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Winter/Spring/Summer 2009

Lectures, Seminars and Workshops •   Friday, February 20, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. Carl Greer: “A Shamanic Perspective on Healing, Personal Growth & Jungian Analysis” (LECTURE) •   Friday, March 27, 7:00–9:30 P.M. Rose Holt / Deborah Stutsman: The Alchemical Vessel; Tending the Seven Stages of Psychic Growth (LECTURE) •   Friday, April 24, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M Lawrence Staples: “Guilt With a Twist: The Promethean Way” (LECTURE) •   Friday, July 17, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M Leah Friedman: Hestia, Hekate, and Hermes: Archetypal Guides to Late Life" (LECTURE) •   Saturday, February 21, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 Carl Greer: “A Shamanic Perspective on Healing, Personal Growth & Jungian Analysis” (WORKSHOP) •   Saturday, March 28, 9:00 A.M.–3:30 P.M. Rose Holt / Deborah Stutsman: The Alchemical Vessel; Tending the Seven Stages of Psychic Growth (WORKSHOP) •   Saturday, April 25, 11:00 A.M.–3:30 P.M Lawrence Staples: Dealing With Guilt’s Contradictions” (WORKSHOP) •   Saturday, July 18, 10:00 A.M.–3:30 P.M Leah Friedman: The Art of Growing Old: Embracing Constancy, Complexity and Change ” (WORKSHOP) Study Groups •  Furnace-Stoking and Image-Making: Fanning the Embers of Alchemical and Psychic Process Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman, LPC, ATR-BC.  3 Mondays (Apr. 6, 13 & 20) 7:00 – 9:00 P.M. - Limited to 8 registrants for each class PART II dates: July 30, August 6, August 10 and August 20  - FULL- •  Archetypes in Harry Potter Presented by Shirley Fontenot GROUP 1: 7 Mondays: 1:30–3:30 P.M. (1/26; 2/9; 3/9, 23; 4/13, 27; 5/11) GROUP 2: 7 Wednesdays: 7:30–9:30 P.M. (1/28; 2/11; 3/11, 25; 4/15, 29; 5/13) - Limited to 8 registrants for each class •  A Course on Dreams - Presented by Rose Holt  -- Class is Full -- 7 Thursdays (Jan. 29 / Feb. 12, 26 / Mar. 12, 26 / Apr. 9, 16) 7:30 – 9:30 P.M. - Limited to 10 registrants for each class •  Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jungian Psychology - Presented by Ellen Sheire, M.A. -- Cancelled -- 6 Tuesdays (Feb. 3, 17/Mar. 3,17,31/Apr. 7) 7:30 – 9:30 P.M. - Limited to 14 registrants for each class FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES Join us Friday nights for popcorn, a good movie and a discussion led by one of the St. Louis analysts. Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5 BUY TICKETS ONLINE •  February 13: Shirley Fontenot - “Whale Rider” •  March 13: Rose Holt - “My Name Was Sabina Spielrein” •  April 3 (First Friday): "Stardust" •  May 8: Ellen Sheire - ”Big Fish" Movies start promptly at 7pm -- Arrive Early Midwest Conference - SAVE THE DATE! - Nov 19-22, 2009. (Lionel Corbett / James Hollis / Sylvia Perera plus others to be announced) Where to purchase texts - Continuing education credits - Become a Friend of the Society! Scholarships Available! (For Jung Society events) Related Events The New Jewish Theatre Company is presenting the play “Sabina” January 28 – February 15, 2009 Rose Holt, Jungian Analyst, will lead the “Talk Back” after the February 5 and 15 performances. The play is about Sabina Spielrein, Jung’s first analytical patient, who went on to become a medical doctor and analyst herself, eventually collaborating with both Jung and Freud. Performances nearly booked! For more information, please visit the theatre website www.newjewishtheatre.org or call (314) 442-3283. Printer-Friendly Version of this Page

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Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

“Hestia, Hekate, and Hermes: Archetypal Guides to Late Life”

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LECTURE: Friday, July 17, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

How is aging viewed in our culture, and how might we resist many of the predominantly negative stereotypes?  Hestia, Hekate, and Hermes are especially useful archetypes and guides for late life.  Hestia offers stability, continuity, and equilibrium; Hekate exemplifies the perils and promises of choices and transitions; whereas Hermes, messenger and trickster, provides energy, creativity, and resourcefulness. This lecture will explore these aspects and how they can be applied as a fresh understanding of the late life experience.

This workshop will enable us to discover ways in which constancy, complexity, and change manifest in our
lives, and how these qualities can be helpful as we develop the art of growing old. We will have an
opportunity to meditate as we walk an indoor labyrinth. After lunch we will have a special ceremony during
which we initiate those who wish to consciously embrace their role as elders, persons who have begun to
harvest the wisdom of their years and are committed to transmitting that wisdom to future generations.

Leah Friedman received her PhD in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2002, at age 73. As a young woman, she worked with disabled and deaf children, and after the birth of two daughters was a stay-at-home Mom. In her 50s she became a fine art photographer and later devoted time to creating and conducting rituals. After reading, studying, and working with a Jungian analyst, at age 69 Leah decided to enter graduate school to deepen her understanding of mythology and depth psychology. At age 80, she now has written a book about her life and is currently interested in the experience of growing old. Some of her reflections can be read on her blog, “Musings of a Crone,” www.Leahsbook.com.

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LECTURE AND WORKSHOP
“A Shamanic Perspective on Healing, Personal Growth & Jungian Analysis”
Presented by Carl Greer, Psy.D.
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LECTURE: Friday, February 20, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

WORKSHOP: Saturday, February 21, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30  (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80; Full-time Students $40

             Shamans have a world view that can be useful for individuals as well as for the collective. In Friday’s lecture I will discuss this world view and show its usefulness in healing and personal growth. Comparing similarities and differences between Jungian and shamanic thought, I will show how Shamans facilitate one’s relationship to the sacred by use of ritual and ceremony to promote inner and outer harmony.
           In Saturday’s workshop I will describe how Shamans access various perceptual states, each containing elements of the others and all manifesting spirit. Participants will see how the language of these perceptual states differs as does the nature of self reflection as we go from literal to the level of pure energy or spirit. Shamans work to achieve harmony at all the perceptual levels and realize that by perceiving from higher levels, lower levels can be positively affected. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to experience personal shamanic rituals. We plan to have a fire for ritual work, and to lock in the day’s lessons.   Advance Reading Suggestions: Shaman, Healer, Sage, by Alberto Villoldo and any of Carlos Castaneda’s books.


            Carl Greer, Psy.D., is a businessman, practicing Jungian analyst in the Chicago area, Clinical Psychologist, and has a shamanic healing practice. Over the course of his career, he has been an entrepreneur and university professor, and has a lifelong interest in the martial arts and Qigong. He has published articles in various journals, served on a number of boards of directors, and taught courses in shamanism and Jungian theory and practice.

 

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LECTURE AND WORKSHOP
“The Alchemical Vessel:  Tending the Seven Stages of Psychic Growth”
Presented by Rose Holt, M.A. and Deborah Stutsman, LPC, ATR-BC, BFA
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LECTURE: Friday, March 27 , 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs) First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church  6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10  WORKSHOP: Saturday, March 28, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.  (5 CEUs) First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church  6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at Fee: Friends - $85 Others - $95 (Includes lunch) Full-time Students - $48 (No lunch) NOTE: There is a Study Group associated with this event.  SEE DETAILS    Register / Pay Online!    NONMEMBERS    FRIENDS / MEMBERS    STUDENTS "The process of psychotherapy, when it goes at all deep, sets into motion profound and mysterious happenings.” E. Edinger, 1985              This Friday evening presentation and Saturday workshop will examine seven ancient alchemical processes that parallel the development of the human personality. Friday evening’s presentation will consist of a PowerPoint overview of the processes, including examples from the dreams of moderns, images from old alchemical texts, as well as images from everyday life. Rose and Deborah, using both the work of alchemists and the researches of C.G. Jung, will show how very much alive and helpful alchemical images and processes can be for understanding one’s (and others’) individuation process.

Mountain-Cave of the Adepts, in Jung, Psychology and Alchemy

            Carl Jung often drew and painted his own images in order to elucidate and understand his unconscious processes. Saturday’s workshop will be a hands-on, image-making journey into the materials and alchemical processes which call each participant into further visual exploration. This weekend’s program will appeal to people interested in furthering their own development, artists and non-artists seeking to understand the archetypal backdrop of image making, therapists and chaplains who work to assist others in their life struggles of becoming, and students who want to understand more deeply the contributions of C.G. Jung to the field of psychology.


Rose F. Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis. Rose has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology.



           

Deborah P. Stutsman, M.A., LPC, ATR-BC, BFA is a Jungian Counselor and Art Therapist working with adults in private practice in St. Louis, and has been the President of the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis since 2004. She received her MA in Art Therapy from SIUE in 1998, and her LPC in 2000. She has been the Art Therapist in the Psychology & Religion Program at the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute for the past ten years. Having studied Jung for over 13 years, Deborah specializes in a Jungian-based approach to the unconscious through image, dreams and imaginal processes.

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“Guilt With a Twist: The Promethean Way”
Presented by Lawrence Staples, MBA, Ph.D
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LECTURE: Friday, April 24, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs) First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church  6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10  Register / Pay Online!    NONMEMBERS    FRIENDS / MEMBERS    STUDENTS             This lecture presents an unconventional view of the role of sin and guilt in our lives. In common parlance, the words “good” and “guilt” do not belong together. Twenty years of experience by this still practicing 76 year-old psychoanalyst confirm the useful role that sin and guilt can play in our psychological development. Many thoughts, feelings and behavior that are considered “forbidden fruit” in the first half of life can become nourishing in the second. Examples might include giving up family-approved careers, divorce, or expressing qualities previously rejected as unacceptable, such as selfishness, or the contra-sexual side of ourselves. We must work to integrate the “sinful”, previously rejected parts of ourselves, the devalued opposites, and bear guilt in order to have wholeness.

WORKSHOP
“Dealing With Guilt’s Contradictions”
Presented by Lawrence Staples, MBA, Ph.D

WORKSHOP: Saturday, April 25, 11:00 A.M.–3:30 P.M.  (3.5 CEUs) First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church  6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at Fee: Friends - $55 Others - $65 (Includes lunch) Full-time Students - $33 (No lunch)  Register / Pay Online!    NONMEMBERS    FRIENDS / MEMBERS    STUDENTS              Guilt is a major cause of depression, anxiety, paranoia and suicide. This view is not widely held among medical and mental health professionals. Long before the advent of the DSM, Lady Macbeth’s guilt-induced decline into mental disorder and suicide dramatically and accurately portrayed the psychological damage that guilt can inflict on the human psyche. While the more common presenting symptoms of anxiety and depression can be extremely painful and dangerous, we bear those feelings more easily and with less threat to ourselves than we can bear our feelings of guilt, felt as indisputable evidence that we are bad, that we have somehow sinned. Guilt and self-esteem cannot compatibly share the same house at the same time.              In this workshop, participants will learn to distinguish the psychological from the religious definition of sin and guilt, and will learn ways to detect guilt’s presence, understand its meaning, and assuage its pain. Lawrence H. Staples, MBA, Ph.D is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in Washington, DC. He has a Ph.D. in psychology, and is a member of NAAP, the American Boards for Accreditation and Certification, IAAP, AGAP, and the Jungian Analysts’ Association of the Greater Washington Metropolitan Area. His special areas of interest are the problems of midlife, creativity and guilt. Dr. Staples’ publications include Guilt with a Twist: The Promethean Way, and a manuscript entitled Guilt Therapy, soon to be published by Fisher King Press.

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Study Groups

Furnace-Stoking and Image-Making:
Fanning the Embers of Alchemical and Psychic Process
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman, LPC, ATR-BC, BFA

PART II: Calcinatio, Solutio, Coagulatio and Sublimatio - FULL-
PART II dates: (July 30, August 6, August 10 and August 20) 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
Friends $120; All others, $130 (8 CEUs)

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3 Mondays (Apr. 6, 13 & 20) 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Friends, $60; All others, $80 (6 CEUs)
Suggested Readings: Jung, C.G., Man and His Symbols, 1964, chapters 3 - Individuation and 4 - Symbolism in the Visual Arts; Edinger, Edward, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, 1985

Fall 2008 

Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

 

LECTURE
The Hole in The Heart: Why We Fail at Love
Presented by Patricia Berry, Ph.D.

Lecture: Friday, October 24, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)          Printable Flyer
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

 Why is love so difficult? How do we fail at it? For centuries, love has been a topic for philosophy, theology, and especially the arts. During the past century, depth psychology, evolutionary theory, and modern science have taken up the topic as well. Yet marriages and partnerships continue to break up, and the divorce rate climbs. We seem to be failing at love. Are we the problem? Modern society? Or is it love itself that is so difficult? Could love be problematic even at an “archetypal level”?
            To explore the situation, this lecture will draw upon the Upanishads of the East, Homer’s Hymn to Aphrodite of the ancient Greek world, and Virgil’s Aeneid of the Roman West. To bring our view to the present, we will also look at some contemporary film clips. By the end of the discussion, we will have a better appreciation of why love is difficult, how and why we fail at love, and what those failures could be asking of us.

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WORKSHOP
“Fairy Tales and the Journey to Elsewhere”
Presented by Patricia Berry, Ph.D.

Workshop: Saturday, October 25, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80; Full-time Students $40        Printable Flyer

 Before the age of electronic entertainments, or even the amusement of the printed word, folks gathered around storytellers to hear tales richly combining the marvelous and the ordinary. These fairy tales portrayed an awareness of psychological patterns and a wisdom of a world above and beyond the ordinary run of daily activity. Following this tradition, Jungians today turn to fairy tales as essential for learning “how the psyche works.”
            Participants will examine fairy tales from a therapeutic perspective as portrayals of inner psychological conflicts, with possibilities for ‘diagnoses’ and ‘prognoses’, and clinical potential for discerning therapeutic goals, revealing psychological approaches and finding solutions that promote healing.
            Participants are encouraged to bring with them to the workshop a copy of the Grimm’s collected tales, as Patricia will be using The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (Pantheon Books), but should feel free to bring whatever collections they have available.

