Season: Fall 2025

Special-seminar

Spectral Visitants: The Place of Dreams in Therapeutic Praxis and Personal Life

James Hollis

Sep, 27 2025
What are dreams, and why do they come to us? How can we begin to work with, even understand, dreams? This presentation will explore theories of origin and meaning, methods of interpretation, and will focus a great deal on practicing interpretation on dreams that will be provided. By the end of the sessions, participants will ... Read more

Seminar - OFJ Library

The Wizard of Oz: The Problem of Power and Innocence in the Struggle for Wholeness

Oct, 12 2025
Oregon Friends of Jung, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest Society of Jungian Analysts (PNSJA), continues our series of seminars designed to deepen your knowledge of Jungian psychology. You will have an opportunity to learn from and engage with analysts who are experts in their fields. Beginning in October, appropriate to the season of the ... Read more

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

The Wisdom of Erich Neumann for our Troubled World

Nancy Swift Furlotti

Oct, 24 2025
Who was Erich Neumann, one of Jung’s closest friends, though 30 years younger than Jung? How do Neumann’s life experiences spanning the Holocaust and World War II echo much of the chaos and evil we are experiencing today? Neumann escaped Berlin in 1933 for Palestine, where he produced a large body of work focused on ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

Why is Consciousness such a Challenge for Humanity?

Nancy Swift Furlotti

Oct, 25 2025
In this workshop we explore Erich Neumann’s lifelong endeavor— understanding human psychological development from birth to old age – by focusing on the important questions about why we do what we do, how to change those patterns, and how change impacts humans’ relationship to the greater Self, and to “God”. It was Erich Neumann who ... Read more

Lecture - Zoom & Unity of Portland

A Psychological Exploration of Tattoos and Graffiti

Brian Mayo

Nov, 07 2025
This talk will explore the tattoo and graffiti writers’ art from a Jungian psychological perspective. It is the presenter’s hypothesis that the topics under investigation exemplify areas of life where the unconscious can be seen to manifest. Whether one enters the confines of a tattoo shop with its array of imagery on the wall, or ... Read more

Workshop - Zoom & Unity of Portland

A Conversation About Dreams

Brian Mayo

Nov, 08 2025
This dream workshop will focus on Jung’s approach to understanding dream material. Key elements and concepts to be discussed include the structure of dreams, the symbolic language of dreams, amplification, the complimentary and compensatory aspect of dreams, the personal and collective unconscious, the ego, shadow, anima/animus, the Self and the transcendent function. Dream material will ... Read more

Lecture

The Inner Cosmos Meets the Outer Cosmos

Richard Tarnas

Becca Tarnas

Dec, 05 2025
Jung began to examine astrology as early as 1911, when he mentioned his inquiries in a letter to Freud. That interest gradually developed into a major focus of investigation, and in his later years Jung devoted himself with considerable passion to astrological research. “Astrology,” he stated, “represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of ... Read more

Workshop

Ambassadors of the Galaxy: Uranus, Neptune and Pluto

Richard Tarnas

Becca Tarnas

Dec, 06 2025
The three ‘classical’ modern planets—Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto, discovered by telescope in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries respectively—are each associated with archetypal principles and powers of fundamental importance for understanding human life. Called by Dane Rudhyar “ambassadors of the galaxy,” they are especially essential for understanding both the underlying dynamics of the collective psyche, ... Read more