Now that the age of (personalistic) psychology---the 20th century---is over it becomes easier to see how the individual person had become inflated by the rise of psychology. Conventional psychology had taken what had actually been “the soul’s objective awakening in the alchemy of history, to its self-consciousness (to psychology, the logos of the soul) quite literally as centering around the empirical human being or the ego-personality and as having to do with the latter’s development. Usually, the idea of the “Shadow” had therefore also been understood personalistically, as the problem of “my own dark side.” In this lecture, I will describe how “the Shadow,” as the soul’s own Other, functioned in the soul’s history as its teacher or psychopomp and how the soul, by step-by-step integrating “the Shadow” into its own consciousness, slowly became conscious of itself, i.e., turned into psychology.

Much of shadow psychology in Jung’s sense is only to be understood by its Christian background. As much as classical Greek thought about the psyche and Germanic archaic “psychology” may have influenced the Occident, the Christianization of Europe and the upheaval of the entire European population are a caesura that psychologically amounts to a second beginning of history. Moreover, the encounter with the shadow has a more fundamental impact and significance in the Christian world which is characterized by the opposition of good and evil than it would in a polytheistic context. I will describe the soul’s own Other and its function in history through the following stages: (1) The Enemy or Crusade Stage (The Advent); (2) The Heretic or Witch-Hunt Stage; (3) The Turncoat or Subversion Stage; (4) The Mea Culpa Stage; and (5) The Hospitality Stage or the Accomplished Integration.

What we will be examining here is psychology’s coming into its own, into the logically psychological status of consciousness within a defined historical context.

Wolfgang Giegerich is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice near Munich, Germany. He has lectured widely, has been a regular speaker at the Eranos conferences, and has frequently taught as Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan. He was the founding editor of GORGO, a German journal of archetypal psychology. Of his more than 150 publications (including nine books) his latest books available in English are: The Soul's Logical Life, Dialectics and Analytical Psychology (with David Miller and Greg Mogenson), and The Neurosis of Psychology. The latter is Vol. I of The Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich. The publisher writes: With its publication of the Collected English Papers of Wolfgang Giegerich, Spring Journal Books makes available to the psychological reader the work of one of archetypal psychology's most brilliant theorists. A practicing Jungian analyst and a long-time contributor to the field, Giegerich is renowned for his dedication to the substance of Jungian thought and for his unparalleled ability to think it through with both rigor and speculative strength. The product of over three decades of critical reflection, Giegerich's English papers are collected in four volumes: The Neurosis of Psychology (Vol. 1); Technology and the Soul (Vol.2); Soul-Violence (Vol.3); and The Soul Always Thinks (Vol.4.).

Recent research on the image and mythology of the Dragon has confirmed its presence in cultures around the world and has led even non-Jungian researchers to  wonder if Jung was not right about his theory of the collective  unconscious. In this lecture Dr. Moore will summarize some of the recent  research on dragon mythology and suggest that the dragon image is one of the  most revealing mythic representations of the power of the archetypal Self in  both psychopathology and  individuation.

Central to the great traditions of both psychoanalysis and spirituality are critical  insights into the ebb and flow of the powerful—both wonderful and  dangerous--energies of life and transformation.  Experiences of  scarcity or abundance, flatness or flooding, point to the key role of both  access to and optimal regulation of the golden energies of the  soul.  In this  workshop Dr. Moore will share his recent research discoveries into the Great  Code of the GodSelf Within and his reflections on the dynamics and  transformations of “Dragon energies,” the fire within. Presentations  will be lectures with discussion and experiential processing. The workshop  will be appropriate for all serious students of personal and spiritual transformation.

Dr. Robert Moore is an internationally recognized Jungian psychoanalyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago.  Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and  Spirituality in the Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary, he  is also a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and  Director of Research for the Institute for the Science of Psychoanalysis.   Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and spirituality, he  lectures internationally on his formulation of a Neo-Jungian paradigm for  psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.  His most recent book is Facing the Dragon: Confronting Persibak and Spiritual Grandiosity.  He is currently working on his Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian Paradigm.
Date: April 20-21, 2007

LECTURE: “Hieronlymous Bosch’s ‘Garden of Earthly Delights’”

Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.

The enchanting painting of Hieronymus Bosch (1453-1516) represents a most enigmatic interpretive puzzle of Northern Renaissance art, an archetypal cart-wheel across the sensual skin of the Great Mother, and an unwitting celebration of Aphrodite and Eros in the medieval Christian psyche of the Low Countries. Employing lovely detailed slides of the famous triptych in ins entirety, Dr. TePaske will explore Bosch’s historical and religious milieu, his portrayal of the extremes of the senses from their innocence in Paradise to their outrage in Hell, and the work’s significance on varied mythical and psychological parameters.

