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The Symbolic Life, Preparation and Practice
April 8, 2006 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
On Saturday, Dr. Stein will give an overview of the methods for pursuing the symbolic life, i.e., the individuation process. This will include Jung’s dream hermeneutic and the method of active imagination. He will give comments on the historical background of this work, the method of active imagination as used in analysis, and how to do active imagination, with exercises.
Related Lecture: The Opus of Individuation
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a training Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. He is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society for Jungian Analysts (USA) and the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology from 2001 to 2004. He has written several books, including Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, In MidLife, Transformation – Emergence of the Self, and Jung’s Map of the Soul. He is the editor of Jungian Analysis (Open Court), and a publisher (Chiron Publications), where he has edited the Chiron Clinical Series.