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DEPTH INSIGHTS Seeing the World With Soul Spring/Summer 2015 “Recordar” by Debra Goldman INSIDE THIS ISSUE Holding Center: Ecopsychological Portraitures on the Poetics of Place Becoming Real; Seeing Through the Eyes of the Velveteen Rabbit Fishing for the Salmon of Knowledge Talking about Dreams, Bones, and the Future The Study of Dreams from Freud to Jung New Grange: The Mystery of Speech More Depth Psychology Articles, Essays, and Poetry Table of Contents From the Editor Holding Center: Ecopsychological The Study of Dreams from From the pen of Jesse Masterson: 2 Portraitures on the Poetics of Place 24 Freud to Jung By Dana Swain By Elise Wardle We are here in this community of Depth Insights brought together under Becoming Real: Seeing Through the Talking About Dreams and Bones 8 Eyes of the Velveteen Rabbit 33 Bonnie Bright in Conversation with the auspices of depth psychology. As we By Marta Koonz Authors Russell Lockhart and Paco go about research, writing, teaching, Mitchell therapy, or as practitioners, how often do 13 Fishing for the Salmon of Knowledge we stop and consider our individual social By Catherine Svehla Review of Jung and Phenomenology location? Social location is critical as we 38 by Roger Brooke A Soul Unleashed: The Archetype of By Matthew Gildersleeve engage communities (Kovach, 2010; 15 Partnership, Dangerous Beauty and Smith, 2012). the Art of Relationship 42 “Liana’s Sacred Hands”: Knowing ourselves and where we are By Cathy Lynn Pagano New Myth #67 socially located moves us away from By Willi Paul New Grange: The Mystery of Speech universalizing our individual experience as 22 By John Woodcock the experience of all peoples. Knowing our individual social location gives us an POETRY CONTEST WINNERS ADDITIONAL POETRY understanding of the impacts race, “Conversations between a Psychologist and a Poet” 2015 W. P. Basil gender, sexual orientation, economic Poetry Contest sponsored by Depth Psychology Alliance Mary Ann Bencivengo class, and the myriad of ways we identify Mary Pierce Brosmer (Winner) R. L. Boyer ourselves and are identified by others. It Matthew Fishler Roz Bound (Honorable Mention) Melissa La Flamme becomes imperative as we work in depth Bonnie Pfeiffer (Honorable Mention) Donna May psychology to understand our individual Eva Rider social location and the many ways it inter- ART J R Romanyshyn sects with depth psychology. Debra Goldman (includes our cover art this issue) Roy Rosenblatt Vera Long Equally important to our work in depth psychology is the personal exploration of the purpose of our work or in not so About this Issue subtle terms, how do we become clear, to ourselves and to others, what the Depth Insights, Issue 7 motivations are behind what we are doing Publisher Cont’d on page 7 Depth Insights, a Media Partner for Depth Psychology Alliance Co-Editors This Issue Bonnie Bright & Jesse Masterson Layout and Design GreatGraphicLayouts.com/ On the cover: Stephanie Kunzler with Bonnie Bright “Recordar”, "to pass back through the Contact heart", encaustic paint [email protected] on board, 16"x12", 2014 by Debra Goldman Submissions/Subscription/Ad Info See more of Debra’s http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/ work on page 21 Depth Insights is published twice a year. Copyright 2012-2015 by Depth Insights, Depth Psychology Alliance Online version of Depth Insights scholarly e-zine produced by SpeedyBlogSetup.com and can be found at www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine Note: Opinions expressed by the authors contained in this issue do not necessarily reflect those of Depth Insights or its editors, publisher, or representative. Copyright of content remains with the authors & artists. Copyright of the eZine & design belongs to Depth Insights™. No part of this publica- tion may be reproduced in any form or by any means without written permission from the publisher. Depth Insights, Issue 7, Spring 2015 1 Holding Center Ecopsychological Portraitures on the Poetics of Place By Dana Swain One thing is certain: the very act of Place is a fundamental reality that it reality is that center is always in the pres- putting the nonhuman world at the is often overlooked. Place is the earth, ent, always wherever one is, always in periphery of what is cultivated the landscape, the region, the home, and nature because we exist within nature. marginalizes Nature . What if the even the body. Differing places elicit their Casey (1993) asks the fundamental and supposed margin is itself center? own unique contemplations, their own obvious question that our lack of mindful- (Casey, 1993, p. 186). voices, but it requires someone to take ness repeatedly overlooks: the time to attune and witness them. What if Nature is the true a priori, copsychology is a relative Place is also narrative, because it is in the that which was there