C.G.
Jung Society of Sydney
Binding Connections
WELCOME TO OUR latest edition of Jung
Downunder. This second half of 2008 is
a busy time for us in the Jung Society.
Alongside our regular monthly meetings we
have a reading group, a workshop and the
Annual Christmas Party to look forward to. I
Ginette Paris, page 10 do hope that you will be attending many of
our events and participating in the ongoing
dialogues of our community.
Anne di Lauro opens her book review of
Ginette Paris’s Wisdom of the Psyche with a
quote by the author: "The future of depth
psychology is concerned [with raising] the fever
of imagination, to amplify the loving connection
Addressing Climate that binds us to the world." We begin and
Change, page 14
finish our programme with events whose
focus resonates with this concern. In July
Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and myself
will address some responses and reactions
to global climate change in a panel entitled
"Depth Psychology meets Climate Change:
Weaving Threads between Self and World".
Psyche and the My article "An Elemental Imbalance" in this
City, page 26
issue acts as an introduction to this evening.
In November we hear from Craig San Roque
on "The Inner City of Sydney", who shows
Erica Cordell’s photos and reads excerpts
from the chapter he has been invited to
write for Thomas Singer’s upcoming book
Psyche and City:The Soul’s Guide to the Modern
BodySoul Rhythms, Metropolis.
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from the President
Our upcoming programme also has a
focus on the work of Marion Woodman,
Kathleen McPhillips is offering a reading
group following an enthusiastic response
to the talk she gave us in February which
explored Woodman’s work. In October Joan
Harcourt, a BodySoul Rhythms practitioner
who has trained with Woodman, speaks on
the archetype of the Crone, and presents an
accompanying BodySoul Rhythms workshop,
"Becoming Crones".
Our third theme concerns love and
relationships. In August Judith Pickering
discusses a relational approach to individ-
uation, the theme of her recently released
book, Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways
Through Obstacles to Love. The following month
Bo Robertson presents a Cinema and Psyche
event entitled "Myths to Live By: Pygmalion as
a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy".
This will explore mentor/teacher expectations,
illustrated by movies including Pygmalion and
Educating Rita.
In keeping with tradition we conclude
our year with the Annual Christmas Party.
We are going Spanish this year at Capitan
Torres Restaurant. I do hope you’ll join us for
passionate discussions and tempting tapas,
after Craig San Roque’s talk on November 8.
My thanks to Tim Hartridge for once again
designing and producing a beautiful edition
News
of Jung Downunder. His talent, skill
and inspiration are most generously
given for the benefit of the Jung
Society. Thanks also are due to Lucy
Davey and Jon Marshall for their fine
editing and proofreading.
Sally Gillespie, President
FROM THE COMMITTEE
Each year brings changes to our
Committee. This year we farewelled
Peter Mann, Technical Officer and
Louise Fanning, Special Projects
Officer, both of whom resigned in
order to allow more time for their
own creative projects. We are very
grateful to them for their generous
contributions to the Jung Society.
At the same time we welcomed
Tori Collins and Yolanda Waldman
into our ranks. Tori has taken on the
maintenance of our website, while
Yolanda is assisting Lucy Davey in
the library. Their fresh energy and
enthusiasm boost us all.
Tim Hartridge has lifted our profile
enormously with his beautiful graphic
design work on the Jung Downunder
newsletter and our website, making it
very easy for us to promote ourselves
through our various networks.
Yolanda and Lesley Hamlyn have
particularly focused on promoting
us to the clinical community, while
June Reynolds does an excellent job
of liaising with the general public.
An enormous amount of work
has been done by Monica Roman
and Marcel Abarca to order our
financial affairs and records up to
a professional standard. Our books
have never looked so good. Bo
Robertson is busy promoting our
advertising while our bookstall is
well-stocked with many of the latest
imported Jungian-related titles as well
as second-hand titles thanks to the
informed buying of Jon Marshall.
Our Honorarium, Lenore
Kulakauskas, works tirelessly to see
that all the administrative wheels
keep turning while coming up
with many innovations to promote
and enhance the work of the Jung
Society. It’s a privilege and a delight
to be the President of such a talented,
committed and generous Executive
Committee. On behalf of the Jung
Society I thank them all for their
great work.
Sally Gillespie
LIBRARY
There is a collection of books, journals
and tapes available for members
of the CG Jung Society to borrow.
Borrowers are permitted two books
and two tapes, for a two month
loan period. Renewals are possible
if borrowers contact the Librarian,
Lucy Davey (Ph. 9572 7210), or the
Honorarium, Lenore Kulakauskas.
It is important that borrowed
items are returned in reasonable
time – the following warning note
was suggested by a member of the
Society.
For those that Steal a Book
from this Library:
Let it change into a serpent in their hand
and rend them.
Let them be struck by palsy and all their
members blasted.
Let them languish in pain, crying aloud
for mercy, and let there be no surcease for
their agony until they sink to dissolution.
Let book-worms gnaw their entrails
in token of the worm that dieth not.
And when at last they go to their final
punishment:
Let the flames of hell consume them
forever and aye.
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WEAVING VOICES

