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The Symbolic Life: Is It a Gift?
September 27 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Two processes go on in us simultaneously from birth till death. The first is a personal process Jung calls individuation where we reach to become all of who we are, including mistakes, struggles, talents, uniqueness and an example of shared human patterns Jung calls archetypes. The second process is the psyche’s goal to move us toward finding not our wholeness but our place in the wholeness of reality. When these two processes meet, symbols get born and grow powerful. We will explore such symbols — their dangers and their gifts.
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Ann Belford Ulanov, M.Div., Ph.D., L.H.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in New York City, Professor Emerita in Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary, member of IAAP, Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, Editorial Advisory Board of Journal of Analytical Psychology. She lectures here and abroad. She is author of many books with her late husband Barry Ulanov, among which are The Envied and the Envying: Cinderella and Her Sisters and The Healing Imagination. She is author of many books of her own including Madness & Creativity; The Psychoid, Soul and Psyche: Piercing Space/Time Barriers; and Back to Basics.
