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November 2009 Newsletter


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Contents
From the Executive Director
November Programs
Jung Center Holiday Party
Jung Corner

From the Executive Director


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"Mein Seele, mein Seele, wo bist du?"  [My soul, my soul, where are you?]  Seeing these words written in Jung's hand left me startled and astounded.  This was the first line in the first of his "black books"-the journals which he later transcribed into his "Red Book."  Reading this (at the exhibit on the "Red Book" at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York), I immediately gained a real sense of Jung as man who struggled-as have I, as have all of us, really.  We have all found ourselves lost, or felt we have lost (or perhaps never really found) something essential about ourselves.  In one way, this is why the Jung Center exists.  Our mission is to offer a place where one can seek what has been lost (or not yet been found), and to be a community of seekers.  That mission is supported in a myriad of ways, all essential to the whole:  it's supported through the people who come seeking and find classes and workshops and psychotherapy; it's supported by the people who give generously of their time and talents to volunteer to present those classes or conduct that therapy or serve on our Board, committees and as adjuncts to our part-time staff; and of course it's supported by financial gifts from dozens of donors.  If you have found something you were seeking here, or if the Center has meant something to you, I would ask you to consider becoming a donor.  You can donate through our website by clicking here, or the old-fashioned way of sending a check (we are at 817 Dempster St., Evanston IL 60201).  Thank you.
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Pat Cochran, Psy.D.
Executive Director

Upcoming Programs

mandalaPeer Consultation Group
Upcoming dates: Friday November 20 (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.



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


red bookC.G. Jung In His Own Words:
The Man Behind the Red Book
Viewing and Discussion

Friday November 20, 7-9 pm
Pat Cochran, PsyD
$15 pre or drop-in

"The publication of Jung's Red Book has excited many Jungian communities around the world.  This book, called by the New York Times "the holy grail of the unconscious," contains the fantasies and images that washed over Jung at a period of great personal uncertainty, which also coincided with great collective unrest just prior to the outbreak of WWI.  The images and active imaginations of the Red Book contained the kernel of all of Jung's later theories.  This DVD features many images from the Red Book along with interviews of Jung.  He speaks candidly and simply about his ideas of the collective unconscious, fantasies and images, ritual and transformation and more.  Both newcomers and those very familiar with Jung's work will find these conversations with him engaging and enlivening.  Our own copy of the Red Book will also be available for your perusal at this event.  Refreshments will be served.



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

Jung Center Holiday Party


LightJung Center Holiday Party
Saturday December 5th
Beginning at 6 pm

Join us for a festive evening of delicious food, drink, and
celebration of the continued growth of the Center.









Once again, in response to a number of community members who suggested that we incorporate ticketed events into our fundraising efforts, we will be selling tickets to this party for a suggested donation of $15 (or $25 for 2).  Donations will go towards sustaining the Center's Clinic and Public Programs.

2009 donors and volunteers will recieve complimentary passes by mail

Please RSVP by calling 847-475-4848 x221 or e-mail jung@cgjungcenter.org

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

"I worked on this book for 16 years.  My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it.  The beginning of the end came in 1928, when Wilhelm sent me the text of the "Golden Flower," an alchemical treatise.  The contents of this book found their way into actuality and I could no longer continue working on it.  To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness.  It would also have developed into one, had I not been able to absorb the overpowering force of the original experiences.  With the help of alchemy, I could finally arrange them into a whole.  I always knew these experiences contained something precious, and therefore I knew of nothing better than to write them down in a "precious," that is to say, costly book and to paint the images that emerged through reliving it all-as well as I could.  I knew how frightfully inadequate this undertaking was, but despite much work and many distractions I remained true to it, even if another possibili..."  (Jung, "The Red Book" pp. 190-191)

I thought it fitting to conclude this month's newsletter with the final words that Jung wrote in his "Red Book," an epilogue that he added in 1959, 45 years after he began the book.  To give some context to this epilogue, the "Red Book" is Jung's beautiful, elaborate, and fevered writings and drawings that poured out of him at a time of true crisis.  He was unnerved by the "overpowering force of the[se] original experiences" but was keen to try to understand them and thus diligently explored the fantasies, dreams and the characters within them that came to him at this time.  As he writes above, it was this careful and dedicated attention that allowed him to absorb these forces and keep him from madness.  His study of alchemy, the medieval science that he saw as a metaphor for the process of transformation, allowed him to place his own experiences into a "whole."  Interestingly, he did not finish his final sentence, and the last word is "possibility."  Perhaps we can muse that the sentence is ours to finish, the possibility is what lives on in our souls.

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