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Changing Relation Fantasies as Releasing Point in the Partnership
October 17, 1986 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
Our relationships are based on how we imagine a relationship – and our imaginations are most lively when we are in love. In our fantasies it is not only evident what our partners could mean for us, but we also imagine what can be loved in us.
Couples of gods-such as Shiva and Shakti, Ishtar and Tammuz, Zeus and Hera, Merlin and Viviane as well as Shulamit and Salome each symbolize a strange kind of love relationship, be this a symbiosis, a mother-son relationship, a controversial marriage, the relationship of elder man to young girl or the nowadays especially fascinating relationship of “brotherman” and “sisterwoman”. Crises in relationship often grow as our archetypal relation fantasies change.
Related Workshop: A Workshop on Fairy Tales
Verena Kast, Ph.D., former Professor of Psychology at the University of Zurich, is a training analyst, supervisor and lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Küsnacht and president of the Curatorium. Her numerous books include:The Dynamics of Symbols; Father-Daughter, Mother-Son;Freeing Ourselves from the Complexes that Bind Us (Element, Dorset).
