Creator/source/творець/джерело: Olena Skala

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Russia Ukraine war

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: war as destruction and subsequent revival; descent into hell; fertilization, watering, flowering and development; death and life

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: February-March 2022

Comment/коментар: I invite you to a sensual journey through this picture through the stages that I experienced while painting it. I invite you to follow those symbols and archetypes that were unconsciously embodied in oil on canvas, releasing my feelings. This work has become a container for my indescribable and unbearable feelings that have overwhelmed me since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. For the first few weeks, I experienced a state of psychological shock, although, I believe, it was not visible on the outside. I also continued with my current life, which included hiding in a bomb shelter with my two sons while constant permanent long air sirens. I couldn't even cry. Every day I intuitively lit dozens of candles in my room. Their fire and light became a symbol of light in the darkness for me, a symbol of memory and honoring those who were mercilessly taken away by war. After a period of about three weeks of living in this state, I suddenly felt a desire to paint. With no particular idea, just to paint in red and black. I conditionally divided the canvas into two horizontal parts, and painted the lower one in black, and the upper one in red. Black is the land, the fertile black soil of Ukraine. Black – is pain, sadness, sorrow. Death and grief. War. Red is blood, life, sun. The bloody sky hanging over Ukraine. I mixed red with black. Human blood on fertile Ukrainian soil. Red - life and acute pain. War. When I finished, I looked at the painting. It resembled a red sunset over a black plowed field. It resembled the battle flag of Ukraine. Red and black. When blood falls on the yellow-blue flag of Ukraine, it becomes red and black. I kept this picture and looked at it for two weeks. Then I wanted to paint in yellow. I drew a yellow sun rising on the horizon between the red sky and the black earth. The yellow sun of new hope soothed and inspired. Later, I found another symbol in this yellow - the corpus luteum, which is formed in the uterus of a woman, and whose task is to prepare and support the pregnancy until the placenta matures. Yellow is a symbol of the birth of a new life. Then I wanted to add gold. I took a golden patal and began to outline the black color with gold. Gold as a symbol of value, self, holiness. Symbol of treasure. I went intuitively without an idea to draw something specific and a golden boat was drawn by itself. Looking at what was drawn, I thought about Kharon's boat, which ferries the souls of the dead. A golden boat with a yellow half-sun formed an eye in my painting. This eye reminded me of the eye of Ra - one of his duties is to help the dead in the afterlife, and this eye is also a symbol of divine order. I added a golden pupil and golden tears that the eye cries. At this stage of painting the picture, I was able to cry. Thanks to this picture, I got out of the state of shock and freezing. I began to draw in blue tears falling on the ground from above. Whether it is the rain that washes the earth, washes away the blood, cleanses and fills the moist, life-bearing earth. Revitalizes. Waters. Tears that release pain and mourn losses. Tears are a symbol of a living soul that is in sorrow and does not lose hope. Rain is a symbol of renewal and purification. Rain, after which the sun rises and gives life. One colleague, when I shared this picture at Jungian readings in the winter of 2022, shared his impressions. He said that this picture is like a prayer. I feel grateful; this is how I felt this painting process - as a prayer for Ukraine. Thank you WUJ for the valuable support of Ukrainians. This project feels to me like a prayer uttered by Love itself.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Linda Mary Edwards

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: lockdown, old testament

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: burning bush, fire

Creator/source/творець/джерело: AP Photo Evgeniy Maloetka

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: In March of 2022 a Mariupol maternity hospital was bombed by Putin.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: The mother. The infant. Birth. The time of labor, giving birth is both natural and fraught. Associated with what is fecund, gravid, created and loving. Birth can also be difficult and traumatic; mother and child at risk.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 3/2022

Comment/коментар: We are awash in images from all quarters, constantly. Some sear. I render news images in charcoal over words. Charcoal, living trees to ash as are we, living flesh then dust, ash, gone. Descendants and ancestors walking. The juxtaposition of life struggling to enter the world with bombs simultaneously seeking to end lives still pains. May the Vishegirskaya family be well and Ukraine restored.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Own icon painting

