Sherry Salman

C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago  FOUNDERS DAY SYMPOSIUM: AWAKENING ARCHETYPAL AWARENESS IN DREAMS AND DAILY LIFE FEATURED SPEAKER: SHERRY SALMAN, Ph.D. LOCATION  Loyola University, Chicago Water Tower Campus, 25 E. Pearson, Chicago IL – Kasbeer Hall Saturday, March 21st, 2015 9:00 am to 5:30 pm “The archetypes are, as it were, the hidden foundations of the conscious mind.…

Columbia Teacher’s College has made available on YouTube the Video of the presentations at the Psychoanalytic Fair from February 8, 2014. This was the conference to which 900 people (mostly graduate students) responded and in which over 30 psychoanalytic organizations took part.…

Reading this book I felt I was in the presence of something momentous…courageous and brilliant… Salman is writing about the dreams in the world around us. Page after page, my neck hairs tingled at her insights on subjects including psychology, religion, politics, sexuality, pornography, globalization, corporate capitalism, the environment and, not least, social media and the World Wide Web. The world needs this essay and its plea for imagination and empathy.

A provocative, rewarding read urging wakefulness…like a mythological weaver, Jungian psychoanalyst Salman pulls together a variety of strands, from Indra’s Net to the World Wide Web — dreams of totality, visions of utopias and dystopias. Her wide-ranging intellect and breadth of reference reverberates in the book’s 27 illustrations, from prehistoric stone circles to Tibetan mandalas and microphotographed stem cells.

This fascinating examination of our reaction to change is both impressive and inspiring. Salman brings her considerable knowledge to bear on the ways humanity has coped with transitions in the past, and how we might approach things differently with the accelerated pace of change in the twenty-first century… as the network-based globalization of the Internet age, essentially centerless, may force us out of old patterns into a new level of connectedness.

Sherry Salman will be appearing both in person and on the radio for readings and book signings. Please check here for a list of upcoming author events.