
Saturday, October 02, 2010; 10:00AM - 12:30PM
Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture
Inner Beauty Shone Under the Southern Cross
Presented by Sachiko Taki-Reece, Ed.D., M.F.T.
The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, is a non-profit (501-C3) organization dedicated to the study and dissemination of the views of C.G. Jung.

The Analytical Psychology Club presents
Pieces of Grief
Presented by Janie Ingalls, M.F.T.
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Wednesday, September 29, 2010
07:30PM - 10:00PM
In the series Remembering Jung :James Kirsch (1901 - 1989)
Charles Zeltzer, Ph.D.,
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A symbol loses its magical or, if you prefer, its reddeming power as soon as its liability to dissolve is recognized. To be effective, a symbol must by its very nature unassailable. It must be the best possible expression of the prevailing worldview, an unsurpassed container of meaning; it must also be sufficiently remote from comprehension to resist all attempts of the critical intellect to break it down; and finally, its aesthetic form must appeal so convincingly to our feelings that no arguments can be raised against it on that score. CW 6 - par 401
Man is not a machine in the sense that he can consistently maintain the same output of work. He can meet the demands of outer necessity in an ideal way only if he is also adapted to his own inner world, that is, if he is in harmony with himself. Conversely, he can only adapt to his own inner world and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. CW 8 - par 162f
We should not rise above the earth with the aid of "spiritual" intuitions and run away from hard reality, as so often happens with people who have brilliant intuitions. We can never reach the level of our intuitions and should therefore not identify ourselves with them. Only the gods can pass over the rainbow bridge; mortal men must stick to the earth and are subject to its laws. CW 12 - par 148
Only through our feebleness and incapacity are we linked up with the unconscious, with the lower world of the instincts and with our fellow beings. Our virtues only enable us to be independent. There we do not need anybody, there we are kings; but in our inferiority we are linked up with mankind. CW 18 - par 109
The spirit of the age will not let itself be trifled with. It is a religion, or, better, a creed which has absolutely no connection with reason, but whose significance lies in the unpleasant fact that it is taken as the absolute measure of all truth and is supposed always to have common sense upon its side. CW 8 - par 652
The hero's main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. The coming of consciousness was probably the most tremendous experience of primeval times, for with it a world came into being whose existence no one had suspected before. CW 9 - par 284
The real difficulty begins when the dreams do not point to anything tangible, and this they do often enough, especially when they hold anticipations of the future. I do not mean that such dreams are necessarily prophetic, merely that they feel the way, they "reconnoitre". These dreams contain inklings of possibilities and for that reason can never be made plausible to an outsider. CW 16 - par 89