Professional Documents
Culture Documents
the
red book
liber novus
c . g . jung
edited and introduced by
sonu shamdasani
The Red Book records the process of Jung becoming Jung. Shamdasani talked of
Jung’s pre-war visions, drawing his attention to prophecy and a possible career
as a prophet. The Red Book shows us how Jung the prophet became Jung the
psychologist, making the enormously significant shift from prophesying to trying
to understand how prophecy works, i.e. how do subjective states of mind connect
with later external world events?
This question is still very much alive today and thus the publication of The Red
Book, the ‘common denominator’ of all Jungian Schools, is timely and portentous.
Shamdasani told us that what happens next depends on us. The work of editing
and publishing is done, and he told us that he is still amazed as there were “too
many reasons for it not to be”. Perhaps in this statement lies a clue for the
projector’s failure at the beginning of our seminar. It may be a reminder to us all
that whenever something comes into the world, something of great significance,
we must remain alert to the workings of forces that work against it.
The purpose of this talk is to introduce the thought of Giegerich to the Sydney
community by providing some “sign posts” that are essential to understanding
his work. From reading his works in depth and also visiting Giegerich in Berlin,
John Woodcock will present his understanding of the essential concepts that
a reader must grasp in order to “enter” the thought of Wolfgang Giegerich.
John C Woodcock PhD has lived in Sydney since his return in 2003 from the
USA where he practised as a Jungian therapist for 17 years. He also underwent
a personal analysis over 13 years. John’s first contact with Wolfgang Giegerich
was in 1999 and he visited him in Berlin in 2009. John may be reached at
jwoodcock@lighthousedownunder.com. His website of the same name displays
his books and essays.
6:30pm for 7:00pm
Level 2 484 Kent St Sydney
Members $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $20
6:30pm for 7:00pm
March 1, 15, 29, April 12, 26, May 10, 24, june 7
8 session women’s story circle
Stories set the inner life in motion, and this is particularly important when the
inner life is wedged and cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes
adrenaline to surge, shows us the
way out…
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
TERENCE MCBRIDE trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich and obtained
the post graduate diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1979. He is a former
president of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney, and works as a Jungian
analyst in private practice in Arncliffe.
CLAIRE DUNNE published an illustrated biography, Jung: Wounded Healer
of the Soul, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award,
and is currently on the undergraduate reading list for psychological and
religious studies in Australian and American universities.
J
her
ungian analyst Sarah Gibson
takes us on a sneak preview of
groundbreaking interactive
artists and photographers. Sarah will
introduce us to the extraordinary
creative re-imagining of six fairy
project Re-enchantment that has stories by international artists such
been three years in the making. It as Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and
is a poetic and provocative act of Paula Rego and in work by Australian
creative interpretation of fairy tales, artists Rosemary Valadon, Jasmina
threading together perspectives Cininas, Judy Horacek and Deborah
from psychology, social history and Klein among others.
popular culture.
Exploring the ways fairy tales
Traditional fairy tales have a have provided creative inspiration
powerful hold on our cultural deepens our connection to the
imagination. Adapted, revised and mystery and enchantment of fairy
bowdlerized, they greet us in print tales. Sarah speaks of her own
and popular fiction, at the movies creative process and encourages us
and in advertisements. They have all to engage with and contribute to
been the inspiration for many visual the Re-enchantment project.
C arl Jung was a highly regarded psychiatrist and researcher. He was largely
responsible for the transition of the nascent psychoanalytical interest group
from a small and relatively inward-looking gathering into an international and
professionally accepted movement. The intellectual divide separating Jung
and Freud, eventually too great to bridge, was essentially the recognition of
two very distinct emotional drivers: Freud’s for conceptual clarity to a point
close to dogmatic understanding, and Jung’s for an experiential appreciation
of the inherent complexity and ambivalence of the human psyche.
T his workshop is open to all. The aim is to invite participants, from all and
every background, to consider the therapeutic experience as a meeting
of two embodied minds for the purpose of meaning making and action taking.
It will be via the vehicle of a case formulation that the differing worldviews,
of ‘evidence-based’ psychological therapy and of Jungian psychotherapy, will
surface and be discussed.
archetypes of chaos
presenter: jonathan marshall
W e tend to flee from disorder and chaos, identifying chaos with evil and
destruction. However what if spiritual, social and psychological growth
necessarily involves living with, or passing through, chaos?
Jung differed from our usual Western approach, embracing the fragmentary
propositions of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, about world as flux, and
the productive and disordered struggle between opposites. This view was
reinforced after Jung’s studies in alchemy when he suggested that the
experience of chaos, the materia confusa, is also the experience which both
leads to transformation and is essential to transformation. At this time, the
order that the ego wishes to impose on the world or the unconscious no
longer works, and this failure is the moment of the possibility of new life.
The whole spirit is hidden in chaos, and disorder is not just to be feared.
Indeed, we might say that life is that which resists order and predictability,
and the more we are alive, the more fraught is the relationship between
what we call order and disorder.
This talk investigates what it might mean to take chaos and disorder seriously,
by exploring symbols and images of chaos in Christian, Jewish, Babylonian,
Greek, Chinese and other mythologies, and by a return to hidden messages
of the ‘collective dream’ of alchemy.
Each of the professional development lectures and seminars in this series takes one or
more of these Jungian signature concepts as its point of departure. They are open to
clinicians and trainees from any background. The Friday night lectures look at the wider
clinical and theoretical implications of the ideas on Knox’s list, and the Saturday seminars
offer an opportunity for attendees to explore more specific clinical applications of these
ideas with ANZSJA analysts and with fellow seminar attendees. The Saturday seminars also
include input from the presenters on both traditional and contemporary understandings
of these core Jungian concepts, as well as their clinical uses.
These lectures and seminars have been structured in this way to make them accessible
to clinicians who have little or no knowledge of Jung’s work. At the same time, the
innovative approach being taken to the ideas under discussion means that these PD events
will also be relevant to clinicians who are familiar with Jung’s ideas but are interested in
exploring how they might develop new ways of applying them in their work.
The concepts in Knox’s list will be covered in the lectures and seminars as follows:
(Reference: Knox (2007) “Who Owns the Unconscious? or Why Psychoanalysts Need to
‘Own Jung’,” p.319 in Who Owns Jung? ed. Ann Casement, Karnac, London).