“We have come to know the gods as disease... Now we are seeing the
repressed gods return as natural disasters on a global scale.”
Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring 75

An
Elemental Imbalance by Sally Gillespie

WE SEE IT IN THE NEWS everyday: the elements of nature out of Yet in facing our current environmental almost pathological anxiety, if the fatally
balance. Drought, hurricanes, bushfires and floods, alarming images situation, there is a growing response easy abuse of their power is to be avoided.”
which illustrate the escalating scientific evidence that human activities of fear and guilt that resonates with an (Jung, CW 18:§1367)

are producing climate change.
HOW WE LIVE is disordering our
environment, and nature is reflecting
back to us our own imbalances. The
question we now face is how to take
and unfettered travel. In his book Heat,
George Monbiot writes that it takes a
different kind of consciousness from
our contemporary sensibility, if we are
instinctual feeling that there are indeed
spirits in nature who are disturbed and
angry. Our hubris is all too apparent,
while what to do about it is hotly
debated. A regression to pre-industrial
ways of behaving and thinking is not
The personal and collective initiation
process that lies ahead will be gruelling
as we face worldwide food shortages,
energy restrictions, rising outbreaks of
“ Maturity and consciousness are called for,
and a rite of passage needed, one that will

the necessar y actions to respond
to a situation that is so hard to truly
acknowledge and accept. We both want
to know and don’t want to know, as it
becomes apparent how much change is
required of us. We are confronted by the
knowledge that we need to challenge
the vested powers of corporations and
governments, as well as confronting
a demanding ego in ourselves. We
want to cling to present perceived
entitlements such as cheap electricity
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to fight for the austerity and greater
regulations that are clearly required
of us to avoid disaster. One of the great
challenges to modern consciousness is
to embrace the value of limits.
Jung often lamented the separation of
modern consciousness from nature, and
the symbolic meanings once found there.
“Thunder is no longer the voice of a god
nor is lightning his avenging missile. No
river contains a spirit, no tree means a
man’s life...” Jung, Collected Works 18::§585
possible. Maturity and consciousness
are called for, and a rite of passage
needed, one that will take us from a
juvenile narcissism and grandiosity to a
position of responsibility and restraint,
as we acknowledge both the natural
ecosystems and the human communities
upon which we depend.
“The still infantile man of today has
had means of destruction put into his
hands which require an immeasurably
enhanced sense of responsibility, or an
”
take us from a juvenile narcissism...
disease, species extinctions and other
ef fects of rapidly changing climatic
patterns. Many lives are at stake, and
while af fluence cushions wester n
industrialized nations, we also bear
greater responsibility for creating
global environmental imbalance.
What we see happening ‘over there’ in
the desertification of Africa or the air
pollution of China, is a consequence
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ElementalImbalance
of our lifestyles here. How we respond
to this knowledge both defines us and
determines our future. Consumer
choices become more complicated
with increased awareness. I watch
my own conflicting desires as I learn
more about the carbon emissions of
my travel, my heating, my groceries.
I see myself slowly moving from being
environmentally aware as a willed act
of sacrifice, to making a necessary and
heartfelt choice.
Facing the disorder of the elements of
nature requires an internal accounting
of my own imbalances. The disasters of
fire, air, earth and water in today’s world
mirror the disorders of these elemental
forces within myself and others. The
outer reflects the inner, or as Jung
suggests more graphically, the demons
of nature are playing unconscious havoc
in response to our denial of them in
outer reality:
“The demonism of nature, which man
had apparently triumphed over, he has
unwittingly swallowed into himself
and so become the devil’s marionette.”
Jung, CW 18:§1365
The fire spirit kindles passion, warms
the heart and lightens the way. But
a fire demon who is over-fed and out
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of balance with the other elements
devours with its burning energy and its
increasing demand for more resources.
The candle burns at both ends, creating
a way of life that pivots on growth and
overheated economies, while self and
meaning are consumed in the drives of
ambition.
Externally the over use of fire in
high energy-consuming lifestyles is
creating a hothouse of higher global
temperatures, with increasing bushfires
and droughts. Internally a conflagration
of imperatives fuels activity that creates
inner emotional deserts. We need to
become conscious of both the fiery gods
that power us on in search of greater
economic growth and achievement,
and the fire muses that inspire us to
create sustaining meaning and purpose.
Less devotion to competitive Mars,
and more attendance to the hearth of
Hestia, support the cultivation of a fire
that centres earthy life, where stories
and visions can be shared to guide a
sustainable life on earth.
Air fans fire. Contemporar y life
is a whirlwind of air spirits with its
frenetic digital communications and
the exponential growth of airline
travel. Along with the war ming
temperatures encircling the globe,
there is the overheated air of constant
chatter swirling around us and within
us. Hurricanes act as a vent to release
the build up of hot air. They are on
the rise in the world, while internally
we experience storms of anxiety and
restlessness as mental activity becomes
overcharged.
Alongside the chatter, the media
delivers the confronting ecological
truths of our interconnectedness. We are
learning that warmer air temperatures
af fect ever y aspect of life on earth,
from desertification and the spread
of diseases to dying ocean reefs and
species extinctions. On a collective level
we are experiencing what the astronauts
first saw when they rocketed into the
