Winter-Spring 2008 PROGRAMME

More information is available by contacting a member of the executive of the C.G. Jung Society of Montreal. Please see the Contact  page on this site 

 

                                                            
                                                                    
Individuation in a Consumer Society: 
Acquiring vs Becoming
A lecture by Tom Kelly of Montreal
Friday, January 18, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, seniors/students $8

In a world of instant gratification and quick fix solutions, one can be led to ponder the relevance of Jung's concept of individuation. To what extent is it possible to genuinely become oneself when there is so much pressure to perform, to consume and to acquire?
     Consuming, be it clothes, food, alcohol or drugs, is the principle value which more often than not leads, like the uroboros eating its own tail, to the threat of being consumed by the dragon of debt. 
      This lecture is meant to offer a pause, a time for reflection: Do we still have time to individuate in today's world? Is Jung's concept of individuation still relevant? 

Tom Kelly is a Jungian analyst who completed his training in Zurich in 1986. He is a past President of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts as well as a past President of the Council of North American Societies of Jungian Analysts. He served as Honorary Secretary on the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and, in August 2007, was elected its Vice-President. 
Tom Kelly lives in Montreal, Canada where he maintains a private practice. 


 
                                         


Psyche as Poetry
A lecture by David Miller of Syracuse, New York
Friday, February 15, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, seniors/students $8

To Miguel Serrano, Jung said: "Nobody understands what I mean. Only a poet could begin to understand." And in a reply to a criticism by Martin Buber, Jung commented: "I poetize."    This presentation will argue that a poetic quality is crucial to a truly depth psychology, not poetic in a Romantic sense, but in a Modernist and Postmodernist sense. Jung's view that poetry needs no meaning, for meaning has nothing to do with art, will be the point of departure for the evening's reflections.

Poetry as Psyche
An all-day seminar with David Miller
Saturday, February 16, 10:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Dawson College, Room 3F.43
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $70, non-members $90, seniors/students  $50

Following upon the psychological perspectives of the lecture, this seminar will discuss specific poems, which will be drawn from authors such as Rainer Maria Rilke, Wallace Stevens, Maya Angelou, Theodore Roethke, Delmore Schwartz, Sharon Olds, Denise Levertov, Charles Simic, Emily Dickinson, Billy Collins and Edith Sitwell. The discussion will not aim at a psychological interpretation of the poetry. It will rather be an attempt by the group to draw psychological insight and perspective from the poetry.

Dr. David Miller, Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Syracuse University, is also on the faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. He is the author of five books and many articles and book chapters on religion, mythology and literature in relation to depth psychology.

 

                                   

The Kindling:
Living With the Archetypal Child
A lecture by Beverly Clarkson
Friday, March 14, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, students/seniors $8

In dreams, art and daily life, the child can manifest as divine, spoiled, orphaned, creative, or wounded (to name but a few aspects). It can make us aware of potential gifts, or it can possess us with angry entitlement claims, fill our days with bitter, unalterable blame of those who have caused our suffering. Ultimately, the archetypal child heralds the Self. It charges the individual to bring his or her truest values into life with courage and humility. The lecture will be illustrated with a series of dreams.

Beverly Bond Clarkson, M. A., is a graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute of New York. For half of her life she was a musician and a composer. In recent years she worked in the Vision Quest program at Temagami, Ontario, and is currently on the faculty of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts training program for analysts. Her practice is in Toronto.

Austin Clarkson, Ph.D., professor of music, York University (ret.), is director of The Milkweed Collective. He is also general editor of the music and writings of the composer Stefan Wolpe.

                                       

The Orphan Archetype:
Abandoned Child or Path to the Self?
An experiential workshop with Beverly and Austin Clarkson
March 15, 10:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
4001 de Maisonneuve W. Room TBA
Members $70, non-members $90,
seniors/students $50

Sometimes we feel abandoned by others. Or is it that a part of ourselves is abandoned in the unconscious where it waits, an orphan, to be claimed and brought into conscious life? To embrace the experience of the orphan within us is to open to the care of the Self, to claim our inner truth and attempt to live it responsibly in the world. Who or what  is this orphan within each of us? How can we relate to the orphan's despair so that it may become the creative child Jung described as a light above all lights incorruptible  a bringer of healing?
     In the workshop we shall create our own orphan dolls. Bring an  abandoned sock (a sock without a partner) and something special you might like to use in creating your orphan.ÊOther makings will be provided.


                                       

Mothers and Fathers:
Our Prime Movers
A four-week seminar series animated by members of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal
Dates: Mondays, February 18, 25, March 10, 17
Westmount Public Library
4574 Sherbrooke St. W.
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Costs: $40 for series, $12 per individual session
For info please call (514) 481-8664.