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Patricia Berry, Ph.D. is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst. She is the author of Echo’s Subtle Body: A Contribution to Archetypal Psychology and numerous articles. In 1991 she was the first Scholar in Residence at Pacifica Graduate Institute of Depth Psychology in California. She lectures internationally and has served as president of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts. Currently she has a private practice in West Bath, Maine.

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LECTURE
“An Evening With Carl Jung” Over Wine & Cheese
Presented by Rose Holt, M.A.

Lecture: Friday, September 19, 6:30 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church 
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10            Printable Flyer

NOTE: Due to the Forest Park "Balloon Glow" this same evening, we suggest you access Wydown from Big Bend Blvd., as opposed to Skinker Blvd.
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 At this “Season's Opener” Wine and Cheese/Lecture/Discussion our goals are: 1) to illustrate the scope of the major contributions C.G. Jung has made to our understanding of the human project, 2) to present a broad review of Jung's major theoretical ideas, and 3) to spark a lively, interesting discussion with like-minded folk who wish to learn more, or who already know a lot about Jung. Most importantly, Jung's ideas are practical. They help us to live better, “to drink more deeply from the well.” Rose will discuss Jung's theories on the complex, shadow, anima/animus, the Self, mythological motifs and the process of individuation. She will orient her presentation toward the practical application of these theories to life.

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             Rose F. Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis and Chicago and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis. She has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology.
 Read a recent article by Rose Holt to be published in Pathfinder!
 

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SEMINAR AND MOVIE
"Alchemy in Space and Time: The Art of Van Eyck and Varo”
Presented by Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.I.M., M.B.A., Jungian Analyst

Seminar: Saturday, November 15, 11:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (3.5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $55; Others $65 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $33 (No Lunch)

              “The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness.”  Jung, C.W.Vol. 15, par. 115.

            This lecture will explore the work of two great artists separated by five centuries in time. They are Jan Van Eyck, the Flemish master of the Northern European Renaissance and Remedios Varo, a Spanish/Mexican woman of the twentieth century. Each of these artists created images that serve both as bridges from one historical epoch to another and express the timelessness of the mystery of transformation.
            We will examine the symbols hidden in plain sight in Jan Van Eyck's masterpiece, The Arnolfini Wedding, and in four of Remedios Varo's finest works, as we gaze upon the eternal mystery, the alchemy of transformation captured in space and time. Following the lecture, we will view a colleague Jules Cashford's extraordinarily beautiful film: The Mystery of Jan Van Eyck. Jules says of her film, “Because Jan Van Eyck paints his donors, kneeling before the icons of their faith, as individuals in their own right, we are invited to see them as essential characters in these dramas of revelation, and so to wonder at their state of mind and the power of prayer. It is as though Virgin and Child and the Saints come into being through the intensity of the act of imagining, so they become real at a depth of the psyche that the artist makes visible.” Jules is a British analyst who co-authored with Ann Baring The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. Her most recent publication is the wonderful work: The Moon in Myth and Image, (Cassell Illustrated Publishers, 2003).

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             Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.I.M., M.B.A., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in St. Louis. Trained in Zurich, she served on the Training Committee, and Admissions Committee of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe on art and psychology. Mary is working on a manuscript for publication, Alchemical Art, on the power of art to transform patterns of human thought and behavior. She has a special interest in the healing power of images, and in the body as a voice of the soul.

Study Groups


A Womb of One’s Own: An Archetypal Analysis of Childless Women
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli

8 Tuesdays
(Nov. 18, 25/ Dec. 2, 16, 30/ Jan. 6, 20, 27)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 15 registrants
Location to be announced.
Friends, $110; All others, $130 (16 CEUs)
Readings – Paris, Ginette, Pagan Meditations; Downing, Chris, The Goddess; Bolen, Jean, Goddesses in Every Woman

Alchemical Mercurius as a “child” from the Mutus liber (1677) by Altus.
(Reprinted from The Golden Game by S. de Rola)

          Whether by choice or due to a series of life events, millions of women remain childless. For some women being childless offers welcome freedom; for other women it creates a void filled with painful longing, while some women feel ambivalent about the situation.
           Mythology holds powerful stories to better understand the archetypes of today’s childless women. The virgin goddesses of Greek mythology, Athena, Artemis, and Hestia are all childless, as is the Hindu goddess, Kali. Hekate and Persephone—two of the goddesses that traditionally comprise the triple goddess—have no children. Gwenhvfar of Arthurian legend was never able to have children, though she tried desperately. The matriarchs of the Hebrew Bible, Sarah, Rebecca, and Rachael, ultimately did have children, but they struggled for years with their infertility.
           Participants in this study group will explore the emotional, psychological, spiritual, and cultural ramifications of childlessness. Dr. Ferrentelli will use storytelling, readings, discussion, and some experiential exercises to help participants examine the archetypes of the different childless goddesses. Attendees will explore how these archetypal patterns apply to themselves.  Class limit of 15. Location to be announced. You may contact Francesca at (314) 283-5664 or e-mail her at drcheska@sbcglobal.net.
           Francesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her MA in Professional Psychology at Lindenwood College. Dr. Ferrentelli specializes in eating disorders, and lectures widely. She is the Program Manager of the Outpatient Behavioral Health Program at the St. Mary’s Health Center, has a private practice in Clayton, MO, and contracts as a therapist through St. Alexius Hospital.

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A Study of Archetypes as Manifested in the Harry Potter Series – Part 1
Presented by Shirley Fontenot

GROUP 1: 7 Monday (Sep. 8, 22/ Oct. 6, 20/Nov. 3, 17/Dec. 1) 1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M.
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GROUP 2: 7 Wednesdays (Sep. 10, 24/Oct. 8, 22/ Nov. 5, 19/Dec. 3) 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Readings: Books 1 to 4 of the Harry Potter Series
Limited to 10 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends, $90; All others, $110 (14 CEUs)

            The real magic of the Harry Potter Series demonstrates the power of archetypal image. When a story captures your imagination, as this story has with millions, it most likely portrays archetypal images that resonate in your psyche with special meaning. We can experience the manifestation of archetypes in dreams, in the body, in the grip of a complex, in myth, art, story and fantasy, in our daily lives and in relationships. Recognizing the power of these archetypes in our lives can help us understand the dynamics of our private myths and can give us a precious sense of the order of things. Searching out and discussing the archetypes in the Harry Potter material will enable us to either cooperate with these deep urges or resist them if we discern we should.
            Just for a while, leave behind the everyday world. Join us in the magic realm of Harry Potter and see what you might discover.
 
            Shirley M. Fontenot, D. Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Chicago and St. Louis. Class limit of 10, held at an office in University City. You may contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 726-0079 or e-mail her at shirleyfontenot@gmail.com.

            (Please note that the same class is being offered on Monday afternoons and Wednesday evenings. When you register please indicate your choice of Group 1 or 2, and if you would be able to switch if the signups so indicate.)

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Alchemy and Psychotherapy - An Online Course
Presented by Rose F. Holt, M.A. and Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
 

Sep. 9 through Nov. 13
Including 5 Thursday evening Online Seminars 
(Sep. 18/Oct. 2, 16, 30/Nov. 13; 7:30 – 9:00 P.M)
(Online seminars require that you have webcam and high-speed internet connection)
Friends, $155; All others, $175 (20 CEUs)
Limited to 13 participants
Readings: Whitmont, Edward, Anatomy of the Psyche: Alchemical Symbolism in Psychotherapy, Open Court, 1985. Optional readings will be available online. Course website is private, accessible only to participants.

           “The process of psychotherapy, when it goes at all deep, sets into motion profound and mysterious happenings.” [Edinger]
            C.G. Jung was fascinated with the work of the old alchemists who described background processes that paralleled the processes he observed in the unconscious background of his patients. Jung concluded that the psychic make-up for all humankind has a common foundation, a "sameness" akin to the anatomy of the human body. In this course we will study major alchemical processes and their parallels in the human experience of personality development.
            Rose F. Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis and Chicago and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis. She has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology. Read a recent article by Rose Holt to be published in Pathfinder!
            Boris Matthews, Ph.D. is a faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago where he received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1987. He has been board certified (1989) by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and has practiced Analytical Psychology and Jungian Analysis since then in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison. Dr. Matthews has translated numerous Jungian texts from German to English and is the co-author (with Ashok Bedi, M.D.) of Retire Your Family Karma.
Class limit of 13. Participants may qualify for twenty (20) CEUs. You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.

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Anima & Animus:
A Study of the Feminine & Masculine Principles in Men and Women
Presented by Ellen Sheire, Ph.D.

10 Mondays (Sep. 15, 29/Oct. 6, 27/Nov. 3, 10, 24/Dec. 8, 15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Class limit of 14
Readings: Jung, Emma, Animus and Anima, Spring Publications, 1998 and
Sanford, John A., The Invisible Partners, Paulist Press, 1980.
Friends, $130; All others, $140 (20 CEUs)

            In 1959, the English editions of Jung’s Collected Works, Volume 9, Part I and II came out and were entitled “Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious - Part I and “Aion” – Part II in two volumes. One reads in Part II, Chapter III, entitled “The Syzygy: Anima and Animus, Jung’s delineation of the feminine component in a man’s psyche (Anima), and the masculine component in a woman’s psyche (Animus).
            Earlier in time, 1939, C.G. Jung’s wife, Emma, wrote two essays on Animus and Anima. These two essays are published in one volume which we will read and study. The Jungian analyst John A. Sanford calls the Animus and Anima THE INVISIBLE PARTNERS, and our study group will read his text describing “How the Male and Female in each of Us Affects our Relationships.”
            Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis. Class limit of 14, held in a house in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen at (314) 965-2549.

C.G. JUNG – GUIDE TO THE INNER LIFE
By Rose F. Holt, Jungian Psychoanalyst

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light,
            but by making the darkness conscious."  - C.G. Jung

            Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a lot of things—psychiatrist, theologian, historian, anthropologist—but above all else, he was an explorer. He explored first his own inner life, his interiority, through what he called his “confrontation with the unconscious.” Then, he helped many, many of his patients explore their own interiority. All this work was his primary field of research from which he developed a powerful theoretical construct, a “map” for those of us who dare to go on our own voyage into the interior. Today that field of endeavor is called Jungian Psychology or Analytical Psychology.
            Before Jung, few people dared go beyond the collective understanding of human nature. Like the maps of old, the collective understanding was edged by mythical monsters, so there was a frightening prohibition against journeying there. The primary function of religions was to protect people from venturing into those areas where the roads ended-- areas of mystery, death, birth, sacred experience. Religious rites and sacraments served as containers for the sacred. They were prescriptions to keep people safe, confined within an area of understanding determined by others and sometimes misused in the interest of power. It was unthinkable, even dangerous, for people to venture on their own, without benefit of the shelter of a given religious understanding. There were (and are) severe penalties for those who did so. Some who ventured successfully we remember as mystics, saints, or founders of new religions. They described their discoveries, but until Jung, few could adequately guide others to their own unique and individual discovery of their interiority.
            Jung opened the way for the many. He eventually understood that an early part of the journey is an exploration of one’s personal unconscious—that area of psyche to which experiences, thoughts, feelings, and impressions unacceptable to conscious understanding were unwittingly banished. Initially, these unconscious contents reach consciousness through projection, i.e., some quality that rightfully belongs to the individual is assigned to some loved or hated “other.” Through careful attention to one’s feeling reactions, to thoughts, and to dream images and motifs, one can eventually withdraw the projection and begin to integrate this hitherto unacceptable quality—good or bad—into one’s own personality. Such withdrawal requires humility in accepting what was unacceptable and a sense of responsibility for either managing or developing the newly discovered quality. No wonder, then, that many of us shirk the duty to work toward increased consciousness!
            With continued work on oneself, these personal unconscious contents become more differentiated. There will be the projections onto people of the same gender, people of the opposite gender, onto heroes and hags, onto saviors and demons. Once this clearing out of the personal unconscious is more or less complete, an entirely new territory begins to show itself, the collective unconscious, as Jung called it.
            Jung demonstrated that all humankind shares not just a collective consciousness but also a collective UNconsciousness. In the territory of the collective unconscious one finds the archetypal [arche = ancient and typos = imprint] images, motifs and patterns that underlie the common experience of humankind. It is a collective heritage to which everyone may lay claim. For Jung archetypes are simply the typical patterns of human behavior. Some important ones include the journey, mother, father, the hero, home, the child, birth, the savior, king, and queen. Underlying all other archetypes, Jung describes the central organizing principle of the psyche and of individuality—the Self. It is the Self that gives rise to consciousness and our sense of individual existence.
            An important tool in one’s journey into interiority is the dream. Like a key, the dream has no logic to its shape. Its logic is that it turns the lock. An example might be a dream in which a loved one dies. Taken at face value the dream is disturbing, even terrifying. Like a key, however, a symbolic understanding might allow the dreamer to “open” a message that something ‘alive’ in the unconscious has died, i.e., is no longer active there. Whatever energy the figure represented might now be available to the dreamer on a more conscious level and, therefore, more amenable to the will. Same dream, vastly different approaches to it, vastly different effect on the dreamer. In working with dreams we make a kind of "Pascal's Wager." We can't know with certitude what a dream means. Therefore, let's wager on a meaning that promotes growth and enhances life because we have everything to gain and nothing to lose.

"Shadow Cornered” by C.G. Jung

If one thinks about all this, it makes very good sense. Humankind has always and everywhere felt the need for story. Dreams are primarily story. They can be extremely important because they are deeply personal and capable of providing meaning and value to the individual. Research has shown that, deprived of dream sleep, an individual will become ill in a very short time.             Almost everyone has had an impressive, unforgettable, even numinous dream. Almost everyone has had the experience of waking in a particular mood determined by a dream. The old adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” particularly applies in working with dream images. It hardly needs be said that dreams have always been an important component of psychic life and development. Only we moderns, with our “not invented here, therefore not of value” attitude, have denigrated the dream.             When one has ventured deeply enough into one’s own interiority that archetypal patterns, figures, and motifs begin to appear, something happens of singular importance. One begins to experience healing—often illusive, difficult to explain or prove, but definitively a feeling of wellness. In religious terms, this feeling is characterized by the word “salvation,” or as something akin to “God’s in his/her heaven, all’s right with the world,” but viewed experientially the feeling is a psychological fact. One’s life becomes imbued with meaning and purpose, and even a seemingly mundane existence takes on great value to one gifted in this way.

