September 21, 2012
“Face to Face” Jung’s BBC Interview
This BBC interview with C.G. Jung, filmed when he was eighty-four years of age, is alive with the easy-going wit of his wisdom and conversational manner. We are fortunate to have this living legacy of ideas — quietly hinted at here — that hewed a new direction for the world’s psychological perceptions. A panel of three (Thayer Greene, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst, Nomi Kluger-Nash, Ph.D., Jungian Psychologist, and Karen Smyers, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst) will respond and relate.
October 12, 2012
John Peck: Seeing Into Some Paintings in Jung’s Red Book
With two series of these paintings, the first begun in 1917 and the other carried out in the late 1920s, my objective will be to promote a three-dimensional perception of what is at stake in them, through both texts and images. Not a decoding, but an in-sighting, is what we want to manage, and I shall try to demonstrate how one might do that.
John Peck, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst practicing in Higganum, CT, a freelance editor-translator for the Philemon Foundation, and the author of twelve books of poetry, most recently Contradance (University of Chicago) and I Came, I Saw (Shearsman).
November 9, 2012
Soren Ekstrom: Narratives and Metaphors in Dreams: Perspectives on Dreams from Neuroscience and Sleep Research
This lecture will focus on recent data from sleep research and neuroscience and how these findings can be incorporated into a Jungian understanding of dreams. Dreams interpreted by Jung and by Freud will be examined, as well as dreams from two patients in analysis. A current understanding of memory, in particular episodic memory and remembrance of past events, will also be discussed.
Soren Ekstrom, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst. He has published papers about cognitive science, psychoanalysis, and Jungian topics in various journals. He teaches and supervises at the Jung Institute of Boston and is currently working on a book titled Memory and Healing.
December 14, 2012
Thayer Greene: On Being a Couple
When two people meet and are deeply drawn and attracted to each other, what is happening beneath the surface at forty fathoms deep in their psyches? Coupling is a universal phenomenon, which has drawn the interest of poets, music makers, writers, and psychologists through the ages. What is it that makes a couple a couple so that some endure through a lifetime and some self-destruct? My lecture will attempt to cover at least the basics of such a difficult and complex question.
Thayer Greene, Ph.D., is a graduate of the Jung Institute of New York, and a training analyst and faculty member of the Jung Institute of Boston. He has a private practice in Amherst.
January 11, 2013
Erica Lorentz: Active imagination: Accessing our Creative Imagination
Jung’s preferred method of working was active imagination– a conscious dialogue with the unconscious. The Sufis call the imaginable realm intersecting us with the divine the Mundus Imaginalis. It is in this creative space that we find healing, inspiration, and a relationship to the source. This lecture will include discussion, case material, film clips, and a little of our own creativity.
Erica Lorentz, MEd, LPC, Jungian Analyst has a private practice in Northampton and Brattleboro, Vermont. She is on the training board of the Jung Institute of Boston where she is a training analyst and is president of the Western Mass Jung Center. Formerly an adjunct faculty member at Antioch New England, she has also taught throughout the U.S. and Canada.
February 8, 2013
Anita Greene: Archetypal Affects
Jung’s prescience in 1907 regarding affects as the primary motivating source of psyche is now being demonstrated in neurobiological research, how embodied emotional reactivity from birth shapes our sense of self long before the cognitive spheres become active. The archetypal affects – fear, anger, grief, and shame – are universal to all human beings. This presentation will explore the importance of becoming more consciously attuned to how these archetypal affects shape our relationships and our sense of self.
Anita Greene, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst and Rubenfeld Synergist. She is a graduate of the New York Institute, teaches at the Jung Institute of Boston Institute, and has a private practice in Amherst.
March 8, 2013
Penelope Tarasuk: Turning a Blind Eye
A “blind” eye suggests that the other eye can see. If we see we are involved and experience below the realm of words and thoughts. The body sees and knows. Oedipus blinding himself at the crossroad, Hecate turning away from Persephone’s cries, Cassandra, an early whistle blower, being hated for holding up the mirror . . . how does this manifest in the collective, in ourselves?
Student at the newly formed Boston Jung Institute in 1978, Penelope came to her studies by way of dreams, suffering, nature, service, and art. Training analyst, curriculum development coordinator and training board member; she has served many roles over 34 years. Her book: Raft of Dreams has an agent. She has a private practice and is writing a memoir.
April 12, 2013
Karen Smyers: Ancient Egyptian Wisdom: Hints for Healing the Split
The ancient Egyptians lived in a land of stark geographical contrasts: the lush fertile “black land” bordering the Nile and the dry, uninhabitable “red land” of the desert. This polarity permeated their religion and mythology, where the extremes were held in a creative and healthy tension. We will examine images, concepts, and stories that embody this balance in an effort to find models to mediate our own increasingly polarized contemporary situation (psychological, social, moral, political). For Jung, the ability to hold the tension of the opposites is the key to individuation.
Karen A. Smyers, Ph.D., former Associate Professor of Religion and Anthropology at Wesleyan University and a graduate of ISAP-Zurich. She has a private practice in Northampton.
May 2, 2013 (Neilson Library Browsing Room)
Donald Kalsched: Trauma and the Soul: Psycho-Spiritual Considerations in Clinical Practice
People who have suffered severe childhood trauma often describe the experience of being “broken,” or of having “lost their souls.” When the psychotherapy process begins, and the broken places begin to heal, dreams show how the soul returns from its exile in the unconscious. But there are equally powerful defensive forces that resist this return. In this lecture Donald Kalsched will explore this essentially “spiritual” struggle with both clinical and mythological illustrations.
Donald Kalsched, Ph.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst with a private practice in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of the recently released Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption (Routledge 2013).