The essential power of our parents is derived from forces beyond their human mortal beings. In this seminar we will explore the human and not-so human dimensions of the people who helped  shape our lives. Our experience of being masculine and feminine spring from these fonts, often skewered by our perceptions and memories of our childhood. What light can we shed on these foundational figures?


                                                

The Butterfly Woman:
An Archetypal Image in a Mythological Dream
A  lecture by Michael Vannoy Adams of New York
Friday, April 18, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15,
seniors/students $8

In this lecture, Michael Vannoy Adams will present the case of The Butterfly Woman, which includes an interpretation of the very first dream of a woman in analysis. The dream features an archetypal image a butterfly. Because a butterfly experiences a metamorphosis, it is one of the most important archetypal images of the transformation of the psyche. In this mythological dream, the butterfly is stuck. This case demonstrates how, when the psyche is stuck, it may get unstuck.          

Mythological Dreams
An all-day workshop with Michael Vannoy Adams
Saturday, April 19, 10:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Dawson College, Room 3F.43
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $70, non-members $90,
seniors/students $50

Mythological dreams are dreams that emerge from what Adams calls the mythological unconscious. We will interpret and discuss mythological dreams that feature two of the most important archetypal images the journey and the monster. The workshop will demonstrate how archetypal images from the unconscious offer valuable alternative perspectives in an effort to compensate the partial, prejudicial, maladaptive, and dysfunctional attitudes of the ego.      

Michael Vannoy Adams, D.Phil., L.C.S.W., is a Jungian psychoanalyst in New York City. He is the author of three books: The Fantasy Principle: Psychoanalysis of the Imagination (2004), The Mythological Unconscious (2001), and The Multicultural Imagination: Race, Color, and the Unconscious (1996). He is a clinical associate professor at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. 
  

Shadow Work:
Who Is That Unknown Within?
A seminar with Jan Bauer of Montreal
Wednesdays, January  23, 30, Feb. 6, 13
8:00 p.m.- 10:00 p.m.
Place:  Dawson College, Room 3F.43
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
$100 members, $120 non-members

Politicians have their sexual shadow that contradicts their family values. Wild extraverts have their shy shadows, and nice people have their unnice ones. We all have shadows. Who is in yours?
       The seminar will describe what the shadow is, how it is formed, when it appears and, most of all, how to make friends with it so it doesn't erupt destructively, or, in its repressed state, deprive us of life-giving energies from the unconscious.
          We will explore the liberating and ethical dimensions of work with the shadow. The seminar will also address such Jungian concepts as the complex and archetype in order to further elaborate on the shadow.

Jan Bauer is the author of two books, Women and Alcoholism and Impossible Love: or Why the Heart Must Go Wrong. She is a practising Jungian analyst in Montreal and is presently Chair of the Ethics Committee of AGAP, the umbrella organization for ISAP, the new training institute in Zurich. Her frequent presentations to our society have always been both entertaining and illuminating.
     

AUTUMN 2007 PROGRAMME

Annual Fall Social Event:

 

      

DreamTending:
Film and Discussion
Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007
Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke St. W.
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

To inaugurate this season of events the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal invites you to a screening of a recent DVD called "DreamTending." The film elaborates a particular style of dream work developed by Stephen Aizenstat, director of the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Southern California. The film also introduces viewers, through interviews, to some of the leading talent in the Jungian (Depth Psychology) world. Dreams are the gateway to the soul so we hope that those of you who attend this event will be well launched into a fruitful season of psychological exploration.

Donations are welcome.
For info please call 514 481-8664.


         

Legacy of the Dead
A lecture by Paul Kugler of Buffalo  
Friday, October 12, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, students/seniors $8

The death of a parent exerts a profound effect on our personality. Shortly after Jung's father died, he appeared to Jung in a deeply moving dream which began a lifelong struggle to psychologically understand the role of the dead in psychic life. This lecture will historically trace Jung¹s ongoing engagement with "Spirits of the Dead." Beginning with the death of his parents, through the appearance of the dead in his  patients' pathological  experiences, to the assimilation of the metaphor of "revenants" (spirits of the dead) into his metapsychology and, finally, to the repeated dreams of deceased loved ones near the end of his life, we will explore the significance of the dead in psychic life.

 

         

The Garden:
A Psychological Look at a Special Place    
A seminar with Paul Kugler    
Saturday, October 13, 10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Dawson College, Room 3F.36
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $35,  non-members $45,
students/seniors $25

From the Medieval Cloister Garden of Europe and  the Zen Garden of Japan to the Islamic Courtyard Garden,  we encounter an oasis of the soul. What is this special place where nature, imagination, spirituality and beauty come together in a single immediate experience? This seminar will turn a psychological eye to one of our favorite childhood places, our family garden with its tree forts, secret  hideaways, vibrant colours, fragrances and distant sounds of birds.   


