Öffentliches Programm
Frühling 2021

We will be reviewing Jung’s written work as it reflects stages in the development of his theories starting from his early work as a young psychiatrist and work on the complex, how this fed into his ideas of the archetype and, in the early 1950s the publication of a trilogy of his major works: “Answer to Job”, “Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle”, and Mysterium Coniunctionis. We will concentrate mainly on the collected works, but will also look briefly at the more recently published seminars and The Red Book.

Listening to what analysands say is not as easy as one might think. Mindfulness is widely commercialised, yet often overlooked in psychotherapy. “Am I really listening to the person in front of me?” What does this question mean? We will explore this fundamental act and attitude not only of an analyst, but more generally of a human being.

We will be discussing the fundamentals of Jungian dream work.
The emphasis will be on the practical aspects of working with people’s dreams. Active participation is encouraged.

The many homes of Jung represent different dimension of his personality. These homes remained not only inner symbolic experiences, but also found expression in the outer world, as in the creation of The Red Book and Bollingen. The dynamic of this undertaking expresses Jung’s individuation process, an attempt to link heaven and earth.

We shall approach, in a psychological interpretation, the main periods of this well-known French-American artist, using slides and a careful reading of the symbolic significance of her Tarot Garden in Tuscany. This is an artistic illustration of some aspects of the individuation process.
One of her famous Nana sculptures is an angel hanging in Zurich’s main station.

A creation myth or cosmogonic myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it. We will look at frequently occurring motifs in creation myths and consider them from a depth psychological and sacred perspective.

This lecture will discuss the shadow complex in its personal and collective aspects. Can it be redeemed, integrated, or accepted? Themes explored include the unlived life, projections, scapegoat and persona, good and evil, repression and madness, as well as some lighter themes.

The lecture will discuss the symbolic message of this common dream motif. With case examples.

This lecture will explore the psychology of money, approaching it as symbol, psychic energy, complex, Shadow. What does it mean to be broke or wealthy and how does money manifest in the clinical setting? We will also look at soul and money as a sacred dance and examine how we engage with wealth management in a material world.

** This course has been cancelled. **

We will explore guilt and its importance to individuation, distinguish between guilt and shame, and examine the phenomenon of shamelessness through Jung’s writings, symbolic and clinical material and the current social and political milieu.

Sufferers want to know why they suffer, and this search for meaning is often the beginning of spiritual or psychological awakening.

To Jung our imagination is the door to divinity: it serves as a symbolic intermediary allowing for the imaging of the imageless divine. Images allow mystics to stand in relationship to the transcendent. The numinous images of this “Imaginative Presence” over-flowed medieval mystic women’s consciousness and transmuted it in a substantive way that was grounded in the body. They envisioned Jesus as an “incarnational form” of divinity (Self) that was feminine in nature. He was seen as a “continuum with” rather than as an “opposition to” their ordinary feminine experience of embodiment.