NEW YORK CENTER FOR JUNGIAN STUDIES PRESENTS

Metaphor, Mystery, and Symbol:
Shaping the Embodied Self

DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY

July 24-25, 2026
Weekend Live Online Workshop

It seems essential to return at times to an awareness of our flesh to refresh our life’s purpose.
—Dennis Patrick Slattery

To say that we are fictional selves is not an indictment as counterfeits or fabrications. It is to acknowledge, even celebrate, how we are an intrinsic weave of myth, memory, stories, rituals and embodiment that aid us in navigating our interior selves and the exterior world in its ambiguities. The collision and the collusion between these territories encourage the creation of our complexes. 

We continually fabricate ourselves to meet the faces that we meet. In other words, we give shape to the world as a mirror reflection of ourselves through stories, which comprise rich analogies of our deepest selves.

In this weekend workshop, participants will be able to grasp in what ways being embodied is the ground for mythic awareness and to offer an example of mythic expression.