          Jung writes poetically about this state:
“The state of imperfect transformation, merely hoped for and waited for, does not seem to be one of torment only, but of positive, if hidden happiness. It is the state of someone who, in his/her wanderings among the mazes of one’s psychic transformation comes upon a secret happiness which reconciles one to one’s apparent loneliness. In communing with oneself, one finds not deadly boredom and melancholy but an inner partner, more than that, a relationship that seems like a secret love, or like a hidden springtime, when the green seed sprouts from the barren earth, holding out the promise of future harvests.” [From Vol. 14, Mysterium Coniunctionis, Para. 623, modified slightly in the interest of inclusive language.]
                    I think Jung is describing here the state of someone who has glimpsed that the Self is at work in his/her life and is sustained by that glimpse.

Rose F. Holt, M.A., is a Jungian Psychoanalyst in private practice in St. Louis. She is Advisory Board Member to the C.G. Jung Society of Saint Louis.

 

 

Winter/Spring 2008

 

 

 

Lectures, Seminars and Workshops Friday, February 8, 7– 9:30 P.M.  NOTE: at Missouri History Museum Lecture: Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World - Jean Shinoda Bolen Saturday, February 9, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.  NOTE: at Missouri History Museum Workshop: Love VS Power: From Family Psychology to the Fate of the Earth - Jean Shinoda Bolen Friday, March 28th, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. Lecture: Sexuality & the Religious Imagination - Brad TePaske Saturday, March 29th, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. Workshop: Sexuality & the Religious Imagination - Brad TePaske Friday, April 25th, 7– 9:30 P.M. Lecture: Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality - Jenny Yates Saturday, April 26th, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. Workshop: Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality - Jenny Yates Friday, July 18th, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. Lecture: Psyche & the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion - Lionel Corbett Saturday, July 19th, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. Workshop: “Psyche & the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion - Lionel Corbett Study Groups Women Who Run With the Wolves - Sheldon Culver 8 Thursdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M. (3/6,13, 20, 27; 4/3,10, 24; 5/1) Journey to Wholeness through Film: Seeing the Twelve Steps - Francesca Ferrentelli and Mary Ryan 8 Tuesdays (Feb. 19/ Mar. 4, 18/ Apr. 1, 15, 29/May 13, 27) Sandtray / Sandplay Therapy - Shirley Fontenot ---- FULL ---- 6 Mondays: 1:30 - 3:30 P.M. (1/28; 2/11; 3/3, 17, 31; 4/21) Fundamentals of Jung - Rose Holt and Boris Matthews Online Course; begins January 21, 2008 Fairy Tales - Ellen Sheire 10 Mondays: 7:30 – 9:30 P.M. (1/14, 28; 2/11, 25; 3/10, 24; 4/7, 21; 5/5, 19 Scholarships Available!     FRIDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES Join us at the 1st Congregational Church Friday nights for popcorn, a good movie and a discussion led by one of the St. Louis analysts.  Fee: Nonmembers$10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5     BUY TICKETS ONLINE February 15 : Shirley Fontenot: “Passion of Mind” March 14: Rose Holt: "A Question of Silence" April 11: Sheldon Culver: “Antonia’s Line” May 9: Ellen Sheire: “Click” Movies start promptly at 7pm -- Arrive Early Printer-friendly version of this page Where to purchase texts Continuing education credits Become a Friend of the Society!

Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

 

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D.  

Lecture: Friday, February 8, 2008 7-9:30 PM        Podcast of recent KDHX interview  (Also at KDHX website)
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URGENT MESSAGE FROM MOTHER:
GATHER THE WOMEN, SAVE THE WORLD

The Urgent Message that Jean Bolen carries to us is from Mother Earth, Mother archetype, mother instinct and the sacred feminine. It is a call to bring into consciousness and culture that which C.G. Jung called the “feminine principle”--which most women and some exceptional men embody. This way of being is characterized by an empathic response to suffering. Women as a gender, not every woman, but women generally, have a wisdom that is needed. Terrorism, wars, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, global warming and deterioration of the environment; domestic violence, bullying, trafficking in women and girls, and children who are traumatized and dying of preventable diseases are the toxic symptoms of a world without Mother. The grassroots women’s movement changed the world through consciousness and activism. Once again, this time through circles with a spiritual center--a critical mass, “millionth circle” tipping point--could change perception, move people to action, and save the world. 2 CEUs available. 
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Nonmembers: $30         Friends/Members: $25       Full-Time Students: $15

Workshop: Saturday, February 9, 2008, 9 AM-3:30 PM
Doors open at 8am for a light Continental breakfast (details below)
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LOVE VS. POWER: FROM FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY TO THE FATE OF THE EARTH

            We all come into world seeking to be loved and if we are not loved, we settle for power. Drawing from archetypal psychology, patterns emerge: trauma, neglect, and bullying, identifying with the aggressor, chronic victimization, emotional numbness and addictions. The roles are the authoritarian father, the disempowered feminine, and the neglected child—which play out within the psyche, in dysfunctional families, and in war and commerce. When Jean Shinoda Bolen tells us themes from the Grail Legend, the Abduction of Persephone, and Wagner’s Ring Cycle, these mythic stories come to life and provide insights into ourselves, dysfunctional family psychology and patriarchy. The missing feminine principle needs to be brought into the psyche, family and culture. Fierce compassion, tenderness, mother bear protectiveness, grandmother wisdom, “enough is enough” crone activism are qualities of an empowered feminine principle. All of these can be nurtured and supported in circles with a sacred center.
In this workshop, Jean will tell stories that reverberate in our psyches, lead a guided meditation and provide a small circle experience and information. She will encourage the formation of ongoing support and activist circles.
5 CEUs available.

You must register for this workshop by Friday the 8th; no registrations will be taken the "day of".
Includes a light Continental breakfast starting at 8am, continuing through the morning hours.
The 90 minute break for lunch is "on your own" (not included).
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Nonmembers: $100       Friends/Members: $90        Full-Time Students: $50

Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D., is a psychiatrist, Jungian analyst, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco and an internationally known speaker who draws from spiritual, feminist, Jungian, medical and personal wellsprings of experience. She is the author of The Tao of Psychology, Goddesses in Everywoman, Gods in Everyman, Ring of Power, Crossing to Avalon, Close to the Bone, The Millionth Circle, Goddesses in Older Women, Crones Don't Whine and Urgent Message from Mother. She is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a former board member of the Ms. Foundation for Women and the International Transpersonal Association. She was a recipient of the Institute for Health and Healing's "Pioneers in Art, Science, and the Soul of Healing Award", and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She appeared in two acclaimed documentaries, the Academy Award-winning anti-nuclear proliferation film “Women--For America, For the World”, and the Canadian Film Board's “Goddess Remembered”. Her website is http://jeanbolen.com/

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Sexuality & the Religious Imagination”
Presented by Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.

”What God joined together and religious traditions put asunder -- body, soul, and spirit -- TePaske reassembles, now consciously and with a therapist's care.”  - Murray Stein
In his lecture Dr. TePaske will present some beautiful religious and mythological images and texts for contemplation and re-interpretation in regard to sexuality, particularly the negative impact past interpretations have had on our society
as a whole.

Lecture: Friday, March 28, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)              Click on image for larger view
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church                    Collage by TePaske
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

            The enchanted painting of Hieronymus Bosch (1453-1516) represents an enigmatic interpretive puzzle of Northern Renaissance art, a heretical response to the patriarchal religious establishment of the Late Medieval period, and an archetypal cartwheel across the sensual skin of the Great Mother. Employing detailed slides of the entire triptych, Dr. TePaske will explore Bosch’s religious milieu, his florid imagery, and his portrayal of the extremes of the senses in an earthly Paradise and the Low Countries’ most famous Hell. Depth psychological reflections on anima and Eros, the claims of Mother Earth, and the self as both body-imago and “inner world image” will compliment Bosch’s remarkable work and preview major themes of our guest’s recently published book, Sexuality and the Religious Imagination.

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Workshop: Sat., March 29, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No Lunch)

            While the doctrine of the Incarnation is a fundamental Christian tenet, its deeper implications point directly to the religious significance of the body, human sexuality, and erotic love that patriarchal tradition invariably demeans. From a survey of this sex-negative moral purview and the roles of St. Paul and St. Augustine in creating it, Dr. TePaske will chart an open course of psychological reflection and mythological amplification that embraces Jewish, Christian, Gnostic, and pagan strands of our Western religious heritage with equanimity. The claims of Mother Earth, of sexual deities like those of the Graeco-Roman pantheon and the Underworld are thus considered with reference to Aphrodite and Sophia, the nymphs of Dionysus and Mary Magdalene, Hermes or Hades and the baleful black Devil of Christian lore. Focused on the central role of sex and gender in the individuation process, the seminar will bring archetypal and clinical perspective to a broad range of sexual phenomena, while concluding with summary reflections on the Bridal Chamber ritual of ancient Christian Gnosis.

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            Bradley A. TePaske, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, archetypal psychologist, and accomplished graphic artist. Author of Rape and Ritual: A Psychological Study, and a scholar of Gnosticism and the Graeco-Roman mystery religions, he has explored the relationship between sexuality and religion for over 25 years. He is currently in private practice in Los Angeles and Pacific Palisades, CA.

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Archetypal Dreams as Spiritual Reality”
Presented by Jenny Yates, Ph. D

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Lecture: Friday,  April 25, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15; Others $20; Full-time Students $10

            In this lecture I shall share archetypal dreams of the Black Madonna, Sophia/Shekinah and Tibetan Buddhism. The Black Madonna Dream occurred during a visit to the church of the Black Madonna in Switzerland. The dream of Sophia illustrates the link between female images of the Divine and a female image of the Self.  The Tibetan Buddhist dream led to my attending the ChalaChakra or Wheel of Time ritual led by the Dalai Lama.  The dreams illustrate Jung’s saying that at the depths of the unconscious we have access to the symbol systems of all the world’s religions, hence the Collective Unconscious.  This one world or “unus mundus’ could help us understand the unity in the midst of the diversity of religions and hopefully add to peace.

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Workshop: Sat., April 26, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70; Others $80 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $40 (No lunch)

            This workshop will focus on the lack of female images of God and Self, in the context of the dreams of the female Self shared in the Friday lecture. Jung developed Sophia as the highest stage of a man’s anima but did not develop her as a female Self-image. This parallels the lack of female images of the divine in orthodox Judaic/Christian traditions. Mystical Judaism does develop the Shekinah and Gnostic Christians included Sophia. Participants will be asked to draw their own understanding of the relationship between God and the Self, which work will be used to discuss Jung’s understanding of the link between images of God and images of Self.

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            Jenny Yates, Ph. D. is currently a “Visiting Distinguished Scholar” at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches Jungian Psychology and Religion. She practices as a Jungian analyst with alternative medicine practitioners. She chaired the dream session at the International Congress of Jungian Analysts in Cambridge, England, where she presented the Sophia dream. Dr. Yates is the author of four books, most recently Jung on Death and Immortality. She chaired the Division of Humanities and the Religion Major at Wells College, where she was a professor of Religion and Philosophy for twenty-seven years, has a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale, a Ph.D. from Syracuse, and is a diplomate of the Zurich Jung Institute. She is Vice President of the North Carolina Society of Jungian Analysts.

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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Psyche & the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Organized Religion”
Lionel Corbett, M.D.
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Lecture: Friday,  Friday, July 18, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M. (2 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $20; Others $25; Full-time Students $12.50

            Spiritual structures require periodic renewal.  When our spirituality cannot be contained within traditional institutions, there is an urgent need for new ways to articulate our experience of the sacred.  From within the depth of the psyche, a new image of the divine is emerging alongside and within traditional Judeo-Christian images.  Depth psychology gives us a language to articulate this emergence, allowing our experience of the sacred to be articulated without the need for recourse to traditional theology, doctrine or dogma.  This lecture describes an approach to spirituality based on personal experience of the sacred.

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Workshop: Sat., July 19, 9:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M. (5 CEUs)
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $85; Others $95 (Includes lunch)
Full-time Students $47.50 (No lunch)

Morning Topic: “The Case of Job: A Psychological Approach to the Suffering of the Innocent”
            The story of Job raises eternal questions about the suffering of the innocent. In this workshop, Job will be considered as if he were a contemporary person undergoing a severe crisis. This crisis results from his severe losses, which activate important complexes. As a result of his suffering, Job experiences the numinosum in a way that is related to both his character structure and his cultural setting. Using the language of depth psychology, we will examine the ways in which his psychopathology, his character structure, and his God-image were affected by his experience of the numinosum. In the process, I will suggest a depth psychological approach to suffering and the notion of the dark side of the divine.

Afternoon Topic: “The Self as the Totality of Consciousness: Psychotherapy without Separateness”
            In this presentation, I will offer an alternative to the traditional notion that psychotherapy occurs between two individuals who produce an inter-subjective field. Instead, I will describe a larger perspective that sees no fundamental separation between therapist and patient. In this model of psychotherapy, both participants are manifestations of, and are contained within, a superordinate field of Consciousness. We are separate at the level of the ego and conventional reality, but at the deeper level of the transpersonal Self we are not divided. Each of us is a part of this Totality, and therapist and patient are simply meeting aspects of themselves. At this level, because we know ourselves as the other, there is no "I-Thou" distinction. This approach broadens our usual understanding of the therapeutic field, changes the therapist's view of his or her client, and builds a bridge between psychotherapy, depth psychology, and the contemporary views of consciousness that are emerging from within quantum physics.

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            Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute. His primary dedication has been to the religious function of the psyche, especially the way in which personal religious experience is relevant to individual psychology. He is the author of Psyche and the Sacred, and The Religious Function of the Psyche. He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has also authored “Spirituality Beyond Religion”, a set of audiotapes published by Sounds True.