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Sacred, icon painting

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Divine, faith, search, prayer, overcoming, help, God, numinous

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 12.07.2022

Comment/коментар: War forces the awakening of the inner warrior, for some it is literally defending our land from the enemy, saving children, their lives, being warriors in occupied territories or adapting in another country. Internally, we need a sense of our own strength and loyalty to ourselves, clarity of decisions and actions. Internal support for me was writing the icon of Archangel Michael. I prayed to him when my brother was in danger under enemy fire, when my father was saving his own life and fighting an illness, when a student was in captivity, when I was afraid and I was losing my faith. Війна змушує до пробудження внутрішнього воїна, для когось це буквально захищати від ворога нашу землю, рятувати дітей, своє життя, бути воїнами на окупованих територіях чи адаптуватись в іншій країні. Внутрішнє ми потребуємо відчуття власної сили і вірності собі, чіткості рішень і дій. Внутрішньою підтримкою для мене було написання ікони Архангела Михаїла. Молилась йому коли брат був в небезпеці під вогнем ворога, коли тато рятував власне життя і боровся з хворобою, коли учень перебував в полоні, коли мені було страшно і я втрачала віру .

Creator/source/творець/джерело: by Willam Ernest Henley 1875

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: William Ernest Henley wrote this poem after his leg was forced to be amputated. He was lying in bed and could not sleep because of the pain. In an attempt to somehow alleviate his condition, he wrote down these lines. Вільям Ернест Хенлі написав цей вірш після вимушеної ампутації ноги. Він лежав у ліжку і не міг заснути від болю. В спробі якось полегшити свій стан, він записав ці рядки.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: an ear of corn, which is a symbol of life, which will grow in its time, regardless of circumstances

Comment/коментар: Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Susan Bostrom-Wong

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Death, grief, loss, and war.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: The Archetype of Death

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2023

Comment/коментар: With deep sorrow for the Ukraine.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Ryan J. Bush, Ph.D., RyanBushPhotography.com

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: This 3-D multiple exposure photograph is from my series of mandala-like photographs of trees called "From Wandering to Illumination". Like all works in the series, when I create the photograph I start by concentrating on a single twig or leaf out of the full complexity of a tree, then take multiple photographs from different angles, coming back to that same central point again. Later I work with the photograph in the computer, turning the photograph into a complex three-dimensional image that can serve as a meditative object like a traditional mandala.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: This is one of the darkest photographs from the series "From Wandering to Illumination", reminding me of the dark night of the soul — the most difficult part of the archetypal journey where we find ourselves in darkness that seems completely hopeless and impenetrable. However, the gift of finding ourselves in such a terrible place is that it’s only in this dense darkness that we can find a light that we would otherwise have overlooked in the ordinary busyness of ordinary life. In this photograph, the tiny bits of light showing through the branches represent this light of hope, which we can always find if we look hard enough. When we manage to keep going through the dark night of the soul, whether because we see this light of hope, or simply because we have no choice but to keep going, sooner or later we *will* find our way out of the darkness. When we emerge from the dark night of the soul (whether it is due to the awful atrocities of war, or due to more everyday kinds of suffering like chronic pain, emotional anguish, or any other kind of severe challenge), we will find ourselves forged into something incredibly powerful — at the soul level we become an indestructible diamond, with strength we would never have imagined.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2018