                  
Eranos & Jungian Psychology:
A Photographic History   
A slide presentation by Paul Kugler  
Saturday, October 13, 2:00 -  4:00 p.m.
Dawson College, Room 3F.36
Members $35,  non-members $45,
students/seniors $25

The Eranos Conferences were held in late August in Ascona, Switzerland beginning in 1933. During the annual conferences, world experts in the humanities and social sciences would gather for lectures, discussions and meals together. C. G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Joseph Campbell, Aniela Jaffé, Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman, Wolfgang Giegerich, David Miller, Heinrich Zimmer, Gershom Scholem, and Mircea Eliade were some of the distinguished depth psychologists and scholars who participated. This lecture will consist of a slide presentation of rare photographs from the conferences, accompanied by a history of Eranos in relation to Jungian psychology. Witnessing the succession of speakers from 1933 to 1988 is like viewing a family album of the intellectual history of Jungian psychology.  
  
Paul Kugler, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in East Aurora, New York. He is the author of numerous works ranging from contemporary psychoanalysis to experimental theatre and post-modernism. Raids on the Unthinkable: Freudian and Jungian Psychoanalyses, Spring Journal Books, 2005, was his most recent publication. He is a former president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. 

 

         

Why Jung?
A lecture by Polly Young-Eisendrath of Vermont
Friday, November 9, 7:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, students/seniors $8

At the dawn of a new century, we need to re-evaluate the frameworks we use to understand our lives. This presentation will explore how Jung¹s theories of personality, culture and relationship bring fresh insights in the light of our new knowledge of neuroscience and our need to develop a radical interdependence in order to survive on the planet. Dr. Young-Eisendrath will discuss why and how Jung's ideas are relevant to a post-modern sensibility.

Polly Young-Eisendrath, Ph.D. is a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst practising in central Vermont where she also holds several prominent teaching posts. She lectures widely on topics of resilience, women's development, couple relationship, and the interface between contemporary psychoanalysis and spirituality. The author of fourteen books, her newest, The Trouble with Being Special: A Whole New Approach to Self-Confidence (Little, Brown), will appear in 2008.



            
Using Mindfulness in Doing Psychotherapy:
Watching Your Experience When You're Activated in the Transferential Field    
A workshop with Polly Young-Eisendrath
Saturday, Nov. 10, 10:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.
Dawson College, Room 3F.36
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $70, non-members $90,
students/seniors $50      
N.B. For therapists only.

This interactive workshop will begin with a basic lesson in mindfulness ("evenly hovering attention"). Then we willl talk about using mindfulness in watching transference and countertransference when psychological complexes are activated, as well as how the therapist might speak to the client about these events.
Please bring clinical material and especially questions about therapeutic impasses.     

     

           
Wisdom of the Psyche:
How We Learn Through Heartbreak, Abandonment, Fear and Love  
A lecture by Ginette Paris of Santa Barbara
Friday,  December 7, 7:30 -10:00 p.m.
Dawson College Amphitheatre, Room 4C.1
4001 de Maisonneuve W. (Atwater Metro)
Members $12, non-members $15, students/seniors $8

In this lecture Ginette Paris will elaborate on some of the ideas from her recent book Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (Routledge). She will show how psychology might be shifting away from the clinical model of pathology and treatment and moving toward the art of living: developing psychological wisdom. Her book has been called "a serious challenge to the academy and the consulting room" (Susan Rowland), with "radically imaginative ... proposals for the future of depth psychology" (Michael Vannoy Adams).
 
Ginette Paris, Ph.D. is Core Faculty in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute  in Santa Barbara, California. After practising as a clinical psychologist and teaching Communications for 20 years  at UQAM, she joined Pacifica in 1995, where she teaches and lectures on Jungian and post-Jungian approaches, especially the theory and practice of Archetypal Psychology. Her latest book, The Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience (Routledge, 2007), follows earlier works, Pagan Grace and Pagan Meditations (Spring Publications).


AUTUMN SEMINAR SERIES

         

Witches and Kings, Curses and Rings:
Jungian Perspectives on Fairy Tales
A five-week reading seminar
November 5, 12, 19 & December 3 & 10,
6:30 - 8:30 p.m.
Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke St. W.
Readings and costs to be announced

Replete with magical animals, witches, spells and, of course, maidens and kings, fairy tales fascinate us in our childhood years. What is perhaps less well known is that they were written for an adult audience and have considerable psychological depth. Such Jungian authors as Marie-Louise von Franz, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, and Marion Woodman have explored these stories to bring insight into our human condition. This five-week seminar will take us on an imaginative and intellectual ride into a kingdom rich with symbols and stories that we might have, unwittingly and sadly, left behind.

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