first, that from newcomer to the psychological narrative about place that our interiority which we come, that which sustains scene,E emerging in the latter part of the of imagination interweaves with the us even as we cultivate and 20th century to address the peculiar and materiality of “place-ness,” which in turn construct? . Nature is not just particular pathos of the modern human— creates a field of reciprocity, and in reci- around us; or rather, there is no alienation from our ecological roots. procity we are never alone. It is poetic getting around Nature, which is at all Theodore Roszak, who coined the term, narrative that navigates the interiorized times under us, indeed in us. In this understood that it is a new discipline but and exteriorized landscape best because regard, Nature can be considered the an old path, one that indigenous cultures poetics hold the essence of narrative ‘Encompassing’ . in the literal have walked for millennia. According to most closely in the formation of image, sense of the word, ‘to be within the Roszak (1992), “Ecopsychology seeks to which touches our emotions and our compass of.’ (p. 186) experiences most intimately, drawing us heal the more fundamental alienation This essay is a contemplation of between the recently created urban in a closer embrace to our natural world. When we care for places, we are caring aspects of nature as center, as landscape, psyche and the age-old natural environ- as a priori space and place, as it changes ment” (para. 9). Ecopsychology has close for our own subjective vivacity, tending our own creative imagination, forming in form, in function, in expression, but affiliation with Jungian depth psychology always reflects and dialogues with the particularly because both disciplines inner realms and regions as we attempt to responsibly, thoughtfully, participate in psyche of the human world. Gary Snyder recognize the reality of the unconscious, (1990), in his book, Practice of the Wild and accept that psyche and nature exist the formation and stewardship of the regions of the earth. suggests, “It is not enough just to ‘love not as separate entities that orbit each nature’ or to want to ‘be in harmony with other, but as a continuum of an animated Gaia.’ Our relation to the natural world expression. A basic tenant of ecopsychol- “Differing places elicit takes place in a place, and it must be ogy is that there is a “synergistic interplay their own unique grounded in information and experience” between planetary and personal well- (p. 42). being . the needs of the planet are the contemplations, their needs of the person, the rights of the own voices, but it The Symbolic Landscape person are the rights of the planet” (para. requires someone to Since Neolithic times humans have 13). take the time to attune left evidence all over the earth of their The discipline of ecopsychology is communion, worship, and celebration of the study of the psyche’s relationship and witness them” nature. Egyptians made pyramids so that with its natural environment, her funda- pharaohs could be laid to rest with many mental home. When we reflect on one, of their worldly belongings so they would we are reflecting on the other. James In our post-modern culture our high-speed, high-tech urbanized land- not pass through the gateway of the Hillman (n.d.), recognized by many as the underworld empty handed. Older still founder of archetypal psychology said, scape has left us fundamentally disoriented. Not only has modern culture than the pyramids are the henges and “an individual’s harmony with his or her megalithic structures scattered through- ‘own deep self’ requires not merely a “paved paradise and put up a parking lot” (Mitchell, 1970) in most every developed out the landscape of the United Kingdom. journey to the interior but a harmonizing These henges ranged from singular sites with the environmental world” (n.d, para. and developing nation in the world, we rarely have the time to notice what has of worship that seem to have aligned 6). Philosopher Edward Casey (1993) with astrological aspects, like that of suggests that nature too, has its interior- transpired. We seem to be stumbling after an idea of center that is always Stonehenge, to sites such as the Avebury ity and can never be completely separate henge that appears to have been a from us, because there is no ultimate tantalizingly out of reach, and somehow has become conflated with the ideology complex of sites used to celebrate life, Cartesian boundary of “in here” and “out death, and seasonal rituals (Devereux, there.” (p. 187). of consumerism. The phenomenological <Back to TOC Depth Insights, Issue 7, Spring/Summer 2015 2 Holding Center 1992, p. 116). There are thousands of Like a Mobius strip, comprised of a landscape in his book, The Poetics of sacred or symbolic sites in the landscape single, non-orientable surface, the atmos- Space.