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IAJS/ Duquesne University Conference, March 18-21, 2021 Authors and Abstracts Apocalypse Imminent: A depth psychological analysis of human responses to fear of catastrophe and extinction. J. Alvin and E. Hanley In the dire situation of the world today, humans are striving to cope with impending catastrophes and end of life on Earth. Emergency food buckets with a shelf life of 25 years are now sold in quantities that provide a year of lasting sustenance for an individual. Efforts to colonize Mars are underway and its pop-culture representations are based on key narratives of American heritage: ingenuity/technology, the great frontier/utopia, and democracy/capitalism. The configuration of apocalyptic social phenomena, arranged in a cultural and astrological gestalt, may be reminiscent of other points in human history where the threat of catastrophe rendered similar archetypal expression. As psychologists, we must ask: what precisely is being achieved by the development and sale of stockpiled food and plans to colonize other planets? What are we turning toward and away from? What kind of life are we buying into? Key concepts explored in the research of these topics include technology, climate change, food sustainability, cultural complex, and more. To be explored in a discussion panel are the archetypal root and metaphor of these social phenomena and the implications these endeavors have for humanity entering the next phase of existence. It is our intention to present papers on the above topics and, with Dr. Romanyshyn as a respondent, facilitate an in-depth and meaningful discussion. 1 Wise emergency survival food storage Jonathan Alvin The purpose of this philosophical hermeneutic study will be to understand the Wise Emergency Survival Food Storage (WESFS) as an artifact that reflects and reproduces its cultural matrix (Cushman, 1996). At this stage in the research, the WESFS will be defined generally as it is advertised: sealed plastic buckets, containing a full year of dehydrated and freeze-dried food supply for one individual, with an advertised shelf life of 25 years (Wise Company, 2018). WESFS is situated against a historical backdrop of 20th century American developments in food technology related to war and space travel. Dehydrated food was manufactured during World War II; its weight allowed more soldiers on board ships sailing across the Atlantic Ocean to fight in the war. Freeze dried foods were developed for space flight; astronauts needed a variety of food tastes in order to avoid appetite fatigue during space missions. The psychological reality of WESFS is the concern of this study. What kind of world does the WESFS exist in? What kind of world is bought into, when a person purchases the WESFS? In order to situate the psychological reality of the WESFS and the individual who purchases such a product, a study of the American post-World War II individual will be undertaken. References Cushman, P. (1996). Constructing the self, constructing America: A cultural history of psychotherapy. Addison-Wesley/Addison Wesley Longman. Wise Company. (2018). 720 Servings of Wise Emergency Survival Food Storage [Product for Sale]. Retrieved February 7, 2019 from: https://www.wisefoodstorage.com/720-serving- package.html?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpuW5pOis4AIVzCCtBh2dDgQyEAQYAiABEgKBAvD_B wE 2 Mars Colonization Eric Hanley The purpose of this study is to explore, examine, and interpret the cultural phenomenon of Mars colonization as it is expressed in popular culture. Specifically, this proposed research focuses on one particular aspect of the topic: How Mars colonization is expressed in our culture as a great frontier and is thus reminiscent of past iterations of the American West and the righteous efforts to conquer and colonize the wildness beyond our current borders. This paper reviews multidisciplinary literature, situating the topic in a cultural historical context, and examines themes of technology, fantasy, and capitalism as Mars colonization is expressed in the form of frontier narrative in television, film, and literature. The qualitative methodology follows the philosophical principles of hermeneutics and social construction as bases for exploring the archetypal expression of this cultural phenomenon. References Hillman, J. (1994). Wars, arms, rams, Mars (pp. 70-88). First published in, Fields, R. (1994), The awakened warrior. New York: Putnam Books. Jung, C. G. (1970). Flying saucers: A modern myth of seeing things in the skies (R. F. C. Hull & G. Adler, Trans.). In H. Read et al. (Series Eds.), The collected works of C.G. Jung (Vol. 10, pp. 307-433). