This lecture will deal with material from the Zofinga lectures given while Jung was still a medical student. It will touch on his early dreams as well as his relationship with Freud.
Season: Fall 1987
Inner and Outer Factors of the Psyche
Dr. Kirsch will lead a clinically oriented workshop on this topic. Time permitting, there will be presentation of some case material and exploration of the use of dreams.
Addiction and Creativity
In this lecture Dr. Leonard will explore the spiritual fire of addictions and the archetype of the Demon-the Demon Lover behind addictions which possess us and the creative Daimon which inspires us to new states of being.
Addiction and Creativity
Dialogue among participants will focus on such archetypes as the Money-Lender, Underground Man, Gambler, Romantic, Trickster, and on dreams, stories and other symbolic material and personal experiences which lead to the Turning Point.
Addiction and Creativity
Dialogue among participants will focus on such archetypes as the Money-Lender, Underground Man, Gambler, Romantic, Trickster, and on dreams, stories and other symbolic material and personal experiences which lead to the Turning Point.
The Emergence of the Feminine in Buddhism and Jungian Psychology
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The Wounded Feeling Function
Thinking brings information, sensation brings contact with the physical world, intuition brings possibilities; but it is the feeling function that brings value, worth, meaning. If this function is wounded, as it is in our Modern Western World, we are left with a way of life deficient in meaning, worth, values. This lecture will examine how the feeling process was wounded and some ways of restoring it to strength and health.
Man as Hero, Woman as Hero
An early definition of a Hero indicates that it is someone who defends the cultural patterns of a society. Man makes this defense by keeping safe the form, structure, law, order, definition of a society. A woman makes an equally valuable and unique defense of a culture by safeguarding love and relationship. We hope to explore these two cultural values, find their parallels and differences. The word Heroine has not been used purposefully so as to avoid the Hollywood connotations of sentimentality so often associated with that word. If the two paths are of equal dignity they must have equally powerful terms.
The Mystic Jung: Toward the Recovery of “Lived” Religious Experience
Jung once commented on the rich and unusual spiritual heritage we have on this continent as inheritors of European, Black, and Native American psyche. As a clergyperson, analyst, and student of Native American spirituality, Dr. Gibson will suggest something of the centrality of a recovered and invigorated mystical spirituality for our era.
Through personal reflection, clinical anecdote and case study slides, this lecture will present an overview of Jung’s mystical worldview. Jung’s borrowing from and unique integration of, especially, mystical methodologies from the Judeo-Christian West will be featured in the light of the work of significant living Judeo-Christian mystics such as Matthew Fox.
Analysis as Guided Mystical Experience
In this workshop there will be a deepening of the model presented Friday night, with personal appreciation for this mystical presence in analytical experience and the unique contributions, opportunities and dangers perceived in Jung’s insights into working in these spiritual depths. Case examples and organic regional mysticisms (living Native American traditions) will provide the main channels for working through the theme.