"Barbie's Question": Dr Stephani Stephens
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Friday 6th February 2026
"Barbie's Question"
with Dr Stephani Stephens
at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald St, Lyneham, ACT (and by Zoom)
The film "Barbie" serves as a springboard for us to examine Jung, what earned from the dead, his moral position with respect to his ancestors and what he gleaned about the unconscious as a result of all of it.
Barbie herself, caught in the joys of a celebratory unconscious, grows to individuate around this basic of questions as she journeys to embrace a new vision of consciousness. As we move through this discussion let's pose our own question: does Jung's worthy work in this area help us with our own hauntings and relationship with an unconscious that might accommodate our ancestors?
Jung assures:
"Inner peace and contentment depend in large measure upon whether or not the historical family which is inherent in the individual can be harmonised with the ephemeral conditions of the present" (MDR, p. 264).
As we explore some of these ideas, Avery Gordon is also useful here:
“Ghostly matters are part of social life…Haunting is a part of our social world and understanding it is essential to grasping the nature of our society and for changing it” (Ghostly Matters, p. 23 and p. 27)
Dr. Stephani Stephens is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist and a lecturer in Counselling at the University of Canberra. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK in Jungian psychology. She is the author of C.G. Jung and the Dead; Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain by Routledge. Her areas of research include the unconscious, transgenerational inheritance, cultural broaching, and the self in therapeutic practice. She teaches counselling skills, theory, diversity and ethics to both postgraduates and undergraduates and maintains a small therapy practice.
Cost: $20 ($15 concession)
Details: www.canberrajungsociety.org
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