Healing Cinema: Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)

Jungian Analysts Judith Cooper and Daniel Ross discuss Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s 2014 film Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). They touch on: Innocence and inflation Alchemy Mark Sabans’ Two Souls Alas: Carl Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making of Analytical Psychology (Listen to our interview with Mark Saban) Love Humiliation The Trickster Men’s relationship to dependency Sylvia Perea’s The Scapegoat Complex Individuation needs and the “unlived life” Fantasy and imagination Judith Cooper, PsyD is a clinical psychologist and diplomate Jungian Analyst in private practice in Chicago. She is a graduate and member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. She was adjunct faculty at the Illinois School of Professional Psychology (1999-2000), teaching projective testing. She was clinical supervisor (1991-2002) and director of training (1998-2002) of an APA-accredited psychology internship program at a community mental health center in northwest Indiana. She has taught in the Analyst Training Program and lectured on the anima/animus, and the clinical use of film. Daniel Ross, RN, PMHNP, MSN, MBA has been a nurse for 40 years and in hospice for over 30.  As a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Jungian Analyst, he brings a medical, psychiatric, and analytical perspective to the field of end-of-life care.  He first completed the two-year Clinical Training Program (now the JPP/JSP) at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago then went on to complete the Analyst Training Program.  He is in private practice in the northwest suburbs working with adults seeking psychotherapy and continues to see hospice and palliative care patients at the end of life.  He is Co-Director of the Jungian Psychotherapy Program and Jungian Studies Program at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Thank you to everyone who has shared a little about themselves. If you’d like us to know who you are, click this link, and I’ll read your submission on the podcast! You can support this free podcast by making a donation, becoming a member of the Institute, or making a purchase in our online store. Your support enables us to provide free and low-cost educational resources to all. LinksJudith Cooper’s page on the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago WebsiteDaniel Ross’s page on the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago Website This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may share it, but please do not change it, sell it, or transcribe it.Executive Producer: Ben LawHost: Patricia MartinContributors: Judith Cooper & Daniel RossMusic: Michael Chapman Thank you to our 2021 donors who gave at the Contributing Member level and above: The Arlene M. Feiner Trust, Barbara Annan, Arlo and Rena Compaan, Judith Cooper, Kevin Davis, George J. Didier, Mary Dougherty, Carl and Patricia Greer, Ryan Maher, Patricia Martin, Boris Matthews, Sue Rosenthal, Dyane Sherwood, Deborah P. Stutsman, Lawrence Chad Tingley, Alexander Wayne and Lynne Copp, Gerald Weiner, and Ellen Young. If you would like to support this podcast, click here to join our community of supporters.