CALLED AND TRANSFORMED: VISIONS OF CHRISTIANA MORGAN AND HARRIET TUBMAN

 This program will consider C. G. Jung’s approach to the “Visions” of Christiana Morgan using two different lenses. Through lectures, discussion, and experiential activities, the unacknowledged cultural shadow in Christiana Morgan’s Vision paintings will be addressed. Jung’s approach to Visions will be extended to those of Harriet Tubman, comparing and contrasting the impact of their visions on the individuation of the two women.

 

Early in the Visions Seminars, Jung states “In analyzing dreams it is always advisable to enter into the details of the symbolism … it is all important what the dream says and not what we interpret into it.” We will explore how these two visionary women developed the inner resources that made them less dependent on the traditional expectations for women. Through their visions they developed an authority to function outside of the limited attitudes expected for women. We will follow the development of each of these women’s lives and the impact their visions had on their actions and the transformation of their consciousness.

 

 

DIANE DEUTSCH, PhD, is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. She is in private practice, working with adults and offering clinical consultation in San Francisco, CA.

 

KAREN NAIFEH, PhD, is an analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Her analytic practice with adults is located in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Burlingame, CA. Her areas of special interest are trauma, the shadow, and alchemy. She holds a doctorate in medical psychology as well as clinical psychology, and was an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF for 11 years, where she did research in the areas of sleep, meditation, and biofeedback.

 

CARNELLA GORDON-BROWN, LCSW, is a black woman feminist.  A mother, wife, grandmother.  The great great great granddaughter of escaped slaves who fought in the US civil war.  Carnella is both amazed and aware of holding great privilege in being here, both literally and figuratively.  That she has a clinical practice is a precious gift, rooted in the deep wisdom of the resilient consumers of community mental health.