Bradley A TePaske is a Zurich-trained Jungian analyst and a Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades, California. He holds an MFA in Printmaking, and had studied with two noted Northern Renaissance scholars, Charles Cuttler at Iowa and Craig Harbison at UMASS. A frequent lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute of L.A., Dr. TePaske is also a religious historian, a mythologist, a teacher of Gnosticism, Magdalen/ Sophia lore and the Graeco-Roman Mystery Religions---and a devoted environmental and anti-war activist. Brad is a past president of the Minnesota Jung Association. We are able to present him this evening through the courtesy of the MN Seminar in Jungian studies.
Date: March 9, 2007

LECTURE: "To Dream With Eyes Open: Jung's Method of Active Imagination as Illustrated by the Paintings of Barbara Hannah."

Judith Savage, Jungian Analyst

According to Jung, the main interest of his work was “not the treatment of neurosis, but the approach to the numinous.” He developed active imagination as “ a tool and a technique to unite image and meaning” during his personal encounter with the unconscious. Active imagination emerged as method from his meditative sand play, his mandala drawings, his visionary and dream experiences such as Septems Sermones and Philemon, and the many drawings he made in his Red Book. Jung regarded active imagination as the individuation process itself.

In addition, extensive slides from the active imagination series created by Barbara Hannah during her analysis with Jung, Toni Wolfe, and Peter Baynes will be shown. This historical, and rarely viewed material, will shed insight into the earliest development of active imagination.

Judith Savage, LICSW, LMFT is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Paul, a licensed independent clinical social worker, and a marriage and family therapist. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, a training analyst and executive officer of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and on the Board of the Psychoanalytic Coalition of Minnesota. She is the author of Mourning Unlived Lives: A Psychological Study of Childbearing Loss and acontributor to The Soul of Popular Culture. She is formerly the coordinator of the Minnesota Seminar in Jungian Studies and is currently its treasurer and a core faculty member.



Date: February 9, 2007

What if Mary Magdalene really WAS the wife and Beloved of Jesus? What if the earliest Christian heresy was the denial of the Bride? What became of her after the Crucifixion of Christ? Why was her story suppressed by the Church Fathers and why must we now retrieve it? Margaret Starbird’s work explores legends and mythology of the Sacred Union once at the very core of the Christian faith attested in the Gospels themselves! Her work helps to correct the tragic “design flaw” in Christian doctrine---the loss of the Sacred Feminine---that has become so painfully obvious at the threshold of the third millennium. The lecture includes images from medieval art and artifact supporting the legends of the Lost Grail.

We will examine the symbols hidden in medieval art and artifacts of the alternative Christian Church that kept the Grail story alive despite centuries of ruthless persecution by the Inquisition. Included will be analysis of gematria encoded in the original Greek of the New Testament. We will have time for reflection, discussion and meditation. And finally, we will embrace “the Sacred Reunion” of the Archetypal Bride and Bridegroom at the heart of the Christian story.

Margaret Starbird holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland where she concentrated in comparative literature, medieval studies and German language, studies she pursued on a Fulbright Student Grant at the Christian Albrechts Universitat in Kiel, Germany. She taught German language at the University of Maryland for four years and for one year at North Carolina State University. She later studied at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe, including pilgrimages to Black Madonna and Mary Magdalene shrines and Cathar citadels in Provence. Starbird and her husband of 38 years now reside in the Pacific Northwest. They have five grown children and two grand-children. Margaret conducts nationwide seminars and retreats honoring the Sacred Marriage at the heart of Christianity. She is the author of five widely acclaimed books. Her website is: www.MargaretStarbird.net

LECTURE: “Individuation, Identity, and the Self: A Jungian and Post-Jungian View of Development Through the Life Cycle”

Dr. Brian Feldman, Jungian Analyst

This lecture will focus on Jungian and post-Jungian views of development through the entire human life cycle---infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. By looking through the lens of Jung’s own development from infancy to adulthood we will explore the connections between his theories---of individuation, identity, and Self---and his personal experiences and cultural context, including photos of some places and spaces important to these connections.

