IGAP Seminars2

Programme of Studies 2010 – 2011

SPRING TERM 2011

Final date for receipt of applications 7 January 2011.

8. ON THE NATURE OF THE PSYCHE – Reading Seminar from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 8 Eve Jackson

Date Thursday 27, Friday 28, Saturday 29 January

Time Thursday and Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm

Cost £80

Subjects Covered: Fundamentals

Participants are expected to have read the text and may be asked to make short presentations.

9. AFRICAN PSYCHOLOGY AND ALCHEMY Pedro Kujawski

Date Thursday 24 February

Time 8pm-10pm

Cost £20

Subjects Covered: Psychology and Religion/Alchemy

This seminar continues our discussion of last year, this time focusing on the alchemical symbolism in the rituals and gods of the Yoruba religion originating in West Africa, whose ancient wisdom draw strong parallels to the psychology of C.G. Jung.

10. FAITH, HOPE AND CHARITY IN CLINICAL PRACTICE ffiona von Westhoven Perigrinor

Date Friday 25 and Saturday 26 February

Time Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm

Cost £60

Subjects Covered: Psychology and Religion

In the Christian tradition faith, hope and charity are held to be theological virtues which may be obtained only by grace and not by human effort. But are they always virtues or might they sometimes be vices, and how do they manifest in therapeutic practice? In these seminars we shall look at the shadow of these and other images inherent in our culture and Christian belief and consider whether they might occasionally contribute to suffering.

Reading:

Candidates should use their initiative to find suitable literature. Recommended reading will be published on the website in due course.

11. (A) DREAMS OF HOME Elizabeth Gordon

(B) THE GLOBAL CITIZEN – AT A LOSS FOR ROOTS? Kristina Schellinski

Date (A) Thursday 24, Friday 25 March, (B) Saturday 26 March

Time Thursday and Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm

Cost £80

(A) Dreams of Home
Subjects Covered: Psychology of Dreams

The first evening will focus on aspects of the archetype of Home and look at some of the ways it manifests in religion, myth, fairy tale and dream. On the second evening we will explore in detail some dreams of Home to see what they can tell us about the developmental stage and psychological situation of the dreamer.

Recommended reading for the first seminar:

Kenneth Grahame: Wind in the Willows

Marilynne Robinson: Home

Homer: The Odyssey

Essential reading for the second seminar:

C.G. Jung: Collected Works Vol. 8 Paras 443-569 General Aspects of Dream Psychology and On the Nature of Dreams

(B) The Global Citizen – at a loss for roots?
Subjects Covered: Individuation/Psychology of Dreams

Many people are ‘going global’ in the currently mobile society; some suffer from self-alienation as a result. I will focus on the ‘global citizens of nowhere’ who may be uprooted from their cultural complexes to explore in analysis. While some look for a surrogate sense of belonging in a noble cause of the pursuit of wealth or power, I will present how those feeling uprooted may cast anchor in the soul and thus find a sense of home wherever they are. I will also ask: Do we see universal cultural complexes emerge in the wake of globalization?

Reading:

Joseph Henderson: The Archetype of Culture in The Archetype: Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress for Analytical Psychology, ed. A. Guggenbühl-Craig, Basel, New York: S. Karger (1964)

Joseph Henderson: Shadow and Self, Wilmette Il: Chiron (1990)

Thomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimbles: The Emerging Theory of Cultural Complexes, in Analytical Psychology, Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Analysis, eds. Joseph Cambray and Linda Carter, Hove and New York: Brunner-Routledge (2004)

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