Fall 1999 Archives - Oregon Friends of Jung

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Early Trauma and Dreams: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit

Sep, 17 1999
Experiences in early childhood that cause unbearable psychic pain or anxiety (trauma) can leave the personality and the human spirit threatened with destruction. In this lecture, using dream examples from the clinical situation and the fairy tale of Rapunzel, we will see how an archetypal defense emerges to save the imperishable human spirit from further ... Read more

Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

From Bewitchment to Enchantment: Transformational Process in the Psychoanalysis of Early Trauma

Donald Kalsched

Sep, 18 1999
Patients who have suffered severe early trauma often find themselves bewitched by dark tyrannical voices assaulting them from within, leading to intense anxiety and depression. In dream work with such patients, the dark inner voices reveal themselves as both archaic and typical – hence archetypal – personifications whose inner purpose seems to be the defense ... Read more

Lecture - Kaiser Permanente Town Hall

Friday Night at the Movies: The Wisdom of the Dream (I); a Life of Dreams

Dunbar Carpenter

Sep, 24 1999
As a young boy, Jung “somehow” knew his dreams were significant and full of meaning. His early attention to those dream images was, for all humankind, the answer to the knocking at the door by the unconscious desiring entry into the conscious world. Stephen Segaller’s narrative of Jung’s journey — a series of three films ... Read more

Lecture - Kaiser Permanente Town Hall

Friday Night at the Movies: The Wisdom of the Dream (II); Inheritance of Dreams

Mark Girard

Oct, 01 1999
As a young boy, Jung “somehow” knew his dreams were significant and full of meaning. His early attention to those dream images was, for all humankind, the answer to the knocking at the door by the unconscious desiring entry into the conscious world. Stephen Segaller’s narrative of Jung’s journey — a series of three films ... Read more

Lecture - Kaiser Permanente Town Hall

Friday Night at the Movies: The Wisdom of the Dream (III); A World of Dreams

Jim Soliday

Oct, 08 1999
As a young boy, Jung “somehow” knew his dreams were significant and full of meaning. His early attention to those dream images was, for all humankind, the answer to the knocking at the door by the unconscious desiring entry into the conscious world. Stephen Segaller’s narrative of Jung’s journey — a series of three films ... Read more

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Paradise and Millennium: A Jungian Reflection on Cinematic Images of the Perfection of Soul in Times of Intense Collective Transition

Terrill Gibson

Oct, 23 1999
We all long for paradise. No matter our psycho-spiritual persuasion, no matter how mature and individuated we fancy ourselves to be, no matter how suavely world-wise, we all long for paradise when things get tough. Paradise is home, the peaceful, generative home of full and final beauty and peace we never seem to find in ... Read more

Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Paradise and Millennium: A Jungian Reflection on Cinematic Images of the Perfection of Soul in Times of Intense Collective Transition

Terrill Gibson

Oct, 24 1999
We all long for paradise. No matter our psycho-spiritual persuasion, no matter how mature and individuated we fancy ourselves to be, no matter how suavely world-wise, we all long for paradise when things get tough. Paradise is home, the peaceful, generative home of full and final beauty and peace we never seem to find in ... Read more

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

The House as a Mirror of the Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home

Clare Cooper Marcus

Nov, 19 1999
Professor Marcus will speak on themes raised in her book House as a Mirror of Self: Exploring the deeper meaning of home. Her talk, illustrated with slides of her subject’s art work, will explore various ways in which the psyche is expressed in the choice, decoration, and maintenance of a dwelling.

Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

The House as a Mirror of the Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home

Clare Cooper Marcus

Nov, 20 1999
The theme of the evening lecture will be explored in greater depth. Participants will be involved in a number of experiental exercises to understand the significance of dwelling places in their lives. The workshop format will be a combination of lecture, discussion, and personal sharing in small groups.

Lecture - First United Methodist Church, Collins Hall

Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World

Michael Conforti

Dec, 10 1999
Nowhere is the confluence of the relationship between matter and psyche more clearly expressed than in the formation of patterns. Existing within both the internal world of psyche and the outer natural world, archetypal patterns are expressions of an innate ordering process which gives matter its specific form and design. We find these deeply textured ... Read more

Workshop - First United Methodist Church, Fireside Room

Patterning in the Psyche and the Natural World

Michael Conforti

Dec, 11 1999
Nowhere is the confluence of the relationship between matter and psyche more clearly expressed than in the formation of patterns. Existing within both the internal world of psyche and the outer natural world, archetypal patterns are expressions of an innate ordering process which gives matter its specific form and design. We find these deeply textured ... Read more