Comment/коментар: While this image can be appreciated either as a regular two-dimensional photograph, or as a 3-D photograph with a pair of red/cyan 3-D glasses, for me the 2-D photograph symbolically represents the ordinary level of reality, and putting on the 3-D glasses represents the transformative power of the transcendent function and the Self. Both are perfectly valid ways of seeing the world, but the perspective of the Self is far more complex and richer, and can completely transform how we see the world. Meanwhile, it doesn’t seem to be a coincidence that there are so many conflicts going on in the world, such as the war between Ukraine and Russia, between tolerance and fundamentalism, and between compassion and selfishness. More than ever before, we are being given countless chances to choose what we believe in — do we care about greed, power, fear, and hatred, or about harmony, helping each other, love, and true joy? We are in this world right now for a reason, to stand up for what we believe in, in whatever ways we are able to.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: O. Juravchak/ N. Rubchenko/ NAONI Orchestra/ Ensemble of percussion instruments ARS NOVA composers : G. Chernenko, O. Juravchak, A. Shust, N. Rubchenko

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: The well-known Zaporizhia Cossacks (free warriors), who settled on the island of Khortytsya on the Dnieper rapids, Ukraine, invented a tactic which they performed during the initial stages of the battle. It was a hertz - a test of warriors’ courage and strength before a general battle which is very similar to a dance. It’s a duel of individual soldiers before the main battle, in which military art was revealed. The "hertz" tactic is something like a psychic attack, also called the bloody dance of death, which could drive any opponent into panic fear. The ritual of Hertz would look like this: before the beginning of a battle, when the troops are standing and facing each other, a group of Cossacks leave the ranks and go directly to the enemy lines. Under the constant enemy barrage, they would start mocking their enemy by dancing under the bullets, laughing and shouting all kinds of obscenities at them. Cossacks prancing to demonstrate courage, morally oppressing the opponent. When Cossacks returned from the hertz they always returned with glory. Sometimes no one returned. “Hertz” is an ancient Ukrainian word, it is written as “Герць” in Cyrillic, and it can’t be translated into any other language. The fact that this word exists only in Ukrainian language, speaks a lot about the Ukrainians’ characters. Now the ancient hertz has returned. All Ukrainian people stand with the enemy, facing him with the spirit of our ancestors.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Archetype of Warrior When the Warrior comes into our lives, we learn to set goals and develop strategies for achieving them. It requires the development of discipline and courage, ability to fight and to defend the country’s boundaries, and people’s life.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2022/2023

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Photographie : Alexander Krivitskiy, unsplash, Kyiv, Ukraine, published on February 26, 2018. Photographie : Alexander Krivitskiy, unsplash, Kyiv, Ukraine, 26 Février 2018

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Cultural context Une photographie d’un artiste ukrainien. A photograph by an ukrainian artist.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Archétype : l’équilibre éternel des forces antagonistes. En temps de menace, poésie, fiction et images symboliques soudent la communauté et pansent les maladies de l’âme.Création et synchronicité. Complexio oppositorum. Nigredo. Invasion de l’Ukraine et Saint-Valentin. La force lumineuse de la tradition courtoise née au XIVe siècle. Puissance curative de la création poétique en temps de guerre. Principe de coopération, principe directeur de l’évolution. Force d’âme, intuition issues de l’obscurité Archetype: the eternal balance of antagonistic forces. In times of threat, poetry, fiction and symbolic images unite the community and heal the illnesses of the soul. Creation and synchronicity. complexio oppositorum. Nigredo. Invasion of Ukraine and Valentine's Day. The luminous force of the courtly tradition born in the 14th century. Healing power of poetic creation in times of war. Principle of cooperation, guiding principle of evolution. Fortitude, intuition from darkness

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: Alexander Krivitskiy, unsplash, Kyiv, Ukraine 26 Février 2018

