October 8, 2010
Thayer Greene: The Shadow as Archetype and Personal Dilemma
Jung’s explorations of the shadow side of the individual and collective human psyche were both extensive and profound. This lecture attempts to provide a summary of his insights as well as more recent Jungian thinking in the following categories: 1. The shadow as a moral and ethical dilemma. 2. The shadow as an instinctual and somatic dilemma. 3. The shadow as an affective and energetic dilemma. 4. The dilemma of the individual in relation to the collective shadow. 5. The shadow as an archetypal dilemma, i.e., the problem of evil.
Thayer Greene, Ph.D. is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, a training analyst, a faculty member of the Jung Institute of Boston, and has lectured widely and is the author of a book and a number of articles in the field. He has a private practice in Amherst.
November 12, 2010
Karen A. Smyers: Does the Soul Like Facebook? Exploring the Friendship Archetype
Facebook has become a pervasive social force in the world today, with more than 500 million active users. Is this a natural and healthy extension of friendship into the latest medium, or a narcissistic and/or voyeuristic shadow of true relatedness, mediated by a business model? This talk will explore the meanings and varieties of friendship and its archetypal underpinnings, and will consider what the soul gains and loses as humans move more and more into “virtual” relationships.
Karen A. Smyers, Ph.D., is a former Associate Professor at Wesleyan University and a graduate of ISAP-Zurich. She has a private practice in Hadley, and is the current President of the Jung Center of Western Massachusetts.
December 10, 2010
Nomi Kluger-Nash: The Poetics of Dream: Our Truth Telling Visions of Night and of Day
Psyche’s symbolic speech can loose its subtle nuances if one looks too fast for an interpretation rather than allowing the symbol—always representing something unknown–to continually unfold of itself, and doing so by virtue of our honoring its presence and affect. As personal and unique as these images may be, we can nonetheless find in dreams sufficient universality to justify Jung’s notion of an Objective Psyche, the Collective Unconscious. Through the telling of dreams we shall view and explore images as illustrations in word and meaning of Jung’s basic concepts of Archetype, Complex, Shadow, Anima/Animus and the individuating journey to the Self.
Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D., is a Jungian Psychologist and author, teaching at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. She has a private practice in Amherst.
January 14, 2011
Anita Greene, Ph.D: The Present Moment-Living in the Here and Now
Jung once said, “But the great thing is the here and now, this is the eternal moment, and if you do not realize it, you have missed the best part of your life.” What is the present moment? Surely it has to do with qualitative rather than quantitative time, with Kairos rather than Kronos. To be fully present to moments of intense and truly lived experience requires a profound coming together of the emotional, imaginal and sensory realms of our beings. If the experience of “nowness” contributes to psychic growth and change, how can we nurture this experience within ourselves, in our relationship to others and in our creative living and working? Come and explore together.
Anita Greene, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst and Rubenfeld Synergist. She is a graduate of the New York Institute where she taught and supervised for many years. She now teaches at the Boston Institute and has a private practice in Amherst.
February 11, 2011
Penny Tarasuk, Ph.D.: Curving Inward Toward the Heart: Confronting One’s Shadow and a Life’s Completion
Reading from her current manuscript, Penelope shares a woman’s dream of confrontation with shadow as a climax of years of analysis. Facing and touching the murderous, injured mother and vulnerable, needy child within becomes a means of self-redemption and recognition of self-compassion.
Penelope Tarasuk, Ph.D., a Jungian psychoanalyst, has a private practice in South Deerfield. Her workshops and lectures in the United States and abroad focus upon dreaming, active imagination, nature, art and body in spiritual development. She is a member of the Training Board of the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, training analyst, and faculty. Her deepest interests include accessing the heart of creativity through dream- image-embodiment, the wake of trauma and development of spiritual life.
March 11, 2011
Russell Holmes, M.A.: As You Speak, So Is Your Heart
With this remark of Paracelsus as a cue, Holmes will discuss the numerous meanings of the heart as a pump, a book, a thought, and as the locus of the Self with references to literary, religious, philosophical, and Jungian themes.
Russell Holmes, MA, a Jungian analyst practicing in Jamaica Plain, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich.
April 8, 2011
Manisha Roy, Ph.D.: Symptom, Symbol, Soul: How Symptoms Become Symbols to Heal Souls
This talk narrates how physical and emotional symptoms are often manifestations of deeper symbols produced by the collective unconscious. Put another way this is also a discussion of a symbolic approach to psychosomatic illnesses. As analysts we can never predict the formation and emergence of symbols in our analysands. Cases from my practice will be used to show the formation of such healing symbols.
Manisha Roy, Ph.D. is a former professor of anthropology at various universities including Chicago, Colorado and Zurich. She is a diplomate of the C.G Jung Institute-Zurich and has been at the faculty of Boston Jung Institute since 1985 and is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Dr. Roy has lectured all over the world in both fields and has authored six books and twenty-five articles. She also writes fiction in both English and her mother tongue, Bengali, and does watercolor paintings among other things.