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Study Groups


Women Who Run With the Wolves – Part 1
Presented by Sheldon Culver

8 Thursdays (Mar. 6,13, 20, 27/ Apr. 3,10,24/ May 1)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Readings: Estes, Clarissa Pinkola; Women Who Run With the Wolves
Limited to 10 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $110; All others, $120 (16 CEUs)

            Too long we have suffered the forces and foci of patriarchal energies that often seem to dictate the decision-making of individuals and nations, to direct our attention away from the task of soul-making. While terrorism and war continue to condition the collective psyche, holding many communities hostage to fear, there are alternative ways of responding to these demonic powers, particularly through a richer understanding of the essential feminine instinct within us all.  Pinkola Estes' superb study of the Wild Woman archetype (the divine/instinctual feminine) in stories, myth and dream, invites the reader to explore a deeper Way--a way of personal revelation and self-reclamation.
            This group will discuss the first eight chapters of the text, engaging images of Psyche's journey that may help restore the feminine to its place in the balance of life. The remaining chapters of the book will be covered in a second group next season.
            Sheldon Culver is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Class limit of 10, held in a home in the Central West End. You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750, or e-mail her at im4shadow@sbcglobal.net.

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Journey to Wholeness through Film:
Seeing the Twelve Steps
Presented by Francesca Ferrentelli and Mary Ryan

8 Tuesdays (Feb. 19/ Mar. 4, 18/ Apr. 1, 15, 29/May 13, 27)
6:30 – 8:30 P.M. (Note earlier start time)
Readings - not required
Limited to 20 registrants
The location for this study group has now been determined:
It will be held at St. Mary's Health Center (6420 Clayton Road) in Cafeteria "C". 
This is on the "ground level" of the main building.
Friends, $110; All others, $120 (16 CEUs)

             In 1961 Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, wrote Carl Jung thanking him for his critical, yet unknowing, role in the founding of AA. Bill W. reminded Jung of something he’d told a patient thirty years prior: that he might be hopeless against his drinking unless he “became the subject of a spiritual experience…a genuine conversion!” Jung’s powerful words moved this patient to retain sobriety and subsequently established the foundation for AA. Jung responded to Bill W. by saying that the craving for alcohol was equivalent to the spiritual thirst for wholeness. Jung reiterated that a spiritual experience is crucial for recovery. In this discussion group participants will explore this journey to wholeness through contemporary film. Joining together the 12 steps and the teachings of C.G. Jung, Mary Ryan and Francesca Ferrentelli will use film clips to elucidate the process, the goals, and the steps of the recovery journey. Class limit of 20, held at a location to be determined. You may contact Francesca at (314) 283-5664 or e-mail her at drcheska@sbcglobal.net.
            Francesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and her MA in Professional Psychology at Lindenwood College. Dr. Ferrentelli specializes in eating disorders, and lectures widely. She is the Program Manager of the Outpatient Behavioral Health Program at the St. Mary’s Health Center, has a private practice in Clayton, MO, and contracts as a therapist through the St. Alexius Hospital.
            Mary Ryan M.S. has been a licensed professional counselor for the past 23 years with a private practice in Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois. She has taught classes at Illinois College and the University of Illinois- Springfield and conducted workshops for corporations and teachers’ institutes. Ms. Ryan currently facilitates a group for inmates in prison.

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Sandtray / Sandplay Therapy
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
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6 Mondays (Jan. 28/ Feb. 11/Mar. 3,17, 31/Apr. 21)
1:30 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. (Note Afternoon Time)
Limited to 6 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends, $85; All others, $95 (12 CEUs) ---- FULL ----
Readings: Handouts will be provided by instructor
 

            Sandplay is a nonverbal, nonrational form of therapy in which small figures are selected and placed in the sandtray by the client to give concrete outer expression to internal experience, with the analyst as witness to this process.  The sandtray scene exists as both an outer and an inner reality and functions symbolically between both worlds.  The making of sandtray scenes can be understood as an embodied active imagination that can access and free repressed energy to flow in to create new channels in the promotion of psychological growth.
            Participants will be taught the theory and practice of sandtray therapy, and will look at the history and development of this expressive therapy within the context of Jungian theory.  However, because this form of therapy is learned through experience, experience will be the primary focus of the course.  For this reason, participants will have the opportunity to do actual sandtrays during the 6 class sessions.
            Shirley M. Fontenot, D. Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in Chicago and St. Louis.  Class limit of 6, held at an office in University City. You may contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 726-0079.

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Fundamentals of Jungian Psychology
Taught by Rose F. Holt and Boris Matthews

Online Course
Begins January 21, 2008
Class limit of 25
Friends, $110.00; All others, $120.00 (16 CEUs)
Readings: All required readings will be posted on line

            This will be an introductory course covering major theoretical elements of Jungian Psychology: (1) Introduction – History and Overview; (2) Typology and Adaptation; (3) Structural Elements of the Psyche: Conscious/Unconscious; Ego Consciousness; Persona and Shadow; Self; (4) Complex Theory; (5) Collective Unconscious; (6) Archetypes; (7) Stages of Life; (8)Individuation.
            Students will be able to understand (1) Jung’s primary contributions to psychology, (2) The Jungian concept of personality type and its value for under-standing ourselves, our relationships and others, (3) Complex theory and its usefulness in changing problematic human behaviors, (4) Conflict within oneself and between self and others, (5) Archetypal motifs that underlie much of human behavior.
            No prior knowledge of Jungian psychology is required. This course is open to people in the helping professions and to lay persons. It is structured to give newcomers to Jung a solid, basic understanding. It will also appeal to those who have some understanding of Jung's thinking but would like to gain a more thorough and comprehensive overview of the subject.
            Class limit of 25.  The class requires 16 hours of reading and weekly online discussion to qualify for CEUs.  You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.
            Rose F. Holt, M.A. received her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago in 2001. She is an analyst in private practice in St. Louis and Chicago and is active in the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago Analyst Training Program. She also serves as Advisory Analyst to the C.G. Jung Society of St. Louis. She has taught numerous courses in all facets of Jungian Psychology.  
            Boris Matthews, Ph.D. is a faculty member of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago where he received his Diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1987. He has been board certified (1989) by the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis, and has practiced Analytical Psychology and Jungian Analysis since then in Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison. Dr. Matthews has translated numerous Jungian texts from German to English and is the co-author (with Ashok Bedi, M.D.) of Retire Your Family Karma. 

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Fairy Tales
Presented by Ellen Sheire

10 Mondays (Jan. 14, 28/Feb. 11,25/Mar. 10,24/Apr. 7, 21/ May 5, 19)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Class limit of 14
Readings: Von Franz, Marie-Louise, The Interpretation of Fairy Tales,
edition K. Crossen, Boston: Shambala Press, 1996.
Friends, $130; All others, $140 (16 CEUs)

            This study group will be reading Dr. von Franz’ revised and updated book which was originally published as “An Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairy Tales”, 1970. According to the current publisher, of the various types of mythological literature, fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Dr. von Franz teaches the reader distinguishing features of myths, fairy tales, legends, folk tales, etc. Using the archetypal fairy tale, she gives “rules of thumb techniques, and tools for “teasing out” or rendering deeper meanings hiding out in seemingly simple tales.
            Exposure to profound truths contained in fairy tales can reanimate one’s own nature. Late in life, Dr. Jung wrote (in Man and His Symbols) that nature has lost its symbolic meaning for people, thus a loss of “emotional unconscious identity” with natural phenomenon. Jung suggests that one way to reclaim this connection is through reading and studying fairy tales. Members in this study group will be given the opportunity to select a favorite fairy tale and use their newly learned interpretive skills to understand it more fully.
            Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis. Class limit of 14, held in a house in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen at (314) 965-2549.

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Friday Night at the Movies

All movies are shown at the First Congregational Church
and start promptly at 7pm -- arrive early.

Fee: Nonmembers $10, Members $8, Full-Time Students $5
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Passion of Mind
Showing February 15
Facilitated by Shirley Fontenot

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"Demi Moore stars in this unusual psychological drama about two women caught between reality and imagination. Marie (Moore) is an American widow trying to raise two children under difficult circumstances in a small town in France. Marty (also played by Moore) is a successful businesswoman in New York City who wants to leave her busy life and lead a quieter existence in Europe. But Marty is just a product of Marie's imagination — or at least that's what Marie thinks. Marty, on the other hand, is convinced that Marie is just someone she dreamed up. Who is right? Or are both of them wrong? And where does it leave the men in their lives (Stellan Skarsgard and William Fichtner)? Passion of Mind was the first English-language film from French director Alain Berliner, best known for the arthouse success Ma Vie en Rose."  - (All Movie Guide)

A Question of Silence
Showing March 14
Facilitated by Rose Holt

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"Housewife Edda Barends, waitress Nelly Frijda and secretary Henriette Tol have but one thing in common: murder. Acting virtually on impulse, the three women kill a male store owner who has caught Barends shoplifting. Psychiatrist Cox Habbema is engaged to prove that the women are insane so that they can avoid being sent to prison. A few sessions later, however, Habbema has cast her lot with the killers! The moral seems to be that murder is justified so long as it stems from dissatisfaction with the entire Male population. One would think that Question of Silence (originally released in the Netherlands as De Stilte Rond Christine M...) would be rejected out of hand by the largely male Dutch Film Finance Corporation. Instead, the Corporation was so enthusiastic over writer/director Marleen Gorris' project proposal that it put up all the production money." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

 

Antonia's Line
Showing April 11
Facilitated by Sheldon Culver

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"A strong-willed Dutch woman recalls her life in this uplifting picture that won the 1996 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Antonia (Willeke van Ammelrooy) is an elderly woman who wakes up one morning and realizes that this is the last day of her life. She begins to tell her story in flashback, beginning with her arrival home to the family farm after World War II with her daughter, Danielle (Els Dottermans). For the next fifty years, a variety of colorful characters come and go on the farm. Danielle becomes a painter, and decides she wants a child but no husband, so Antonia arranges the proper donation. Danielle giving birth to Therese (Veerle van Overloop), who laters has her own child, Sarah (Thyrza Ravesteijn), also without virtue of a husband. Antonia and her descendants come to symbolize the freedom of independent females, with little need for men in their lives."  - (All Movie Guide)

Click
Showing May 9
Facilitated by Ellen Sheire

Synopsis from All Movie Guide:
"The architect Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) has a typical middle-class family with his lovely and gorgeous wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and their son Ben and daughter Samantha, and a constant visit of his parents. However, Michael is workaholic and under stress, trying to satisfy his boss with overwork and get a partnership in his company, giving priority to his work and neglecting the family issues. When the tired Michael goes to a department store to buy an universal remote control, he rests on a bed and he meets the weird salesman Morty (Christopher Walken) that offers him a remote control capable of controlling his own universe. Michael uses too much and loses the control of the device, having his own life controlled by the remote control. Then Michael sees the worthwhile parts of his personal life he missed while working, and in the end of his life he lately concludes that the family comes first."  - (Claudio Carvalho , Internet Movie Database)

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Fall/Winter 2007

Winter/Spring 2007

Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

The Freud-Jung Relationship
Presented by Joseph Callahan, M.D.

Lecture Fri., January 19, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15
Others - $20
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            Seldom have two such seminal thinkers been contemporaries;
rarer still have they formed a close personal relationship. The focus of Dr. Callahan’s lecture and our discussion will be this remarkable relationship, what a number of the significant antecedents were, and the course it followed.
            Dr. Callahan says that over the years he has developed an enormous interest in Jung because Jung's body of work represents such an eclectic approach to psychotherapy. In Dr. Callahan's early work in the area of child psychiatry, he found Jung's idea of a life-long developmental process most helpful. He feels Jungian Psychology offers important components to a humanistic-existential psychotherapy that is not brought by any other group.
            Joseph Callahan, B.S., M.D. studied medicine at St. Louis University, did his internship at the St. Louis University Hospital and his residency in psycho-neurology at local area hospitals. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University. From 1961-68 he was in personal psychoanalysis in the Freudian tradition. He was named a Life Fellow, and three years ago a Distinguished Life Fellow, of the American Psychiatric Association. He has taught at St. Louis University, Washington University, and the University of Missouri, consulted for the U.S. Peace Corp, and served in the Army Medical Corp Reserve, retiring with the rank of Major.

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2 Events with Robin Robertson:

Chaos Theory and The Numinous
Presented by Robin Robertson

Lecture Fri., February 2, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15
Others - $20
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“SCINTILLAE OF LIGHT:
CHAOS THEORY, ALCHEMY & THE NUMINOUS”
            Jung spent a lifetime studying the dynamics of the psyche. Chaos theory supplies a new scientific model for the dynamics of transformation that fits remarkably well with Jung's conclusions. Perhaps chaos theory is a new living symbol for our time. What can be more primitive, more ubiquitous than chaos, from which all emerged? Chaos theory itself has begun to emerge as any true symbol emerges, from all directions at once, from the "most complex and differentiated minds" of our age. Surprisingly, much of the discoveries of chaos theory are also contained within a very ancient model: Alchemy! And, as Jung discovered, the alchemical opus closely follows the path of individuation. This lecture will examine correspondences between chaos theory and alchemy and how both model the process of transformation that occurs in each of us at critical times in our lives.
            The parallels between chaos theory and alchemy in this presentation will culminate in the "scintillae of light"
(sparks of light) that the alchemists saw appearing within chaos: a lovely image of new emergent order. Chaos theory exactly mirrors this same phenomenon. Jung saw these scintillae of light as a symbol for the emergence of consciousness at the archetypal level within the psyche. This presentation is designed to produce "sparks of light" in the audience, sparks that will hopefully grow into new consciousness.

