C. G. Jung Society of Montreal
WINTER/SPRING 2024-25
Not Making Nice:
Film Discussion of “Janet Planet”
A Lecture by John Beebe of San Francisco, CA
This is a ZOOM event.
Registration Link: https://JanetPlanet.eventbrite.ca
A recording will be available for those who attend and for those who have registered and paid but cannot attend.
Saturday, February 22
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (ET)
Members: $15; Non-Members: $20
Students/Senior Members: $10
For info please call (514) 971-8664
Here is John Beebe giving a short preview of his talk.
Playwright Annie Baker’s impressive first film as director, Janet Planet, shows eleven-year-old Lacy living in the 1990s with her divorced mother, an acupuncturist, in a beautiful part of Western Massachusetts. Neither Lacy nor her mother are happy, but they share a secret opposition to their lives as women that both are having trouble articulating. Their tensions reveal with exquisite nuance the urgency and poignance of coming to identify what one needs to say no to in order to be able to come of age psychologically. Dr. Beebe will lead us in analyzing this mother-daughter complex from a postmodern Jungian perspective.
John Beebe is a Jungian analyst and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. His books include Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type. His eight-function, eight-archetype model of psychological type is widely studied and applied.
He has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film and has co-authored, with Virginia Apperson, The Presence of the Feminine in Film. He has often used psychological type and archetype to explore developments in the cultural and political unconscious.