Is Narcissism becoming normalized in our culture?  Explore the psychological roots and behaviors of those dominated by this personality disorder.  How does Narcissism relate to Envy?  What is the relationship between Narcissism and low self-esteem?  Narcissists frequently use manipulative tactics to maintain power over others. A heightened awareness of such psyche phenomenon is a person's only protection against victimhood.  

          A person with strong Narcissistic tendencies is unable to enter into the Individuation process and is thus blocked from further psychological development.

          This presentation aims to answer many questions that surround Narcissism, including is the mother to blame and why a Narcissist is often idealized.  Since everyone is a bit narcissistic at times, participants will certainly become more aware of their own behavior after this review.  Also, participants will be reminded that psychic infection is real:  what is going on in one person cam immigrate into another.  This is an unconscious process that much be realized and addressed.

For 34 years Kaye Lindauer, MS, MLS, M.DIV,  has taught classes at Chautauqua Institution on Jungian psychology, literature, poetry, and mythology.  In addition, she teaches adult education classes for OASIS EVERYWHERE ( including a class in March, " From Medieval Alchemy to Jungian Psychology"). For the past 32 years, Kaye has lectured for Road Scholar and will present a program on Emerson in May.  Recently, she gave a presentation on Emily Dickinson for the Western Massachusetts Jung Society which is available to view on their Web site.  Kaye taught graduate courses at Syracuse University for twenty-five years while speaking widely at conferences and coordinating retreats.  Kaye has studied at the Jung Institute and at ISAP in Zurich. 

"Many people face a late-life identity crisis with the transitions to retirement, illness, loss, care giving, or simply advancing age. They may ask again, Who am I? as the ego’s lifelong identity of Doer disappears, and heroic values of success and image lose their grip. This can feel disorienting and frightening and result in a loss of meaning. But there is a deeper call if we tune in and listen: the call of the soul. If we deny this call to make an inner shift, we won’t cross the threshold from role to soul and discover the spiritual gifts of age.
This presentation will explore the psychological and spiritual potential of this passage, as we learn to use shadow-work to shift our identities from ego to Self, from what we do to who we are -- from role to soul. With this inner shift, we find renewed meaning and vitality and a sense of freedom to become who we truly are."

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, writer, Climate Reality Leader, and Citizens Climate Lobbyist. Known as the Shadow Expert, she is co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice.  Her newest book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, explores shadow-work in the religious and spiritual arena. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

In Martin Scorsese's 2023 movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, archetypal energies of senex and puer collude to bury the feminine in oil-rich, post-World War I Oklahoma. In this presentation, Dr John Bebe will explore how these phantomatic complexes can shadow individuals' psychic development and how they undermine relatedness in the politics of our own time. Participants are asked to see the movie in advance of coming to the presentation.

John Beebe, a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is co-author, with Virginia Apperson, of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film. He was founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal (now Jung Journal and is the author of Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type.

For the first presentation of 2024, noted teacher and director of the Depth Psychology Alliance, Dr. James Newell, will present a talk on general principles of Jungian psychology, ideal for newcomers as well as those familiar with Jungian concepts. 

In this presentation, Dr. Newell will introduce aspects of Jung’s life along with specifics of Jung's lifelong project of helping others to make the unconscious conscious. Some topics covered will include the process of individuation, the mythic imagination, complexes, the collective unconscious, archetypes, dreamwork, the Red Book, and Jung’s own innovative approach to the unconscious: active imagination. Below is Dr. Newell's description of his talk:

"Psychologist Carl Jung is one of the twentieth century's most innovative and influential figures. Jung’s theories were so far ahead of their time when he formulated them that they are still ahead of their time today. Over a century has passed since Jung presented some of his most important ideas, and still scientific and academic psychology have yet to catch up with his visionary achievements. It is no exaggeration to say that his work has produced a Copernican revolution in psychology, the development of personality, as well as Western culture at large."

James Newell, PhD, is an educator, professional musician, and the director of the Depth Psychology Alliance. He earned his master’s degree in Pastoral Counseling and Theology from Vanderbilt University Divinity School, with a focus on Jungian psychology, and earned a doctorate in History of Religions from the Vanderbilt University Graduate School of Religion. James has taught courses in world religions for various universities and teaches online courses in Jungian psychology.  For the past several years he has been developing a certification program in depth psychology offered through the Depth Psychology Alliance