This is a recording of an online event I held on January 17th, 2021, less than two weeks after the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Given the impromptu nature of our gathering and the emotions involved, my presentation is riddled with excessive “umms” and pauses, which I hope won’t be too disruptive to the overall content.
While I was working on this article I noticed how churned up one still is in one’s own psyche, and how difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one’s emotions. …I must confess that no article has ever given me so much trouble, from a moral as well as a human point of view. I had not realized how much I myself was affected.
-Carl Jung, “After the Catastrophe,” 1945
Some of the books referenced in this talk include:
Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro
Brittney Cooper, Eloquent Rage
I’m Satya Doyle Byock, psychotherapist, author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, and co-host of a podcast on Jung’s Red Book. My work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, NPR, The BBC, Literary Hub, The Tamron Hall Show, and on podcasts such as Apple News in Conversation and The Joseph Campbell Foundation Podcast. All links can be found here.
