Quote of the day

Belief is no adequate substitute for inner experience. CW 10 – par 521

Quote of the day

Western man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. He has both in almost devilish perfection. What he lacks is conscious recognition of his inferiority to the nature around and within him. He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. CW 11 – par 870

Public Program

Shelley's Sibliography: Releasing the Incarcerated Voice Through Memory, Imagination, and Dialogue

Presented by Rochelle Duffy, Ph.D.

Friday, July 30, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

This reading performance is the product of Dr. Duffy's work in family mythology and self-discovery. Beginning with the question "What was it like for you to be part of our family?", she collected oral histories from her seventeen siblings and turned them into first person narratives. These memories are stitched into a dialogue between one incarcerated brother and a silenced sister. Dr. Duffy's work demonstrates both the power of memory and dream to ignite voice and transform spirit, as expressed in her reading performance of Prison Is Where I Learned to Fly: Shelley's Sibliography.

Pre-registered: $25.00 | At Door: $30.00
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page

More Information | Register online

Quote of the day

The neurotic is ill not because he has lost his old faith but because he has not yet found a new form for his finest aspirations. CW 4 - par 669

Quote of the day

In our strength we are independent and isolated, and are masters of our own fate; in our weakness we are dependent and bound, and become unwilling instruments of fate; for here it is not the individual will that counts but the will of the species. CW 10 – par 261

Public Program

The Writing Process
From the Perspective of Anaïs Nin

Presented by Nan Hunt, M.A.

Saturday, July 24, 2010; 10:00AM - 02:00PM

Anaїs Nin, whose respect for analytical psychology and struggle for acceptance by the literary world had a profound influence on non-fiction and experimental fiction, continues to influence writers today. In this workshop, designed to help you enhance your own writing process, we will focus on the appeal of the frank, intimate, and lyrical attitudes of Nin's prose, especially her portraits of people. Through discussion, workshop writing, and feedback, each person will have the opportunity to develop his or her own voice. Please bring writing materials. We will have a “working lunch,” so it is best to bring a sack lunch; snacks, fruit and drinks will be provided.

Pre-registered: $55.00 | At Door: $60.00
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page

More Information | Register online

Quote of the day

Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things they do not understand. CW 14 – par 737

Quote of the day

In the same way that the body needs food, and not just any kind of food but only that which suits it, the psyche needs to know the meaning of its existence—not just any meaning, but the meaning of those images and ideas which reflect its nature and which originate in the unconscious. CW 13 – par 476

Public Program

The Hurt Locker:
The Hero's Wounds

Arlene TePaske Landau, Ph.D.

Friday, July 23, 2010; 7:30 - 9:30 pm

At the beginning of The Hurt Locker, Chris Hedges' quote "War is a drug" suggests the autonomous cellular charge of combat. Director Kathryn Bigelow's film is a story which describes Iraq as an utterly dissimilar universe, harsh, brittle and horrible, in which everything and everyone is a probable adversary. Even the ground beneath one's feet can burst and gulp one up. This lecture will consider the symbolic and psychological meaning of the film, focusing on the archetype of the hero.

Pre-registered: $25 / At door: $30
Continuing Education: 2 hours CE, CN, APA available, see Continuing Education page
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page
More Information | Register online

Quote of the day

Human relationship leads into the world of the psyche, into that intermediate realm between sense and spirit, which contains something of both and yet forfeits nothing of its own unique character. CW 10 – par 258f

Quote of the day

It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted assumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past. Our material knowledge has increased, but not our intelligence. This means that we are just as bigoted in regard to new ideas, and just as impervious to them, as people were in the darkest days of antiquity. We have become rich in knowledge, but poor in wisdom. CW 5 – par 23

Quote of the day

If we have to deal with the human soul we can only meet it on its own ground, and we are bound to do so whenever we are confronted with the real and crushing problems of life. CW 17 – par 81

Quote of the day

Nowhere are we closer to the sublime secret of all origination than in the recognition of our own selves, whom we always think we already know. Yet we know the immensities of space better than we know our own depths, where—even though we do not understand it—we can listen directly to the throb of creation itself. CW 8 – par 737

Quote of the day

Creative life always stands outside convention. That is why, when the mere routine of life predominates in the form of convention and tradition, there is bound to be a destructive outbreak of creative energy. This outbreak is a catastrophe only when it is a mass phenomenon, but never in the individual who consciously submits to these higher powers and serves them with all his strength. CW 17 – par 305

Public Program

Problematic Puers and their Wendys

Presented by Jon-Patrik Pedersen, Ph.D.