The Ultimate Mystery
Presented by Robin Robertson

Workshop Sat., February 3, 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $70
Others - $80 (Includes Lunch)
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“THE ULTIMATE MYSTERY:
THE SELF-REFERENTIAL NATURE OF REALITY”
            “If one reflects upon what consciousness really is, one is deeply impressed by the extremely wonderful fact that an event which occurs outside in the cosmos produces simultaneously an inner image. Thus it also occurs within; in other words, it becomes conscious.”  -C. G. Jung.
            Jung spent a lifetime exploring the self-referential nature of reality. As a boy, he found that he had two independent personalities: #1, which was small and young and weak, and #2, which was strong and old and wise. Later, he began to study the dynamic relationship between conscious and unconscious. That led to studying the relationship between the psyche and the physical world, culminating in his view of a psychoid reality that underlay both. Our workshop will help you actually experience this self-referential world. It will focus on three main areas of the self-reflective nature of reality: Conscious/Unconscious, Individual/World, and Sacred/Profane through a series of mini-lectures, each followed by an opportunity for personal experience of the topic.
            Robin Robertson, Ph.D.’s life’s work has bridged the worlds of psychology, science, education, business, and the arts. He is a Jungian-oriented clinical psychologist, former computer company executive, adjunct psychology professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies, General Editor of Psychological Perspectives, a founder of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, and a consulting editor for Cybernetics & Human Knowing. He has published eight books in psychology. Robin is also a lifetime amateur magician and a member of the "Order of Merlin - Shield" of the International Brotherhood of Magicians. He is known for his lectures and workshops.

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2 Events with Robert Moore

The Dragon in Myth & Psyche:
Recent Research on a Primordial Image of the Archetypal Self
Presented by Robert Moore
Dr. Moore's books will be available for purchase during our events.
This service provided by Barnes and Noble, Ladue Crossing store
where they currently have stock of Dr. Moore's books.

Lecture Fri., March 30, 7:00 - 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $20
Others - $28
Students - $14
Continuing education credits and associated evaluation form

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            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.

Riding the Dragon:
Accessing, Regulating & Optimizing Archetypal & Spiritual Energies
Presented by Robert Moore
Dr. Moore's books will be available for purchase during our events.
This service provided by Barnes and Noble, Ladue Crossing store
where they currently have stock of Dr. Moore's books.

Workshop Sat., March 31, 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $85
Others - $95 (Includes Lunch)
Students - $47.50
Continuing education credits and associated evaluation form

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Please note information regarding the waiting list for this event

            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
Archetypal Self 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. Moore will address “Jung’s Copernican Revolution: Facing the Dragon” in the morning and “Riding the Dragon: Optimizing Energy in Transformative Process” in the afternoon.

            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. Books by Robert Moore: The Archetype of Initiation: Sacred Space, Ritual Process, and Personal Transformation, The Magician and the Analyst: The Archetype of the Magus in Occult Spirituality and Jungian Analysis, and King, Warrior, Magician, Lover, (with Douglas Gillette).  His most recent book is Facing the Dragon: Confronting Personal and Spiritual Grandiosity. He is currently working on his Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian Paradigm.

Waiting List for Dr. Moore's Workshop

             A large crowd is expected for the lecture, and the workshop space is limited. Because of the latter we will be creating a waiting list for the workshop.  To insure that you have spot, please pre-register by mail with your payment for the lecture and/or the workshop.

Reasons you would be put on the waiting list:
1) If you contact us to let us know you are coming to the workshop but DO NOT pre-register by mail with your payment, or
2) If you pay the “student discount” rate, since attendance at this discount is only “pending available space”.

For whichever reason you get placed on the waiting list, we will contact you the day before the event to inform you that:
1) The workshop is full; you will not be able to attend (students will get their payment back), or
2) The workshop is nearly full and you may not be able to enter. If you are a student, this will give you the opportunity to pay full price, if you so choose, to ensure entry.

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The Self Through Film
Presented by Mary Ryan

Lecture: Friday, April 27, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends - $15
Others - $20
Students - $10
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            "In the last analysis, every life is the realization of a whole, that is, of a self, for which this realization can be called 'individuation.'... and the realization of this alone makes sense of life." -C.G.Jung.
            The search for Self is a universal quest. We can identify with this struggle for Self in films with their messages of soulful transformation. Joseph Campbell said, "Mythology helps you to identify the mysteries of the energies pouring through you." Our journeys today can be elucidated by the telling of modern myths and stories in the medium of cinema. In this workshop we will make use of film to garner meaning and increase an understanding of our personal journey towards realization of the Self.
            Mary Ryan M.S. has been a licensed professional counselor for the past 23 years with a private practice in Springfield and Jacksonville, Illinois. She has taught classes at Illinois College and the University of Illinois- Springfield and conducted workshops for corporations and teachers’ institutes. Ms. Ryan currently facilitates a group for inmates in prison.

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Study Groups

Ego and Archetype
Presented by Sheldon Culver
Due to personal matters, this group has been cancelled.
Sheldon is willing to speak with people directly about this if they'd like to call. (636) 795-0750
 

6 Tuesdays (Jan. 16,23, 30/ Feb. 6,20,27)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 8 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $85; All others, $95
Readings: Edinger, Edward F., Ego and Archetype: Individuation and the Religious Function in the Psyche, Shambala, Boston & London, 1992.
Continuing education credits

            Join a six week seminar with Sheldon Culver reading this classic Jungian text by Edward Edinger. Described as "a fascinating synthesis of C. G. Jung's fundamental psychological concepts," Ego and Archetype offers much more than "concepts". Edinger provides a feast of images that ring soul to the basic themes of Jung's opus.
            Sheldon Culver is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.
Class limit of 8. Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End. Regarding CEUs: See box this page for details. You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750

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Jungian Reading of The Odyssey
Presented by Rose F. Holt

8 Thursdays (Jan. 18/Feb. 1,15/Mar. 1,15, 29/Apr. 12,26)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 8 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends, $105; All others, $115
Readings: The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Robert Fagles; New York: Viking Penguin, 1996.
Continuing education credits and associated evaluation form

            At the time Homer wrote this epic poem, some 2,700 years ago, human consciousness was more closely allied with its unconscious substratum. A modern-day reading of this ancient text can yield important clues about the relationship between ego consciousness and the unconscious as that relationship existed before the separation of the two was so well defined. In our reading, study, and discussion, we will focus on possible value and meaning The Odyssey holds for us today.  Some basic understanding of Jungian Psychology, particularly archetypal theory, will be of help in this course but is not required.
            Rose Holt, M.A., a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, trained
as an analyst at the Chicago Jung Institute. She wrote her diploma thesis on "The Alchemy of the Small Group: Working with Dreams in a Group Setting".
            Class limit of 10. The group will meet at a residence in University City. To augment the eight class meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for additional discussion and dialogue.  If you wish to have further information about the course or have questions, please contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.

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The Shadow
Presented by Ellen Sheire

11 Mondays (Jan. 8, 22/Feb. 5,19/Mar. 5,19/Apr. 2, 9,30/ May 7, 14)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Limited to 14 registrants
Classes will be held in a home Kirkwood
Friends, $142; All others, $152
Readings: Johnson, Robert A., Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche, Harper, San Francisco: HarperCollins Paperback Edition, 1993 and von Franz, M. L., Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, Zurich: Spring publications, 1974.
Continuing education credits

            As Dr. Jung started probing the depths of his own unconscious and that of the patients under his care he discerned patterns of thoughts and behaviors emanating from an archetype he called the Shadow. The present study group will focus on the written works of two Jungian analysts, Robert Johnson and M. L. von Franz. In their own unique way, von Franz and Johnson define and refine descriptive instances and encounters which fall in proximity or under the influence of the Shadow.
            Dr. von Franz’s work presents and analyzes different fairy tales, selecting ones where heroes/heroines come up against, encounter, experience, and deal with (or fail to deal with) the archetypal aspects of Shadow. Robert Johnson has written, “…Many people fail to find their God-given living water because they are not prepared to search in unusual places.” One such unexpected source is our own shadow, “that dumping ground for all these characteristics of our personality that we disown.”
            This study group will experientially examine some of the odd places in which the water of life is flowing these days. According to Robert Johnson, in working with one’s Shadow, i.e. identifying, reclaiming, accepting, honoring those less than honorable personality characteristics”, one becomes engaged in “a profound spiritual discipline…It is whole-making and thus Holy.”
            Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis.  Class limit of 14. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.

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The Rooms in Your House:
Exploring Body, Mind and Psyche Through Art Making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman

6 Wednesdays Mar. 14,21,28/Apr. 4,11,18)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Limited to 9 registrants
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $100; All others, $110
Continuing education credits

            In this 6-part art making workshop we will explore connections between our created art images and the “house of our soul”, our bodies. Each evening is designed to focus visually on a different aspect of how we take in, process, make use of and communicate
sensory, emotional, rational and spiritual information from both inner and outer worlds. Participants will create both individual and group pieces. Materials and processes will include natural and found objects, clay, watercolor, torn paper and cloth.
            No previous art experience is necessary, nor is it necessary to have a Jungian background, although the metaphorical and symbolic approach which I take will be heavily influenced by Jungian principles. Join us on a “road trip” through the body through art making.
            Deborah Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, is a board certified art therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, who has a private practice in St. Louis and contracts independently with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in their Psychology and Religion Program. For more information about art therapy, check the website www.arttherapy.org.  You may contact Deborah Stutsman at 314-361-1120 or 314-412-2168.

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Fall/Winter 2006 

Seminars, Lectures and Workshops

Analyst Panel Discussion:
"What's Rippling Your Waters?"
Sheldon Culver, Shirley Fontenot,
Rose Holt and Ellen Sheire

Join us as our St. Louis Jungian analysts share their current interests and insights.

Analyst Panel Discussion: Friday, September 15, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends & Registrants by Sept. 8 - $15
Others - $20
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LECTURE & WORKSHOP
“Politics of Consciousness”
& “Splendor Solis”
Presented by ALDEN JOSEY, Ph.D., NCPsyA

Lecture:
The Quest for a
Politics of Consciousness

Lecture: Friday, October 20, 7:00 – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends & Registrants by Oct. 13 - $15
Others - $20
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            The psychological work of individuation, seen as a central obligatory task of every person to incarnate his or her own uniqueness in some measure, ultimately reaches into the realm of relationship and becomes a political act. I will examine the politics of individuation and the creation of consciousness, with every intended reference to the Greek root word, politeia, which connotes ideas of "citizenship, life of a citizen, fellow-citizen, government, democracy, commonwealth". I want to emphasize the dynamism that links the fate of individuals with that of the collective for good or for ill.
            The inter-psychic component is the zone of our encounter with the collective in all its forms, from the most intimate connections of our lives to the larger collectives of family, tribe, nation and species. Within this zone are all the struggles that individuals make in a group context to lift their discourse out of the dark, undifferentiated strata of unconscious, mob-like interactions into the light of conscious self and other-awareness.
            The process in the inter-psychic field of relationship I call communitation. The archetype of communitation emphasizes not only the necessity and the value of the coalescence of individuals into communities of every size but also the processes through which the collective conscious becomes stronger, more coherent and more humane. We will use these ideas to think about the present pain of the world and the medicine that Psyche holds for its transformation.

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Workshop:
Alchemy & Jung: The Opus, Stone & Gold and
Images from Splendor Solis: 16th Century Alchemical Text

Workshop: Sat., October 21, 9 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends & Registrants by Oct. 13 - $70
Others - $80 (Includes lunch)
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            Alchemy is a system of symbolic imagery for the transformation of psychic energy. For eighteen centuries, alchemists struggled to transmute the lower forms of matter into gold, the ultimate of material value. Some of the best and most philosophic minds grasped that theirs was a work of the soul, not a test-tube tour de force, that alchemy was a proto-psychology, not a proto-chemistry. In the late Renaissance there appeared one of the most extraordinary of all alchemical texts, the Splendor Solis with a group of fantastic paintings that describe the inner journey of individuation in powerful and evocative imagery. We will look at these paintings with our modern sensibility and discover how they still have power to stir the soul with hints of the difficulties and the rewards of a personal work of transformation.
            Alden Josey, Ph.D., NCPsyA is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Wilmington, DE. He obtained a doctoral degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Illinois, and then enjoyed a long career in fundamental and applied organic chemistry
research. He subsequently received a diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C. G, Jung Institute, Zurich. Dr. Josey was Director of Studies and Director of Admissions for the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia, and currently teaches as a Senior Training Analyst. He has taught and lectured internationally. His publications include “Molecules and Mandalas”, Psychological Perspectives, Issue #28, 1993, “The New Ethic”, The Round Table Review, 1996, and “What is Jung About? What Does It Mean to Me?”, The Round Table Review, Jan/Feb 1999, V. 6, No. 3.

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Workshop:
Archetypal Astrology;
Healing Language for the 21st Century
Presented by Laurence Hillman, Astrologer and Author

Saturday, November 18, 2006;  9:30 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Fee: Friends/Early Registrants, by Nov. 3 - $70
Others - $80
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Limited to 20 participants. For professional astrologers and beginners alike.
You must have your ACCURATE natal astrological chart to participate.
If you do not have a chart contact Laurence at laurence@lhillman.com.

          We live in a time where moderate religion is fading and yet answers to life’s big questions remain. Archetypal astrology can address core issues about human nature. It blends philosophy, spirituality, and psychology into a penetrating worldview. In this lecture we will get an introduction to this way of thinking. Drawing on traditional concepts from astrology and Jungian psychology we will adapt both to modern times. We will find answers to very practical and personal questions and explore a rewarding personal path. Using language from the theatre will increase our insights and give us a set of tools to express archetypal patterns we live out every day. In this worldview the planets become actors on our inner stage. While Jung postulated a certain set of archetypes present in all, this lecture will expand on this notion. Going back to Plato’s cave metaphor, the astrological planets become core “ideas” that exist in all but are expressed personally according to our ancestry, culture, biological inheritance and general environment. The platonic “ideas” become archetypal patterns that can be read in a person by understanding their birth chart. This provides us with a tremendous tool for human understanding and for grasping the complexities of our inner life in relationship to the outer circumstances we find ourselves in daily.
            The workshop will help participants investigate specific details in their birth chart and apply the ideas presented to the group. While there will be some limited one-on-one work, participants will learn something else than they would get from an individualized astrological reading. The two should not be confused. Mostly a relaxed yet intellectually challenging and enjoyable day will give each participant a much-deepened sense of self-understanding.
            Born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman is a full-time astrologer, teacher and lecturer. He has been a professional astrologer for nearly 30 years. Laurence has lectured internationally, conducted workshops in the Globe Theatre in London, and has taught at Jean Houston’s Mystery School. He is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of Alignments – How to Live in Harmony with the Universe. His forthcoming book is Archetypal Astrology – How to Re-imagine Your Life. Laurence lives in St. Louis, has an MBA, a Master’s in Engineering Management, and a degree in Architecture. He is the son of James Hillman, world-renowned psychological scholar.

