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Pacifica Experience Days give potential applicants an opportunity for a brief but rich immersion into student life. Pacifica’s President, Dr. Joseph Cambray welcomes attendees, along with our Provost, Dr. Peter Rojcewicz. This is followed by a faculty presentation on a topic of broad interest, which replicates the graduate virtual classroom experience.
8/22 Featured Presentation
Title: Fierce Young Women in Fiction and Reality
Jung’s psychology is fundamentally archetypal, a perspective on individual and communal life that invites us to see deep patterns of meaning that are inclusive, multicultural, historical and spiritual. The “archetypal eye” helps us navigate volatile, chaotic moments in human history—such as now. In this lecture, Dr. Nelson trains her archetypal eye on one emergent pattern: the rise of the fierce young woman in politics, culture, literature, and film. She is the central protagonist in her own story, a visionary warrior-renegade confronting systemic misogyny.
Biography of Dr. Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson
Dr. Nelson, faculty at Pacifica since 2003, has been a professional writer, editor, and consultant for four decades. She is the general editor of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies. Her books include Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power (Chiron, 2012) and The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective (Spring Publications, 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin
Pacifica Experience Days give potential applicants an opportunity for a brief but rich immersion into student life. Pacifica’s President, Dr. Joseph Cambray welcomes attendees, along with our Provost, Dr. Peter Rojcewicz. This is followed by a faculty presentation on a topic of broad interest, which replicates the graduate virtual classroom experience.
8/22 Featured Presentation
Title: Fierce Young Women in Fiction and Reality
Jung’s psychology is fundamentally archetypal, a perspective on individual and communal life that invites us to see deep patterns of meaning that are inclusive, multicultural, historical and spiritual. The “archetypal eye” helps us navigate volatile, chaotic moments in human history—such as now. In this lecture, Dr. Nelson trains her archetypal eye on one emergent pattern: the rise of the fierce young woman in politics, culture, literature, and film. She is the central protagonist in her own story, a visionary warrior-renegade confronting systemic misogyny.
Biography of Dr. Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson
Dr. Nelson, faculty at Pacifica since 2003, has been a professional writer, editor, and consultant for four decades. She is the general editor of the Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies. Her books include Psyche’s Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power (Chiron, 2012) and The Art of Inquiry: A Depth Psychological Perspective (Spring Publications, 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin
