Jungian Architypes living in the world today given at the American Embassy By Glenda: Sofia, Bulgaria – July, 2002

The Story of Oedipus

Iocasta, wife and mother of Oedipus suffers deeply, has longing saying “have I not suffered enough?”
- Gulf war vanguard diplomat
- Where have all the Goddesses gone?
King Laius exiles his baby son Oedipus for fear of him killing the king as prophesy foretells.

Oedipus feels abandoned as a child, this creates great longing and passion in him.

This cycle repeats itself in the abandoning way Oedipus will raise his own children.
- this may be the model that shapes the lives of world leaders, the powerful. (eg powerful fathers that neglect the childhood of their children, creating in the children the desire and longing that fuels great material acheivement).

This is the supremacy of Logos, the imbalance in the world today.

How to look towards rebirth to emerge from the pain and lament of Iocasta, women rise, the rise of Eros to reach a balance?

But the answer is not to replace Oediûs or Laius on the throne with bossy women.

The triangle of distruction:

Liaus at top omnipotent
Iocasta in left bottom corner pain suffering giving victim
Oediûs in lower right hand corner feeling abandoned and longing

Lets turn this pyramid of distruction to a spiral of rebirth.

In therapy, the King Laius has to come to meet the suffering abandoned Oedipus child inside of himself -> that unlocks an ocean of pain most don’t face, preferring the lighter burden of running the world instead

The son and the king are one -> FEAR.


Subject: something you should know about
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 22:28:47 +0300



My dear friends,

I just got a letter from Glenda Cloughley, a dear friend of mine from Australia. Glenda is an Jungian analyst, a very talented singer and a song writer. She came to visit Bulgaria last summer, together with a group of dancers, performing "Dreaming the Deep", a project inspired by the Flood's myth. Glenda alone, presented the lecture "Jocasta's Lament", related to the myth of Oedipus, a wondeful "singing" presentation, including some of the songs she wrote... Believe me,she does KNOW about lamenting and she has a VOICE for it. I would like to forward to you this part of her letter, which is about something you should know about. It's beautifully written, that's why I would rather let her speak.....

Best greetings to you all!

Warmly,
Teodora

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Sweet Teddy

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I have been very busy here in Canberra. As the war in Iraq loomed closer, with Australian Government support, I had a persistent vision of filling Parliament House with the sound of women's lament. Eventually I told a friend about this and she said 'Oh that is such a powerful idea! - you must do something about it.' So that night I wrote some lyrics, and the next day had a sheet of manuscript paper awaiting my composer friend Judy Clingan. Within an hour of her visit 'Lament' was written.

Then we both phoned singing women we knew in Canberra. 20 came the next night for a rehearsal. 40 came two nights after that. We sent the music out by email to others, as I'm doing for you, and taught it it other women on the telephone. And then we gathered in the huge marble foyer inside the Parliament Building at 1pm on Tuesday, 18 March, the day the Prime Minister announced Australia's involvement in the war... only four days after the song was complete. We asked all the women to scatter themselves around so it would be difficult for the security people to ask us to leave. None of us knew everyone who had come and looked among the hundreds of people for friends, but couldn't really tell. Judy stood on one of the great marble staircases and I stood on the other and she sang the first part of the first line: 'Open the doors of the chambers'. 'Of your hearts', I sang from the other. Then there was this amazing, heart-swelling moment of hearing the response of 150 women singing with us! I couldn't sing for a while for tears! The sound was really glorious.

That night we had national news and current affairs coverage on television and radio and some newspaper reports the next day too. Much has happened since and the group seems to have an ongoing life that is very robust and powerful as it makes something that is new and very different to political protest in the usual oppositional sense. We have taken our name, A Chorus of Women, from the description of the national broadcaster's political editor of us in the Parliament. This is a reference to the Chorus in Greek dramas, which comments on event for the citizens and foretells what will happen. New songs are emerging, we're talking about a philosophy meeting in Parliamwent House at which the subjects will be love and wisdom, and great friendships are being established among the women.

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Glenda xxxxxxxxxxxxxx