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To cite this article: Brian Feldman (2004) Cultures of Violence: Trauma, Healing, and Transformation, The San
Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 23:2, 27-36
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is, I think, what all great art can offer us, and in part it explains
why we experience a hunger for the aesthetic experience. Virginia
Woolf used to call this interpenetration of the personal and the
collective ‘moments of being,’ a phrase which I think poetically
describes the profound impact that creative processes can have
upon us.
The first of the theoretical essays, by Clarissa Pinkola Estés,
entitled “Explaining Evil,” offers useful insights into the explo-
ration of curanderismo, a mixture of Spanish and Indigenous
American healing practices that have had a deep personal as well
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ENDNOTES
1
Brian Feldman, “Encountering Otherness: Anthropological, Develop-
mental and Clinical Dimensions,” in Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice,
Vol. 5, 2004, 23–39.
2
Joseph L. Henderson, Cultural Attitudes in Psychological Perspective,
Toronto, Inner City Books, 1990.
3
Donald Kalsched, The Inner World of Trauma; Archetypal Defenses of
the Personal Spirit, London and New York, Routledge, 1996.
4
Sherry Salman, “Blood Payments,” in Beebe, ed., 237.