This lecture will look at the nature of the emotions as they have evolved and continue to develop, from the primal, untransformed depths toward the highest values of human culture. The tendency in recent decades toward deconstruction of values may potentiate a compensatory development as individuals in many walks of life seek a differentiated experience of affects and their symbolic expression, shaped by eternal ideals that appear to be wired into the psyche.  Lecture includes slides to illustrate.

Related Workshop: Active Imagination and the Living Body

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.