Comment/коментар: L’Ukraine est plongée dans la rigueur de l’obscurité comme dans la partie gauche de cette image. Illustration d’un monde vibrant dans le désastre du conflit où la part lumineuse éblouit par sa présence miraculeuse et invincible. Qui peut regarder sans ciller l’énergie du feu quand celle-ci est utilisée pour violenter le monde et plonger les êtres humains au plus profond de l’obscurité ? La femme de l’image se recouvre les yeux avec la main. La main devant les yeux fait ressentir le calme de l’effroi face à la violence. Retrait dans le for intérieur. Le regard se tourne vers l’intérieur pour voir. Le regard de l’âme pour accueillir l’intuition. Nulle nécessité de regarder la noirceur pour la voir. Tout est su au plus profond de la psyché humaine de cette dévastation. Toutes les cellules de la peau en sont imprégnés. La femme ici est à fleur de peau. Aphrodite aux prises avec l’obscurité de la nuit de l’âme. La photographie pourrait être intitulée « Clair de femme » selon l’émouvante évocation du roman de Romain Gary. La femme recouverte d’obscurité en illumine d’autant plus l’espace. Le féminin du monde fait clarté. L’amour irradie dans l’obscurité. Dans l’effroyable croissance de la part obscure c’est la résolution de la « complexio oppositorum » qui grandit également. L’incontournable complémentarité des contraires est en douloureuse gestation dans l’œuvre au noir. J’ai découvert cette photographie le 21.12.2021 sur un site où des photographes du monde entier proposent leurs images libres de droit. J’ai conservé cette image. Je n’en ai pas fait l’illustration d’une publication comme à l’accoutumée. J’étais émerveillée par sa puissance, sa numinosité ! Elle ne pouvait illustrer que l’extraordinaire. Je n’avais pas alors réellement noté que le photographe était ukrainien ! Je ne sais rien du projet de l’artiste dans la réalisation de ce cliché datant de 2018. Je lui dit ma gratitude. C’est cette photographie qui m’est aussitôt revenue à l’esprit en m’inscrivant au deuxième webinar WUJ du 21 Février 2023. Peu à peu sont venus à ma conscience les archétypes qu’elle avait activés. Au delà de l’extraordinaire réussite de ce cliché et de sa qualité d’œuvre d’art, l’image suscite une forte impression par sa profondeur. Elle évoque l’amour aux prises avec l’obscurité mais également le féminin partiellement ensevelie par la part de noirceur du monde. Le monde lorsqu’il est arc-bouté dans l’opposition à son extrême. C’est une illustration de la lumière qui s’élève dans la nuit à chaque moment de guerre et de désastre. Par une extraordinaire synchronicité, est venue s’y adjoindre la proximité de la Saint-Valentin fête qui traverse les siècles depuis le Moyen-Age et qui éclaire le mois de Février. L’invasion de l’Ukraine il y a un an a surgi dans ce moment si particulier. Le webinar sur le soin des âmes est placé sur ce mois un an plus tard ! C’est face au malheur des temps qu’émerge au XIVe siècle en France et en Angleterre un véritable mode poétique, le poème courtois . C’est un poème qui naît au cœur de l’hiver et en pleine guerre de Cent Ans ! En temps de menace, poésie, fiction et images symboliques soudent la communauté et pansent les maladies de l’âme. Pour faire front à l’épidémie de peste noire qui frappe Florence en 1348 l’échange de contes et de poèmes sera de même destiné à faire front face à l’épidémie. Liée à l’amour, la « Valentine » s’inscrit dans une histoire tout autant personnelle que socio-politique. La poétique/politique de l’échange possède une grande puissance d’appel. Le site d’images et de textes #WUJ Gallery au sein des « WithUkrainianJungian webinar series » est un espace qui, à l’instar de la cour d’Angleterre puis de celle de France au XIVe siècle, établit une « cour amoureuse », un espace des liens de l’esprit et de communion des âmes avec pour objectif de maintenir la joie et l’espérance dans un moment où l’Ukraine est dévastée par la guerre, dans un moment où notre corps européen et le monde dans son unité et son ensemble est ébranlé par des forces contraires, violemment opposées et antagonistes. Je suis profondément heureuse et émue d’avoir l’opportunité de participer à l’espace WUJ Gallery. Profondément touchée par le rapprochement des Jungiens du monde entier rejoignant la communauté jungienne Ukrainienne au sein d’un groupe ouvert, bienveillant et créateur. Puissent les Ukrainiens et les Ukrainiennes y puiser force d’âme et espérance. Sous la main recouvrant les yeux, tant de villes d’Ukraine, les maisons, la solitude de tant d’êtres, les couples, la beauté des femmes et des fleurs, l’élan de la jeunesse, le gazouillis des enfants, le bruissement des jardins, les jeux joyeux de l’enfance et de l’amour, ainsi que les échanges, les soins, la quintessence de l’intime, toute cette puissance de vie creusant inlassablement un passage sous le permanent couvre-feu. Enseveli mais ni éteint ni coupé du reste du monde. Si l’humanité ne coopérait pas plus qu’elle n’entre en conflit, nous ne serions pas parvenus à ce degré de civilisation internationale. Oui Pablo c’est de cela qu’il faut parler inlassablement. De ce principe de coopération qui est le principe directeur de l’évolution. J’ai l’espoir que le choix de cette photographie et des paroles qui l’accompagnent seront source d’associations en échos. Je réponds à l’invitation magnifique de Pavlo Vishebaba « Please dont write to me about the war, Tell me if there is a garden near to you ». Nous espérons ensemble l’accomplissement de cet acte céleste soutenant les actions humaines qui vient à terme équilibrer les forces opposées. Nous tenons et nous nous soutenons en fabriquant des jardins de paroles et d’images symboliques qui éclairent le cœur. C’est de ce jardin de l’équilibre éternel des forces antagonistes dont parle la photographie d’Alexander Krivitskyi. Oui il y a un jardin près de moi. Comment survivre à la part âpre de l’existence sans ce jardin. Il a sa contrepartie à l’intérieur de nous. Il est l’étoile qui nous