Public Lectures

=== Basic Jung ===

What in the world is a ‘Jungian analysis’? Who does the analyzing? What is analyzed? What happens? We will look at all these questions and more during this introduction to the Basic Jung series ‘Working as a Jungian Psychoanalyst’.

=== Basic Jung ===

The lecture will give a brief overview of Jungian concepts and how they function in his understanding of the psyche.

=== Basic Jung ===

Understood as an image that represents much more than its mere concrete form, the symbol opens a window onto the very roots of the world. It can be experienced as a revelation, but also used as a key to translation. If becoming possessed by a symbol imprisons us, then entering into dialogue with it liberates energy. Thus the symbolic equation is to depth psychology what the mathematical equation is to the natural sciences. It allows powerful analysis and forges deeply attuned solutions. To adopt a symbolic attitude is a truly vivifying experience.

=== Basic Jung ===

The lecture will address the understanding of psychic suffering and illness from a Jungian point of view. How do healing and relief come about and what facilitates those in analytical work?

=== Basic Jung ===

What is Jungian in our views on dreams, on the purpose of dreams, on the meaning of the weird situations and people in our dreams? An introduction on the function and the language of dreams is followed by a common discussion of a particular dream. Another dream is then discussed first in small groups, then with all while the different findings are compared and a conclusion on a possible meaning is drawn.

In this lecture we will look at the ancient and psychoanalytic approach to dreams. We will also consider contemporary research on dream consciousness.

=== Basic Jung ===

Jungian psychoanalysts use a theory of psychological development to assist their clients toward health and wholeness. This lecture will give an overview of how individuation theory is used in analysis.

=== Basic Jung ===

We will try to encounter the man C. G. Jung. What course did his life take? What are the turning points and stations in his life? Which people played important roles in Jung’s life and how did these encounters influence his work? We will embark on a journey of Jung’s life and work, illustrated with pictures and texts.

Emerging, hiding, sliding, killing, creating, … Shadow is there, ‘called or uncalled’ as part of the Self, as Jung experienced in the human psyche. Case studies with dreams and transference-countertransference aspects will be discussed. An interesting 12 year case with rich dream and picture material will be discussed indetail.

Fallmaterial mit Bezug auf Träume, Übertragung und Gegenübertragung. Besondere Erwähnung einer langen Therapie über 12 Jahre, mit Bild- und Traummaterial.

1) “On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the  Alchemy of Individuation”

2) “On Modern Initiation into the Spiritual”

3) “The Individuation Process in Difficult Times: Jung’s Red Book Experience”

In this lecture we will look at the ancient and psychoanalytic approach to dreams. We will also consider contemporary research on dream consciousness.

Emerging, hiding, sliding, killing, creating, … Shadow is there, ‘called or uncalled’ as part of the Self, as Jung experienced in the human psyche. Case studies with dreams and transference-countertransference aspects will be discussed. An interesting 12 year case with rich dream and picture material will be discussed indetail.

Fallmaterial mit Bezug auf Träume, Übertragung und Gegenübertragung. Besondere Erwähnung einer langen Therapie über 12 Jahre, mit Bild- und Traummaterial.

1) “On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the  Alchemy of Individuation”

2) “On Modern Initiation into the Spiritual”

3) “The Individuation Process in Difficult Times: Jung’s Red Book Experience”

Emerging, hiding, sliding, killing, creating, … Shadow is there, ‘called or uncalled’ as part of the Self, as Jung experienced in the human psyche. Case studies with dreams and transference-countertransference aspects will be discussed. An interesting 12 year case with rich dream and picture material will be discussed indetail.

Fallmaterial mit Bezug auf Träume, Übertragung und Gegenübertragung. Besondere Erwähnung einer langen Therapie über 12 Jahre, mit Bild- und Traummaterial.

1) “On the Importance of Numinous Experience in the  Alchemy of Individuation”

2) “On Modern Initiation into the Spiritual”

3) “The Individuation Process in Difficult Times: Jung’s Red Book Experience”