Ensoulment is an encounter with young filmmaker Lorís Simón Salum as she struggles to explain the feminine, according to psychologist Carl Jung’s theories. She interviews authors and leaders including Dr. James Hollis, Dr. Abigail Disney, Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, Dr. Cynthia Eller and Dr. Anne Fausto-Sterling, amongst others, to broaden her perspective about what the feminine is and how it takes place in Western culture. What starts out as an attempt to make a film, ends in a search of meaning, belonging and the path back to her true self.
About the Author: Lorís Simón Salum
Lorís Simón Salum (Mexico City, 1988) graduated from Rice University with a BA in Psychology. Shortly after, she joined Literal Magazine where she wrote, directed and co-produced the documentary feature, Ensoulment: A Diverse Analysis of the Feminine in Western Culture. After numerous awards and worldwide screenings, Lorís compiled the full interviews from the film, in addition to new ones, and created the anthology Ensoulment: An Exploration of the Feminine in Western Culture which was published by Chiron Publications in 2017. Lorís continued working with Literal and founded the organization's own international short film festival, Literally Short Film Festival. In 2016 she earned a Business Certification from Columbia University in New York City. Currently Lorís works as director and programmer at Literally Short; she enjoys chocolate, movies, and deeply believes that dogs are people too.
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"Armed with a growing sense of the feminine, I realized that the principle encompasses all those qualities that Western culture has come to relate to women. The way we think about women is incredibly entangled with the concept of the feminine...What I was really after was not the female gender, but a matter of the soul, the impalpable. I was trying to point to the things that were being overlooked in our society, trampled over and dismissed as 'unimportant' or 'hobbies.' I wasn't looking for women, but for the nameless, the category-less, and the purely emblematic notion of the womb: that capacity to recognize, nurture and bring to life. I was looking for the symbolism of a life cycle taken into the psyche and applied to each and every quality residing in the mind and soul. This was what was being devalued. This was what I was fighting for."
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Book Author
Lorís Simón Salum
Publisher
Chiron Publications
Language
English
ISBN
978-1630513894
Pages
322
Format
Paperback
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