The post-Jungian theories of Michael Fordham, renowned British child analyst, will be explored as they extended Jung’s original formulations, amplifying our understanding of childhood and adolescent identity and sexuality, the role of the inter-subjective field in analysis, and the importance of infancy as a foundation for later psychological development. Fordham, as editor of Jung’s collected works, had an intimate knowledge of Jung and his theories which he shared with the lecturer while his supervisor and mentor. Fordham understood that the study of infancy and childhood are important components of an integrated and expanded analytical psychology. This understanding will be viewed through the lens of Fordham’s own life and cultural milieu in London during a period of fertile psychological development represented by the work of Klein,Winnicott, Bion, and Bowlby.

Brian Feldman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, Jungian psychoanalyst and consultant in Palo Alto, California. He trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley and as an analyst at the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. He has served as Chief of Clinical Psychology in the Department of Child Psychiatry at Stanford Medical Center, is currently a training analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and is on the faculties of the Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis (Seattle and Portland. He is fluent in Spanish and teaches and consults in Mexico, Brazil, and Japan. His publications are mostly in the area of developmental Jungian analysis. One article on organizational development will be published soon, and he hopes to do more writing and research in this area. We are presenting Brian tonight through the courtesy of the MN Seminar in Jungian Studies, for whom he will be presenting a workshop this weekend.

Date: October 13, 2006

C.G. Jung said to Miguel Serrano: “Nobody understands what I mean. Only a poet could begin to understand.” And in a reply to Martin Buber, Jung commented: “I poetize.” This evening’s presentation will argue that a poetic quality is crucial to a true depth psyhchology---not poetic in a Romantic sense, but rather poetic in a Modernist and Postmodernist sense. The point of departure for Dr. Miller’s reflections will be Jung’s view that poetry “needs no meaning, for meaning has nothing to do with art.” He will also suggest that meaning has nothing to do with psychotherapy either---when seen in this poetic perspective.

David L. Miller, Ph.D, is Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and a former core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. He is an honorary member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and has helped to train analysts in numerous Inter-Regional Society seminars, as well as Jungian Institutes in Switzerland, Japan, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Miller was a member of the Eranos Circle in Switzerland from 1975-1988 and lectured at the Eranos Conference nine times during that period. He is the author of five books and more than eighty articles and book chapters. For more information, go to the: David Miller Webite.

The MN Jung Association is presenting Dr.Miller through the courtesy of the MN Seminar in Jungian studies, where he will be presenting a lecture/workshop this weekend.

Date: September 8, 2006

Presentation by Lionel Corbett

A Psychological Approach to Personal Spirituality: An Emerging New Myth of God

Lecture

Traditional concepts of God are no longer tenable for many people who nevertheless experience a strong sense of the sacred in their lives. This lecture will describe a way of thinking about the sacred that is emerging from the field of Depth Psychology, alongside traditional Judeo-Christian ideas. It will be of interest to people who are interested in the development of a personal spirituality and to psychotherapists who wish to restore psychotherapy to the realm of spiritual practice.

Dr. Corbett trained in medicine and psychiatry in England, and as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. His primary dedication is to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology, the development of psychotherapy as a spiritual practice, and nondual approaches to psychotherapy. Dr. Corbett is on the faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

Date: May 12, 2006

Presentation Jan Bauer

Money’s Mysteries

Lecture

"Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy and with death as his greatest source of anxiety. " (John Galbraith) What is it about money that so enthralls and worries us? Why does it have so much power in our lives and why do we generally find it so difficult to deal with? As we shall see, money is mercurial. It belongs to everyone and to no one. We are all concerned with it, but few of us understand it. We think only that if we had more, all would be well with the world. Yet money is more than 'having' and quantity. It is also a symbol of the past, of value and of connection between people. It is sometimes sacred, sometimes profane. It is truly polymorphous. The lecture will explore some of money's myriad meanings and end by asking the question, "Why is it that the world of money and the world of psychology seem mutually exclusive?"

Date: March 10, 2006

Presentation by Judith Savage and Margaret Fulton

Metaphors of the Mind: Klein, Winnicott, Bion and Jung

Class

Whether discussing Klein's perspective of the internal world and the development of phantasy; Winnicott's notion of the "good enough mother" and the holding environment; Bion's conception of container/contained related to thinking and "O"; or Jung's archetypes and imagos, each of these theorists identified aspects of the psychic landscape while constructing their psychoanalytic methodology. Analysts Margaret Fulton and Judith Savage will engage clinicians in a creative exploration and discussion of the similarities and differences between these psychoanalytic pioneers. Emphasis will be on the clinical understanding and application of these concepts. Faculty: Margaret Fulton, Ph.D., L.P., psychoanalyst and Judith Savage, LICSW, Jungian Analyst.

