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URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2003-03-29-beebe/
SUMMARY:Missed Integrity: A View of the American Psyche from Film (Thirtiet
 h Annual Jungian Conference)
DESCRIPTION:Historically\, American films have been constructively critical
  of the American character\, reflecting a recurring national disappointmen
 t with the integrity of our fellow citizens. In a funny but deeply felt se
 t of meditations on this theme\, James Brooks' award-winning film\, Broadc
 ast News\, is unusually effective in illuminating the complexes in our nat
 ional character that sabotage its ethical integrity. This film also illust
 rates the typology of the American psyche\, a structure that greatly contr
 ibutes to certain failures of psychological understanding that are particu
 larly common in our culture.\n\nThe conference will begin with a special s
 howing of Broadcast News\, which Dr.Beebe will introduce. Jung spoke of th
 e "figures" in our unconscious life\, and a deeply imagined film may use i
 ts actors to represent these figures as so many characters\, creating an i
 ndividuation story as they interact. Broadcast News is such a film\, with 
 a soul of its own that lends itself to psychological analysis.\n\nThe afte
 rnoon will be devoted to a discussion of the characters in this film and t
 he complications their lack of mutual understanding presents. Dr.Beebe and
  the participants will also examine the attitudes this film envisions that
  typically interfere with the individuation of the American character\, an
 d how these may be addressed to develop the consciousness we still need\, 
 fifteen years after this film was made.\n\nDr. John Beebe\, a psychiatrist
  and Jungian analyst in practice in San Francisco\, has explored film from
  a Jungian perspective in the The Journal of Film and Popular Culture\, Th
 e Psychoanalytic Review\, The Chiron Clinical Series\, Psychological Persp
 ectives and DreamTime. His several books include Integrity in Depth. His m
 ovie reviews are regularly published in The San Francisco Jung Institute L
 ibrary Journal.\n\nThis conference is to be followed by a 4-part weekly le
 cture series:  THE MOVING IMAGE:  A JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE ON FILM\nThe mos
 t we can do is to dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress. ~ C.G
 .Jung\nMovies ensoul our lives. They coax us into the imaginal realm where
  we participate in story and myth. At the movies we travel the world\, jou
 rney through space\, fall in love\, witness murder and tragedy\, undergo b
 reathtaking adventure and laugh with silliness and joy. Much like dreams a
 nd active imagination\, movies allow the expression and the experience of 
 both personal and collective material. Movies carry us forward into myth i
 n modern dress: The Moving Image.\n\nThis year\, the C.G. Jung Club of Ora
 nge County presents our annual conference and lecture series in a combined
  format to both interpret and\, perhaps more importantly\, experience the 
 potential that is the moving image in film. Join us for a daylong event fo
 llowed by three consecutive evening lectures\, and a final meeting for inf
 ormal discussion and community interchange. See you there!
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