The word “vow” conjures images of two adults promising to love and cherish each other for better and for worse. Yet accompanying every spoken vow is an unspoken shadow vow that arises out of partly-conscious assumptions and needs, desires and fantasies. Both vows and shadow vows actively shape the persons’ lives because profound relationship is where activated complexes come home and individuation gets real.
In this presentation and discussion we will explore how the places where we live, the things of the world, and the world itself show up inside our complexes, moods, and dreams, and how internal dynamics reflect occurrences all around us.
Questions we will tend include: How can we transform eco-anxiety? Which myths and archetypes inhabit the places where we live and come from? How do they intertwine with our own deep story? What lost
Earth-honoring wisdom tradition now returns in collective consciousness? What insights does it offer today?
The May 7th Zoom session will run 6:30-8:30pm with no break.REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS SO THAT ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE SENT.
Once Upon a Time…
Why Jungians Read Fairy Tales
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”—Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
The April 2nd Zoom session will run 6:30-8:30pm with no break.REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS SO THAT ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE SENT.
Once Upon a Time…
Why Jungians Read Fairy Tales
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”—Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
The March 5th Zoom session will run 6:30-8:30pm with no break.REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS SO THAT ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE SENT.
Once Upon a Time…
Why Jungians Read Fairy Tales
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”—Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
The February 5th Zoom session will run 6:30-8:30pm with no break.REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS SO THAT ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE SENT.
Once Upon a Time…
Why Jungians Read Fairy Tales
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”—Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
How do we get to the heart of the matter in psychotherapy? How do we avoid falling for one trap/distraction after another? How can a therapist develop the art of “presiding” (Meltzer) over a creative process grounded in the transference? How can a therapist help to illuminate the feelings emerging within the patient’s dreamlife?
The concepts of anima and animus are integral to Jungian thought—yet they remain elusive. As Carl Jung himself said, “No philosopher in his senses would invent such irrational and clumsy ideas.” Jung’s intuition, as so the case, was ahead of the knowledge available to him; his own cultural biases and ignorance of what we now know about brain function led to inadequate definitions of the terms that, a century later, are still fuel for contentious disagreement.
Typology is a means of identifying variable forms of psychic energy. Four functions are generally recognized: sensation, feeling, thinking, and intuition. While each is discussed as being distinct in itself, these functions are related along a continuous line, and are separated (identified) by “differentiation.” Differentiation separates one function from another, and the function itself to a further degree. In individual psychology differentiation occurs most frequently in the dominant function, and least frequently in the inferior function.
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”— Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37. Please join us for the January session study and discussion of fairy tales. Bring your imagination and sense of wonder. Suggested reading: "The Interpretation of Fairy Tales," Marie-Louise von Franz.
The selected fairy tale link and Zoom meeting instructions will be sent to registered participants no later than 4:00 pm on January 8th.