sky and turned back to view Earth – the
beauty, fragility and unity of the planet
where we live. Consciously engaging
the airy realm can give perspective. We
need far-seeing intellect and thought
to help us face the times we are in.
The challenge is to claim the time and
space to think, and to risk seeing the
immensity of the picture of our current
situation. It can be overwhelming and,
as with the astronauts, it can radically
re-order our values and ideals. All
of us at this time are confronted with
developing a global consciousness and
finding a way to individually live within
this awareness.
Relationship to earth is pivotal to the
way the energies of fire and air play
out. Being caught in the airy realms,
disconnected from earthy life, whips up
a dust storm; becoming embroiled in
a firestorm of ambitions burns out the
land. The fate of the earth needs to be
“ Air fans fire. Contemporary life is a
whirlwind of air spirits with its frenetic
”
digital communications....
seen, her voice heard. Earth struggles
with an avalanche of material desires
driven by the demands of the fire and air
dragons: exotic holidays, the speediest of
technologies, the most powerful of cars.
Being ordinary, having humility, learning
patience are earthy experiences that are
shunned in today’s world. The earth gods
protest through an avalanche of fatigue
and body complaints, and the heavy
demons of depression can shut us out of
the circus of the world. Neither the Earth
nor our being can sustain the onslaught
of activities that contemporar y life
demands in order to be 24/7 productive
and performing. Sustainability requires
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ElementalImbalance
cycles, seasons – inbuilt constraints with
their balancing periods of inactivity and
non-achievement in order to thrive. Our
earthy work is to redeem these restful
spirits from their place of banishment
and shame.
Rich fertile earth is fed by compost,
manure and other rotting detritus.
Humus is the root word for humility
and humbleness. What makes good
soil also nourishes the soul. Reducing
ego’s demands for more possessions,
achievements and experiences,
enriches the ground of our being.
The earth gods require us to shed old
images, structures, beliefs, positions
and identities to be more vital. The
autumnal season of loss and the winter
period of dormancy ensure future crops.
Seeking security through constant
growth and productivity stimulated
by artificial means ensures collapse
ahead in humans and ecosystems
alike. True earthy security is based
on an understanding and acceptance
of the necessity for restraints and
constraints, for the way we must match
needs to resources. Earth knows there
are limits and we feel secure when we
can acknowledge them and responsibly
live within them.
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“The facts of nature cannot in the
long run be violated. Penetrating and
seeping through everything like water,
they will undermine any system that
fails to account for them, and sooner or
later they will bring about its downfall.”
Jung CW 16:§227
We in the developed world are living a
lifestyle fuelled by the hubris of Icarus
– and our wings are beginning to melt
as we approach the heat of the Sun.
The flight of Icarus ends in the sea. On
planet Earth inundation looms as ice
caps thaw, ocean levels rise and storms
increase. Our contemporary images of
the ocean dramatically alert us to the
consequences of our heroic ambitions.
In the realms of the unconscious, in our
own depths, there is a terror in each
of us as we witness the destruction of
precious habitat. We feel helpless before
the tsunami of catastrophic news: floods,
rising sea temperatures, desertification,
increasing salinity. Scenes of drought and
flood affect us deeply on an instinctual
level. Their disturbing images find their
way into our dream life, with their many
resonances of aridity and thirst, their
capacity to drown and overwhelm.
Our waters are deeply stirred by
the most potent of emotions. How we
relate to what lies in the unconscious is
crucial for us personally and collectively.
We can be flooded by denial and turn to
all kinds of addictive behaviours, or we
can acknowledge our deepest terrors
and thirsts, and transform destructive
behaviours into life-sustaining ones. The
watery realm connects us to the life of
the unconscious, the place of dreams,
reverie, imagination and contemplation.
We can go to the waters for healing and
rebirth but to do so requires a surrender
of ego.
“The tempo of the development of
consciousness through science and
technology was too rapid, and left the
unconscious, which could no longer keep
up with it, far behind, thus forcing it
into a defensive position which expresses
itself in a universal will to destruction.”
Jung, CW 9i:§617
It is ver y easy to feel swamped by
the daily flood of information about
climate change and become paralysed
in response. Collectively we need to
meet at the river and draw on the power
of water to feel how small movements
change currents. The tidal wave of
action and awareness that swept the
world in 2007 as individuals flocked
to An Inconvenient Truth, fed into a
change of government in Australia
that has strengthened the Kyoto
Treaty. Here in Sydney, as individuals
turn off taps, water consumption has
been reduced to 1970's levels. We are
learning that individual actions, carried
out collectively, turn tides.
There are many polarities to hold in
facing climate change: individual need
and collective good, present desires
and future livelihood, personal actions
and global outcomes, destr uctive
impulses and creative urges. There
is ample opportunity in the current
situation to follow Jung’s urgings to
hold the tension of the opposites in
order to widen consciousness, and the
possibilities that go with this. To change
the world out there we need to change
consciousness, to find a sustaining and
sustainable way of being. Restoring the
natural elemental energies of fire, earth,
air and water into consciousness is one
way to relate to and reconcile ourselves
with the environmental reality of the
world.
References:
C.G. Jung, Collected Works (Routledge, Kegan &
Paul, London)
George Monbiot, Heat (Allen Lane, London, 2006)
Meredith Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring75
[“Nature and Psyche”] (2006):139-153