permet de traverser les nuits sans astres visibles. Il est la beauté du monde. Comme la Valentine de la Guerre de cent ans, puisse cette lettre-poème, éclairer votre cœur Pablo ainsi que la déchirure dans le cœur de tous les psychanalystes ukrainiens soignant la déchirure au cœur de leur pays. "…………………………. ………………………………………………………………… «  Are shrouded in darkness,the cities of Ukraine, the daily lives of women, homes, young people, children, flower gardens. The exchanges, the gentle care, the quintessence of intimacy, the garden of loves are found under fire and curfew. Who can stare unblinkingly at the energy of fire when it is used to violate the world? The gaze turns inward to see. The gaze of the soul to welcome intuition. You don't have to look at the darkness to see it. All is known deep within the human psyche of this devastation. All the cells of our skin know everything about it. The woman in the photograph is on edge. Aphrodite grapples with the darkness of the night of the soul. "Clair de femme" according to the moving evocation of Romain Gary.The woman in the image illuminates the space.The feminine of the world sheds light. In the appalling growth of the dark side it is the resolution of the "complexio oppositorum" that also grows. The unavoidable complementarity of opposites is in painful nigredo gestation.Illustration of a vibrant world in the disaster of conflict where the luminous part dazzles with its miraculous and invincible presence. I discovered this photograph in 2018 on a site where photographers from all over the world offer their images free of rights. I saved this image. I did not illustrate it for a publication as usual. I was amazed by its power! She could only illustrate the extraordinary. I hadn't really noticed either that the photographer was Ukrainian! I don't know anything about the artist's project in the realization of this shot. I tell him my gratitude. It was this photograph that came to mind when I registered for the second WUJ webinar on February 21, 2023. Little by little came to my consciousness the archetype she had activated deep within me. Beyond the extraordinary success of this shot and its quality as a work of art, the image impresses with its depth. It evokes love struggling with darkness but also the feminine partially buried by the part of darkness of the world braced in opposition to its extreme. It is an illustration of the light that rises in the night at every moment of war and disaster. By an extraordinary synchronicity, the proximity of Saint Valentine's Day has been added to it, a celebration that has spanned the centuries since the Middle Ages and which lights up the month of February. The invasion of Ukraine arose at this very special moment. It was in the face of the misfortune of the times that a veritable poetic mode emerged in France and England in the 14th century, the « poème courtois ». It is a poem that was born in the heart of winter and in the midst of the Hundred Years War! In times of threat, poetry, fiction and symbolic images unite the community and heal the illnesses of the soul. To face the epidemic of black plague which strikes Florence in 1348 the exchange of tales and poems will likewise be intended to face the epidemic. Linked to love, the "Valentine" is part of a personal and socio-political history. The poetics/politics of exchange has great power of appeal. The #WUJ Gallery image and text site within the "WithUkrainianJungian webinar series" is a space which, like the court of England and then that of France in the 14th century, establishes a "love court", a space of bonds of spirit and communion of souls with the aim of maintaining deep joy at a time when Ukraine is devastated by war and when our European body and the world in its unity and as a whole is shaken by opposing forces, violently opposed and antagonistic. I am deeply happy to participate in this space of the gift of the heart. Deeply touched by the gathering of Jungians from all over the world, bringing together Ukrainian Jungians in a large caring community. May Ukrainian men and women draw strength and hope from it. Hand over eyes that will always signify the calm of dread before the Thousand Year War, we turn our gaze inward, to see you. You are immersed in the rigor of darkness as in the left part of this image that we have all visited for thousands of years. Under the hand covering the eyes, so many cities of Ukraine, the houses, the loneliness of beings, the couples, the beauty of women and flowers, the rush of youth, the chirping of children, the rustling of gardens, the joyful games of childhood and love, as well as exchanges, care, the quintessence of intimacy, all this power of life tirelessly digging a passage under the permanent curfew. Buried but not extinguished.A vibrant world in the disaster of conflict where the luminous part dazzles with its miraculous and invincible presence. Yes Pablo, that's what we have to talk about tirelessly. I hope that the choice of this photograph and the words that accompany it will not offend anyone. I respond to the magnificent invitation of Pavlo Vishebaba "Please dont write to me about the war, Tell me if there is a garden near to you" We wait together for the accomplishment of this celestial act supporting human actions which ultimately balances the opposing forces. We hold and sustain each other by making gardens of words that enlighten the heart. It is this garden of the eternal balance of antagonistic forces that Alexander's photograph speaks of. Yes there is a garden near me. How to cross the harsh part of existence without this garden. It has its counterpart deep within me. He is the Star that allows us to cross the nights without visible stars. He is the beauty of the world. Like the Valentine of the Hundred Years War, may this letter-poem enlighten your heart Pablo as well as the tear in the heart of all Ukrainian psychoanalysts. Geneviève Estève Herment Toulouse France 14 Février 2023 February 14th 2023