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Study Groups

Soul at the Center: the Role of Soul in Jungian Analysis
Presented by Sheldon Culver

4 consecutive Tuesdays (Oct. 17,24,31/Nov. 7)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.
Friends, $45; All others, $55
Limited to 8 registrants
Readings: To be provided by presenter at no extra cost

            If the goal of Jungian work is wholeness (individuation) the center and source of this goal is soul and soul’s hunger to incarnate. This seminar will focus on Jung’s understanding of Psyche as dynamic, and imbued with a religious inclination that shapes the work. We will look at what Jung called the “transcendent function” and the process of symbol formation, how soul both informs and guides the analystic experience, and the call “to become” in this life.
              Sheldon Culver is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ. She trained as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.  You may contact Sheldon at (636) 795-0750.
 

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The Power and Practice of Story
Presented by Shirley Fontenot

6 Thursdays (Sep. 14,28/Oct. 19/Nov. 2,16/Dec. 7)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in University City.
Friends, $65; All others, $75
Limited to 8 registrants
Suggested Text: Storycatcher by Christina Baldwin

            Story shapes who we are, gives us a sense of self, connects us with the world, and outlines our relationship with reality. Christina Baldwin states that, “Story opens up a space between people. In the act of telling story, we create a world we invite others into. And in the act of listening to story, we accept an invitation into experiences that are not our own, although they seem to be.”
The importance of telling one’s story is clearly evident in Memories, Dreams and Reflections by C. G. Jung, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe. After much hesitation Jung consented to tell his story, eventually writing parts of it himself. This process was extremely important to Jung, and a wonderful gift to any of us who read it.
            Our stories and the process of telling them are equally as important to us and to those who receive them. Participants in this study group will have the opportunity to tell some of their stories, and to listen to the stories of others. The listening and the telling will offer an experience of having stories received and held with respect.
             Shirley M. Fontenot, D.Min., a diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago.  You may contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 740-0105.
 

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Introduction to Jungian Psychology
Presented by Rose F. Holt

8 Thursdays (Sep. 7,21/Oct. 12,26/Nov. 9,30/Dec.14,21)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
The group will meet at a residence in University City
Friends, $85; All others, $95
Limited to 10 registrants
Readings: To be provided by presenter at no extra cost
To augment the eight class meetings, participants will have access to a
shared weblog for additional discussion and dialogue.
Continuing education credits

            Beginning with ego and shadow, this course will cover the basic concepts of analytical psychology, including anima and animus, archetypes, complexes, the Self, the individuation process and the role of dreams in personality development. Texts for course readings, moderate in scope and drawn from the works of C.G. Jung and other analysts, will be provided at no additional cost.
            Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.  If you wish to have further information about the course or have questions, please contact Rose Holt at (314) 726-2032 or e-mail her at roseholt@aol.com.
 

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Dreams
Presented by Ellen Sheire

12 Mondays (Sep. 11,18,25/Oct. 2,9,30/Nov. 6,13,20,27/Dec. 4,11)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood
Friends, $125; All others, $135
Limited to 14 registrants
Text: C. G. Jung, Dreams, Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series XX,
Translated by R.F.C. Hull, Paperback edition, 9th printing, 1990.
Continuing education credits

            The text for this reading group is a paperback edition of Bollingen Series XX, which comprises C. G. Jung’s writings chosen from his Collected Works, and deals specifically with dreams. For the layman and the professional alike this volume simply and clearly presents Jung’s work.
            The way in which Jung approached and treated the study of the dream evolved, transformed, and enlarges as he continually probed the human psyche throughout his life. Starting in 1900 using the dream as a tool for research in psychoanalysis, Jung takes this tool of dream analysis and presents in his writings the material yielded in probing the depth and breadth of the personal unconscious, discovering and mapping out dominants in the collective unconscious, which he called the “archetypes”. To the student of art, literature, history and religion, this concise study of the dream provides rich material.
               Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis.  You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.
 

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Pregnancy, Birth & the Inner Mother
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman

4 Wednesdays (Nov. 15,29/Dec. 6,13)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End
Friends, $60; All others, $65
(includes $15 materials fee)
Limited to 8 registrants

            In the darkening season of late autumn as we approach the longest night of the year and the yuletide season of anticipating the Light of the Divine Child, we will use this 4-part series as a means by which to give visual expression to the cycle of creation and creativity: The Longing and Waiting Time, the Pregnancy, the Birthing, and the Nurturing. Working primarily with 3-dimensional medium (clay, natural and found objects, paper construction) we will seek with our personal imagery to honor our bodies, matter (mater) and the Feminine, and to strengthen the connection with our Inner Mother. These four evening’s images will create your own gift to youself of a sort of mandala or Whole. Please be advised that kiln facilities are not available. This is an experiential not a study class. No previous art experience is necessary, only a willingness to let your hands speak for you!
             Deborah Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, is a board certified art therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, who has a private practice in St. Louis and contracts independently with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in their Psychology and Religion Program. For more information about art therapy, check the website www.arttherapy.org.  You may contact Deborah Stutsman at 314-361-1120 or 314-412-2168.
 

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OPEN HOUSE RECEPTION
At the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago

ANALYST TRAINING PROGRAM
and
CLINICAL TRAINING PROGRAM

 Friday Evening, November 3rd at 6:30

 for information and reservations call

312-701-0400 

The Analyst Training Program prepares licensed and experienced clinicians to be certified as Jungian Psychoanalysts.  The program provides participants with an opportunity to gain an in-depth knowledge of Analytical Psychology.  It emphasizes both personal and clinical development through on-going analysis and supervision within the context of a professional community. 
 

The Clinical Training Program provides a two-year program for licensed mental health professional in Analytical Psychotherapy – a therapeutic approach that utilizes a symbolic perspective within the context of a highly personal interactional field.

The C.G Jung Institute of Chicago is approved by the APA to sponsor continuing education
for psychologists and by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation for social workers and LCPCs

The CG Jung Institute of Chicago maintains responsibility for this program and its content. 

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Winter/Spring 2006

SOCIETY 2 HOST 2 NEW SPEAKERS:
LYN COWAN AND DICK SWEENEY

	March 17 & 18 Cowan on “Melancholy"
	April 21 & 22 Sweeney on “Religion” See interview below!

GOD MADE WHOLE
 An Interview With Richard Sweeney

 Arising out of the tribalism of the middle eastern Iron Age was Abraham.  It was his monotheism that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam claim as their birthright.  What is it about this monotheism that excites its followers to crusade or to jihad?  Or to wreak violence upon the weak and often the female?  Some writings in each of the Old Testament and the Koran inspire its followers to kill unbelievers.  Whether it is Deuteron-omy 13 in which God says, “You must stone him to death, since he has tried to divert you from Yahweh, your God,” or whether it is the Koran 9:123, “Believers, make war on the infidels,”—both sets of writings portray a God who promotes war and violence.

            Jung addressed this in his book, The Portable Jung, in the last chapter, “Answer To Job,” .  He reminds us of God’s shadow and its capacity for revenge, for harshness, and for arrogance.  And Jung reminds us of Sophia who was there in the beginning and who contributes to God’s consciousness.  She is the feminine aspect of God.  In the Kabbala, she is called Shekhina, a loving entity who is ready to defend her people from God himself.

            As tensions between western culture and Moslem culture increase, it could prove helpful to expand our understanding of God.  To broaden our understanding of God’s shadow, In Touch, interviewed Richard Sweeney a Jungian psychoanalyst and licensed professional clinical counselor in private practice in Columbus, Ohio.  He holds a doctoral degree in psychology and religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, and a diploma in analytical psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich.  He is currently chair of the Ohio Valley Association of Jungian Analysts.

            Dick Sweeney will be speaking at the St. Louis Jung Society April 21 and 22 on “Religion: Help or Harm? & Dark Side of God.”

 In Touch (I.T.): Why did Jung undertake to write “An Answer to Job?”  What was it he was particularly concerned about in the operative picture of God in western culture?

Richard Sweeney (R.S.): I think  “An Answer to Job,” Jung is critiquing the one-sided view or image of God in much of western culture.  His concern was that if only positive attributes are seen as belonging to God, in other words, if God is seen as all powerful and all loving and all peaceful and all good, then all the opposite traits fall into the unconscious.  Persons seeking to be like God are likely to repress or suppress all those opposite traits into the unconscious.  Invariably, those darker traits affect us or get expressed unconsciously.  That’s when they are usually most likely to be destructive.

 I.T.: Jung wrote “the picture of a God who knew no moderation in his emotions and suffered precisely from this lack of moderation.  He himself admitted that he was eaten up with rage and jealousy and this knowledge was painful to him.  Insight existed along with obtuseness, loving-kindness along with cruelty, creative power along with destructiveness . . . .Such a condition is only conceivable either when no reflecting consciousness is present at all, or when the capacity for reflection is very feeble. . . A condition of this sort can only be described as amoral.”  (The Portable Jung, p. 527)

            If this portrayal of Yahweh is accurate, how does that affect the underpinnings of current western religion? 

R.S.: I think the way it affects western religion is that all the darker or less pleasant traits, which in and of themselves are not evil, are less appealing.  This affects individuals, groups and cultures often in unconscious ways.  For example, we then end up inflicting violence, fear, evil and other seemingly negative attitudes onto other individuals and groups, and then attack them externally.

            It is interesting that a variety of destructive acts like terrorist attacks, retaliatory bombings, very prejudicial oppressive attitudes are then engaged in and very often in the name of God.  The assumption is that God is in favor of that.

            I think Jung’s concern is that we have to recognize that the darker or less appealing traits are also aspects of the Godhead.  That is to say, both love and hate, both faith and doubt, both patience and anger, these are all andro- or human aspects and they are always in play in the human experience of God.  To the extent that we are conscious of that, and hold these opposite tendencies in tension, we will be less likely to avoid the seemingly negative traits at all costs and then project them onto others who then must be opposed.

 I.T.: What role does this amoral God play in politics? Or does he?

 R.S.: It affects politics in what we’re seeing these days.  A variety of groups and nations and cultures are undertaking particular initiatives as though endorsed by God.  Whether we’re talking about the Islamic world undertaking a jihad, or whether we’re talking about the western world that undertakes retaliatory behaviors such as bombing in counter-attacks, both sides operate under the assumption that this is being done in the name of God.

            Jung points out that, to the extent that any person or group who does not continue to reflect upon its own shadow or dark side, it will be projected onto the “other.”

I.T.: By understanding God’s shadow, Jung contends that Job had been lifted up to a superior knowledge of God which God, himself, did not possess.  Job sees God’s shadow and is a victim of it.  What is the impact of that great insight?

R.S.: Jung is saying that Job experienced the destructive side of God.  Job experienced God as the one who allowed the destructiveness to fall upon him and his family.  Job, therefore, has a much wider and larger understanding of the true nature of God than even God.  God is not just about creation but also about destruction.  Sometimes the transcendent is working in our lives in such a way as to tear things down.  For example, it may work  to tear down our false assumptions, to tear down one-sided behaviors.

            Sometimes, the most significant way in which God or the transcendent is operating in our lives appears initially destructive but the destruction is brought about for the sake of greater wholeness.  For example, Jung says that if a person is living too one-sided a life, God will send a neurosis.  That may not seem welcome or pleasant but that darker side of God, so to speak, is really serving the larger process of wholeness.

I.T.: Jung spoke of Sophia as the feminine aspect of God.  Can you address this?

R.S.: One of Jung’s additional critiques of the western God-image is that it is exclusively masculine and did not incorporate feminine attributes.  He looked for remnants in Judeo-Christian teachings of feminine characteristics of God.  In the Hebrew scriptures, the notion of Sophia arises.  Jung’s belief is that here, the unconscious is calling up or evoking the feminine side of God. 

            I think clearly the problem of denying or suppressing the feminine aspect of God in western religion is another example of the one-sidedness of the western God-image.

            The over-emphasis on the so-called masculine attributes give primary religious significance to reason and logic and correct behavior and virtue and discipline and dogma.  Far less, if any, significance is given to many of those attributes we often think of as feminine such as feelings, imagination, desire, longing, and receptivity.  The cultivation of these feminine aspects of self have often been seen as having nothing to do

with being religious and sometimes are even seen as antithetical to being religious.  If the masculine side of God has more to do with logos, the feminine side of God has more to do with eros.  Both of these are essential.  Omit the feminine, e.g. Sophia, then one is being encouraged to devalue or suppress the fullness of one’s own Self.

 I.T.: What is the damage to society without Sophia?

 R.S.: Society becomes dominated by the masculine traits and qualities.  Inevitably, persons striving to be in a relationship with God will start subordinating the feminine traits since these traits are not associated with God.  Society will value assertiveness and accomplishment and productivity and activity more than the feminine traits of nurturing, connectivity and creativity.  This is certainly the case in western culture.

I.T.: What were Jung’s thoughts on fundamentalism?  How do we move beyond fundamentalism?

R.S.: Fundamentalism does meet particular needs for individuals and groups.  The need for belonging, the need for certitude and security.  However, these needs emerge in early stages of development.  They must eventually be transcended and not absolutized as the ultimate value.  The problem with fundamentalism or dogmatism is that it becomes very one-sided. In the effort to achieve and maintain certitude, fundamentalism encourages the repression of doubt and other points of view.  This inevitably leads to intolerance and oppression of others.  We know from Jung that what is resisted or denied by any group will then be seen as evil and projected onto those outside of one’s group.  Those outsiders must then be converted.  If they cannot be converted, then they must be opposed, attacked or maybe even annihilated.  If you cannot convert the enemy, then you have to annihilate them either violently, politically or legally. I think the danger of  fundamentalism is, again, its one-sidedness and the suppression of opposite traits.

            Essential to Jung’s whole view of life and psyche is the dialogue between the opposites. In other words, what is essential is the capacity to dialogue with that which is opposite to one’s current attitude or position.  The only resolution to conflicts with fundamentalism or dogmatism is a constant invitation to engage in mutual conversation and discussion.  The result could be a growing respect for the other point of view and a growing tolerance.  After all, when we are dealing with the question of the nature of God, we are dealing with a reality that will always remain partly unknown to us.  That is why there will always be room for and a need for dialogue.  Today, we’re being forced into awareness of different cultural views and attitudes.  We are being forced into a greater appreciation of those differences.  In a sense, this is an experience of “the dark side of God.”  In other words, it is precisely in the painful experience of conflict, confusion and opposition that we have revealed to us the opportunity for new consciousness and transformations.

