C G Jung Society of Melbourne Inc. Established in 1962
2020 Program 2020 Program At A Glance
February 21 Friday ‘What Dreams May Come’… Working with Dreams and Their Symbols – Annette Lowe February 24 Jungian Core Concepts – Annette Lowe – Richmond Library (8 weeks) Monday 24 February & 2 March (Break: Labour Day 9 March) Monday 16, 23 & 30 March; 6 April (Break: Easter 10–14 April) Monday 20 & 27 April
March 20 Friday Soul, Spirit and Unfolding Wisdom – Mary Duffy April 17 Friday 2020 Annual General Meeting – Habitat Canterbury
April 17 Friday Jung, Soul and Meaning in an Age of Change – Dr David Tacey April 28 Jung and the Postsecular Sacred – Dr David Tacey (4 weeks) Tuesdays 28 April; 5, 12 & 19 May – Habitat Canterbury May 15 Friday Understanding Emotional Trauma: How a Jungian perspective makes a unique contribution – Dr David Russell June 19 Friday The Lost Child in Australian Film: Jung, story and playing beneath the past – Dr Terrie Waddell July 17 Friday BodySoul Dreaming: Journey from fragmentation to wholeness – Josephine Dyer August 21 Friday The Feminine Trickster Meets the Archetypal Princess – Christina Thomas September 18 Friday An Introduction to The Red Book in Context – Mary Duffy September 21 The Red Book: Liber Primus – Mary Duffy – Richmond Library (8 weeks) Monday 21 & 28 September; 5, 12 & 19 October (Break on 26 October & 2 November) Monday 9, 16 & 23 November October 16 Friday Jung and Tarot: Reading the images – Dr Inna Semetsky November 20 Friday The Mandala and Individuation – Dr Robert Mathews December 11 Friday The Spiritual, the Ecological & the Pleasurable: From cultural aversion to collective embodiment – Dr Maya Ward December 13 Sunday Workshop Embodiment, Soul and Creative Practice – Dr Maya Ward – The Augustine Centre, Habitat Hawthorn C G Jung Society of Melbourne Inc Meetings & Events (unless otherwise indicated) are held at Habitat Centre (formerly St David’s Uniting Church) 2 Mont Albert Road, Canterbury 3126 (Cnr Burke Road) Limited parking available on site
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All are welcome to join these groups Discussion Group (monthly) This Discussion Group meets in the Club Room each month from 7.00–7.45 pm prior to the main monthly Friday Night Lecture, as listed in the year’s Program. It is alternately facilitated by Mary Duffy and Annette Lowe, both longstanding Members and former Presidents of the CG Jung Society of Melbourne. FORMAT: This is a very focused session as it is time restricted. The idea is to read and give some thought to the selected Article for discussion prior to your arrival on the night. The topic/Article will be sent out by the Newsletter and a link to it is posted on the website under the monthly Friday night lecture heading. ARRIVAL: It is important to arrive no more than ten minutes late (7:10 pm), as doors will be closed from that time to prevent disruption to the group discussion. Entry is not permitted after that time.
JUNGIAN CORE CONCEPTS – Eight Week Course This popular eight-week series is run by Annette Lowe on a semi-annual basis. It provides newcomers with an excellent introduction to the core concepts central to an understanding of Jungian philosophy and practice. Registration details: jungsocietymelbourne.com/core-concepts-2020
NEW SEMESTER SERIES – The Red Book This year the Society introduces a new Course on Jung’s most significant personal work. The entire Course will be conducted over a two-year period, with a break of at least two months in between each semester. The exploration of The Red Book (Liber Novus) will begin with an introductory talk on 18th September by Mary Duffy. (See September 2020 Lecture) This Introductory talk will place The Red Book in context and be followed on Monday 21st September by the first section of the new Course; an 8-week Discussion Series running through September, October and finishing on 23 November 2020. This first semester will focus on the Liber Primus material. Two further semesters based on Liber Secundus are proposed to run through during 2021. These will focus on the 10 Adventures which make up Secundus; five in each Series. The final discussion seminar will conclude in 2022 with Scrutineers and The Seven Sermons to the Dead. For more detailed information and registration see: jungsocietymelbourne.com/the-red-book-part-1-liber-primus-with-mary-duffy Current Jung Society Activities
GUEST LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
The Society invites local and (occasionally) international Guest Speakers to present topics on Jungian ideas that relate to contemporary social issues.
Follow-up workshops explore the theme of selected talks in greater depth. These give participants an opportunity to meet people with mutual interests, and develop friendships and professional contacts within the Society.
WEBSITE & FACEBOOK The dynamic Melbourne website contains valuable source material and will keep you informed about Society events and any changes to the annual Program, as they arise: www.jungsocietymelbourne.com
Please check the Website and Facebook regularly for additional information and alterations to our schedule. At times it is necessary to make late or unexpected changes to the time or venue of an event. Occasionally, an event may need to be cancelled for an unforeseen reasons. Activities may also be added during the year, such as: • Workshops, Short Courses, Tutorials, Seminars, Conferences • Special events in regional Victoria, or other organized trips • Film discussion nights • Unexpected visits from International Guest Speakers • Information about Webinars • Invitations to affiliated organizations
e-NEWSLETTER A free e-Newsletter is circulated to Society members and subscribers.
