SPEAKER
Robert Macdonald
DATE & TIME
Friday, May 19, 2023
7:30 pm
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9:30 pm
Saturday, May 20, 2023
10:30 am
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12:30 pm
Saturday, May 20, 2023
2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
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COST
£105
LOCATION
Essex Church, London W8 4RT
RELATED EVENT
BOOK eventSUBJECTS COVERED
Fairy Tale and Myth, Dreams, Fundamentals, Psychology and Religion, Individuation, Alchemy
DESCRIPTION
Hamlet’s inner life is a battleground of opposing forces, wavering between the principle of good and capacity for love, and evil, loathing and cruelty. Locked in a war within, he is chronically indecisive and incapable of action.
The seminar will seek insight into this divided soul. Archetypal and alchemical themes are abundant: the father’s ghost, puer-senex, heroic consciousness, initiation, shame,splitting, sol and luna, and possession. The Renaissance philosophy of doubt, Dionysian man, and the Oedipus complex are relevant.
The seven soliloquies reveal an unfolding consciousness struggling to understand his complex inner world and expose unconscious patterns residing in the psychic background that shape his world and determine his relationships.
Robert is a Senior Analyst and Member of the Independent Group of Analytic Psychologists with a private practice in Queens Park London. He has a background in theatre as teacher of voice and classical text speaking with a particular interest in the Japanese Noh drama. For more information see: www.robertmacdonald.org
READING
Required Reading:
Shakespeare, W., Hamlet
RecommendedReading:
Jung,C. G., Collected Works, Vol 4, The Significance of the Father in the Destiny of the Individual, §§692-744
Jung, C. G., Collected Works, Vol. 14, The Personification of the Opposites, §§104-348