Jung in the World | C. G. Jung & the Modernist Revolution with Roula-Maria Dib

During our Holiday Giving Drive we are presenting a series of interviews called Jung in the World. In this episode, Patricia Martin interviews Roula-Maria Dib, creative writer and literary scholar, who views Carl Jung as a modernist and has written about the power of the modernist moment in history to give rise to the discipline of psychology. Her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature, creates a new context for understanding Carl Jung's work and his most important theories: the context of the collective in which he lived. In this discussion, they touch on: * The development of Modernism* Finding wholeness through art* Jung's Collected Works & his literary sense* Active imagination* The symbol* The collective unconscious* Deconstruction and integration* Reading the Jungian way Roula-Maria Dib (PhD, Leeds) is a creative writer and literary scholar. She is the author of Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature (Routledge, 2020) and a poetry collection, Simply Being (Chiron Press, 2021). She is the founding editor of literary and arts journal Indelible and creative producer of its literary event series, Indelible Evenings. She is a member of the Poetry Society, the British Association for Modernist Studies, the International Association for Jungian Studies, and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. She is currently a professor of English at the American University in Dubai. Roula-Maria Dib is the founder and director of Psychreative, a monthly event for creatives with a background in Jungian psychology. Learn more on their Facebook page and watch past sessions on their YouTube channel. Patricia Martin is a cultural analyst, consultant, and the author of three books on cultural trends. As a consultant, Martin has worked on teams at Discovery Communications, Dannon, Microsoft, Ms.