WISDOM OF THE PSYCHE THE WISDOM OF THE PSYCHE is
both a personal story and a manifesto,
written after the author’s descent into
a deep hole – an empty swimming pool
into which she fell on her head – and her
Ginette Paris author of return to the upper world with the aid
Wisdom of the Psyche:
Depth Psychology of neuroscience and “the Great Mother’s
after Neuroscience.
milk of compassion”. It is informed by
London and New
York, Routledge. her encounter with death which taught
her, she says, more about the psyche
than had many years of analysis.
Her voice, though, has not changed
from the one we hear in her books
Pagan Grace and Pagan Meditations.
She is the same original, provocative,
bold, poetic, insightful and incisive
writer whom we know from her writings
on myths in everyday life. But this book
is more personal and courageous as it
takes a trenchant look at attitudes and
issues in the practice of psychotherapy,
enlivened by case material and accounts
from the author’s own life.
Firmly rooted in depth and archetypal
psychology, which she teaches at
Pacifica Graduate Institute at Santa
Barbara, California, Paris is particularly
influenced by James Hillman and his
work on the renaissance of psychology
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through the imaginal. Like Hillman, her
approach is lively and polemical as she
pulls apart modern psychotherapeutic
dogma, putting into question all of the
myths about therapy that therapists of
any persuasion might hold dear. Her
ideas are underpinned by feminism
and Existentialism, particularly Sartre’s
dictum “We are condemned to freedom”.
She writes: “[T]o develop psychological
wisdom we must learn, early on, that even
the most loving relationship cannot spare
us the solitude of human destiny.”
She begins by engaging with current
models of psychotherapy—the medical
model (the promise of healing), the
economic model (multiplying one’s
psychological investments), the judicial
model (negotiating one’s psychic
territory, e.g. jockeying for the role of
victim), and the religious model (the
hope of redemption). None of these
models, she concludes, addresses
the passionate, irrational, Dionysian
aspect of psychological life. She sees
the practice of depth psychology as a
celebration of psychological life. It is
depth psychology that teaches us to
dance with the psyche.
Of the rejected models, the one that
comes closest to the bone for many of
us, I imagine, is the myth of therapy as
redemption, analysis as the redemptive
quest masquerading as individuation,
“the belief that analysing the unconscious
will lead to a clean, pure, healthy psyche
and that one will evolve into a luminous,
loving, dignified, pacified soul.” While
the spiritual need is real, attributing
a quasi-divinity to the Self brings the
danger of inflation. For her, Jung’s
notion of the Self as an ideal centre, a
dream of totality, was literally turned on
its head in the aftermath of her accident,
when she learned to live out of liminal
spaces rather than aspiring to live from
a notional centre.
As to the future of depth psychology,
she urges us to “drop the medical
pretence”. “Analysis is not so much a
cure as an education, like learning a
new language, a philosophical adventure
in self-discovery, an art of living more
lucidly and intensely.”
The stress by Freud and Jung on the
medical scientific basis of their work
was necessary in the beginning, but it
no longer serves. Depth psychology as
BOOK REVIEW
by Ginette Paris
Reviewed by Anne Di Lauro
a theory, she asserts, “is a deep thinking
about the life of the psyche and, as such,
belongs to the arts and the humanities.”
As a practice it belongs to mythology
– a narrative evoking the complexities
of human life. Like literature, depth
psychology transmutes the psyche’s
story, changing the myth and elevating
the psyche from shame. "The future of depth
psychology is concerned
A work containing such a profusion of [with raising] the
fever of imagination,
insights and bold assertions, impossible
to amplify the loving
to even hint at in this short space, will connection that binds us
to the world." page 240,
sometimes surprise, will sometimes Wisdom of the Psyche.
bring nods of agreement, and will
at times jar, requiring readers to re-
examine and revise or reaffirm their
own values.
As we learn, Ginette Paris emerged
from her descent with a new myth of
her own, the springtime thawing of her
heart that had been frozen in childhood
for lack of warm mothering.
In this book, she has combined the
compassion of the Mother and the
rigour of the Father with her new-
found sense of the absurdity of life, and
produced a Dionysian dance of fresh
and challenging ideas. Pagan Grace
by Ginette Paris.
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2008 Programme July through November
SATURDAY, JULY 12:
Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology:
Weaving Threads between Self and World
Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini
and Sally Gillespie
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9
The Cure is Effected Through Love:
A Relational Approach to Individuation
Judith Pickering
C.G.Jung Society of Sydney
The C.G. Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote
Page 14–15 discussion of the ideas of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl
Gustav Jung. Each month the Society arranges Guest Speakers
to present a diverse range of Jungian topics in the form of talks,
workshops and special events, which can be found in the following
pages. The Society is open to all members of the general public
Page 18–19
and offers a rich and varied monthly programme of speakers both

