Resonances from the scientific-organising Committee of the Assisi Con-ference: 7-8-9 October 2022

The Assisi Conference was organised by a group of women analysts who felt the urgency and desire to reflect together on the global crises of our time, driven also by the experience of the SARS-CoV-19 pandemic. What follows are the experiences of the organisers with respect to the contributions of the conference, but also to the absorbing and all-encompassing experience lived in Assisi, a place that is certainly alive, magical and symbolic. We found ourselves, after months of isolation, finally in the presence of talking about pandemics, environmental disasters, wars, racism, social inequalities, in short, the “dark depths of human nature” as Jung would say, but not only in terms of passive denunciation of phenomena, but above all in terms of vitality, hope, and the transitory space of thought necessary for personal and collective transformation. The Ark of the biblical story, the image chosen for the Conference, then truly becomes the possibility of dreaming together about new openings of thought and action, as we have tried to do in the spirit of the Conference with all our being. For this reason, the contributions that follow will not only be a review of the concepts expressed by the speakers, but also and above all the emotional experiences of the organisers, what they have managed to make their own and put into circulation.

Keywords: ; Pandemic; war; environment; thinking; dreaming; transforming

Emanuela Pasquarelli, Paola Russo, Greta Melli, Maria Rita Porfiri, Simona Massa Ope, Clementina Pavoni, Monica Luci, Risonanze dal Comitato scientifico-organizzativo del Convegno di Assisi: 7-8-9 ottobre 2022 in "STUDI JUNGHIANI" 57/2023, pp 87-101, DOI: 10.3280/jun57-2023oa16200