ZOOM online Lecture: Saturday, July 19, 2025, 7:30 PM - 9:45 PM EDT
This event will be recorded. If your schedule does not allow you to attend the lecture, you can still reserve a ticket and a recording will be emailed out to you to watch at your convenience within 30 days of the lecture. Access to the recording cannot be extended past 30 days for any reason. No refunds will be given if you are unable to watch the recording within 30 days.
Cost: members: FREE; non-members: $35; students $15
CEUs: $25 (APC, LPC, LMSW, LCSW, AMFT, LMFT)
Register here: https://jungatlanta.com/event-calendar/#!event/2025/7/19/dylan-francisco-phd-8212-soldier-guru-warrior-inner-and-outer-conflict-and-the-path-to-peace
Description:
From a depth-psychological perspective, tension is normal and necessary for psychological development — the tension between feeling and thinking, masculinity and femininity, separation and connection, shadow and light, spirit and matter, love and hate — because these oppositions comprise our wholeness. Trouble arises when we cannot bear the tension of opposites and reject one side while overidentifying with the other. This results in what C.G. Jung called one-sidedness. The outcome of one-sidedness is conflict, because what we refuse to recognize in ourselves is inevitably projected onto others. We are then drawn into conflict with whoever embodies what we unconsciously hate about ourselves.
The purpose of this lecture is to address conflicts that arise from internal one-sidedness and that manifest outwardly in human relationships and society. Particular attention will be given to dominant cultural ways of dealing with conflict expressed in the Soldier and the Guru, and why these approaches only reinforce one-sidedness and therefore fail to provide a lasting solution to inner and outer conflict. In contrast, Dr. Francisco will discuss the Warrior and why Warriorhood requires and embodies wholeness, which overcomes the one-sidedness within and thus gets at the root of outer conflict, providing a true path to peace.
Dylan Francisco, Ph.D., is an assistant professor and co-chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies M.A./Ph.D. program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Dylan grounds his teaching in the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, decolonialism, and the Toltec/Mexican/Indigenous/Shamanic traditions of his lineage that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to live it relationally through honoring Spirit, the ancestors, and the land.
