Anxiety and the Postmodern Condition

Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns The Assisi Vision Lectures 2016 Assisi Institute: The International Center for the Study of Archetypal Patterns  invites you to this next in a series of  Assisi Vision Lectures,  a teleseminar series featuring leaders and scholars of the depth psychological communities from around the world whose work furthers our understanding and appreciation of Psyche and the global significance of archetypal patterns.  If you weren't able to make it to the previous Vision lectures, you can get the links to the recorded sessions. June 16, 2016 8:00 - 9:30 PM EDT Will Watson's Grandchild Write Poetry? Erel Shalit, PhD - Israel We are all witnessing, as well as taking part in the enormous leaps in the cyber development of our era. We have handed over the progress of the world to the brilliant minds of tom...

Mother Earth has struck, and by means of her messenger, angry Hephaestus, the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull, she reminds us how she can fasten Icarus's wings to the ground. We have all become accustomed to the swift and structured passage through the airport, until we briefly breathe the disconnected sense of being duty-free, free of any duty. However, during the last several days, thousands of weary travelers have been stranded, making airports their inconvenient, temporary home. The nonlocality and temporality of airports, as Temples of Transiency, sooth the restlessness of the Transient Personality, and suit him or her better than the temenos of the therapy room and the analytical relationship. For a moment, however, the airports have come to a standstill. Suddenly the swift transition between one non-place and another, has frozen. I wonder if postmodern man will, indeed, stop for a moment, to reflect on Mother Nature's messages, one of which may be the ...