Roula-Maria Dib is an award-winning literary scholar, author, poet, and editor whose research interests include literature, creative writing, and Jungian psychology. She is the winner of the 2021-2022 British Council’s Alumni Awards for culture and creativity and a recipient of the AUD Provost’s Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement. Her book, Jungian Metaphor in Modernist Literature was shortlisted as a finalist for the International Association for Jungian Studies book awards, and some poems from her collection, Simply Being have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Roula-Maria is also the founding editor of literary and arts journal, Indelible, and creative producer of literary event series, Indelible Evenings, as well as Psychreative, a virtual salon for researchers, artists, and writers with a background in Jungian psychology. I truly enjoyed my conversation with Roula and I hope you do as well.
In our conversation we discussed universalities, archetypes, inherited images, personal psychology, literal modes of thinking, Virginia Woolf, Carl Jung, depth psychology, dreams, the unconscious, images versus words, the language of the psyche, Michael Meade, psyche, making sense, feelings, fear, love, death and rebirth, literalism, hope, metaphor, Susan Rowland, understanding abstract art, Greek Orthodoxy, symbols, the COVID pandemic, modernism, the modernist period, Dubai, nature, conversation, poetry, dream journals, creating our reality, ekphrasis, active imagination, Van Ghogh, Claud Monet, James Joyce, alchemy, the third thing, mythos, resurrection, the new world, Adonis, poppy flowers, cocoons, icons, transformation, art, chanting, Byzantine, spirituality versus religion, George Orwell, Indelible, and communities of creatives.
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