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Australian and international.
Myths to Live By:
Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Certificates of Attendance for professional development hours
Bo Robertson Page 20–21 available at all events.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 NEW! TUESDAY EVENING READING GROUP

The Crone: STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28
The Archetype of the Wise Older Woman The Work of Marion Woodman
Joan Harcourt Page 22–23 Kathleen McPhillips
Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes in the
WORKSHOP extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 See details and reading references. Page 16–17
Becoming Crones: For bookings phone Lenore Kulakauskas on 9365 7750
A BodySoul Rhythm workshop
Joan Harcourt Page 24–25 SATURDAY, November 8
Annual Christmas Party:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Coming all together
The Inner City of Sydney Hosted by your local C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. Page 28
Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis
Craig San Roque and Erica Cordell Page 26–27 www.jungdownunder.com

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Climate Change
Presenters: Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and Sally Gillespie
Weaving Threads between Self and World
JUNG WAS ARGUABLY one of the first therapists to draw a
link between psychology and the global concerns of humanity.
He famously suggested that there
was only “a thin thread” of human
consciousness holding the line between
order and chaos in the world.
So it is appropriate that we now use
the depth psychology of Jung to turn our
gaze upon the pressing global concern
of climate change. By doing so we
acknowledge that this is a subject that
excites many fantasies and perspectives:
political, social and psychological.
What kind of psycho-analysis can be
undertaken in a world that appears to be
heading towards biological extinction?
Does the growing threat of climate
change require a transformation in how
we understand and relate to psyche, to
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meets depth psychology
dreams, to fantasies and emotions?
How do we understand the interplay
between psyche and environmental
emergency? What role does psyche
play in supporting and/or hindering
the necessar y changes to economic,
political and social structures which are
required by the growing environmental
crisis?
These are some of the concerns
that will be taken up by a panel of
presenters who in turn hope to excite
a conversation with the audience that
will reflect the many responses that this
complex subject can ignite.
EVENTS PROGRAMME
SATURDAY, 12 JULY
6.30pm for 7.00pm
TALK
Blavatsky Lodge,
484 Kent Street,
Sydney
PETER DICKER is a former president of the Illawarra Jung Society. He works
as a psychologist in a public health clinic, south of Wollongong. Over the past
two decades Peter has been exploring his interest in Jungian and Archetypal
Psychology through various creative projects – lectures, essays, poetr y and
musical compositions – and he continues to maintain an ongoing passion for ideas,
particularly in relation to clinical and cultural matters.
Peter Dicker
SALLY GILLESPIE is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice and the
President of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. She is the author of Living the Dream,
The Book of Dreaming and co-author of The Knot of Time. Sally has experience in
bush regeneration and is a passionate gardener who loves nothing better than being
deep in manure in her community garden allotment.
HEATHER FORMAINI is a Jungian analyst in private practice. Her theoretical Sally Gillespie
concerns focus on gender, particularly masculinity, and she is the author of the
best selling book Men: The Darker Continent. Heather was a founder member of the
British organisation Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, and
actively campaigns on the politics of fair trade and climate change. She also works
with refugees and asylum seekers. In her previous life she was a broadcaster with
the BBC and ABC, specialising in the borderline between politics and religion.
Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20
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Marion Woodman
Convenor: Kathleen McPhillips
THIS GROUP WILL explore over 6
sessions some of the central themes in
the extensive work of Canadian Jungian
analyst Marion Woodman. Themes
will include: addiction and its causes;
healing the split feminine; leaving the
father’s house; conscious femininity;
working with dreams and fairytales; the
BodySoul Rhythm program. Readings
will be provided, with the aim to cover a
RECOMMENDED READING:
Addiction to Perfection: The
Still Unravished Bride
Inner City, Books Toronto 1982
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of
Psychological Transformation