Reprinted from the April, 2006 issue of IN TOUCH, a newsletter published three times a year for $15 a year by The Educational Center, 6357 Clayton Road, St. Louis, MO 63117, 314-721-7604, www.centerpointec.com.  For more information call or email Sara McDonald: Sara@educationalcenter.org.

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Seminars and Lectures

Working with Dreams in a Group
Seminar - Rose Holt; Moderator

Saturday, January 28, 10:00 A.M. – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Early Registration by Jan. 14
Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1 - $40
All Others - $50           

           This seminar will be presented and facilitated by four women who met on a weekly basis for twelve (12) years to explore their dreams, using the model and guidelines of Jungian Psychology.  Rose Holt, a Jungian Analyst trained at the C. G. Jung Center of Chicago, led this dream group.  She has a private practice in both St. Louis and Chicago.

Participants will learn some fundamental approaches to the dream, understand how group work with dreams can facilitate understanding and personal development, and have an opportunity to work with a dream in the group setting.

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Images in a Melancholic Eye
Lecture by Lyn Cowan

Friday, March 17, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends/Early Registrants $15
All Others - $20

            Until the mid-19th century, melancholy was imagined as a sacred affliction from the gods, a madness characteristic of genius and the most difficult and complex temperament.  At the height of the Renaissance, it was imagined in personified form as a majestic female figure; artists and poets looked to her as their Muse.  But, in the twentieth century, melancholy all but disappeared from the professional imagination, to be replaced by the diagnostic category of depression.

Where did Melancholy go?  How did she lose her voice?  How can we call her into life again, listen to her wisdom, take new creative heart from her depths?  This lecture/slide presentation will use both spoken word and photographs to rediscover Melancholy as Muse.

Images in a Melancholic Voice
Workshop by Lyn Cowan

Saturday, March 18 – 9:00 A.M. - 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends/Early Registrants, $70
All others, $80 (fee includes lunch)

           The melancholic mood has a distinctive tone which can be heard as clearly in certain kinds of writing as in music.  Our workshop discussion will continue themes introduced in the lecture, particularly the idea that melancholy, unlike depression, is a creative matrix, seeking to answer these questions:  How can we hear the Muse in our own melancholic moments?  What sort of expression does the Muse give us when we try to express something from a melancholy place in the psyche?  Why is this important for our psychic health?  Participants are asked to bring paper and pen.

Lyn Cowan, Ph.D., has been a practicing Jungian analyst since 1980, Director of Training for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts for six years and past president of the Society, held a Professorship for ten years in the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology at Argosy University (Minneapolis), and recently concluded two years of teaching and lecturing at the C.G. Jung Center of Houston, Texas.  She is the author of three books:  Portrait of the Blue Lady: The Character of Melancholy, Tracking the White Rabbit: A Subversive View of Modern Culture, and Masochism: A Jungian View, and is Editor of the International Association of Analytical Psychology World Congress Proceedings.  She has lectured internationally and throughout the United States, and makes her home in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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Religion: How it Can Help or Harm the Soul
Lecture by Richard Sweeney

Fri., April 21 – 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends /Early Registrants, $15
All Others, $20

            Religion continues to shape modern culture and the world socio-political situation in ways that are unmistakable and yet controversial.  Few subjects evoke more debate today than the proper role of  religion in personal and political life.  Not surprisingly then, no theme occupied the reflection and writing of C. G. Jung in the last thirty years of his life more than the role of religion in the life of the soul.  It led him eventually to posit the existence of "a religious function" within the psyche.

In this program we will rely upon the thought of Jung and some post-Jungians in attempting an analysis of the ways in which religion may help or hinder the maturation of the soul.  In this effort we will address a variety of issues, including the Genesis God-images, the relationship between dogma and symbol, the question of religious authority, fundamentalism, and various conceptions of good and evil.  In short, we will examine the extent to which religion can either promote or limit the expansion of consciousness and wholeness.

The Dark Side of God: Jung’s Contribution to Psychology of Evil
Workshop presented by Richard Sweeney

Sat., April 22 – 9:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M.
Friends/Early Registrants, $20
All others, $30 (lunch not included)

Very likely the most controversial of all C. G, Jung's theories is his notion that God possesses a dark or shadow side.  Since its presentation in his book Answer to Job in 1952, this theory has been heatedly discussed and debated by theologians and psychologists alike.  In this seminar we will review what Jung meant by "the shadow side of God," and examine how it has been interpreted by various Jungians and other thinkers.  Specifically, we will consider how individuals and groups must wrestle with the forces of both creation and destruction in the process of individuation, and we will probe what it means for us personally to encounter the darker, destructive elements that continue to disrupt life so often today.  We will see that this frequently forces, among other things, a re-examination of one's God-image. 

Richard Sweeney is a Jungian psychoanalyst and licensed professional clinical counselor in private practice in Columbus, Ohio.  He holds a doctoral degree in psychology and religion from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a diploma in analytical psychology from the C, G. Jung Institute, Zurich.  He is currently Chair of the Ohio Valley Association of Jungian Analysts.

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Study Groups

Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism
and the Psychology  - Part II
by Ellen Sheire

10 Mondays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/9,23; 2/6,20; 3/6,20; 4/3,17; 5/1,15)
Texts:  The Mystery of the Coniunctio: Alchemical Image of Individuation, Edward Edinger
Alchemical Active Imagination, Marie-Louise von Franz
Limited to 14 registrants
Friends, $105
All others, $115

            This class follows Ms. Sheire’s Fall 2005’s study of von Franz’s text on Alchemy; however, Part I attendance is not a requirement for participation in Part II.
            In answering the question “Why Alchemy?” the Jungian analyst Dr. Edward Edinger answers thus:  “…alchemy gives us a unique glimpse into the depths of the unconscious psyche…” The alchemists were rooted in the western psyche which we have inherited, and it was C. G. Jung who realized that the alchemists, in their spirit of inquiry, projected their fantasies, dream images, etc., onto matter.  In studying and analyzing alchemical images Jung, and co-workers like von Franz and Edinger, have provided bridges to modern understanding, first by uncovering archetypal images clothed in alchemical imagery, and then by linking these images to modern man’s daily dealings with such products as dreams, fantasies, artistic representations, visitations, etc.
           
             Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis.
            Class limit of 14.  Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. 
See information regarding CEUs.  You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
Part II
by Sandy Cooper

6 Tuesdays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/10,24; 2/7,21; 4/4,18)
Text:  The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.
Limited to 10 registrants
Friends, $65
All others, $75

            Sandy Cooper has an M.A. in English Literature from Washington University and an M.A. in Pastoral Studies from Aquinas Institute of Theology. She has worked as an English instructor, spiritual director, and hospital chaplain, and for the past three years has been very involved in Jungian studies and activities.
            Class limit of 10. Classes will be held in a home in the Clayton/Ladue area. See information regarding CEUs.  You may contact Sandy Cooper at (314) 993-0874.

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Music, Jungian Perspective
Presented by RJ Fitch and Michelle Pitts

8 Mondays: 7:30 - 9:30 P.M.
(1/16,30; 2/13,27; 3/13,27; 4/10; 5/8)
Text:  CD recordings will be provided as study material, along with selected handouts.
Friends, $85; All others, $95
Limited to 8 registrants

             Art, literature, poetry and dreams all express unconscious content, which can be understood with a symbolic approach.  So it is with music.  Using Jung’s methods of amplification, we will explore the music of Elton John, The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Tori Amos and many others.  “Music is a strange thing.  I would say it is a miracle.  For it stands halfway between spirit and matter, a sort of nebulous mediator, like and unlike each of the things it mediates – spirit that requires manifestation in time and matter that can do without space…we do not know what music is.” ~Heinrich Heine
            This workshop will focus on the themes of the feminine, social/political, and spiritual content present, but not always obvious, in popular music.  CD recordings will be provided as study material.

            RJ Fitch has a BA in Instrumental Music Education and Michelle Pitts studied voice and education, both at the University of MO-St. Louis.  Our interest in music, Tori Amos in particular, is what led us to a study of Jungian psychology and we are excited to share it with others.
            Class limit of 8.  Classes will be held in a home near Affton/Southwest City. See information regarding CEUs. 

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If they are unavailable locally, they may be ordered from the Chicago Jung Institute,  1567 Maple Ave., Evanston, Illinois 60201. 
By phone at (847) 475-4848, or contact their website at www.jungchicago.org.

A third source is the Houston Jung Center at (713) 524-8253, Ext. 18, or www.cgjunghouston.org

Continuing Education Credits 

            The C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to participants in our programs where both the program presenter and the program material meet their criteria.  Credits will be for Psychologists (APA), Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors.  Each local program presenter is responsible for obtaining course approval, for collecting a $15 fee, and sending it to the Chicago Institute, and for all communications with program participants regarding CEUs.  The Institute will mail CEU verification notices directly to participants.  The St. Louis Jung Society will make different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers from out of town.

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If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either,
for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.
—C.G. Jung, C.W.10

The whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. 
In our most private and subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. 
We make our epoch.
– C.G. Jung, CW 10

Fall /Winter 2005

JAMES HOLLIS
TO SPEAK ON

Finding Meaning
in the Second Half of Life

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Seminars and Lectures

Friday Evening Lecture:
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
 by James Hollis 

October 14, 2005
7:00 – 9:00 P.M. This lecture available CD!
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1 - $10
All Others - $15

            Finding meaning in the second half of life requires asking larger questions of ourselves, and challenging our values.   To ask these questions three things are requisite:  that we recover a sense of personal authority, that we strike a better balance between obligation to others and obligation to self, and that we construct a more mature spirituality.   How do we recover our lives, grow as persons, and become increasingly at home with the person we are becoming?  More on James Hollis

Saturday Seminar:
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
by James Hollis

October 15, 2005
9:30 A.M. until 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends/Early Registrants, by Oct. 1-$65
All Others - $75  (Lunch included in fee)

            We can never be free to create our lives if we are in service to fixed, internalized, and largely unconscious ideas. We will engage questions which stir, sift, and raise consciousness of these deeply ingrained “ideas” which autonomously govern our lives. With increased consciousness comes increased possibility of the recovery of a more authentic journey. Please bring a pad and pen for journaling.  More on James Hollis

The second half of life presents a rich possibility for spiritual enlargement, for we are never going to have greater powers of choice, never have more lessons of history from which to learn, and never possess more emotional resilience, more insight into what works for us and what does not, or a deeper, sometimes more desperate, conviction of the importance of getting our life back. We are already survivors, and that counts for a lot. How, or even whether, we finally use these accumulated strengths to redeem our life from our history will count for even more.

….Being psychological means being responsible for questioning surfaces until the energic sources beneath are revealed; being modern means being wholly responsible for meaning, choice, conduct. We are here such a short time. Before we depart, it would be nice to think that we are reconnected with our journey, that we found our myth again, the one truly worth serving. The emergent myth from amid the psychopathology of daily life is already forming in the dream you will dream tonight, in the intuition that comes to you at the hour of the wolf, and in the mystery that is forever renewing itself through the life of each of us.

….Finding a mature spirituality will only occur when we internalize the fact that our egos are only a small part of a larger mystery. It is a mystery at work outside of us, in the cosmos, in nature, in other people, and in ourselves as well. We are called to ask serious, more courageous questions of ourselves, for without these probing questions, we will simply fall back into the old patterns, which work neither for us nor for our culture…A mature spirituality requires a mature individual. A mature spirituality already lies within each of us, in our potential to take on the mystery as it comes to us, to query it, to risk change and growth, and to continue the revisioning of our journey for so long as we live. It remains to be seen how ready we are to take the step toward this responsibility for personal authority. That is an appointment that each of us is called to keep.

--James Hollis
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
 

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The Dangers of Avoiding Aphrodite:
Sexual Aridity and Addictions
by Francesca Ferrentelli, Ph.D.

Friday, September 23, 2005
7:00– 9:00 P.M. This lecture available CD!
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends & Registrants by Sept. 9 - $10
Others - $15

            Individuals with addictions, particularly eating disorders, avoid Aphrodite, the goddess of love and desire. Their weight and/or body image issues make them feel invisible, flawed, or unworthy. Consequently they fear showing their beauty and/or allowing expression of their desire. For some, their avoidance is due to childhood sexual trauma. For others it is about feelings of inadequacy. Sometimes they desire sex and love but avoid it due to shame about their bodies. Sometimes they are willing to express themselves sexually, but are rejected by potential partners due to their weight. Aphrodite hates to be ignored! When she is rejected, sexual desire can be acted out with food, as food becomes the lover. This lecture focuses on identifying ways that Aphrodite is ignored, what happens when she get angry, and how individuals can invite her back into their lives.
            Francesca Ferrentelli is a psychotherapist, mythologist, and storyteller. She received her doctorate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2003. Her doctoral dissertation explores gastric bypass surgery through the myth of Dionysus. Dr. Ferrentelli has been working with eating disorders since 1991. She lectures widely on eating disorders, psychological issues, mythology, and archetypal psychology. She has presented for the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, the Association of Sleep and Dreams, and the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals.

