We had our monthly PhD group supervision today and as we were doing the ‘checking out’ round amongst the students in my group, we relaised that we all find ourselves drawing insights from Jungian writings, especially those related to archetypes. I think this is because all of us in the group explore some kind of human experience phenomenon in a qualitative, in-depth way and this somehow connects us to symbolisms and concepts inherent in what Jung called ‘the collective unconscious’, hence and our interest in that field. My fellow student emailed to me those 2 web-links about archetypes that i will look at soon, togteher with some Jungian books from the library:
http://www.myss.com/library/contracts/three_archs.asp
http://www.herowithin.com/arch101.html
I went to the cinema last night and watched that amazing film, called THE KITE RUNNER by director Marc Forster, It was such a moving story in the context of war-divided Afghanistan who led to immigration of the protagonist etc etc. So much to say about teh plot, the actors, the photography, the music the messaged conveyed, the official site of the film can be viewed here
There is this scene in the film where the protagonist who moved to the US to escape the war returns to his hometomn Kabul, when destroyed by the Taliban etc and says this phrase: “I feel like a tourist in my own country”. This is something that is so vivid to most immigrants, specially those that were forced to migrate due to was and political atrocities. However, this feeling is not far from reality also for many who were not forced to migrate, like myself and many of the participants in my research who actually chose to move abroad… … Read more »
Love day today and at university we had this seminar about ‘loving’ our research…:-). I shall admit that doing a PhD is like having a partner, in a love and hate relationship almost…there are moments that u are inspired and ‘in love’ with the whole thing and other times that it all gets too overwhelming and you nearly feel like throwing everything out of the window…i see that i develop ‘compassion’ towards myself through the research process and ofter the Thesis gets personified into a ‘being’ that i relate to in different ways. I see that in other PhD students also when we talk about that process which is actually comforting … Read more »
A question i pose during my research interviews is inviting the participant to think of a metaphor/image that would describe them as therapists (what they have become as a result of moving between cultures/experiencing cross-cultural transitions etc). This is something that my supervisor advised me to do in order to invite more unconscious/tacit responses to emerge, as a way of unblocking certain experiences or feelings that may be difficult to be put into words. The metaphor of a Chameleon [means "Earth lion" and is derived from the Greek words chamai (on the ground, on the earth) and leon (lion)] is one that has come up often.
William has been writing a chapter about Pittu’s work and he came up with those relevant paragraphs, that also echo my personal experience, to some extent, he calls this section “Counsellor as Chameleon”: … Read more »
My supervisor sent me an email today and said that the description of one of the tarot cards (:)) that he found somehwere seems to describe some of the psychological state that happens to those that move between cultures-when in a liminal space and guided by Hermetic processes (Stein, In Midlife book), including myself as i was telling him in our last meeting…that is: … Read more »
