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Dance/Movement and the Underworld Trinity: Feminine, Body, Shadow
May 17, 1985 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
I move,’ is the clear knowledge that I personally, am moving. The opposite of this is the sudden and astonishing moment when ‘I am moved.’ It is a moment when the ego gives up control, stops exerting demands, allowing the Self to take over moving the physical body as it will. It is a moment of unpremeditated surrender that cannot be explained, replicated exactly, sought for or tried out.
Mary Starks Whitehouse
This lecture will introduce an approach to movement that was originally developed by Mary Whitehouse. Sometimes called “authentic movement” or “movement in depth,” it involved a mover, a witness, and their relationship.
If possible, read in advance; “Dance/Movement and Body Experience in Analysis”, a chapter by Joan Chodorow in Jungian Analysis, edited by Murray Stein. La Salle: Open Court Publishing Co., 1982.
Related Workshop: To Move and Be Moved
Joan Chodorow, Ph.D. is an analyst and faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. Publications include Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology – The Moving Imagination (Routledge 1991), C. G. Jung on Active Imagination (Princeton University Press, 1997), and the forthcoming Active Imagination: Healing from Within (TAMU Press). She lectures and teaches internationally as well as closer to home.