02/06/2026
We are pleased to announce an exciting new speaker, presenting a timely topic on February 20th, 6-8 PM (Pacific) live, via Zoom
Title: "We Think with our Hearts: Reading Jung Through Native Eyes" will be held via Zoom on February 20, 2026, 6-8:00 PM
Tickets on sale now on our website:
https://www.comoxjung.com/events/p/jeanne-lacourt-jung-talk-feb20-2026
“Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth” ~ Jung, 1973, p. 252
Jeanne Lacourt, M.S., L.P.C., N.C.C., Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice and a Professor of American Indian Studies at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. She is most intrigued with the theme of human-animal transformation in Indigenous origin stories. Her home community is with the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.
Dr. Lacourt has co-presented with authors such as the late Jerome Bernstein on topics of reciprocity, Jung and Indigenous Native Spiritualities, and continues to focus on bridging and integrating Indigenous and Jungian Studies.
She presents nationwide and has published articles in Spring and Native journals, authored a book on Indigenous education, and a chapter, “Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Birthing Symbolic Life,” in the book Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth and Renewal (2016, Routledge).
As we learned in our November lecture with Allan Vonkeman, Jung in his travels around the world, often wrote about his encounters with Native cultures. As a Jungian scholar and professor of Indigenous studies, Jeanne Lacourt is well situated to review how some of Jung’s ideas have (mis)represented Native cultures. Two psychic paradigms - dominion and reciprocity - will point to important differences between Indigenous and Western cosmologies and how the former may offer a path away from our current trend toward self-destruction.