Programme of Studies 2010 – 2011 SUMMER TERM 2011 Final date for receipt of applications 8 April 2011
12. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF THE SPIRIT IN FAIRYTALES – Reading Seminar from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9i, para: 384-455 Kinko Sayama Date Thursday 28, Friday 29, Saturday 30 April Time Thursday and Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm Cost £80 Subjects covered: Fundamentals/Fairy Tales and Myth/Alchemy Together we shall read this important work, which Jung originally presented at a seminar to an audience of people from varied backgrounds. Jung included in his talk explanations of his fundamental ideas about psychology. This text is a good example of how Jung explores and amplifies the archetype of the spirit in various images, especially those of 'an old man', 'a little man' or 'a helpful animal' as contained in fairy tales. The complexity of the antithetical and paradoxical nature of the spirit archetype is dealt with in great detail and this provides us with a finer understanding of his concept of the collective unconscious and takes us into the deep recesses of the psyche. Any efforts you make to read the footnotes to the text we are studying or browse through any other of the referenced works will be amply rewarded. Participants are expected to bring the text with them.
13. FROM THE MYSTERIES TO TRAGEDY: THE OEDIPUS CYCLE Luigi Barzini and Dariane Pictet Date Thursdays 12 May, 23 June, 21 July Time 8pm-10pm Cost £60 Subjects Covered: Fairy Tales and Myth/Psychology and Religion This seminar will present an introduction of Athenian classical tragedy and its roots in the Dionysian Mysteries rituals. Included will be the origins of Dionysos’s cult: Minoan Crete bull-leaping, the Anatolian Bull Cult, and Palaeolithic cave paintings initiation ceremonies. Also covered will be the Dionysian cult in the 7th century BC, Archilochos and the Dithyramb. The last session, co-chaired by Dariane Pictet, will bring in the psychological dimension of this material, which participants should be prepared to discuss. Essential Reading: Aeschylus: Seven Against Thebes (467 BC) Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (429 BC) Euripides: Phoenician Women (410 BC) Euripides: Bacchae (405 BC) Plus additional material to be distributed some weeks before the seminar.
14. THE SECRET OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER – Reading Seminar from the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 13 Mark Saban Date Friday 13 and Saturday 14 May Time Friday 8pm-10pm Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm Cost £60 Subjects Covered: Alchemy Jung’s 1928 commentary on Richard Wilhelm’s translation of The Secret of the Golden Flower is both historically and theoretically significant. It marks the beginnings of Jung’s alchemical opus, which was to dominate his writing for the rest of his life, but it also signals a deepening of Jung’s lifelong engagement with eastern (in this case Taoist) thought. It is moreover a fascinating essay in its own right, offering some of Jung’s most pregnant intuitions about the multiple nature of the psyche. Participants are expected to have read the texts and may be asked to make short presentations. Reading: Caifang Jeremy Zhu: Analytical Psychology and Daoist inner alchemy: a response to C.G. Jung's 'Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower', Journal of Analytical Psychology (2009), 54, 493-611, San Francisco USA. Richard Wilhelm: The Secret of the Golden Flower: a Chinese Book of Life, trans. Baynes, Harcourt
15. THE HEALING POWER OF THE NUMINOUS Jim Fitzgerald Date Friday 24 and Saturday 25 June Time Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm Cost £60 Subjects Covered: Fundamentals/Psychology of Dreams This seminar will explore the nature of the numinous experience, and its healing effect, stemming from the intrinsic nature of the archetype. Jung’s own writings about the nature of numinosity will be examined, in order to understand the significance he attributed to the experience of the archetypal numen. Some of his dreams and life experiences mentioned in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, will be explored to this end. One type of numinous experience, the mystical experience of the vision of light will be discussed, looking at accounts in the Bible, Orthodox spirituality, and other sources. Finally, two contemporary dreams will be examined in order to understand the role of the numinous experience in psychological healing. Essential Reading: A selection of readings from Jung on the Numinous will be circulated to all participants before the seminar.
16. APOLOGY AND FORGIVENESS Ann Shearer Date Friday 22 and Saturday 23 July Time Friday 8pm-10pm, Saturday 10.30am-12.30pm and 2pm-4pm Cost £60 Subjects Covered: Individuation, comparative psychological approaches Shame, guilt and blame are staples in psychological theory and often met with in the consulting room. But the place of apology and forgiveness as a counterbalance to such painful emotions is barely mentioned in psychological writings - even as they are increasingly evoked in the public and political sphere. Is there something for depth psychologists to consider here? Apology and forgiveness are complex concepts. Are the two interrelated? Are they a desirable part of psychological growth? These seminars discuss why these topics have attracted so little psychological attention, and draw on responses to often devastating personal and collective events to explore how a greater understanding might add another dimension to the healing of psychological trauma. Reading: Personal stories from www.theforgivenessproject.com Forgiveness: Is It Really Possible? Report of WPF conference, British Journal of Psychoanalysis Vol 23, Issue 1 (Autumn 2006) Henry F. Smith: Leaps of Faith: is forgiveness a useful concept? International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 89, Issue 2 (2008) Pulma Gobodo-Madikizela: Trauma, Forgiveness and the Witnessing Dance: making public spaces intimate, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 53, Issue 2 (2008)
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AUTUMN TERM 2010 l SPRING TERM 2011 l SUMMER TERM 2011 l CLOSED SEMINARS l BIOGRAPHIES