Sulagna Sengupta https://jung-india.org

Biography

Sulagna Sengupta is a Jungian scholar, author and lecturer based in Bangalore, India. Sulagna completed her graduate studies from Tagores world university Visvabharathi and her postgraduate studies from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. Her research internship was in social and anthropological studies in an Indo-Dutch project on gender and poverty in the squatter settlements of Delhi, India. She began her career in the non-profit sector, working in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka on human development interventions in research, training and policy initiatives. Sulagna has consulted for Dutch, German, Danish and Swiss bilateral agencies in India for over a decade in her first career. Working in all the major Indian states with disadvantaged rural and urban communities in multiple Indian languages, Sulagna has extensive exposure and knowledge of social communities in India, rural economies, livelihoods and cultural histories. She has several years of experience in field-based research and also in archival research and history. In 2004, Sulagna transitioned to her second career through training in Group Relations Method at the Leicester conferences of Tavistock, UK and through experience of human process labs. In 2005, she entered analysis (Jungian) and branched out as an independent scholar in Jungian Studies. Her first book, Jung in India published by Spring Journal Books, USA was based on original archival research of Jungs history with India spanning over three decades. Sulagna has researched in all major archives in India, at the Jung archives in ETH and at The Psychology Club (Zurich), at the Jung archives in The Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard, USA and at the Joseph Campbell archives at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA. She has lectured at Jung institutes in Zurich, Boston, South Africa, Brazil and Pacifica. Sulagna is a member of the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS). She is also a member of the editorial board of International Journal of Jungian Studies (IJJS) and also regularly reviews articles for other Jung journals. Publications: Book: Sengupta, S, (2013). Jung in India, Spring Journal Books, New Orleans, USA Sengupta, S. (2023). Animus, Psyche and Culture: A Jungian Revision, Routledge, U.K. Papers: Sengupta, S. (2013). Samudra Manthan: Reflections on an Ancient Indian Myth, Jung and India, Spring Journal, Fall edition, New Orleans, USA. Sengupta, S. (2017). Paramapada Sopanam: The Divine Game of Rebirth & Renewal in Elizabeth Broderson & Michael Clock (edited) Jungian Perspectives on Rebirth & Renewal, Routledge, UK. Sengupta, S. (2020). Cultural Other in Jung's India, International Journal of Jungian Studies (IJJS), Volume 12, Issue1: Special Issue: Indeterminate States: Transcultural, Transracial, Transgender, Brill, Netherlands. Sengupta, S. (2020). Earth, Ecology and the Feminine in Leslie Gardner & Catriona Miller (edited) Exploring Depth Psychology and the Female Self, Routledge, UK. Sengupta, S. (2021). Katabasis in an Ancient Indian Myth in 'Descent of the Soul: Katabsais and Depth Psychology', edited by Paul Bishop, Terence Dawson & Leslie Gardner. Sengupta, S. 2024. Carl Gustav Jung and India: More than a Hundred Years Later in Cahiers jungiens de psychanalyse, Publisher : Les Cahiers jungiens de psychoanalyse, France. Conferences & seminars: 2014 - IAJS annual conference at Phoenix, Arizona, USA 2018 - Feminist Views From Somewhere, London, UK 2018 - IAJS-IAAP Tri-annual Jungian conference at Frankfurt University, Germany 2019 - Classics conference on Katabasis, London, UK 2020 - Freedom Day, Global Edition - online Jungian international conference, Brazil 2021- IAJS international online seminar on Animus 2021- 'From Agon to Agonistics', Classics conference, London, UK. 2021 - Mythos: Myth & Metamorphosis, online course, South Africa See website for all current talks and publications. Sulagna currently offers lectures and consultancy inputs on Jung and India, Culture and Psyche, Transcultural psychology, Interpreting cultural narratives, Dreams.

Qualifications

• M.A. (English) Jadavpur University, India (1990)

• B.A. (Honours) English, Philosophy Vishwabharati, Santiniketan, India (1987)

• Jungian Diploma India Jung Center, Bangalore (2010)

• Certificate of Professional development, Jungian and Post-Jungian Clinical Concepts The Center of Applied Jungian Studies, South Africa (2021)