In Martin Scorsese's 2023 movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, archetypal energies of senex and puer collude to bury the feminine in oil-rich, post-World War I Oklahoma. In this presentation, Dr John Bebe will explore how these phantomatic complexes can shadow individuals' psychic development and how they undermine relatedness in the politics of our own time. Participants are asked to see the movie in advance of coming to the presentation.

John Beebe, a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is co-author, with Virginia Apperson, of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film. He was founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (now Jung Journal and is the author of Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type.