NUMINOUS GROUP
FORMAT: The Jung Society’s ‘Spirituality & Personal Growth’ group, meets at 7.30 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month at Habitat Canterbury, facilitated by Committee member and Transpersonal Counsellor Jean-Marc Micallef.
TOPICS: are approached from an archetypal and mythical perspective. We allow time for exploration of topics as to personal relevance and connection to society/collective. Topics and reading material is accessed through the Society’s Meetup page, or, via the e-Newsletter. The experiential part of the evening can be playful, engaging, sometimes challenging and personally insightful.
MEET-UP GROUP The Jung Society of Melbourne Meetup Group was established in 2014 to engage with wider and younger audiences. Committee member and Jung enthusiast, Johnny Heng coordinates the activities of this Group.
ACTIVITIES: In addition to providing a further social element to our monthly Friday Meetings, regular independent gatherings are organized at other venues: e.g., Labyrinth walks, beach walks, film nights, and informal discussions at cafes. Suggestions for new activities are always welcome: / CONTACT Johnny: meetup.com/en-AU/C-G-Jung-Society-of-Melbourne-Inc Commencing 24 February 2020 8 Week Course on Monday Evenings Jungian Core Concepts 7.30 to 9.30 pm Richmond Library Meeting Room 415 Church Street, Richmond
The Melbourne Jung Society’s very popular semi- annual course on Jungian Core Concepts is most heartily recommended for everyone who is new to the concepts of Carl Gustav Jung. Regardless of one’s background, professional therapist or novice, the course offers insights that will enhance your understanding of the basic premises that underlie the body of CG Jung’s work.
An added benefit of the 8-week course in this informal setting is the opportunity to get to know new and existing members of the Jung Society.
February 24 Introduction: Biography of Jung Map of the Psyche Ego and the Unconscious March 2 Psychological Types Break: Labour Day 9 March March 16 Persona and Shadow March 23 Anima March 30 Animus April 6 Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Break: Easter 10–14 April April 20 Individuation, Wholeness, Self April 27 Jungian Analysis and Dreams
Bookings: jungsocietymelbourne.com/core-concepts-2020
Annette Lowe is a Jungian analyst who has been in private practice in St Kilda for 25 years. She is a training analyst with the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and a PACFA accredited supervisor. She is a Life Member and a former President of the CG Jung Society of Melbourne. Annette facilitates the popular Introduction to Jungian Core Concepts course, and runs the Discussion Group that is held monthly prior to the main Lecture on Friday nights. She alternates in this role with Mary Duffy.
Certificates of Attendance The Society issues Certificates of Attendance at CG Jung Society of Melbourne Inc. presentations (lectures, workshops, courses) free of charge. Both members and non-members may apply for Certificates. Advance notice is required. Email your request to the Secretary at least 48-hours in advance to receive a printed copy. The Certificate will then be distributed at the conclusion of the event.
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The preferred method of providing the Certificate is as a PDF file attachment via email. (No prior notice is required for this method)
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Refund Policy Registration: A 50% deposit (minimum) is required for all workshops, courses and other events presented by the CG Jung Society of Melbourne Inc. Refunds: Full refunds for monies paid (less $25 admin fee) will be issued upon receipt of written request up to 7 days prior to the commencement of the workshop, course or event. If less than 7-days notice is given, only 50% of the full fee will be refunded. Once the event, course or workshop has commenced, no refunds will be allowed.
Disclaimer The CG Jung Society of Melbourne Inc. does not endorse, and is not to be held responsible for the content of any lecture, workshop or other event organized under its auspices. No content from the CG Jung Society Melbourne Inc. website, presentation, publication or advertisement may be construed as professional advice or as a substitute for professional counselling and/or therapy. LIBRARY OVERVIEW The CG Jung Society of Melbourne houses what is possibly the largest and most comprehensive Specialist Library on Carl Jung, in Australia. The collection listed on our website consists of over 1500 books, journals, CDs, DVDs and audiotapes on topics, authors and speakers focused on the work of C. G. Jung.
REFERENCE MATERIAL: Some titles are now out of print, so because they are now precious resource materials, they may NOT be available for use or loan outside the Library. These items are restricted for use within the Library.
LIBRARY HOURS: on Friday Meeting nights, 6:30–7:55 pm. The library will re- open after the conclusion of the Guest Lecture and will close again at 10:00 pm. BORROWING: Members may borrow up to four items across different media for a period of one month at a time.
