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The Verdant Ones: Figures of Green Men and Green Women as They Appear in Folklore, Mythology, Fairytales, and Clinical Work
September 22, 1995 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm PDT
Human life processes are green, in the sense of developing their inherent potential in slow, difficult, and at first incomprehensible ways. Yet, it seems that these processes are guided by green or verdant figures who always appear at crucial points of a therapeutic process. What do these figures really represent? Are they symbols of transformation? Are they personifications of the individuation process? Or, given their green color, are they symbols for our “nature within,” of what helps us become what we are, of what was constellated in us from the beginning?
The lecture will include slides.
Related Lecture: The Potential for Self-Regulation of the Psyche as It Shows in Dreams, Pictures and Sandplay
Ruth Ammann is a native of Zurich, a Jungian analyst in that city, and a practicing architect. She is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Kusnacht, where she is now a lecturer and training analyst. She studied with Dora Kalff, the pioneer of therapeutic sandplay, and is a member of the international Society for Sandplay Therapy. She is the author of Healing and Transformation in Sandplay – Creative Processes Become Visible, and The House in Dreams, forthcoming in English.