LITERATURE + LECTURES

The Jung Center of Houston presents Redeeming the Hero.  Analyst and author Lyn Cowan takes a fresh look at the story of the hero, finding insight into personal responsibility and vocation. Friday, February 11, 7:30 - 9 pm.

Rediscover the original, vital understanding of "hero," which is so broadly used today that it loses its mythic sense. The mythic hero--larger than life and required to accomplish impossible tasks at great risk, bringing hope and redemption to lesser mortals--stands in an important relationship to the Self.

Implied in the hero's grand mission are ideas of personal responsibility and vocation, two themes we meet frequently in Jung's theory of individuation but do not often examine. This presentation, illustrated with clips from the film Seabiscuit, (image pictured) will consider the collective psychological phenomenon that was a horse named Seabiscuit, a true mythic hero, and the human partners who engaged with him in a mutual process of transformation.

Lyn Cowan, PhD, has been a practicing Jungian analyst since 1980, Director of Training for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts for six years and past President of the Society, held a Professorship for ten years in the doctoral program in
Clinical Psychology at the Minnesota School for Professional Psychology of Argosy University, and taught for two years at the C.G. Jung Center of Houston, Texas.

She lectures frequently in the United States and internationally and is the author of three books: Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy; Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture; and Masochism: A Jungian View.