• Overdue items may result in the suspension of borrowing rights • Borrowers are responsible for reimbursing the Jung Society all costs incurred in the replacement of lost or damaged materials. RETURNS: If you are unable to personally return the borrowed items to the Library at the next meeting, please post the material in a padded Post Office bag to: The Librarian CG Jung Society of Melbourne, Inc. PO Box 226, KERRIMUIR VIC 3129
ASSOCIATE MEMBER BORROWING: (interstate, regional or housebound individuals only) • A once-off bond of $100 is required at the time of joining • Borrowers are responsible for all associated postage costs. LIBRARY DONATIONS: The Society gratefully accepts donations of books, journals, and audio-visual material specifically about C. G. Jung, and topics directly relevant to his work. Donated items will be identified by special bookplates acknowledging the donor.
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CONTACT THE LIBRARIAN: [email protected] Carl Gustav Jung
Born: July 26, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland Died: June 26, 1961 in Küsnacht, Switzerland
Carl Gustav Jung was one of the pioneering intellectual figures of the 20th century. He developed a unique way of understanding the human psyche and its functioning, and is best known for his concepts of the archetypes and the collective unconscious. As a young psychiatrist Carl Jung was a close associate of Sigmund Freud, but in 1913 as Jung began to view the human psyche as ‘by nature religious’, that relationship fractured. Jung then began his long and solitary journey of confrontation with the inner Self.
Out of this inner journey Jung derived his whole approach to the human psyche and he remained fascinated with the processes of psychological and spiritual development in adult life. Jung called this the individuation process, whereby we come to live fully the spiritual and material, the conscious and unconscious aspects of ourselves. This inner journey, largely via dreams and creative expression, includes an encounter with the ‘Shadow’ and the ‘Anima/Animus’. (See our 8-week Jungian Core Concepts Course)
In his writings, Carl Jung’s analytical psychology used myths, symbols and fairy tales from many cultures to illustrate the individuation process, and also aspects of archetypes, the patterns of the collective unconscious. Jung found parallels to his thinking in his study of Gnosticism and alchemy, both European and Chinese. His cultural expeditions took him to Africa, India and America, where he found more illustrations of his thinking about the psyche in the patterns of traditional cultures. Uniquely, Jung’s work also described spiritual and religious experience. He considered Christianity to provide a dynamic evolving relationship with God, but he also saw that all religions have similar foundations in the collective psyche. In the latter part of his life he wrote about evil, undeserved suffering, and God’s relation to these. His work on synchronicity challenged the ideas of time, space and causality.
Jung’s work has been influential outside the psychoanalytic field, in popular self-help psychology, in lie detection tests, and in religion, philosophy, archaeology, anthropology, literature, even marketing. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator was developed from Jung’s theory of personality types. He was a prolific writer, though some works were not published until after his death – most notably The Red Book. Jung’s two most widely- read books are: Memories, Dreams and Reflections, and Man and His Symbols.
“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the plant and the soul of the child.” ~ Carl Jung History and Vision
It was the late Hazel Parker and Dr Euan MacLean in Melbourne, in 1962. It may well have been the very first Jung Society in the world to be established by people who were not Jungian professionals. We are proud of the fact that our Society is now over 50 years old.
Our talks, discussion groups and workshops are inspired by the ideas of the great Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). The Society brings together diverse approaches to psychological and spiritual/personal development and encourages the birth of new ideas and directions.
The Society provides a meeting space for members and visitors alike to engage in discussion, exploration, ongoing development and application of the concepts espoused of Jungian concepts.
Our regular monthly meetings and other events are now being equally recognised as opportunities for fellowship with other like-minded souls. The Jung Society has long-established links with a number of organisations with different but overlapping interests, as well as close ties with Jung Societies across Australia. CG Jung Society of Melbourne Inc.
The Committee
President Sheila Lamont-Stacey [email protected] Vice-President John Noack [email protected] Treasurer James Davidson [email protected] Secretary/Public Officer Jean-Marc Micallef [email protected] Membership Secretary Margaret Zommers [email protected] Library [email protected]
Meetup Group Johnny Heng www.meetup.com/C-G-Jung-Society-of Melbourne-Inc/ Sound John Noack Audio/Visual Tim Falkiner [email protected]
Contact Us: CG Jung Society of Melbourne Inc. PO Box 226 Kerrimuir VIC 3129
Phone: 0411 304 647
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Jung Society Members (only) are able to attend the Society’s Annual General Meeting. Attendance of registered members would be much appreciated, as numbers have been light in recent years. NOMINATIONS At the 2020 AGM, we are seeking someone to fill the position of Secretary and Public Officer for the Society. Jean-Marc Micaleff is retiring from this role after two years. This is a legally required appointment, and it is necessary to fill this position in order for the Jung Society of Melbourne to keep operating as an incorporated association.
Nominations for vacancies on the Committee are also being sought. Please show your support for the Society by joining the committee. There are tasks we would love to undertake to develop our role in bringing Jungian ideas to the wider community, but we require an in increase in support from the membership.
Anyone with a high level of computer and technological skill would be especially welcome at this time. We would love to appoint a Webmaster to oversee our website and introduce future podcasting and videos. Please contact the President to request a Nomination Form, or discuss the possibilities – email: [email protected]
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts
ANZSJA C.G. Jung Institute will begin a new Jungian Analytic Training in 2021.
