with blood.”
Much of the time, many of us naturally turn away from being confronted with directly experiencing news of the Ukrainian war. By studying this paper, we are supported and inspired by Ann to remain present, to witness what is only too real for the Ukrainian people, and ultimately, is unavoidably real for us all.
Our Ukrainian colleagues have emphasised how important it is for them at this time to meet with the international community. It’s a profound experience of witnessing and support. Over 90 Ukrainian colleagues have signed up for the reading groups. We now invite you, if you can, to join us in meeting with them and working together on the prima materia thrown up by the war. Each group will meet three times. Dates are on the attached flyer.
In order to join a reading group, it is not necessary to have attended the solidarity event where this paper was first presented or to have read the Red and Black Books. It is possible to listen to or/and read the paper in advance of the reading groups via this link: https://withukrainianjungians.com. The paper calls to deep reflection – as Joe Cambray commented: “it has so much subtlety and depth – my goodness!”
Joe Cambray will lead a team of facilitators drawn from the international community of Jungian Analysts: Katerina Sarafidou, Susan Schwartz, Elisabetta Pasini, Judy Cowell, Guislaine Morland, Inna Kyryliuk, Trevor Jameson, Serhiy Tekyuk, Heba Zaphirou-Zarifi, Olga Kasianenko, Maxim Ilyashenko, Elena Pozdieva, Catherine Hinds and Catherine Cox.
Each group will have two facilitators, at least one of whom will have studied the Red Book.
There will be a maximum of 15 members in each group. Simultaneous interpretation in English and Ukrainian will be available. Group lists will be circulated in advance to allow for re-assigning groups if necessary..