Inner City Books, Toronto 1985
The Ravaged Bridegroom
Books by Inner City Books Toronto 1990
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EVENTS PROGRAMME
TUESDAYS, AUGUST TO OCTOBER
7.00pm
READING GROUP
Darghan Street
Psychotherapy Practice,
6 Darghan Street Glebe
Reading Group
couple of readings each week.
Kathleen McPhillips is a senior
lecturer in Humanities at the University
of Wester n Sydney. She has been
reading the work of Marion Woodman
for 25 years, and recently attended a
BodySoul Rhythm workshop in Italy.
Kathleen’s field of research includes
gender, culture and religion. She has
published extensively in these areas.
Leaving My Father’s House EVENT DETAILS: 6 SESSIONS
Shambala Press 1992 DATES: Tuesday, 5th August; Tuesday, 19 August;
Conscious Femininity Tuesday, 9 September; Tuesday, 16 September;
Inner City Books Toronto 1993 Tuesday, 7 October; Tuesday, 28 October.
Bone – Dying into Life Time: 7.00–9.00pm
Viking Press 2000 PLACE: Darghan Street Psychotherapy Practice, 6 Darghan Street Glebe.
BOOKINGS: Lenore Kulakauskas Tel: 9365 7750 • Email: lenorek@bigpond.com Kathleen McPhillips
Cost: Members: $150 • Member’s Concession: $130 • Non- members: $180
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 The Cure is Effected Through Love
A Relational Approach to Individuation
Speaker: Judith Pickering
AT THE CORE of analysis is a
profoundly transformative relationship:
“For two personalities to meet is like two
dif ferent chemical substances: if there
is any combination at all, both are
transformed” (Jung, CW 15:§163).
Yet the shadow of individuation
can be a rigid if not frigid form of
individualism. This talk re-envisions
individuation as about healing the false
disseverations and divisions we have
created between ourselves and others:
by opening ourselves out to the world
of others through genuine altruistic
appreciation of others as they are, rather
than expecting them to conform to our
fantasies and expectations; by delighting
in, not fearing our differences; and by
welcoming the unpredictability of a
real relationship rather than continually
trying to control the agenda. Authentic
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love is much richer, more exciting and
fulfilling than any fantasy relationship we
concoct in our limited imaginations.
Becoming who we are is a becoming
in and through love. We uncover
our truest nature, and become most
authentically r eal, thr ough the
difficult and fearful, yet transformative
intersubjective crucibles of our intimate
relationships. Relationships may be
notoriously confusing, full of the pain of
disappointed expectations, disillusioned
fantasies, misunderstandings, and
mutual projections and identifications,
but they also have the potential for us
to liberate each other from the defensive
doldrums of depressed torpidity, into
new realms of discover y of who we
might be and become under all the
deceits and disguises.
EVENTS PROGRAMME
SATURDAY, 9 AUGUST
6.30pm for 7.00pm
TALK
Blavatsky Lodge,
484 Kent Street,
Sydney
“We only become ourselves with people and for people ... the self is like a
crowd, therefore being oneself, one is also many ... one can only individuate
with or against something or somebody.” – Carl Jung
The path of tr ue love does not a malignant dowry, defensive patterns of
always run smoothly, but goes of f- relating based on traumatic childhood
course with alarming regularity. Its experience which we superimpose
achievement is never once and for all, upon a new relationship, giving rise
but requires continual renewal, and to entangled unconscious interlocking
is dependent upon how well any two scenes. Here both individual analysis
lovers can understand, work through and couple therapy can inspire and
and disentangle the webs of mutual enhance the capacity to love well and to
projections and false imputations become fully ourselves in a process of
imposed upon each other. We bring, like transformation in love.
JUDITH PICKERING, PhD, is a psychoanalytic couple therapist, Jungian
analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in East Sydney.
She is a member of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Jungian
Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and a
senior supervisor on the training faculty of the Australia and New Zealand
Association of Psychotherapy. She holds qualifications in Humanities, Asian Judith Pickering
Studies, Musicology, Music Education, Psychotherapy, Analytical Psychology
and Psychology, lecturing in the area of couple therapy and psychoanalysis.
Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15
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Myths to
SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER
6.30pm for 7.00pm
TALK

Live by
Blavatsky Lodge,
484 Kent Street,
Sydney

Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Speaker: Bo Robertson

Is magic a matter of fiction or religious beliefs only?