For further information and prerequisites: http://anzsja.org.au/training-2/ or contact Yvonne Condon, ANZSJA Executive Assistant, [email protected]
Application documents available: February 3rd, 2020 Applications close: July 18th, 2020
ANZSJA also offers regular professional development seminars for clinicians. The 2020 ANZSJA Public Program is available: https://anzsja.org.au/wp/future/
For information on finding an analyst or supervisor: https://anzsja.org.au/wp/analyst-directory/ Friday, 21 February 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury ‘WHAT DREAMS MAY COME’ – WORKING WITH DREAMS & THEIR SYMBOLS
Imagination is more important than knowledge – Albert Einstein
“Dreams are the guiding words of the soul… Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their language. One would like to learn this language, but who can teach and learn it?” – CG Jung: The Red Book, p. 198.
Dreams are endlessly fascinating, arriving unbidden from the Unconscious while we sleep! Their strange quality and images provoke us into searching for their ‘meaning’?
We are starting the year with a review and discussion of the dream work that is fundamental to Jungian psychology. There are various ways to do this work once we have an understanding of the psychological purpose of dreams.
There are different possibilities: we can work on our own or with others. Often, we benefit by seeking an analyst or therapist, and/or by joining a dream group. This talk will suggest ways of working with each of these choices and will provide knowledge of common types of dreams. Each dream is unique with its own symbols and needs to be investigated imaginatively; but allowing our imagination to work on the dream is ‘more important than knowledge’. We use our imagination and intuition to bring us the associations linked to the dream symbols, and our intuitive insights to the dream as a whole.
We will look briefly at archetypal dreams, personal dreams, and symbols. We will also work on a couple of dreams, including Jung’s last recorded dream, to illustrate these ideas. The lecture will be followed by the annual Jungian Core Concepts course series presented by the speaker over 8 weeks at the Richmond Library.
Annette Lowe is a Jungian analyst who has been in private practice in St Kilda for 25 years. She is a training analyst with the CG Jung Institute in Zurich, and a PACFA accredited supervisor. She is a Life Member and former President of the CG Jung Society of Melbourne. Annette facilitates the popular Introduction to Jungian Core Concepts course and runs the Discussion Group held prior to the monthly Lecture on Friday nights. She alternates this role each month with Mary Duffy. Friday, 20 March 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury SOUL, SPIRIT AND UNFOLDING WISDOM
Goodness and truth come out of the depths of the soul and when we really know something we feel we have always known it and it is also terribly distant, father than any star, stretched out, beyond the world, not in the clouds nor in heaven but a light that shows the world as it really is. – Anagarika Govinda
Soul and Spirit are utterly nebulous concepts, distinct processes, archetypes, that gather to themselves multitudinous experiences that then give them meaning.
In an attempt to understand and discriminate Soul and Spirit and at the same time hold the tension between them.
I decided to play with some shapes, fabrics and board as Jung had done with hammer, chisel and stone. The talk will focus on my observations, experiences and the tensions that appeared in the process of gaining understanding and discrimination and the qualities of interaction needed, to get these processes to relate sufficiently, to ground them in time and space.
By working with the feeling-tones of Blue and Red (colours symbolic of the elements of Water and Fire representing Soul and Spirit) the work becomes: • an exploration of their emergence out of Chaos; • their incompatible nature and what happens when they meet; and • how hard is it to get them to relate. Can they be held in harmony?
I will also explore what emerged when I was able to look at the finished work in the context of Jung’s quote: “Wisdom never forgets that all things have two sides… power is never found in the seat of wisdom.”.
Mary Duffy is a Melbourne Artist with a post- graduate Diploma in Arts Therapy, as well as being a dedicated Life Member and former President of the CG Jung Society of Melbourne. Mary facilitates the Society’s popular ‘Discussion Group’. She has previously exhibited and spoken to the Society about her personal insights into the Jungian themes of her two major Painting Series: The Unknown and The Unseen. Jung’s work has been a significant focus in her lifetime search for what it is to be fully ‘alive’. Friday, 17 April 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury JUNG, SOUL AND MEANING IN AN AGE OF CHANGE
Since the stars have fallen from heaven and our highest symbols have paled, a secret life holds sway in the unconscious. That is why we have a psychology today, and why we speak of the unconscious. CG Jung – Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, CW 9, part 1: 50
Don’t miss the follow-up Four Week Discussion Series with David Tacey!
David Tacey’s latest book is a unique psychological study of the postsecular adding a Jungian perspective to a debate shaped by sociology, philosophy and religious studies. This lecture introduces David’s new book and series of discussions to follow at the CG Jung Society of Melbourne in Canterbury with the Author.
Beginning with Jung’s belief that the psyche has never been secular, Dr David Tacey examines the new desire for spiritual experience and presents the logic of the unconscious to explain it. He argues that what has fuelled the postsecular momentum, is the awareness that something is missing.