Friday, July 16, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

The puer aeternus (eternal boy) archetype manifests both positively and negatively. We will focus primarily on “the problem of the puer,” as Marie-Louise von Franz has put it—the difficulty men can have in moving into mature adulthood. Using film clips and music, we will explore some common puer “personalities” (the Charming Puer, the Nature Puer, the Spiritual Puer, the Malignant Puer) and how they are experienced in relationships. We will also address the “problem of the Wendys,” i.e., women or partners who, hoping for true intimacy and commitment, work hard to take care of their Peter Pan-like puers, only to end up unfulfilled.

Pre-registered: $25.00 At Door: $30.00

Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page

More Information Register online

Quote of the day

Neurosis is intimately bound up with the problem of our time and really represents an unsucessful attempt on the part of individual to solove the general problem in his own person. Neurosis is self-division. CW 7 -par 18

Quote of the day

The least of things with a meaning is always worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. CW 16 – par 96

Quote of the day

It is my conviction that the investigation of the psyche is the science of the future. Psychology is the youngest of the sciences and is only at the beginning of its development. It is, however, the science we need most. Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer, but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to himself. CW 18 - par 339

Public Program

The Conference of the Birds
and the Path to Individuation

Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D.

Wednesday, July 14, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

The legendary Sufi poet Farid al-Din Attar is one of the most ancient poets of Persia. His poetry inspired numerous mystic poets including Rumi. In "The Conference of the Birds," (Mantiq u-Tayr), Attar tell us the story of a group of birds who desire to know the king of all birds, the great Simorgh, the mysterious bird in Persian mythology. Their quest takes them through seven valleys as they experience longing, suffering, and gradual awareness of the Divine Mystery, God's presence within man.

Pre-registered: $25.00 At Door: $30.00
Continuing Education: 2 hours CE, CN, APA available, see Continuing Education page
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page
More Information Register online

Quote of the day

To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality in fact is. CW 7 – par 242

Quote of the day

We know that the mask of the unconscious is not rigid—it reflects the face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect, friendliness softens its features. CW 12 – par 29

Public Program

Michael Jackson: Puer in the Mirror

Presented by Chris Miller, M.A.

Friday, July 09, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

At a public memorial for Michael Jackson, actress Brooke Shields paid homage to her friend by quoting from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. Perhaps unbeknownst to Shields, this text provided the model of the boy who never matures into manhood in Marie-Louise von Franz’s classic work on the subject, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus. This talk will blend song and spoken word to show how, as the boy-man musician from Neverland Ranch, Jackson embodied both positive and negative aspects of the puer aeternus as well as healthy and unhealthy energies found in the puer’s eternal counterpart, the senex.

Pre-registered: $25.00 At Door: $30.00
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page
More Information Register online

Quote of the day

To remain a child too long is childish, but it is just as childish to move away and then assume that childhood no longer exists because we do not see it. But if we return to the "Children's land" we succumb to the fear of becoming childish, because we do not understand that everything of psychic origin has a double face One face looks forward, the other back. It is ambivalent and therefore symbolic, like all living reality. CW 12 -par 74

Quote of the day

Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices; he enthrals and overpowers, while at the same time he lifts the idea he is seeking to express out of the occasional and the transitory into the realm of the everduring. CW 15 - par 129

Quote of the day

All the dream-images are important in themselves, each one having a special significance of its own, to which, indeed, it owes its inclusion in the dream... The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches. CW 8 - par 471

Quote of the day

Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter of saying yea to oneself, of taking oneself as the most serious of tasks, of being conscious of everything one does, and keeping it constantly before one's eyes in all its dubious aspects--truly a task that taxes us to the utmost. CW 13 - par 24