Margaret Fulton, Ph.D., L.P. maintains a full-time private practice in Minneapolis. She is a founding member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Studies (SPS) and the Minnesota Institute for Contemporary Studies (MICPS), and she has been extensively involved on the national level of the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis as Chair of the Public Relations Committee and as President of the Section on Women, Gender and Psychoanalysis. She is a member of the Psychoanalytic Center of California and interested in the evolving theory and clinical applications Klein, Bion and the contemporary object relational theorists.

Judith Savage, MSW is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Paul, a licensed independent clinical social worker, and a marriage and family therapist. She has been on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, an executive officer of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and on the Board of the Psychoanalytic Coalition of Minnesota. She is the author of Mourning Unlived Lives: A Psychological Study of Childbearing Loss and a contributor to The Soul of Popular Culture. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the Minnesota Seminar in Jungian Studies.

Date: March 17, 2006

Presentations by Eugene Monick

America’s Patriarchal Disease

Lecture

The United States suffered a grievous loss on 9/11, which has shaken its confidence in its sense of invulnerability as what has been called "The World's Last Superpower". Quite obviously, the US is not invulnerable and it is becoming increasingly more evident that it cannot make itself to be. Its loss of confidence shows in many ways, not the least of which is the Iraq war.

This lecture will lay a ground work for understanding Patriarchy - the assumed necessity of male domination - as a serious psychological collective impediment to mature international as well as personal life.

Patriarchy as a Danger to Men as well as to Women

Workshop

Men under the sway of Patriarchy tend to find satisfaction in dominating everyone and everything. Patriarchy suggests to them that they are important. Indeed they are, but not because of Patriarchy. But how else can men prove themselves? Monick will suggest four ways. (Members of the Seminar will find it helpful to attend the Friday lecture.)

Eugene Monick is a Jungian analyst and an Episcopal priest. He is a native of St. Paul, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, Virginia Theological Seminary, the C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich and the Union Institute and University. He was vicar of St. Clement's Church, New York, 1965-75 when he was called "the vicar of Broadway". He is the author of three books: Phallos: Sacred Image of the Masculine; Castration and Male Rage (both by Inner- City Books), and Evil, Sexuality and Disease in Grunewald's Body of Christ (Spring Publications), with another about to be published: Potency: Masculine Aggression as a Path to the Soul (Inner-City Books).

Date: March 25, 2006

Presentations by Lyn Cowan

The word "hero" in our day, when applied to so many so often, begins to lose its mythic sense. The mythic Hero is larger than life, and must accomplish impossible tasks at great risk, bringing hope and even redemption to lesser mortals. But the Hero stands in an important relationship to the greater Self, and implied in the Hero's grand mission are ideas of personal responsibility and vocation, two themes we meet frequently in Jung's theory of individuation but do not often examine. This presentation, using clips from the film, will invite a conversation about the collective psychological phenomenon that was a horse named "Seabiscuit," a true mythic Hero, and the human partners who engaged with him in a mutual process of transformation.

Date: November 19, 2005

Presentations by Kristin Sagert

Trauma and Transformation
Lecture

Introduction to Somatic Experiencing

What you are, the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world--J. Krishnamurti

Early and extensive physical or emotional trauma has a profound effect on the individual's developing sense of self. Clinical material will be used to show how Somatic Experiencing, a body-centered therapeutic approach, helps the traumatized individual resolve the trauma and come into new meanings for his/her life that are transformative. As the client experiences the embodiment of these new meanings, the resulting shifts reverberate in many aspects of their life, changing the sense of self and the experience of others.

Somatic Experiencing is a body-centered therapeutic approach directed toward the resolution and healing of physical or emotional trauma. Rather than an intellectual/insight process, SE works with the felt sense of the body related to traumatic experiences in a carefully guided way to allow the body to "unwind" the residual impact of the trauma without re-traumatizing the person.

The workshop will include:
- an introduction to the SE approach for trauma resolution
- the theoretical construct of the nervous system response to fight/flight
- the importance of the trauma history
- SE applications and integration into various practice modalities
- experiential exploration of the felt sense in workshop participants' bodies
- viewing a video of a somatic experiencing session

Kristin Sagert has 24 years of clinical experience. She has a private practice in Corrales and Albuquerque New Mexico working with adults. Her approach is body-centered, psycho-spiritual, pattern level exploration with a Jungian orientation. Extensive experience in Western healthcare (PhD in preventive medicine) is integrated with the inclusion of diverse ways of healing. Kristin works with all types of trauma, life transitions, emotional distress in its varied forms, acute and chronic health issues and grief. Her work incorporates Somatic Experiencing with imagery and dream-work to assist individuals to connect with the essence of being.

