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In Place of Words, Incantations.

in place of words

Heba Zaphiriou-Zarifir, Jungian Analytical psychologist

IRISH SOCIETY OF JUNGIAN ANALYSTS
in conjunction with the
IRISH ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION
Presents live on Zoom Thursday, 19th February 2026: 19:30 – 21:00 (Irish time)
Registration closes on Wednesday, 18th February @ 18:00

Words and their silencing have shaped both our personal and collective experience of the genocide in Gaza. As Jung writes, the “paltriest and the mightiest” (2009) of words can forge profound connections or enact epistemic violence by negating existence itself.
Shrouded in duplicity, language has fragmented Palestinian life against the hard rock of erasure, fallacy, and indifference. This event reflects on the shattering of childhood. Asking, what does it mean to assault futurity, one of the “essential features of the child motif” (Jung, 1969)?

The methodical policy of “un-childing” (Shalhoub-Kevorkian, 2020) has rendered the murder of thousands of children disturbingly normalised. How, then, do we comprehend this “apocalyptic epoch,” and how might we discern seeds of a “different, unprecedented, and still inconceivable future” (Jung, 1955)?

Does despair bring us closer to the essence of things, or does it collapse the very conditions of meaning? Songs of mourning and symbols of transformative work will be shared in communitas, releasing the dead into life beyond death.

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