Sheila Kunkle is Associate Professor in the College of Individualized Studies at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.  She is editor of the collection Cinematic Cuts: Theorizing Film Endings (2016) as well co-editor, along with Todd McGowan, of Lacan and Contemporary Film (2004).  She has authored numerous essays and contributing chapters on psychoanalysis and film, including: “Women Between Worlds: A Psychoanalysis of Sex in Blade Runner 2049” in Lacanian Perspectives on ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (2021), “Female Fight Club,” in Lars von Trier’s Women (2017), “Parasite and the Parallax of Social Relations under Capitalism” in Crisis and Critique (2020), and “Against Limits: Deleuze, Lacan, and the Possibility of Love,” in Psychoanalyzing Cinema (2012).  She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Woman in Film.

Stephen Farah, MA, is the co-founder and head of learning and research at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies South Africa. He is an executive member of the International Association of Jungian Studies. Stephen holds an honours degree in analytical philosophy from the University of the Witwatersrand and a Master’s degree in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies from the University of Essex. Stephen’s areas of interest include psychoanalysis, film, the philosophy of language, consciousness, individuation and the simulation hypothesis. His paper ‘True detective and Jung’s four steps of transformation’ was published in The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies. He is currently compiling and editing (with co-editor Marybeth Carter) an anthology of papers for ‘The Specter of the Other: crises and opportunity‘.

Professor Megumi Yama is a professor of clinical psychology and depth psychology at Kyoto University of Advanced Science. She is also engaged in clinical work as a psychotherapist based on Jungian principles. She was educated in clinical psychology at Kyoto University under Professor Hayao Kawai, where she received her PhD. Her interest is in images and words—what takes place in the invisible silence. She deals with this theme by exploring clinical materials, formative art, myth, literature, and Japanese culture. She has written many articles and books, including translations. Her recent articles in English are “Ego Consciousness in the Japanese Psyche: Culture, Myth and Disaster,” in the Journal of Analytical Psychology 58 (2013), and “The Artist’s Experience of Formative Work: Japanese Painter Yasuo Kazuki and his Siberian Series,” in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 4 (2010).

Kevin Lu is the Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and a member of Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kevin’s publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history, Arnold J. Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, racial hybridity, and Jungian perspectives on graphic novels and their adaptation to film.

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