The February 5th Zoom session will run 6:30-8:30pm with no break.REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE 15 MINUTES BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF THE CLASS SO THAT ZOOM INSTRUCTIONS CAN BE SENT.
Once Upon a Time…
Why Jungians Read Fairy Tales
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”—Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37
How do we get to the heart of the matter in psychotherapy? How do we avoid falling for one trap/distraction after another? How can a therapist develop the art of “presiding” (Meltzer) over a creative process grounded in the transference? How can a therapist help to illuminate the feelings emerging within the patient’s dreamlife?
The concepts of anima and animus are integral to Jungian thought—yet they remain elusive. As Carl Jung himself said, “No philosopher in his senses would invent such irrational and clumsy ideas.” Jung’s intuition, as so the case, was ahead of the knowledge available to him; his own cultural biases and ignorance of what we now know about brain function led to inadequate definitions of the terms that, a century later, are still fuel for contentious disagreement.
Typology is a means of identifying variable forms of psychic energy. Four functions are generally recognized: sensation, feeling, thinking, and intuition. While each is discussed as being distinct in itself, these functions are related along a continuous line, and are separated (identified) by “differentiation.” Differentiation separates one function from another, and the function itself to a further degree. In individual psychology differentiation occurs most frequently in the dominant function, and least frequently in the inferior function.
“How do we interpret a fairy tale?—or stalk it, rather, because it is really like stalking a very evasive stag.”— Marie-Louise von Franz, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, p. 37. Please join us for the January session study and discussion of fairy tales. Bring your imagination and sense of wonder. Suggested reading: "The Interpretation of Fairy Tales," Marie-Louise von Franz.
The selected fairy tale link and Zoom meeting instructions will be sent to registered participants no later than 4:00 pm on January 8th.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Some recent developments in neuroscience have dramatic implications for psychoanalytic theories of drive, emotion, consciousness, the unconscious and repression, to mention just the main topics. This course will first describe these exciting scientific developments, in user-friendly terms, and then it will outline the practical implications for the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.
This Scientific Meeting is the second of two NPSI is offering for those interested in the conference "Speaking About Race: The unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist", scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021 and co-sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI. Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this Zoom meeting will function as a study group oriented to the conference theme. Thus, we ask that all participants come prepared to engage in a discussion of the reading.
“I have no creative use for guilt, yours or my own. Guilt is only another way of avoiding informed action, of buying time out of the pressing need to make clear choices, out of the approaching storm that can feed the earth as well as bend the trees. If I speak to you in anger, at least I have spoken to you: I have not put a gun to your head and shot you down in the street; I have not looked at your bleeding sister’s body and asked, ‘What did she do to deserve it?’” —Audre Lorde, 1981
This Scientific Meeting is the first of two NPSI is offering this fall for those interested in the conference "Speaking About Race: The unconscious roots of structural racism and becoming anti-racist", scheduled for Saturday, January 23, 2021 and co-sponsored by COR, NPSI, NWAPS, & SPSI. Rather than a typical scientific presentation, this meeting will be a film discussion oriented to the conference theme.