The idea that this could be buried in the unconscious is now dawning on sociologists and philosophers. While the instinct to connect with something greater is returning, this does not imply that we are regressing to superstitions that science has rejected.
Approaching postsecularism through a Jungian perspective, we need to understand God in a manner that accords with our time and not go back to archaic, rejected images of divinity. That the sacred is returning in an age of terrorism is not without significance.
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Jung likened the religious impulse to an instinct, and he said: “like every instinct, it has its own specific energy, which it does not lose even if the conscious mind ignores it.” (CW 9, part 1: 129).
He said this instinct would return, like everything unconscious, with considerable force as soon as conditions allow.
If the ‘great repressed’ was sexuality in Freud’s time, it is religion in ours. Religion is the unlived life of modernity. Spirit has been asleep but is now returning. The modern mind has had its taste of freedom, and is now forced to recognise a mystery that has returned with a vengeance.
David Tacey will present ideas from his most recent book and host discussion on the following topics:
Week 1 Neurosis, Healing and the Psychology of the Sacred: Spiritual meaning was formerly the province of religion and the clergy; but Jung introduced the idea that the therapist has a responsibility to bring meaning into a patient’s life. Week 2 Jung, Physics and the Unus Mundus: Jung argues that archetypes, invisible and formless, have a powerful effect on shaping human experience. Quantum physics finds that behind the visible surface, a realm of invisible forms can appear in the empirical world and act on it.
Week 3 The Death & Rebirth of God: Jung saw God as an archetype of ultimate meaning, which could arise and disappear over the course of time. The ‘death of God’ is thus a matter of human perception. He warns that ‘God’ will return in radically altered form, probably unrecognisable from past traditional images. Week 4 The Sacred in An Age of Terror: As the West struggles to understand its new relation to the sacred, it does so in the context of religion-inspired violence and terrorism. How and why are these things related? Is this some form of synchronicity?
Please register early online as numbers will be limited. jungsocietymelbourne.com/jung-and-the-postsecular-sacred Friday, 15 May 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury UNDERSTANDING EMOTIONAL TRAUMA: THE UNIQUE JUNGIAN CONTRIBUTION
… primitive pathology recognised two causes of illness: loss of soul, and possession by a spirit. – CG Jung, 1928. CW 8: 591
Carl Jung’s primary therapeutic focus was on the person, and secondarily on the distressing emotional experience. He believed and asserted that ‘Psyche’ works to enhance our wellbeing, but profound trauma turns this self-care system back onto itself, and into something akin to a ‘demonic possession’. In mythopoetic terms, the archetypal energy of the protective Archangel is reversed and becomes an avenging demon.
Carl Jung’s primary therapeutic focus was on the well-being of the inner person, and secondarily on the distressing emotional experience. However, even when the inner life is trashed by trauma (Psychoanalyst Leonard Shengold has called it ‘soul murder’ because trauma is the experience of unbearable affect) in the traditions of Jungian psychology, it is the inner life of the person that really matters. Dr David Russell’s talk will be person-centred, with an emphasis on this inner life. It is the life of the Spirit/Soul that is of ultimate concern.
Through a re-telling of the fairy tale The Handless Maiden, David will illustrate how a Jungian sensitivity gives insight into both the nature of the trauma and the necessary steps to recovery. He will explain how understanding and subsequent therapy aims to integrate the inner life with the outer life, and how this is often achieved with imagery and narrative, as documented and found in so-called Fairy Stories.
David Russell, PhD, completed his psychology studies at the University of Sydney. After a period in private practice he joined Western Sydney University, in the Social Ecology program. He was instrumental in establishing a Master’s Degree based on the works of Carl Jung and the post- Jungians. David held the position of Associate Professor of Psychology at Western Sydney University. He has a private practice in Darlinghurst and is a past President of the Sydney Jung Society. Friday, 19 June 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury THE LOST CHILD IN AUSTRALIAN FILMS: JUNG, STORY AND PLAYING BENEATH THE PAST
Terrie Waddell explores the lost child in its many historical, psychological and cinematic manifestations. The films included in this discussion transcend lost in the bush mythologies to focus on vulnerable children rendered lost through government/institutional practices/abuses and characters caught by childhood memories.
The victory fixation governing the USA is analysed as a comparative example of the mesmerising nature of the cultural complex. Examining iconic characters and events, this presentation scrutinises the way that culture talks to itself about itself – it looks beyond the melancholy ascribed to the lost child, by arguing that the imagery it brings to life can be positive and inspiring.
It is difficult to introduce the possibility of an Australian complex and not appear nationalistic, oversimplified or generalised. Impossible as it is to speak for, and of, an overarching culture, shaped by intricate and overlapping networks, some assumptions can be made about dominant themes repeatedly elevated to public attention. While the lost child as a motif doesn’t galvanise with the tenacity of the American Dream and its promise of success, in its many cinematic manifestations, the child displaced is a presence that is either overt or lurks just below the surface of Australian stories.
