The Self, Individuation, Communitas
Reflections on Fundamental Values in Analytical Psychology, an IAAP Conference in Strasbourg, France
Why a conference dedicated to the Values in Analytical Psychology?
The IAAP started in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1955 as an Association made up of a few representatives from Western Europe and North America.
Since then and due to globalisation in the last decades, its membership now extends across many countries of the world on six continents.
In recent years, the awareness of cultural differences in the membership has increased dramatically, and this has now made it necessary for us, as an international organisation, to reflect on updating, revising, and communicating the fundamental values of Analytical Psychology that unite us.
This conference sponsored by the IAAP is meant to share and extend the reflections and work carried out by the Fundamental Values Working party.
The focus of this conference
The object of this conference is to reflect together on the Self, Individuation, and Communitas, not by referencing these terms as abstract concepts but as the source of Fundamental Values in Analytical Psychology and Jungian Psychoanalysis.
Through reflection and dialogue among speakers and participants from a diversity of cultures, the intention is to initiate an ongoing elaboration of the values that address the question: What does Analytical Psychology stand for in the world today?
This will be an exercise in critical feeling. By employing the feeling function, we will speak from the heart about values that can guide the teaching and practice of Analytical Psychology worldwide in our time and for the future.
We welcome you to join us in this challenging endeavor.
The choice of Strasbourg to hold this conference
Program
The conference will start on Thursday, June 13 early evening, with a welcome concert and reception, and will finish on Sunday June 15 at 13:00.
On Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning 5 half days-sessions will be organized around different aspects of the general theme.
Although details of each presentation are still in progress, you can find here a provisional program of the conference.
Thursday, June 13 2024
From 18:30 to 20:30 – Offered by the IAAP
Private concert in the historic church of Saint Pierre le Jeune located next to the venue hotel, followed by a ‘welcome aperitif’ in the adjacent cloister
From 14:30 to 16:30 – Optional activity
Private guided walking tour of Strasbourg with a English-speaking guide
Friday, June 14 2024
From 09:00 to 12:45
Overall theme: Values, Central Concepts
09.00 – 09.15 Misser Berg: Welcome and Introductory Remarks on values
09.15 – 09.45 Murray Stein: The Self as Source from which All Values Flow
09.45 – 10.00 Discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Leslie Stein: The Importance of the Value of Communitas in a Lonely World
10.30 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45 Andrew Samuels: Is Activism a Value?
11.45 – 12.00 Discussion
12.00 – 12.30 Astrid Berg: Ubuntu – An African contribution to the “Civilization of the Universal”
12.30 – 12.45 Discussion
From 12:45 to 14:30
Lunch time
From 19:00 to 20:15 – Optional activity
Private boat tour on the Ill River with an English-speaking guide
From 20:30 – Optional activity
Alsatian dinner at La Maison des Tanneurs restaurant
From 14:30 to 18:00
Overall theme: Psychological Care
14.30 – 15.00 Monica Luci: Trauma and Values 15.00 – 15.15 Discussion
15.15 – 15.45 Alvaro Ancona de Faria: Psychological care and mental health: The importance of fundamental values of Analytical Psychology for mental health care.
15.45 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.00 Valentina Samus: Challenges to Psychological Care in Difficult Times
17.00 – 17.15 Discussion
17.15 – 17.45 Tristan Troudart: A polytheistic attitude as a bridge to transmit humanistic values in analysis, in times of war
17.45 – 18.00 Discussion about the Value of Psychological Care
Saturday, June 15 2024
From 09:00 to 12:45
Overall theme: Culture
09.00 – 09.15 Brigit Soubrouillard: Organizational communications
09.15 – 09.45 Toshio Kawai: Values in Eastern philosophy/psychology
09.45 – 10.00 Discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Harry Fogarty: Blind Spots of the Western Mentality: Impositionalism vs. Universalism
10.30 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45 Grazina Gudaite: Freedom and dignity in a post- authoritarian culture
11.45 – 12.00 Discussion
12.00 – 12.30 Sara Liuh: Where Culture interferes with or supports our Values
12.30 – 12.45 Discussion
From 12:45 to 14:30
Lunch time
From 20:00 – Optional activity
Gala Dinner at La Maison Kammerzell restaurant
From 14:30 to 18:00
Overall theme: Communitas
14.30 – 15.00 Gary Read: How outreach work shapes values: A Zimbabwe case study.
15.00 – 15.15 Discussion
15.15 – 15.45 Brigit Soubrouillard: Gratitude, Contribution, and Communitas
15.45 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.00 Marianne Müller: Conflicts and their potential for solutions – Mediation within our community
17.00 – 17.15 Discussion
17.15 – 17.45 Tom Kelly: The Ethics and Communitas
17.45 – 18.00 Discussion
Sunday, June 16 2024
From 09:00 to 13:00
Overall theme: Values of Training and Conclusions
09.00 – 09.15 Brigit Soubrouillard: Organizational communications
09.15 – 09.45 Jan Wiener: What are we training people for?
09.45 – 10.00 Discussion
10.00 – 10.30 Yehuda Abramovitch: Between knowledge and values
10.30 – 10.45 Discussion
10.45 – 11.15 Coffee break
11.15 – 12.30 Round table discussion on the Self, Individuation, and Communitas as a Core Value of Analytical Psychology. Final discussion and closing remarks. (Participants in the round table will be decided later).
12.30 – 13.00 Final discussion and closing remarks
From 14:30 to 16:30 – Optional activity
Private guided tour of the Notre-Dame cathedral of Strasbourg with a English-speaking guide
The IAAP Concert and welcome 'Apero'
On the evening before the first day of the conference, a private concert will be offered by the IAAP to all the participants, in the historic church of Saint Pierre le Jeune located next to the venue hotel.
Originally, a monastery was founded on this site in the 6th century. In the 11th century, the church was rebuilt in the Gothic style, and became Lutheran in the 16th century. It is decorated with amazing frescoes from this period. The concert will be followed by a ‘welcome aperitif ‘ in the adjacent cloister.
Optional Activities around the conference
Gala Dinner at La Maison Kammerzell restaurant
Dinner at la Maison des Tanneurs
Lunch at the Sofitel Grande Île Hotel
Walking tour of Strasbourg | Visit of the Notre-Dame cathedral
Private boat tour on the river L’Ill
