Jungian Psychotherapists Association
Annual Fall Workshop
with 
J0rge de la O, Jungian Analyst

November 1, 2025
10:00am to 4:30pm
In-person Only
1:00-1:30 Lunch (pre-order available online $25)

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
McLachlan Hall
111 NE 80th St.
Seattle, WA 98115

$145 Members
$185 Non-Members
6 CEs included

Death, Shadow and the Cultural Complex: A Jungian Clinical Exploration of Día de los Muertos y La Chingada

“Group complexes litter the psychic landscape and are as easily detonated as the literal land mines that scatter the globe and threaten life – especially young life…”
-Thomas Singer, The Cultural Complex

As current events reveal, these landmines, these group complexes threaten not only the wellbeing of People of Color but life globally. This presentation will focus on one such landmine, the “The Chingada Complex.”

La Chingada is a multifaceted entity that shows not only the Mexican psyche but also the collective wound of all who live in the United States. This workshop will heighten the clinician’s awareness of the cultural psyche and the dynamics of the Chingada complex. By honoring the sol y sombra of this archetypal pattern, the therapist can begin to understand their relationship to the Chingada complex and the devastation of cultural-based trauma.

Participants are asked to honor that we are meeting on the Día de los Muertos and are encouraged to bring photos and mementos as part of an “ofrenda”, or altar, we will create to our departed loved ones as they return to us on this day. Día de los Muertos is a pre-Columbian tradition that has taken root in North American culture. This workshop will include a discussion of this sacred ritual with a focus on the work of printmaker and engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada and his profound impact on the art of Día de los Muertos. To quote Posada, “Todos somos Calaveras,” we are all skeletons.

Bio:
Jorge maintains a private practice specializing in analytical psychotherapy. Jorge is also a retired public-school teacher with over 35 years of classroom experience. He is a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Jorge is an emeritus professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Currently Jorge serves as president of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California. Jorge has presented nationally and internationally on a variety of Jungian topics.  Most recently, he published chapter in a book entitled “Jungian Analysis in a World on Fire: At the Nexus of Individual and Collective Trauma.” Jorge’s Chapter is entitled: “Cuauhtémoc and the Other: Confronting the Chingada Complex.

Please contact Ryan, JPA’s program chair, with any questions at: ryan@theinnerworldtherapy.com

Artwork by Jose Guadalupe Posada – circa 1910

Learning Objectives:

1.     Integrate a cross-cultural approach that supports the worth, dignity, potential, and uniqueness of each individual. 

2.     Examine how the therapist can utilize this cultural imagery in psychotherapy with the Latinx patient.   

3.     Increase sensitivity to culture and diversity and broaden an awareness of how culture controls behavior in deep and persistent ways. Many of which are outside the awareness and, therefore, beyond the conscious control of the individual. 

4.     Develop understanding of the ongoing impact of the Conquest of America from a Jungian perspective.