The arts allow us a window into the psyche. Cinema can powerfully talk to the lost child, and in its prolific reinvention of this image, encourage us to return again and again as a way of providing ‘unceasing care, attention and education’.
Terrie Waddell, PhD, is Associate Professor of Screen Studies at La Trobe University, Australia. She researches and publishes on the relationships connecting screen media, myth, literature, gender, popular culture, and Jungian based psychology. Dr Waddell is a contributor to The International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies; and The Lost Child Complex In Australian Film: Jung, Story and Playing beneath the Past (Routledge, 2019) is her latest book. Terrie is also co-founder of Psychology and the Moving Image International (PAMII). Friday, 17 July 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury BODYSOUL DREAMING: A JOURNEY FROM FRAGMENTATION TO WHOLENESS
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and secret recesses of the soul opening into the cosmic night…All consciousness separates: but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal man/woman dwelling in the darkness of primordial night. There he/she is still whole, and the whole is in him/her, indistinguishable from nature and bare of all ego hood.
CG Jung – The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man, vol X: 304
Marian Dunlea’s new book BodyDreaming in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: An embodied therapeutic approach (Routledge 2019) won the Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP), New York. A Jungian Analyst, Marian Dunlea is Head of Training for BodySoul Europe (Marion Woodman Foundation). Her new book represents an extension of the BodySoul Rhythms work, created by her “beloved pioneering and visionary mentor Marion Woodman”, and Dunlea’s own study of Neuroscience, and work as a Somatic Therapy Trainer.
Both Marion Woodman and Marian Dunlea have developed the work of CG Jung through their practice and writings and been leaders in their field of Psychotherapy for many years. They have influenced the development of Jungian Dreamwork through enhancing body awareness and encouraging the embodiment of soul. As Josephine reflects on the professional development of both women, she will explore both the practice and process itself. The presentation will include discussion of detailed transcripts of individual sessions that Marion Dunlea cites in BodyDreaming. Through Group work, when individuals learn to hold the tension of opposites through working with dreams and concentrating on Presence, Paradox and Process, they can integrate their life experiences and return to the wholeness of which Jung speaks.
Josephine Dyer is a graduate of the Marion Woodman Foundation’s BodySoul Rhythms® Leadership Program, led by Marian Dunlea. Josephine leads workshops and small groups and conducts private sessions for those wanting to explore their own process through the BodyDreaming method. Her commitment to supporting people with their inner work is backed by years of experience working cross-culturally, as a Clinical Pastoral Care Counsellor for arriving immigrants and refugees. She has developed and implemented community-based Trauma Recovery Programs in East Timor. Friday, 21 August 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury
THE FEMININE TRICKSTER MEETS THE ARCHETYPAL PRINCESS
The Demeter–Kore myth is far too feminine to have been merely the result of an anima projection. She is the highest degree femme a` homme she bears all the features of a matriarchal order of society. CG Jung – The Archetypes and Collective Unconscious, CW 9, part 1: 383
The Princess has existed for millennia under the patriarchal symbolic order. An order that is beginning to lose its grip, perhaps, in response to known psychological and social effects, created by female inequality. At the helm of reform is the new Princess and her archetypal influences are now felt as social changes are made.
The changing social processes are greatly intensified by the influence of the media, and Christina has interviewed, amongst other public social commentators, the former Women’s Weekly editor, to find out what is the current viewpoint on the Princess. What is her relevance in a contemporary world? The Princess Charges the Lion
The psychological health of our much-loved Princess takes centre stage to this enquiry. And as we follow her journey from the beginning of her archetypal roots, through to the psychological manifestations of her maturing Self, we ask; ‘how is she making the necessary adaptation in order to survive?’. Christina explores this question through the lens of film comedy, and fairy tales, as The Trickster meets the Princess, to create the new feminine Trickster.
Christina Thomas is a diploma candidate with the CG Jung Institute in Zurich. She has a private psychotherapy practice in Melbourne and is an experienced group facilitator, whose Jungian and spiritual orientation ensures her ability to work deeply with the unconscious language of dreams, fairy tales and myths. Christina has worked in psychiatric hospital settings, where she designed and facilitated psychodrama groups for adolescents with behavioural problems. She recently organized a community Dreamwork Group, in Richmond, and facilitates their monthly meetings. Friday, 18 September 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE RED BOOK IN CONTEXT
My entire life consisted of elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me… the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then. CG Jung – commenting on The Red Book
From 1914 until 1929, Carl Jung recorded, revised, rewrote, recopied and painstakingly illustrated what he considered “the numinous beginnings”, from which all the rest of his work derived, in Liber Novus – which is what Jung called The Red Book. It consists of some 200 pages of parchment, meticulous calligraphy and visionary paintings collected into a folio bound in red leather. The first 7 leaves of the folio contain what is known Liber Primus.
The book’s imaginative contents involved Jung in a voluntary confrontation with the unconscious, which he undertook through a deliberate engagement with what he later termed ‘mythopoetic’ imagination. Jung called this his “most difficult experiment” and summarised his experience: “The years… when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this.”.
