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Active Imagination and the Visions Seminar

May 16, 2003 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT

lecture:

C.G.Jung described active imagination as “the creative secret of the mind” where –through visioning, dance and /or art work–consciousness and the unconscious work together in a profoundly healing way. The VISIONS SEMINAR is Jung’s great exploration of active imagination as a potent methodology for expanding the psyche and reuniting the patient with archetypal, healing images that lie beneath personal complexes. The active imagination in the VISIONS SEMINAR also expresses one woman’s quest for healing engendered by transformative, passionate feminine images –images flowering in many people’s psyches’ today.

Jung’s 1930’s seminars were based on active imaginations painted and recorded by Christiana Morgan, a gifted young woman from New England who had been in analysis with him. In the course of her research, Dr. Douglas discovered Morgan’s complete series of visions which link the chthonic, dynamic, and erotic feminine with the Divine.

Through slides and lecture, Dr. Douglas will explore the historical background of active imagination. She will examine the VISIONS SEMINARS relevance in the creation of Jungian theory, especially of active
imagination, anima and animus, typology, and the psychology of women.

Related Workshop: Active Imagination: A Quest for Transformation

Claire Douglas, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a training and supervisory analyst member of the C.G.Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Besides numerous articles and book chapters, she is the author of Translate This Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan,(Princeton University Press, 1997), The Woman in the Mirror: Analytical Psychology and the Feminine, (backinprint.com 2000) and is the editor of C.G.Jung’s “The Vision Seminar” (Bollingen Editions 1997). Her article “In Homage to the Feminine Self” is in the latest issue of The San Franscisco Jung Institute Library Journal. She is presently working on a book on revisioning the mother archetype, to be published in 2004. Dr. Douglas’ analytic practice is in Malibu.

Details

Date:
May 16, 2003
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
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Venue

First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall
1838 SW Jefferson Street
Portland, OR 97201 United States
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We offer Continuing Education Credit through NASW. The fee for lecture CEU credit is $5 for 2 hours. To obtain CEU credit, add the CEU to your shopping cart when registering..
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