Jay Barlow's lecture "The Umbilical Cord: Early Relational Trauma, Gender Identity, and the Symbolism of Connection"

Date: 2025-10-01

Author: UJA

The Ukrainian Jungian Association invites you to a lecture by Jay Barlow — a Jungian analyst and training director of the Society of Analytical Psychology (London). The lecture will focus on the impact of early relational trauma on the formation of embodiment, gender identity, and the capacity for intimacy. Through a clinical case and the symbolism of the "umbilical cord," the phenomenon of projective identification will be explored, as well as the role of the analyst's unconscious attitudes in the therapeutic process.