Can miracles be rationally explained?
Can a marble statue be brought to life?
If so, how could such a feat be accomplished?

IN ANCIENT GREECE archetypal
psychological processes were captured
and depicted in the form of myths. These
stories taught the principles of living,
by showing how specific, co-dependent
Bo Robertson processes of thought, emotion and
reflection become drivers of both
constructive and destructive human
actions. One such tale concerns the
sculptor Pygmalion who, despising all
real women, fell in love with Aphrodite,
made a statue of her and laid it in his
bed. He deeply hoped and prayed that
it would come to life and become his
wife and, eventually, Aphrodite granted
his wish.
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The archetypal patterns displayed
in these myths are still of interest
to moder n psychology. Thus the
“Pygmalion Effect” is clearly illustrated
by research which shows that a teacher’s
anticipation of a student’s performance
is almost always proved correct (for
good or ill), regardless of the subjects’
initial ability.
This talk will explore the twin aspects
of the “Pygmalion Effect” and show how
biased (positive or negative) expectations
can change reality as if by “magic”. We
shall discuss the specific emotional
states which must be in place to effect
change and which separate superficial
desires" from those feelings with roots The King And I, A Star Is Born, Born
in our heart of hearts. This exploration Yesterday to give an idea of the richness
will be illustrated by excerpts from films of the modern versions of the myth and
and plays such as Pygmalion, My Fair their illustration of our psychology and
Lady, A Winter’s Tale, Educating Rita, actions.
BO ROBERTSON, M.Lib.Sc., Dip.Cl.Hyp., JP, is a passionate Emotional
Intelligence and Personal Development Trainer and coach, specialising in the
study of mind-body connection, Psychocybernetics, the knowledge of human
archetypes, motives underlying decisions, and why people do what they do.
Bo studied Psychocybernetics in Europe with Professor Marian Mazur, whose
book The ABC of Character: the Elementary Guide to Human Potential Bo
has translated into English and published. She is currently writing a book on
Emotional Intelligence and its dynamic archetypes.
Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15
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EVENTS PROGRAMME

SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER
6.30pm for 7.00pm
TALK
Blavatsky Lodge,
484 Kent Street,
Sydney

The Archetype of the Wise Older Woman

Speaker: Joan Harcourt

WOMEN FACING the challenges of
change, physical limitation, loss and
invisibility that can occur in their later
years, find the journey to becoming
a Crone, a wise elder, is rich and
meaningful.
We will discuss the Crone attributes,
which can be found in both men and
inspiring teachings of noted Jungian
Analyst, Marion Woodman, my own
experiences as a par ticipant in her
workshops, and myths and stories
of older women, we will look at the
thresholds and tasks of this journey
towards wisdom, wholeness and truth,
to wearing the “Crown of Age”.
JOAN HARCOUR T has participated
in BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and
seminars for 8 years with Marion
Wo o d m a n , M a r y H a m i l t o n a n d
Ann Skinner. She has completed
the European BodySoul Rhythms
Leadership Training Program with the
Marion Woodman Foundation.
small team of leaders assisting Marion
and Ross Woodman in a BodySoul
Program in Hawaii.
She has co-led dream groups and
cross-cultural groups. Currently she is
leading Crone groups. She has trained
in analytical group work, gestalt therapy
and has a private practice as a body Marion Woodman

women, and explore the gifts and tasks In Februar y 2007 Joan was one of a psychotherapist in Cambridge.
of conscious aging. Drawing upon the
Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20
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EVENTS PROGRAMME

SUNDAY, 12 OCTOBER
TIME: 10am – 4.30pm
WORKSHOP
VENUE: The Centre,
14 Frances St.,

Crones
Randwick

Presenter: Joan Harcourt

A BodySoul Rhythm workshop

THE AIM OF THIS WORKSHOP is to
facilitate opportunities to explore the
developmental tasks and experience of
aging: the losses, limitations and gifts
for those in the third phase of their
lives. We will explore what gives us
energy, what we value now, what ties us
to past patterns which no longer serve
Our exploration will be through
meditation, discussion, dream work,
music, poetry, movement, play, dance
and art work. This way of working has
been devised by Marion Woodman
and her BodySoul Rhythm team to
integrate mind and body wisdom, using
our creative imagination to bridge and
CURRENTLY JOAN HARCOURT Is involved in leading groups exploring the Crone
archetype. After participating in the BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and seminars
with Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, Joan was one of a small
team of leaders in 2007 at a BodySoul Program in Hawaii led by Marion and Ross
Woodman.
The workshop is educational, not therapeutic. Please wear comfortable clothing.
BOOKING DETAILS:
DATE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12 Joan Harcourt