Creator/source/творець/джерело: n/a

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Обставини: обставини достовірно не відомі. Малюнок був представлений психологом на супервізійній грапі підтримки для психологів, які проводили кризове консультування з постраждалими, яких звільнили з окупованих територій.  Circumstances: the circumstances are not reliably known.  The picture was presented by a psychologist at a supervision support group for psychologists who conducted crisis counseling with victims who were released from the occupied territories.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: n/a

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Manuscript illustration, unknown source, public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurukshetra.jpg

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Mahabharata is one of the two ancient epics of India, one of the oldest in the world and also one of the longest epics ever written.It portrays an apocalyptic war and the deep fissures and conflicts within the Kuru dynasty that led to the war. Composed more than three millenniums ago, its themes continue to surface in contemporary events. Description of weapons and battle-strategies form many chapters of the epic, and several millenniums later tell us about the archetypal basis of the human psyche.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: The end of the battle of Kurukshetra signified transition into a new Yuga or age, but this passage to a new time included tragic loss and annihilation of lives and profound suffering and anguish. The colour red dominates the image and suggests large-scale violence and bloodshed, and the many deaths that occurred on the battle-field - evocative of the current Ukrainian crisis. The end of Kurukshetra battle was announced by Krishna, through a blowing of the sacred conch-shell, that signified a shift in consciousness.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: Unknown origin

Creator/source/творець/джерело: 10-15 березня жінка 30 років. March 10-15, 30-year-old woman.