Mary Duffy will discuss the background to Jung’s magnificent work, as expressed through the themes and graphic illustrations of The Red Book, in which Jung depicted aspects of his inner journey into the netherworld of his psychic depths, where such things as ‘The Spirit of the Times’ and ‘The Spirit of the Depths’ were explored. She will set this book within the historical context of Carl Jung’s life and work, referencing its internal and external significance to the man himself and to the world around him.
An 8-week series of discussions on Liber Primus with the speaker follows this lecture.
Mary Duffy is a Melbourne Artist with a post-graduate Diploma in Arts Therapy, a Life Member and former President of the Jung Society of Melbourne. Mary has previously conducted courses on Thus Spake Zarathustra and The Red Book. Due to repeated demands for an Introductory Course to The Red Book, Mary has agreed to offer an Eight Week Discussion Series based on the first part of the Red Book: Liber Primus. The Series commences on Monday 21 September at Richmond Library; see next page. Monday, 21 September 2020 Richmond Library, 415 Church Street, Richmond
THE RED BOOK: PART 1 – LIBER PRIMUS with Mary Duffy
Continues on 28 September, 5, 12 & 19 October (Break: 26 October and 2 November) Continues on 9, 16 & 23 November
In Liber Primus, the first section of The Red Book, the basic message is that of Sacrifice, Initiation and Transformation.
This is the journey we must undertake if we are to find our soul. It requires the sacrifice of the heroic aspect of our selves, and to do this we must follow the Spirit of the Deep, and let go of the Spirit of the Times as the sole guiding principle in our life.
This is about a symbolic sense, where things are neither true nor false. We need to hold these experiences in our own consciousness to enable us to rise up to a higher level of consciousness. We need to learn how to occupy the world of ‘liminality’ or ‘half-light’, where comfort and security are surrendered in the pursuit of exploring deeper dimensions of our inner psyche.
This Study Group offers a chance to explore Jung’s writings and our own selves in relationship to those writings. We will be invited to sit with the unknown. During the eight-week period, we will learn to be become more comfortable just being there in that space. Can we then learn to give ourselves over to the guidance of our inner self? This is the challenge Jung undertook. The discussion will focus on the following ideas when considering each Chapter in Liber Primus:
• What is the key concept being addressed in this week’s reading? • What are the steps that Jung takes to learn about the concept and to integrate it? What difficulties does he have in doing this? • How does Jung’s work mirror my own working with this concept? In what way does this reflect my story? • What are some parallels in Myth, Story, Literature, Theatre, Cinema, Opera, Newspapers, News Items, that also give expression to this same concept? • Why is this concept important in the individuation process?
Please register early online as numbers will be limited. jungsocietymelbourne.com/the-red-book-part-1-liber-primus-with-mary-duffy Friday, 16 October 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury JUNG AND TAROT: READING THE IMAGES
For it is the function of consciousness not only to recognize and assimilate the external world through the gateway of the senses, but to translate into visible reality the world within us. CG Jung – The Structure of the Psyche, CW 8: 342
Translating the invisible world within into the visible form of images is the prerogative of Tarot. Yet, in the context of analytical psychology, Tarot readings (as a ‘narrative’ created by means of interpreting its universal symbolism) appear to be the least explored therapeutic modality. Some studies on Tarot through the Jungian lens appeared post-Jung, but Jung himself, while researching and commenting on such esoteric practices as alchemy, or I Ching, referred to Tarot only in passing.
However, Jung did consider the ‘pictures on Tarot cards [to be] distantly descended from the archetypes of transformation’ (CG Jung, CW 9, part 1: 81); and, that in addition to functioning as active personalities in dreams, they also represent typical situations, ...ways and means (Ibid,) pertinent to human lives. This talk will address Tarot as a theory/practice nexus aiming towards individuation.
Tarot readings perform Jung's transcendent function: uniting the opposites and making the unconscious conscious. The interpretation of images partakes of Jungian amplification in analysis, while the layout of images is an embodiment of synchronicity. Inna will demonstrate the effects of the archetypal dynamics in the context of some documented Tarot readings leading to the creation of ‘meaning’ for real-life human experiences.
Inna Semetsky holds a PhD in Philosophy of Education from Columbia University. She has been a practicing Tarot Reader for thirty years. Dr Semetsky’s many titles include Re-symbolization of the Self: Human development and Tarot hermeneutic; The Edusemiotics of Images: Essays in the Art~Science of Tarot; and an edited collection: Jung and Educational Theory, which includes chapters from Raya Jones, Susan Rowland and Robert Romanyshyn. Inna has been a Postdoctoral Fellow (Monash) and Research Academic (Newcastle). Friday, 20 November 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury
THE MANDALA AND INDIVIDUATION
The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phenomenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a unus mundus. The alchemical equivalent is the lapis and its synonyms, in particular the Microcosm.
CG Jung – Mysterium Coniunctionis, p. 463: 661
This talk is an overview of the mandala symbol in relation to individuation. The mandala is one of the most recurring symbols across time and culture. The word itself is Sanskrit for circle.