Date: October 29, 2005

Presentation by David Miller

Hunters and Farmers Haunting the Self!—Ancient Mythic Traces in the Modern Psyche

Lecture

"Two souls, alas, reside within my breast!" Goethe gave to Faust these agonizing words to utter in the eighteenth century, but they may well ring true for many men and women today: Jung confirmed the psychological truth of Faust's saying by noting that the nature of the psyche is that of a complexio oppositorum, a "complex of oppositions." This presentation will explore one of the many Faustian tensions felt deeply within the self by drawing upon a distinction in the history of religions: namely, the distinction between the mythologies of peoples that gather food and hunt animals in the wild and those who tend domesticated animals and farm. There is a large gap between feeling and thinking that "unless a seed falls into the ground and dies there can be no life," on the one hand, and, on the other, feeling and thinking that "unless you return to the earth the animal blood that you have spilled there will be no future sustenance." We all have a primordial hunter and a primitive farmer within ourselves, and these two often don't get along very well.

Date: October 7, 2005

Presentations by James Hollis

Presentations by John Giannini

The Couplings and Jung's Divided Family:
The Analysts and the Typologists

Evening Lecture

Drawing on the work of Isabel Myers-Briggs and Sonu Shamdasani, Giannini attempts through an archetypal and historical understanding to reconcile the apparent division between analysts and typologists over the importance and significance of type in understanding the psyche and the individual life.

Here Giannini focuses on the perceptive/judging couplings -- ST, SF, NF, NT -- in psychological type from both Jung's understanding and Isabel Myers' instrument (MBTI) and theory, using information and insights from modern brain research child and adult development, Indian healing, the creative process and from the life experiences and dreams of the workshop participants.

Date: January 21, 2005

Dreams and the Inner Life:
presented by Greg Mogenson

Dreams are spontaneous expressions of our psychic life process. Rich in images and metaphors, they reveal the manner in which events of our lives and imperatives of our becoming combine to create our experience of meaning, our sense of soul. The presenter will discuss a collection of dream motifs he has gathered over many years that vividly illustrate the vital contribution dreams make to our inner life.

Greg Mogensen is a Jungian analyst practicing in London, Ontario. The author of many articles in the field of analytical psychology, his most recent book is The Dove in the Consulting Room: Hysteria and the Anima in Bollas and Jung.

Date: November 12, 2004

Victim of Others or Victimizer of Oneself?
presented by Guy Corneau

Lecture

We are not so much victims of others and outer situations but victims of our own personality based on fears, expectations, negative beliefs, and protective behaviors.

In other words, we are prisonners of the past and, wanting to protect ourselves from the repetition of dire events, we unconscioulsy attract people that will have the power to explode this protective structure. The hypothesis is that there is an intelligence at play in our tendency to repeat abusive relationships: the Self is actually trying to break down that defensive structure, that we call our "personnality", and help us break through to the creative impulse and the deeper being, that we could call our "individuality".

The last part of the lecture is devoted to strategies we can adopt to relax the personality structure and get in touch with our deeper and creative individuality.

Date: October 15, 2004

Presentations by Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D.

GRACE IN THE DESERT: Awakening to the Gifts of Monastic Life

Evening Lecture

In this powerful book, travel along with Dennis Patrick Slattery as he sets off on a three-month pilgrimage, during which he struggles with his identity; his role as a father and husband, teacher and believer; as well as the life and death of his father. Throughout his stays at twelve monasteries and retreat centers, Slattery seeks the refuge of the monastic life where silence and solitude open an extraordinary window on the human soul. Against the backdrop of Slattery's personal story, Grace in the Desert offers vivid descriptions of monastic life and practice, Catholic, Orthodox, and Buddhist monasteries and retreat centers. Slattery's journey evokes life's most profound questions and his rich Catholic heritage with wisdom drawn from contemporary and classic spiritual writers like Thomas Merton, Julian of Norwich, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Grace in the Desert clearly shows the subtle and often surprising ways God speaks to us and how to become more spiritually fulfilled by opening to the richness of monastic life. He also reveals how a monastic attitude or disposition can be cultivated in moments of silent pauses to renew oneself during one's busy daily life. Slattery attempts to bring a monastic sense of space to the reader, which one can enter within or outside the structure of a formal retreat.

Date: September 10, 2004

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