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Обставини: жінка була у Чернігові під час окупації.  Чернігів сильно бомбили та йшли активні бої у місті.  Їй вдалося досить швидко евакуюватись, у Чернігові вона була під обстрілами тиждень.  Circumstances: the woman was in Chernihiv during the occupation.  Chernihiv was heavily bombed and there was active fighting in the city.  She managed to evacuate quickly enough, in Chernihiv she was under fire for a week.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Сон: уривок сну, що місто Чернігів горить у вогні від вибухів, купи диму та пилу поглинають місто.  Улюблене місто схоже на один великий вибух, як ядерний гриб.  І з'являється вертоліт.  Не зрозумію це вертоліт рятуватиме нас або бомбардуватиме.  Сон наснився напередодні увечері, вночі волонтерам вдалося евакуювати цю жінку та її родину.  Жінка сказала: «Що зрозуміла сон.  Вертоліт прилетів рятувати!»  Вона була врятована та вивезена на безпечну територію.  Dream: a fragment of a dream that the city of Chernihiv is on fire from explosions, piles of smoke and dust engulf the city.  The beloved city looks like one big explosion, like a nuclear mushroom.  And a helicopter appears.  I don't understand whether the helicopter will save us or bomb us.   The dream came the night before, volunteers managed to evacuate this woman and her family at night.   The woman said: "I understood the dream.  The helicopter came to rescue!"  She was rescued and taken to a safe area.

Comment/коментар: Коментар: Навколо пожежі як символ того, що все палає, війна, небезпека.  Якщо це пожежний вертоліт, то є надія на порятунок, рішення, можливість вилетіти з небезпечного місця.  Це може бути про ресурс, який прийде з неба як символ віри у вищі сили. Comment: Around the fire as a symbol of the fact that everything is burning, war, danger.   If it is a fire helicopter, then there is hope for rescue, a solution, an opportunity to take off from a dangerous place.  It can be about a resource that will come from heaven as a symbol of faith in higher powers.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: March 5-7, 2022, a 35-year-old woman/5-7 березня 2022, жінка 35 років

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Обставини: жінка перебувала у Києві під час обстрілу Києва, коли з 24 лютого у перші тижні російська армія намагалася прорвати оборону Києва.  Київ був перші три тижні під постійним обстрілом та загрозою прориву російських танків та армії.  У районі Оболоні один російський танк зміг в'їхати до міста, й був знищений.  Жінка жила у районі Оболонь. Circumstances: the woman was in Kyiv during the shelling of Kyiv, when the Russian army tried to break through Kyiv's defenses in the first weeks of February 24.  For the first three weeks, Kyiv was under constant shelling and the threat of a breakthrough by Russian tanks and the army.  In the Oboloni district, one Russian tank was able to enter the city and was destroyed.  The woman lived in the Obolon district.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Опис сну: “В одному зі снів жінка зітнулася з танком, він був прямо напроти, навів дуло в серце. Жінка бачила смерть в упор і в цей момент відчула, що її врятує вишиванка (це український національний одяг), вона розчахнула пальто, під яким була вишиванка, - танк зупинився. Як вона сказала: “Його зупинила українська ідентичність!”.   Dream: “In one of her dreams, a woman faced a tank, it was right in front of her, pointing its barrel at her heart. The woman saw death point-blank, and at that moment she felt that she would be saved by her vyshyvanka (an embroidered shirt, the Ukrainian national clothing), she opened her coat under which she wore the vyshyvanka, and the tank stopped. As she said: “The Ukrainian identity stopped it!"

