“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 very popular fairy tale discussion group continues this fall!
Please join us for a 4-week study and discussion of fairy tales.
This educational series will be co-facilitated by Jungian analysts Suzan Rood Wilson, Stephanie Gierman and James Max Gossett.
A ubiquitous symbol of consciousness and psyche, the image of the eye has made its presence known throughout time in mythology, religious text, literature, and dream analysis. Carl Jung often wrote on the symbolism of the eye and noted its reoccurrence and relevance in the imagination of modern individuals. He argued that through its penetrating gaze, the autonomous Self is asking for nothing less than recognition and redemption.
A ubiquitous symbol of consciousness and psyche, the image of the eye has made its presence known throughout time in mythology, religious text, literature, and dream analysis. Carl Jung often wrote on the symbolism of the eye and noted its reoccurrence and relevance in the imagination of modern individuals. He argued that through its penetrating gaze, the autonomous Self is asking for nothing less than recognition and redemption.
Group complexes litter the psychic landscape and are as easily detonated as the literal landmines that scatter the globe and threaten life – especially young life. Thomas Singer, The Cultural Complex
On Saturday the focus for the workshop will be on the Day of the Dead.
Participants are asked to bring photos and mementos as we will create an “ofrenda,” or altar to our departed love ones as they return to us during this one day of the year. Day of the Dead is a pre-Columbian tradition that has taken root in North American culture.
We will begin the day with a discussion of this sacred ritual with a focus on the work of printmaker and engraver Jose Guadalupe Posada and his profound impact on the art of Dia de los Muertos.
Our workshop focus, will center on areas of discussion in support of developing a deeper understanding and relationship, with ethnic differences in the clinical work. We will explore individual and cultural complexes pertaining to Jungian theory as well as within analytical practice. This exploration is viewed within the context of historical depth psychology principles, and how a Eurocentric theory and practice can and has shown itself within American Jungian clinical work.
The language that we use within ourselves as an aspect of the inner dialogue as well as external dialogue to our members of the collective carries a powerful energy and force that defines us from childhood. The American collective with its multiplicity of ethnic groups have created and used language that has oftentimes been racially divisive, psychologically harmful and served as historical identifiers in ways that have supported racism.
In order for the analyst to listen closely and be moved by the analysand, the analyst must be open, particularly to what is most foreign in the analysand’s discourse. In his previous visit to OPC, Anton Hart presented the concept of “radical openness”, a dispositional stance that involves the analyst’s “taking to heart” the things that the analysand experiences and formulates in relation to the analyst, both familiar and strange, as if there is likely to be truth within them no matter what.
The Tavistock model offers a useful foundational theoretical framework for thinking about the emotionally challenging and complex work with couples. This workshop will offer an overview of some of the central theoretical cornerstones of the theory, including Morgan’s ‘couple state of mind’, the application of Britton’s concept of the “third” as it applies to couples, the structuring role of shared unconscious anxieties and defenses, and how projective identification can be usefully thought of in terms of couple communication. We will think about what constitutes a healthy, funct
This program will consist of two complementary lectures, each followed by discussion with attendees. In the first, “What Goes Around Comes Around: The Place of Dissociation in the Contemporary Theory and Technique of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy,” Dr.