us, what we wish to relinquish, and what
we wish to bring into the future. What is
our dream? What steps do we need to
take towards manifesting this?
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integrate different ways of knowing.
TIME: 10AM – 4.30PM
VENUE: THE CENTRE, 14 FRANCES ST., RANDWICK
WORKSHOP FEES: $130 MEMBERS, $110 MEMBER’S CONCESSION, $170 NON-MEMBERS
BOOKINGS: LENORE KULAKAUSKAS, TEL: 9365 7750 EMAIL: LENOREK@BIGPOND.COM
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PSYCHE AND THE CITY: A SOUL’S GUIDE TO THE MODERN METROPOLIS SATURDAY, 8 NOVEMBER

The ofSydney
6.30pm for 7.00pm
TALK

Inner City
Blavatsky Lodge
484 Kent St,
Sydney
Stay on after this talk
for our annual

Speakers: Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell CHRISTMAS PARTY!

SPRING JOURNAL BOOKS with
Thomas Singer of the San Francisco
Jung Institute have commissioned
Craig to write a chapter about Sydney
for a book, on great cities of the world,
with the working title of Psyche and
The City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern
compositions... Stay close to what you
each know inside about the cities you
inhabit – with the understanding that
what is soulful and meaningful to
you may, or may not, be the same for
everyone else."
Why did Tom think Sydney was worth
for the Singer book, accompanied by
Erica Cordell’s gritty photography and
pavement rubbings, which illustrate
many layered, wr yly symbolic, and
graphic actions, all beneath our walking
feet. Craig’s pieces include Darwin’s
Walk, The Room in the East Sydney
Details over page
the Harbour, and Dante’s Nest. Come
– enjoy yourself and muse about your
personal inner city...
“The place where cultural experience is
located is in the potential space between
the individual and the environment...”
D.W. Winnicott

Metropolis.
Tom Singer asked in his commission,
"What makes different cities unique
in terms of qualities of psyche, soul,
and spirit? What archetypal patterns
characterize a city? How does the
history, geography, and psyche of a
city’s past and current inhabitants
unite to create each city’s own special
identity – both its positive aspects and
a chapter? Is Sydney a great city? Or is
it maybe a city becoming great? Is it a
place with soul, or with a poetry of place?
What would you write or photograph for
such a book? How might you enhance
the imaginative vitality of the places
close to you?
Sydney is a city of villages – a setting
for crime, money, novels, paintings,
documentaries, and films – but nowhere
Hotel, Charlie Wong Detective, The Man
from Belarus, The Two Women Under
CRAIG SAN ROQUE, a Jungian analyst working in Sydney, has a distinctive
angle on Australian issues. His publications are attracting international
attention. Last year he presented the mysterious Dr Wong Stories, part of a
collaboration with renowned eco-philosopher Freya Mathews, on revisioning
Tao. This year his theme is “imaginative attention to the city – the place where Craig San Roque

its shadow qualities? as beloved of culture as Paris, Vienna we live”.

"These questions can be addressed
in myriad ways – through personal
anecdote as well through descriptions
and depth psychological analyses
of a city’s collective histor y, local
geography, and ethnic and religious
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or New York have become. These cities
are sets for major movements in the
imaginative life of the world. And yet
here we are.... So thank you Tom, it’s a
great idea, we will think about this.
Craig will read evocative pieces written
ERICA CORDELL is a Sydney/Redfern photographer artist with a lovingly
wr y eye for unnoticed pavements and forgotten historic artefacts in old
Sydney. Her family has lived here since the Second Fleet.
Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15 ‘Style A’ by Erica Cordell
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SATURDAY, 8 November
8.30pm til late
Following TALK PRACTICAL EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP
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We may not be able to predict our feelings for every situation but we can certainly learn to manage
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SATURDAY, JULY 12: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 12
Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology: WORKSHOP
Weaving Threads between Self and World Becoming Crones:
Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini A BodySoul Rhythm workshop
and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15 Joan Harcourt Page 24–25

SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8

The Cure is Effected Through Love: The Inner City of Sydney
A Relational Approach to Individuation Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern
Judith Pickering Page 18–19 Metropolis
Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell Page 26–27
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Myths to Live By: Saturday, November 8
Pygmalion as a Modern Concept Annual Christmas Party:
of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Coming all together Page 28
Bo Robertson Page 20–21

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 NEW! Tuesday Evening Reading Group

The Crone: STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28
The Archetype Of The Wise Older Woman The Work of Marion Woodman
Joan Harcourt Page 22–23 Kathleen McPhillips
Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes
in the extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst
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