When a mandala comes to us in our dreams or as an outer fascination, it may bring an experience of the wholeness that we are.
In this sense Jung saw the mandala symbol as a Self-image, depicting our outer and inner life in a unified image. A mandala will often appear when we are in a state of chaos. Here it acts to hold and calm us as a compensation to threatening turmoil. When a mandala image rotates, it indicates that a person may be experiencing a living relationship to the centre of the personality Jung called the Self.
This marks a stage in the individuation process where, through introspection, one no longer acts out one’s shadow in the world, but through reflection, turns within looking to listen to that ‘hard to hear’ voice of the centre within us, where light and dark are one. What this means psychologically is that the focus of one's life is no longer outward bound, chasing the ambitions and desires of everyday life, but has become concentrated on a centre within.
Robert Matthews, PhD, is President of the Jung Society of South Australia, an Education academic at the University of Adelaide, and a Jungian psychotherapist. He is currently training as an Analyst with the CG Jung Institute in Zurich. Friday, 11 December 2020 8.00 pm Habitat Canterbury THE SPIRITUAL, THE ECOLOGICAL AND THE PLEASURABLE: FROM CULTURAL AVERSION TO COLLECTIVE EMBODIMENT
If you contemplate the body from the point of view of the psyche, you will be able to locate a mental sphere of consciousness in the head, another centre of consciousness in the heart and one in the abdomen. CG Jung – ETH Lecture, 26 Jan 1940
In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung wrote of his 1920’s conversation with Native American Elder Ochwiay Bianco: ‘We do not know what they want. We do not understand them. We think they are mad… They say they think with their heads,' he said. 'Why of course. What do you think with?' I asked him in surprise. 'We think here,' he said, indicating his heart. – CG Jung 1962, p. 276.
For her PhD, Maya Ward researched the role of embodied awareness in enhancing our capacity to think differently, and in more complex and ecologically informed ways.
Heart-thinking, it turns out, is not just a metaphor. Neither, it seems, is gut-knowing. Recent science is catching up with Indigenous experience of the fundamental importance of the body in a type of comprehension we could call ‘Wisdom’ – a full-bodied knowing of the way of things. There is growing awareness of the essential role of emotion in learning – the body tells us there is pleasure in understanding.
Maya will explore how Jung’s intimations and respect for other ways of knowing indicate the ongoing relevance and power of his thought for our culture’s essential turn towards the ecological, the spiritual and the body-positive/embodiment.
Maya Ward, PhD, is a poet, writer, artist and educator working in community, corporate, arts and environmental settings. She lives in Warburton and is the author of The Comfort of Water: A River Pilgrimage, an account of her 21-day journey along the Wurundjeri Songline of the Yarra River. This book was shortlisted by the Victoria State Library for the 2012 ‘Year of Reading’. Maya has a Masters Degree in Applied Science (Social Ecology). Since completing her PhD in Creative Writing. Dr Ward has continued researching the nexus between Archetypal Presence, Somatics and Body Awareness. Sunday 13 December 2020 10.00 am – 4.00 pm at Habitat Hawthorn (The Augustine Centre) 2 Minona Street, Hawthorn
EMBODIMENT, SOUL AND CREATIVE PRACTICE
After all, the essential thing is not the shadow but the body which casts it. CG Jung – CW 16: p. 64
WORKSHOP: Join us to explore the body’s role in creative processes. Learn how to access our body’s poetic ‘soul voice’ through body awareness and movement practices.
There is growing understanding of the role of movement in enabling enhanced intelligence, supporting mental health and opening access to our creative depths. The archetypes can be experienced within us via the physical: we will be moving, writing, and practicing methods of deep relaxation and meditation, aiming to meet and dialogue with the archetypal aspects of soul via a variety of modalities.
This will be a safe, supportive journey toward the deep well of creativity dwelling in us all. Dr Maya Ward teaches dance and creative writing, usually separately, but occasionally together. She is passionately interested in how movement practices and the rich legacy of knowledge championed by Jung, can support cultural change towards sustainability, creativity and innovative thinking.
Please register early online as numbers will be limited. jungsocietymelbourne.com/embodiment-soul-and-creative-practice
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Through the shifting of interest from the inner to the outer world our knowledge of nature was increased a thousand fold in comparison with earlier ages, but knowledge and experience of the inner world were correspondingly reduced. – CG Jung, Symbols of Transformation, Princeton University Press, page 77
The perpetual hesitation of the neurotic to launch out into life is readily explained by his desire to stand aside so as not to get involved in the dangerous struggle for existence. But anyone who refuses to experience life must stifle his desire to live – in other words, he must commit partial suicide. – CG Jung Ibid, pages 109 and 110
The really dangerous people are not the great heretics and unbelievers, but the swarm of petty thinkers, the rationalizing intellectuals, who suddenly discover how irrational all religious dogmas are. Anything not understood is given short shrift, and the highest values of symbolic truth are irretrievably lost. – CG Jung Ibid, page 229
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