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October 2009 Newsletter


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From the Executive Director
October Programs
Other Programs
Jung Corner

From the Executive Director


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Jungian communities around the world are buzzing with excitement at the publication of Jung's Red Book this week.  As Jung wrote in his memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections, "After the parting of the ways with Freud, a period of inner uncertainty began for me.  It would be no exaggeration to call it a state of disorientation."  During that state of inner turmoil, Jung had many dreams and fantasies, and he endeavored to take them quite seriously by writing them down and embellished with drawings; these became what he called the Red Book.  Jung understood that his "confrontation with the unconscious" was the foundation for all of his later theories, yet he never published the Red Book nor did he specify to his heirs what should be done with it, thus this first-ever publication (and translation) of the Red Book is clearly a momentous event for those interested in Jung.  In fact, you may have seen the wonderful article about the book and its history featured in the New York Times Magazine a few weeks ago: click here to view article

In light of this historic occasion, the Center will be presenting programs that relate to the Red Book.  On Friday, November 20th, we will have a viewing of the DVD "The World Within: C.G. Jung in his Own Words."  The DVD features many images from the Red Book and interviews with Jung in which he elucidates on fantasies, archetypal images, mandalas, and other topics.  Then in the Spring two of our very special presenters, Tom and Mary Ellen Lavin, will be offering a class on the Red Book, focusing on active imagination.  Watch your email inbox for more information on these and other exciting programs.

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Pat Cochran, Psy.D.
Executive Director

October Programs

mandalaPeer Consultation Group
Upcoming dates: Friday October 16 (1-2:30 pm)
$30 (includes 1.5 supervision CEUs per session)

For clinicians, this monthly peer consultation group at the Center is facilitated by Deb McGowen, LCPC who has many years of experience practicing Jungian oriented psychotherapy.  This group is an opportunity to develop a stronger connection to colleagues as well as engage in professional growth.  It meets the third Friday of the month, unless otherwise noted.  This group is free to June Singer Clinic volunteer therapists.


Clinical Case Seminar:  Working with Complexes, Part II
Monday October 19, 1-3 pm
Pat Cochran, PsyD & Judith Robinson, LCPC
$45, CEUs: 1.5 (included in price)
 
As a follow-up to their well-received seminar on complexes in April, analysts Judith Robinson and Pat Cochran will again lead a discussion on working with complexes.  It is not necessary to have attended the first seminar.  We will discuss how complexes get built up, how they get enacted and lived with, and what happens when we really begin to understand deeply their impact on our inner process and our outer daily living. Our focus will be on the practical aspects of working with complexes in a clinical session, coupled with a reflection on the complexes that are always present in the interactional field and within ourselves.  There will be much opportunity for lively exchange and sharing of clinical material. This program is limited to those in clinical practice.


castleBook Club: Fairytales                                            
Tuesdays 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 7-9 pm
Linda Goranson, PhD
$40 for 3 sessions or $15/session

For this fall's book club meetings we will be reading, examining, and discussing excerpts from three of Marie Louise Von Franz's books on fairy tales.  This series will provide insight and understanding into the marvelous stories we call fairy tales.  Von Franz views the images, feelings, thoughts and actions illustrated in fairy tales as archetypes and these "archetypal images afford us the best clues to the understanding of the processes going on in the [individual and] collective psyche." (Interpretation of Fairy Tales, pg. 1).  You may attend all sessions or selected sessions. You are welcome to read each book in its entirety; however the following chapters of each book will be focused on, and copies will be available for participants:
9/15- Interpretation of Fairy Tales:

Chapters 1-3:  Theories and methods of interpretation
Chapter   7:  Shadow, anima and animus

10/20-  Individuation and Fairy Tales:
Chapters 1, conclusion

11/17-  Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: 
Chapters 1 & 2:  The concept of the shadow in the tale The Two Travelers


To register please call 847-475-4848 x221 or click here
There is a $15 processing fee for CEUs

Other Programs


From time to time, we would like to pass along information about events or programs in which we think you might have an interest.  Coming up in November are two special events:

The C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis is offering their first annual "Jung in the Heartland Conference" entitled "Portals to the Sacred" from November 19-22 click here for details. 

On the afternoon of November 1, a local group of folks who knew the late analyst are gathering to take "A Fresh Look at Dr.Vasavada's Wisdom."  Ed Dougal is one of the organizers for this free event taking place at St. Scholastica's student union.  For more information, contact him at 847-298-0445 or email keiko2ed@juno.com.

Jung Corner


This is our space for reflections on quotes from Jung.  We invite you to share a favorite quote along with your thoughts by e-mailing us at jung@cgjungcenter.org

This month we are simply presenting quotes without commentary from Jung's memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, all of which relate to his Red Book, as we think his words speak powerfully for themselves.

"Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have their own life. . . .  It was he who taught me psychic objectivity, the reality of the psyche."  (pg. 183)

"To the extent that I managed to translate the emotions [of this time] into images-that is to say, to find the images which were concealed in the emotions-I was inwardly calmed and reassured. . . .  As a result of my experiment I learned how helpful it can be, from the therapeutic point of view, to find the particular images which lie behind the emotions."  (pg. 177)

"When I began drawing the mandalas, however, I saw that everything, all the paths I had been following, all the steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point-namely to the mid-point.  It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center.  It is the exponent of all paths.  It is the path to the center, to individuation." (pg. 196)

"The years when I was pursuing my inner images were the most important of my life-in them everything essential was decided.  It all began then, the later details are only supplements and clarifications of the material that burst forth from the unconscious, and at first swamped me.  It was the prima materia for a lifetime's work." (pg. 199)

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