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1958) Palmer, R. (1969). Hermeneutics: Interpretation theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press. Romanyshyn, R. (1989). Technology as symptom and dream. London: Routledge. Slotkin, R. (1998). Regeneration through violence: The mythology of the American frontier, 1600–1860. New York: University of Oklahoma Press. (Original work published 1973). Turner, F. J. (1893/2017). The frontier in American history. Okitoks Press. Jung, groddeck, and analytic technique Marco Balenci In two very recent articles in the International Journal of Jungian Studies, this author compared Carl gustav Jung with georg groddeck, German "wild analyst" who founded modern psychosomatic medicine. For the first time, it was emphasized the theoretical closeness of their main concepts―Es and Selbst. These concepts constitute the nucleus of a standpoint - towards the human being, the psyche, and the unconscious - which is very different from Freud's. The common references of groddeck and Jung were goethe and Nietzsche in philosophy, Carus and von Hartmann in psychology. Both groddeck and Jung held symbolization and the conception of a creative unconscious to be remarkably important. These aspects were fundamental for their clinical work, aimed at pioneering therapies: Jung with schizophrenics, groddeck treating physical diseases. They overcame the limits of the psychoanalysis of their time and, going beyond neurosis, discovered the pre-Oedipal period and the fundamental role of mother-child relationship. Jung and groddeck gave a maternal turn and considered analytic therapy as a dialectical process, ushering in a two-person paradigm. groddeck remained within the psychoanalytic movement, albeit in disgrace; whereas Jung left. Although both had considerable influence, it is interesting that neither of them were interested in creating a training school. However, Jung was somehow forced to do it. After seventy years of Jungian schools, it seems necessary to discuss Jung's therapeutic approach in the light of Naturphilosophie and maternal turn. Moreover, it is to call into question the use of the couch―also following research developed in Italy on mirror neurons. Ultimately, Jungian analysis can be seen as a human relationship in a specific setting. References 1. Balenci M. (2018) Totality in groddeck’s and Jung’s Conception: Es and Selbst. International Journal of Jungian Studies, 11(1), 2019, pp. 44-64. doi: 10.1080/19409052.2018.1474127 2. Balenci M. (2020) Jung’s and groddeck’s Analytic Practice: Alternative Methods That Have Prevailed over Freud's Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Jungian Studies, in press. 3. groddeck G. (1977) The Meaning of Illness. Selected Psychoanalytic Writings, Including his correspondence with Sigmund Freud. L. Schacht, ed. London: The Hogarth Press. 4. Jung C.g. (1966) The Practice of Psychotherapy. Collected Works, vol. 16. H. Read, M. Fordham, & G. Adler, eds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 5. Samuels A. (1985) Jung and the Post-Jungians. London & New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Marco Balenci, PhD, is a psychoanalyst AIPA-IAAP. He did teaching and research at the Universities of Pisa and Rome. He is a former secretary of the Centre for Historical Studies of Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry in Florence. His research interests mainly concern theoretical topics and psychosomatics, also studying Jungian analyst Elida Evans’ pioneering work on cancer (Quadrant, 2020). Moreover, he has published papers on dreams, Jungian typology, realistic anxiety, Freudian technique, georg groddeck, psychic breakdown, identification in the analytic relationship. He has written the chapter on the Self for the Italian Treatise of Analytical Psychology (ed. Aldo Carotenuto), co-edited five academic books, and edited the Italian version of Anna Freud biography by Elisabeth Young-Bruehl. His latest articles in English discuss cancer from a Jungian and holistic standpoint (Madridge Journal of Cancer Study & Research, 2019) and the influence of extraversion-introversion typology on psychology, psychiatry, and medicine (Medical & Clinical Research, 2020). He has a private practice in Florence. Presenter of the film by John Akromah: The Nine Muses. (clips only) Discussants Prof Kevin Lu and Ms Diana Mcglory Suzanne Barnard, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University, filmmaker, and licensed clinical psychologist. She received her Ph. D. from Loyola University of Chicago (Clinical Psychology), and completed postdoctoral studies at georgetown University. She is coeditor, with Bruce Fink, of Reading Lacan's Seminar XX, and has published widely on Lacanian, French feminist, and Foucauldian approaches to the body and subjectivity. She also writes in film theory (currently focused on Deleuzean approaches to cinema, affect and subjectivity), and