On Reproductive Rights
Socially Relevant Salon Series
with Satya Doyle Byock
Sunday, September 18, 2022
9 - 10:30am PDT | 12 - 1:30pm EDT
All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.
Community Subscribers are registered automatically and the salon is free.
“Jung always followed contemporary events, but his eye was that of a trained depth psychologist, and he was more interested in looking for what was going on below the surface of everyday political life than in its superficial aspects.”
In this inaugural gathering of our new Socially Relevant Salon Series, Salome Institute Director, Satya Doyle Byock, will explore the issue of abortion and reproductive rights from a depth perspective. We’ll weed through various approaches to exploring this topic, including some of how it has been discussed recently in Jungian circles. Moving beyond the political or healthcare questions, we’ll inquire into the archetypal, symbolic, and unconscious issues at play regarding abortion, personal choice, and reproductive rights. What underlies the anti-abortion movement? What are some ways in which depth psychology can help us understand the modern American resurgence in anti-choice sentiment, even as many other countries are adopting more expansive reproductive rights?
Some of the specific questions that we’ll be exploring:
How is the hatred of the feminine in culture and individual psychology woven into the anti-abortion / “pro-life” movement?
How did the end of the Cold War shift the need for a projected enemy back inside the US against women and people of color?
How does the discomfort with death in culture influence the inability to accept that miscarriage and abortion have always been a part of fertility and pregnancy?
How can abortion—like giving birth—be an initiatory experience for many pregnant people?
How is the archetypal obsession with Mother and Motherhood fueling the narrow understanding of women’s life choices?
How does the religious story elevating “good men” force the reality of rape and incest into the shadow?
How are reproductive rights core to individuation?
How could a sacred honoring of abortion and miscarriage support healing rather than the experience being relegated to the shadow of isolation, guilt, and shame?
After readings and presentations, Satya will hold space for a Q&A and discussion with the community.
Recording: If you are unable to join us live or would like to watch this on your own time, a recording will be sent to all registrants within 24 hours of the live event.
About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.
Register:
Online Attendance: a link for Zoom will be sent to all registrants via email in advance of this salon.
Recording: A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the live event.
Scholarships & Discounts: Please send us an email if you are unable to pay the full price. We don’t require explanation, just an email.
Subscribers: If you are a subscriber to the Salome Community, you do not need to register for this salon. You will automatically receive an email with login information in advance, as well as the recording following the event.
All subscribers receive free and automatic registration to the socially relevant salons.