“The Complexity of Complexes”
Jung said complexes are the royal road to the unconscious. In this discussion, the nature and origins of complexes, their benefits to Self-growth, types of individual and cultural complexes, and ways to work with them, will be discussed.– led by Karen Harper
Book discussion: Jung’s Map of the Soul: An Introduction, by Dr. Murray Stein, led by Dan Tyler. This book, for beginners as well as those familiar with Jung, helps introduce and explain some of Jung’s most important theories.
Book description from amazon.com: “More than a mere overview, the book offers readers a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights…Probably the best one-volume English language summary of Jung's thought.”
Dr. James Hollis returns for a Saturday workshop, "Living the Examined Life: Tasks for the Second Half of Life."
Tiny, dependent, and at the mercy of the world around us, we all have to adapt, adjust, bury, deny, split-off and repress, and thereby lose contact with our own sovereignty and natural source of guidance. The core project of the second half of life is the recovery of that source. This program/workshop will focus on twenty-one steps we may take toward the recovery of our personal journey.
Jame Hollis, Ph.D.,is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst with a practice in Washington, D.C., where he is Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington. He is also author of fifteen books, including the February 1st, 2018 release Living an Examined Life
Dr. James Hollis returns for a lecture, "Living More Fully in the Presence of Mortality" on Friday night.
Jung observed that “Life is a short pause between two great mysteries.” That fact is not in dispute; what matters then, is how we live that pause. E. M. Forster observed that the two who could most illumine us, the corpse and the baby, are not talking. Given that mortality frames our journey, how might we live it more fully, not defined by fear, morbidity, and denial? What attitudes and practices allow us to live more fully? And what psychological maturation bring us to experience this short pause as rich with meaning?
We will meet to have an informal discussion of Dr. James Hollis’ new book, Living an Examined Life, which comes out February 1, 2018. It is not necessary to read the book beforehand, but it is available at amazon.com.
Dr. Cynthia Candelaria, Jungian analyst from Philadelphia, will present a talk on fairy tales.
Free and open to the public.