Comment/коментар: Мої коментарі : «Вишиванка несе сакральний смисл українського роду, код нації, силу предків, які голкою з ниткою вишивали символи землі, захисту й свободи. Моє відчуття - що моя країна Україна, як ця жінка, зустріла цей ганебний напад чимось набагато сильнішим, ніж залізна зброя, вона протиставила щось символічне: цінності, ідентичність, саму правду, любов і стійкість».  Comment: A vyshyvanka bears the sacred meaning of the Ukrainian genus, the code of the nation, the power of ancestors who embroidered the symbols of the land, protection, and freedom with a needle and thread. I feel that my country, Ukraine, like the woman, countered this shameful attack with something much stronger than iron weapons, she contested it with something symbolic: values, identity, truth itself, love, and resilience.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Jan Malaszek

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: One of a series of paintings by Jan of the early days of the war in 2022

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Light masking Shadow which is left for the observers imagination

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2/2/23

Comment/коментар: Jan is a Ukrainian/English artist and tutor

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Myself

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: U.K. Christian / secular

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Darkness, extreme tension, the hope of resolution

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2022 after Putin invaded Ukraine

Comment/коментар: traumatic reverberations around the Western globe

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Kazimir Malevich

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: At the time when it was inaugurated it shocked the art world. Kazimir attempts to free art from the ballast of objectivity. He took refuge in the square form, letting feeling fly free through the non-objective. Through it he brings a new representation of the world of feeling.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Likewise when overwhelmed with trauma we have to find new ways of expressing the inexpressible such as is the case with synchronicity and art. As we look in darkness we await the light to come through the cracks.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 1915

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Unknown

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Winter Lights" Canary Wharf, London .

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Beetle, and tree symbolism in Jungs Red Book

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 1/27/2023

Creator/source/творець/джерело: Dr. Beatriz Ledesma

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: In thinking about Ukraine and the ongoing war taking place there, I reflect on the human spirit and its resilience as well as how fragile life can be like pages of a book tossed into the wind.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Lizards are associated with change and with adaptability. They are symbols of success, health, and healing.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2022

Creator/source/творець/джерело: unknown

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Embroidered towel (rushnyk) and vyshyvanka occupy a special place in Ukraine.  Towels (rushnyk) are a symbol of Ukraine, a reflection of the cultural memory of the people, their patterns preserve ancient magical signs, images of the "tree of life", the symbolism of the color red.  Vyshyvanka carries the sacred meaning of the Ukrainian family, the code of the nation, the power of ancestors, symbols of the land, protection and freedom. Культурней контекст: Вишитий рушник та вишиванка  в Україні посідає особливе місце. Рушники — це символ України, відбиття культурної пам’яті народу, в їх узорах збереглися прадавні магічні знаки, образи «дерева життя», символіка червоного кольору. Вишиванка несе сакральний смисл українського роду, код нації, силу предків, символи землі, захисту й свободи.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Archetypal associations: Shroud, talisman and symbol of Ukrainian identity. Архетипові асоціації:  плащаниця, оберіг й символ української ідентичності.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: unknown

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Kintsugi is a Japanese art form of repairing broken objects, especially pottery using gold to mend the cracks and this creating luminescence and greater value through repair than was original present.

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Wounded healer.

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: 2022

Comment/коментар: Colors in honor of the Ukrainian flag; vision of wholeness for the future.

Creator/source/творець/джерело: David Mumford, Caroline Senies, and David Wright, Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein

Cultural Context/культурний контекст: Spontaneous emergence of the pattern in a mathematics computation

Archetypal association/архетипна асоціація: Indra's Net--the interconnectedness of everything

Date/period of image or audio/Дата/період зображення чи аудіо: early 2000

Comment/коментар: This image was used for the cover of the book from my Fay Lectures on Synchronicity (Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe)