Events
Fathers and Daughters: The Father Complex and The Daughter’s Individuation Quest
Tuesdays: February 11, 18, 25, 2025, 7-9 pm EST (4-6 pm PST)
Live Video Seminars (Video recording will be available)
The Daughter’s Individuation Quest
In the fairy tales Beauty and the Beast, Donkey Skin, and The Courageous Girl, the father makes a crucial mistake, one that has important consequences for his daughter's destiny.
In Beauty and the Beast, the father gets lost in the forest. He suddenly sees a seemingly uninhabited mansion and enters, but it is the castle of the Beast. Wanting to please Belle, his daughter, the father plucks a rose. This rose is the dearest thing the Beast has in the world. In exchange for the father's freedom, the Beast demands that Belle come and live with him.
In Donkey Skin, the father wants to marry his daughter. Desperate, she escapes, hidden under the skin of the castle donkey.
In The Courageous Girl, a tale from Tadzhikistan, the father is sick and getting blind. His daughter goes off on a perilous journey in search of medicine that will help him regain his health, see again and value the Feminine.
Each seminar is devoted to the analysis of a tale and its different adaptations in cinema, literature and pictorial art.
For more information and to register, visit https://www.jungarchademy.com/pomes2025
Animus, Friend or Foe?
Saturdays: March 29, April 5, April 12, 2025, 10-12:30 am EST
Format: Interactive. We will attempt to see how Jung’s ideas work out when we attempt to apply them in our own psychology and in our personal experience.
What is the Animus?
Both the Feminine and the Masculine are present in all of us. In a woman the Inner Masculine energy is called the Animus.
How does it come into being? How does it manifest in our lives, both positively and negatively? How can we dialogue with the Animus? These are the essential questions that the seminars will address.
We will spend some time exploring the theme of the killer Animus in the Fairy Tale Bluebeard and we will look at a possible transformation of the Animus: from enemy to friend, from obstacle to “torch bearer”.
Excerpts from the movies Elizabeth (S. Kapur, 1998) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (D. Fincher, 2011) will be presented as well as some Tango performances in which Anima and Animus dance together.
Seminar 1: Definitions, Formation and Development, Animus and our parents, Manifestation of the Animus, Dangers of Animus projections.
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Seminar 2: An exploration of the Killer Animus with the Tale of Bluebeard.
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Seminar 3: An exploration of the Positive Animus and ways to engage in a meaningful relationship with the Animus.
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For more information and to register, visit the links above.
Exploration of the Shadow - Part 2, with Jungian Analyst David Pressault
The workshop will propose an immersive exploration into one’s own shadow world.
Through self reflection, journaling and inquiry, we will invite participants to explore their shadow.
In the first workshop we will look briefly at Jung’s theory and then turn the light to ourselves. We will question our personal conscious point of view as well as our persona, family values and ways in which we have unconsciously adapted. We will consider what is disliked, detested, even hated: what we do not allow in ourselves and not permit in others.
Exploration of the Shadow - Part 1, with Jungian Analyst David Pressault
The workshop will propose an immersive exploration into one’s own shadow world.
Through self reflection, journaling and inquiry, we will invite participants to explore their shadow.
In the first workshop we will look briefly at Jung’s theory and then turn the light to ourselves. We will question our personal conscious point of view as well as our persona, family values and ways in which we have unconsciously adapted. We will consider what is disliked, detested, even hated: what we do not allow in ourselves and not permit in others.
Series of Seminars: Animus, Friend or Foe
Animus, Friend or Foe
Tuesdays: Feb 20, 27, Mar 5, 2024, 7-9pm Eastern Time (4-6pm Pacific Time)
Live Video Seminars (Video recording will be available)
Format: Interactive with a general discussion of the concepts and a detailed analysis of the Fairy Tale Bluebeard.
What is the Animus?
Both the Feminine and the Masculine are present in all of us. In a woman the Inner Masculine energy is called the Animus.
How does it come into being? How does it manifest in our lives, both positively and negatively? How can we dialogue with the Animus? These are the essential questions that the seminars will address.
We will spend some time exploring the theme of the killer Animus in the Fairy Tale Bluebeard and we will look at a possible transformation of the Animus: from enemy to friend, from obstacle to “torch bearer”.
For more information and to register, visit https://www.jungarchademy.com/animus
Jung at the Movies
He sits like a man taking a hearing test, big headphones clamped over his ears, his body and face frozen, listening for a faraway sound. His name is Gerd Wiesler, and he is a captain in the Stasi, the notorious secret police of East Germany. The year is, appropriately, 1984, and he is Big Brother, watching. He sits in an attic day after day, night after night, spying on the people in the flat below. The flat is occupied by a playwright and his mistress, an actress. Wiesler has been trained by his life to reflect no emotion. Sometimes not even his eyes move; he is like a cat awaiting a mouse. And he begins to internalize their lives -- easy, because he has no life of his own, no lover, no hobby, no distraction from his single-minded job. Then, something happens that will change his life forever.
Jung at the Movies
The title of this movie is borrowed from a poem by Walt Whitman “The Untold Want”:
The untold want by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find.
It is indeed the voyage that Charlotte Vale, a drab, quiet woman who is brutally dominated by her mother, must take. It is a voyage from rejection to love, from fear to the courage to face an abusive parent and from pain to healing.
Jung at the Movies
Walter Vale is a widowed College economics professor who lives a fairly solitary existence. His life will change when a chance encounter with an immigrant couple forces him to face issues relating to identity, connectedness, immigration and cross-cultural communication. The story of a transformation from being a visitor to his own life to truly embracing life in all its joys and sorrows.
Jung at the Movies
Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.
There is no Individuation without relatedness, whether it is to others or to oneself.
We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station
(Walter Salles, 1998), exploring themes that are inseparable from the process of Individuation, including: confronting one’s shadow, remaining present to suffering, taking a risk and accepting sacrifice: finding the treasure and letting it go.
On the Path of Individuation: Answering the Call
Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.
There is no Individuation without relatedness, whether it is to others or to oneself.
We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station
(Walter Salles, 1998), exploring themes that are inseparable from the process of Individuation, including: confronting one’s shadow, remaining present to suffering, taking a risk and accepting sacrifice: finding the treasure and letting it go.
What is Jungian Analysis?
Analysts and Analysands discuss introductory questions about Inner Work and the Individuation Process.
Embodying the Process of Individuation
Past Event. This two-day workshop brings together theoretical and experiential Jungian concepts and practice. Both days will begin with a voice and movement workshop where participants will be invited to be in their bodies consciously, move and sing, hum and express themselves through voice.
Session topics will include the complex and the child archetype. We will discuss also how the training program requires more than a learning of content for exams, but rather urges engagement with an individuation process through which candidates are changed from the inside out.
Seminar open to OAJA Training Candidates only.
On the Path of Individuation: Answering the Call Part 2
Past Event. As a continuation of our seminar “On the Path of Individuation: Answering the Call” we will explore the themes of risk, honesty, authenticity, sacrifice, and surrender in love and friendship in the movies Besieged (B. Bertolucci, 1998) and in The Visitor (T. McCarthy, 2007).
Seminar open to OAJA Training Candidates only.
On the Path of Individuation: Answering the Call Part 1
Past Event. Individuation is a process rather than a final product, a journey of self-discovery rather than a final destination, a circumambulation rather than a straight trajectory. On that journey, answering the call, taking a risk and staying related in times of crisis is of primary importance.
We will examine a mother/son-type relationship in Central Station (Walter Salles, 1998).
Seminar open to OAJA Training Candidates only.
Anatomy of the Animus
Past Event. What is the Animus? How does it come into being? How does it manifest in our lives, both positively and negatively? How can we dialogue with the Animus? The seminar will look at what has been written on the subject of the Animus – the writings of C. G. Jung as well as those of Jungian analysts, particularly women. We will also explore the manifestation of the Animus in art and literature.
Transforming Expression Creativity Retreat
Past Event. This two-day retreat invited participants to explore their bodies and voices as vehicles towards greater self-expression. Providing insight into creative blocks, participants discovered ways to overcome these blocks and move towards creative freedom through dream work and its potential for self-understanding.
Seminars included voice and movement workshops, finding one’s Inner Voice, facing the Inner Critic/Judge, performance anxiety, perfectionism, the expression of creativity, the symbols of those fears and what might help us outgrow them. Also featured: a Dream seminar exploring Jungian psychology, the language of dreams and how these can give insight into self-expression.