WORKSHOP: Alan G. Vaughan, “Maat, The Archetype of Justice, and Imagining the Good Society”

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Purchase online or cash or checks accepted at the door: $40 (Jung Society Member) ; $60 (Non-Member)

Saturday April 26, 2025 ,10:00 am – 4:00pm 

Workshop: Maat, The Archetype of Justice, and Imagining the Good Society

Maat an Amplification of The Archetype of Justice in Kemet – Egyptian Mythology

and Shadow Phenomena in the Culture and Judicial Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court 

Description:

Through the agency of the Maat in Kemet - Egyptian Mythology and the construct of Creative Active

Imagination, this experiential workshop will explore and interrogate the nature and elements of the Good Society. Maat is introduced as the amplification of the Archetype of Justice, Truth and Honesty.

The attributes of Maat and the myth are adopted to interrogate shadow phenomena in the culture and selected judicial decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court and the platform from which to “Imagine the Good Society”.

We will define the concept of Active Imagination in Analytical theory and explore its application in experiential exercises of small and large group discussions. Each small group will need a leader and scribe. In an epoch of uncertainty, polarization, fragmentation, even dystopia, the topic of the “Good Society” is an important one for us to consider, through the agency of Maat, the Archetype of Justice, and Active Imagination. What are the essential elements of the Good Society? What are the impediments to achieving the Good Society? Are there existing models of the Good Society? With the addition of didactic material, the group experiential will be "Imagining the Good Society”.

Brief Biography:

Alan G. Vaughan, Ph.D., JD, is a certified Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical and consulting psychologist, and an analyst - member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. There he serves on the Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and the Editorial Board of the Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, published by the Taylor Francis Group.

He received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology from New York University and interned in Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center (UCSF). He received his Juris doctorate from the University of Virginia, School of Law, with concentration studies in International Trade Law and Law and Psychiatry. Advanced studies in Private and Public International Law were completed in The Hague Academy of International Law, Den Haag, Netherlands; and post-doctoral training in higher education administration at U.C. Berkeley.

His presentations, scholarly interests, and publications are at the intersections of Analytical Psychology, U.S. Constitutional Jurisprudence, and African Diaspora Studies. His forthcoming book,  Journey to the Self: C. G. Jung in the African Diaspora, is to be published by Routledge, Fall 2025.