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Archetypal Astrology:
Healing Language for the 21st Century
by Laurence Hillman Astrologer & Author 

Friday, November 18, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC - Picture of the Church
6501 Wydown, Clayton, MO 63105 - See a map at
Friends & Registrants by Nov. 4 - $10
Others - $15 

            We live in a time where moderate religion is fading and yet answers to life’s big questions remain. Archetypal astrology can address core issues about human nature. It blends philosophy, spirituality, and psychology into a penetrating worldview. In this lecture we will get an introduction to this way of thinking. Drawing on traditional concepts from astrology and Jungian psychology we will adapt both to modern times. We will find answers to very practical and personal questions and explore a rewarding personal path. Using language from the theatre will increase our insights and give us a set of tools to express archetypal patterns we live out every day. In this worldview the planets become actors on our inner stage. While Jung postulated a certain set of archetypes present in all, this lecture will expand on this notion. Going back to Plato’s cave metaphor, the astrological planets become core “ideas” that exist in all but are expressed personally according to our ancestry, culture, biological inheritance and general environment. The platonic “ideas” become archetypal patterns that can be read in a person by understanding their birth chart. This provides us with a tremendous tool for human understanding and for grasping the complexities of our inner life in relationship to the outer circumstances we find ourselves in daily.
            Born and raised in Zurich, Switzerland, Laurence Hillman is a full-time astrologer, teacher and lecturer. He has been a professional astrologer for nearly 30 years. Laurence has lectured internationally, conducted workshops in the Globe Theatre in London, and has taught at Jean Houston’s Mystery School. He is the author of numerous articles and the co-author of Alignments – How to Live in Harmony with the Universe. His forthcoming book is Archetypal Astrology – How to Re-imagine Your Life. Laurence lives in St. Louis, has an MBA, a Master’s in Engineering Management, and a degree in Architecture. He is the son of James Hillman, world-renowned psychological scholar.

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Study Groups

Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism
and the Psychology by Ellen Sheire

9 Mondays (Sep. 5,19/Oct. 3,10, 31/Nov. 14,28/Dec. 5,12)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:   Alchemy, An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology, by Marie-Louise von Franz, Toronto: Inner City Books, 1980.
Limited to 14 registrants
Friends, $95
All others, $105

            Deirdre Bair's biography of C. G. Jung presents Jung's own quote that the study of Alchemy "...was the bridge that led from Gnosticism to Christianity" and that it gave his psychology an historical ground because modern dreams still have Alchemical symbols. Dr. von Franz's book contains nine lectures she delivered, together with 34 illustrations, on the origins and development of Alchemy over the centuries and shows how its tradition was far more than just a precursor to modern chemistry.
            This reading group will cover the entirety of Dr. von Franz’s book in the fall semester.
Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972. She has a private practice in St. Louis.
            Class limit of 14. Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. Regarding CEUs: See box for details. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549

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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Sandy Cooper

7 Wednesdays (Sep. 14,28/Oct. 12,26/Nov.9,30/Dec. 14)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:  The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron, New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1992.
Limited to 10 registrants
Friends, $75
All others, $85

Want to be en-riched, en-kindled, en-lightened, and em-boldened? Many people are amazed at what unfolds within them as they work through Julia Cameron's beautiful book, The Artist's Way.  Her central premise is that we are ALL artists and that creativity is a spiritual experience.  The more we open ourselves to our Higher Power, the more profusely we create.  Jungian analyst and author, John Giannini, was so taken with Cameron's material when she began giving workshops that he spread the word wherever he lectured.
            The class will cover the first half of The Artist's Way this fall, and plan to finish the second half in the spring.
            Sandy Cooper has an M.A. in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M.A. in Pastoral Studies from Aquinas Institute of Theology.  She has worked as an English teacher, spiritual director, and hospital chaplain, and for the past three years has been immersed in Jungian studies and activities.
            Class limit of 10.  Classes will be held in a home in the Clayton/Ladue area. Regarding CEUs: See box for details. You may contact Sandy Cooper at (314) 993-0874.

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Jung's Complex Theory
by Rose Holt

8 Thursdays (Sep. 8,22/Oct. 6,20/Nov. 3,17/Dec. 1,15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:  Drawn from Jung’s Collected Works and provided by the instructor.  Materials fee - $10 (additional to cost of study group).
Limited to 10 Registrants
Friends, $95
All others, $105

             This Fall-Winter Jung Readings Course will be devoted to the topic of the complex.   Understanding of Jung’s discoveries and writings about the complex theory can be of great help in personal development and self-understanding.  We will explore Jung’s early experimental work that led to his discovery of the complex as well as Jung’s later writings that more fully describe and map various complexes.
            Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
            Class limit of 10.  Classes will be held in a home in University City. To augment the seven meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for additional discussion/dialogue. Regarding CEUs: See box for details.  You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 740-6207.

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Exploring the Animus through Art-making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman

4 Tuesdays: 7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
(10/18,25; 11/1,8)
Friends, $55 - includes $10 materials fee
All others, $65 - includes $10 materials fee
No previous art experience is required.  Class limit of 6. 
Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.

             Jung often instructed his patients to draw their dreams and imagery. In this series participants will visually explore their (female) relationship with their inner Masculine, the Animus, to in order to better understand and relate to this constellation of energy. Some of the functions of the inner Masculine are to provide discipline, energy, courage, and determination. This will be an experiential art-making group in which participants will produce their own imagery using media and methods which encourage the intuitive function. Our goal is dialogue with the image, not “art-making”. No previous art experience is required. Class limit of 6. Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End. You may contact Deborah Stutsman at (314) 361-1120.
            Deborah Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, (Board- certified Art Therapist/Licensed Professional Counselor) has a private practice and contracts with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Psychology and Religion Program.

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Workshops and Lectures

Seminar: Jung and Synchronicity

Presented by Ellen Sheire,
Saturday, February 19, 9:30 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard

          Have you ever experienced events or unlikely coincidences that you could not dismiss as simply a fluke, chance, or luck? Synchronistic events may occur in our lives when we say, “Oh, that was a funny coincidence”, or when we dream of meeting someone and run into to them the very next day, or when we travel to another city, sit in a restaurant we have never been in before, except…. we were there in a dream we had two weeks ago.

          The first portion of this seminar will be devoted to the telling of stories, the sharing of participants’ experiences of awe-inspiring coincidental events, or what William James has called “the blooming buzzing” of connection to the unity of life that lies at the heart of synchronicity.

          Following this, Ellen Sheire will examine the phenomenon which C.G. Jung first identified and termed “synchronicity” to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality do not explain. Before Jung, in a mechanistically-understood world shaped by Newtonian physics of predictable cause and effect, where coincidences were discounted as mere chance events, there was no word or even concept to describe this fascinating phenomenon. Ellen will present the works of Jung and the physicist Pauli, as well as those of noted scientists Paul Kammerer, Werner Heisenberg and David Bohm. Special attention will be given to perplexing coincidences that haunted Jung in his own life and in his consulting room.

Please bring your own lunch, or plan to go out for a snack. CEUs available for additional fee of $15.
Ellen Sheire’s academic and professional background was in clinical psychology prior to receiving her analyst’s diploma from the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1972.

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A Lecture & Workshop
On Family Karma
With Boris Matthews

Lecture: “Family Karma: The Blessings and Burdens of Our Ancestors”
Presented by Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Friday, March 18, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard 

In the book he recently published with Ashok Bedi, M.D., Boris Matthews recounts how the death of his maternal grandmother thirty-five years before he was born fundamentally shaped his sense of his own masculinity.  An ancestral event was a formative factor beyond his control or influence.  Dr. Matthews was heir to an ancestral burden.

To one degree or another, we are all heirs to ancestral blessings and burdens.  One middle-class woman, for example, felt compelled to work with pregnant teens.  Dreams helped her to understand that her work with these children from inner city ghetto families was directly related to the dire conditions her immigrant ancestors struggled with several generations before she was born.

In his Friday night lecture, Dr. Matthews will illustrate several instances of family karma—our ancestors’ choices, their actions, and the consequences—that impact their progeny.  In the second part of his talk, he will discuss a number of ways we can begin to identify and mitigate the coercive ancestral blessings and burdens we have inherited.

Workshop: “Breaking the Bonds of Family Karma: 
What We Need to Actualize our Innate Potential as Human Beings”
Presented by Boris Matthews, Ph.D.
Saturday, March 19, 9:30 – 3:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
 6501 Wydown Boulevard

            Throughout the course of our life, three relationship-based experiences are crucial for actualizing our innate potential that usually is skewed by long-standing family patterns.  These are the Mirror, the Ideal and the Twin.  We may experience the mirror, the ideal and the twin differently at each stage of life.

            The Mirror tells us who we are; the Ideal shows us what to strive for; the Twin companions us on the way.  How each of these “authors” of our life story fulfills his essential role empowers or handicaps us.

            In the workshop, Dr. Matthews will first review the concept of family karma: the idea that we are the heirs—for better or worse—of our ancestors’ choices and actions.  Then he will illustrate each of the three relationship patterns individually.  Through individual exercises and sharing, we will explore our experiences of being mirrored, being attracted by an ideal, and joining with a soul-twin.  Identifying how mirroring, idealizing and twinning have functioned in our lives reveals both how we got to where we are in life and what has handicapped us.

            Participants in the workshop will:

• Better understand the formative influences in their lives,
• More clearly recognize what has discouraged development of innate potentials,
• Gain confidence in more fully realizing their true selves.

Suggested reading: Retire Your Family Karma:  Decode Your Family Patterns and Find Your Soul Path, by Ashok Bedi, M.D. and Boris Matthews, Ph.D.

CEUs available for additional fee of $15.

            Boris Matthews practices psychotherapy and Jungian psychoanalysis in Madison, Wisconsin, as a member of the Samaritan Counseling Center staff.  Dr. Matthews trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago where he is now a senior analyst on the faculty of the Analyst Training Program.  He has published many translations of German texts on Jungian psychoanalysis, as well as edited work for colleagues.  Recently he co-authored Retire Your Family Karma.

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Lecture:  Fool’s Goal, Fool’s Gold

Presented by Sheldon Culver
Friday, April Fools Day (1^st), 7:30 P.M. – 9:30 P.M.
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard

          This lecture will explore how fools, embodying the inferior and undeveloped aspects of the self, can serve to free us from the blinders of egotism and arrogance, and open us up to deep inner wisdom.  Fool’s goal may be to lead us to true “fool’s gold”.

Sheldon Culver, Ph.D., is both a Jungian analyst with a private practice in St. Louis and an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.  She trained with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.

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A Lecture & Workshop:
On Dionysus and the Feminine
with Deldon McNeely

Lecture and Workshop:  Archetypes of Relatedness: Dionysus & the Feminine
Presented by Deldon McNeely, Ph.D.
Friday, April 29, 7:00 – 9:00 P.M. Lecture
Saturday, April 30, 9:30 A.M. -- 3:30 P.M. Workshop
First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard

          The myth of Dionysus and Ariadne provokes powerful images which open concerns and questions about intimate relationships.  For us in the 21^st century those concerns are very much alive, and much about intimacy remains a mystery.  We are well informed about lust and the mechanics of sex, but are still evolving a capacity to form lasting and satisfying bonds of love, beginning with our own bodies and extending to those closest to us and to our neighbors, and especially to our enemies.  How do we prepare ourselves and our children for intimate relationships? What psychological barriers to trust and constancy can we eliminate? How do we recognize & meet destructive behavior? How do we maintain constructive attitudes toward loss and separation?  How are our Anima and Animus projections affecting our relationships?  Neuroscience is giving us much new information about brain and heart; how can we keep brain and heart in sync to the benefit of both?

The lecture will speak to this topic through images of Dionysus, a god of intimacy and passion, as well as through the insights of depth psychology and other sciences.

The workshop will allow participants to be engaged with questions raised by intimacy.  The workshop will include a slide/music meditation on Dionysus, experiential exercises, and a discussion of material raised in the group.  Participants should wear comfortable clothing for movement, and bring with them some written topic or question expressing their concerns about intimate relationship to be put into a hat for discussion.  CEUs will be available for an additional fee of $15.

Deldon Anne McNeely is a diplomate in Clinical Psychology with a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University.  She studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich and graduated in the USA from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, where she now serves in their training program.  She is on the staff of the New Orleans Seminar in Jungian Psychology and is a patron to the Baton Rouge Jung Society.  She participates in training psychotherapists in the Center for Individual and Social Therapies (known as ZIST) in Penzberg, Germany.  Dr. McNeely was trained in dance and body therapies by Malcolm Brown, Gabrielle Roth, Carolyn Fay and others, has been interested in group and couples therapy, and was active in training group therapists before beginning analytic study.  Her books include Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology, Animus Aeternus: Images of the Inner Masculine, and Mercury Rising: Women, Evil and the Trickster Gods.

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Study Groups

A Study of Psychological Types - Part II Presented by Ellen Sheire
6 Mondays (Jan. 24/Feb.7,21/Mar.7,21/Apr.4)
7:00 – 9:00 P.M.
Special Note;  The selection of text for this group has recently changed.
Text:
Gifts Differing: Understanding Personality Type
by Isabel Briggs Myers, Peter B. Myers

 C. G. Jung published his study of Psychological Types in 1921 and thereafter many people became ac-quainted with Jung’s intuitive vision that four functions of psychic activity - sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition – are the dominant modes of consciousness. 

Please read chapter one in preparation for the first session.

Class limit of 14.  Classes will be held in a home in Kirkwood. You may contact Ellen Sheire at (314) 965-2549.

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The Complex Heart of Jung
Presented by Sheldon Culver
5 consecutive Tuesdays (Feb. 15, 22/Mar. 1, 8, 15)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text:  To be supplied by analyst 

            At the heart of Carl Jung’s original and transformational work is his exploration of the “complex”.  In order to begin to grasp the complexities of Jung’s opus we have to grapple with the complexes that grasp us.  This seminar will focus on Jung’s Complex Theory:  how he first recognized the power of complexes in psyche’s process, the basic structure of complexes,  how they interface with consciousness, and the personal and collective aspects of the unconscious.  Participants will be encouraged to identify the dynamic, destructive (and sometimes delightful) dimensions of psyche’s complex activity.  Readings will focus on chapters in “The Collected Works”, volumes 7, 8 and 9.

Class limit of 8. You may contact Sheldon Culver at (314) 533-6850.

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“Readings in Jung” Answer to Job
Presented by Rose Holt
8 Thursdays (Feb. 3,17/Mar. 3/24/Apr. 7,21/May 5,19)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Answer to Job, by C. G. Jung 

This readings class will take up a topic and a book that Jung felt especially passionate about—suffering and how it relates to our image and presuppositions about God.  Answer to Job is a gripping and somewhat controversial work.  Jung’s view of the nature of God as depicted in the Biblical text Job was so unorthodox that it cost him the friendship of one of his closest collaborators.

In our class we will consider Jung’s views about Job as well as Jung’s more general views on the relationship between religion and psychology.

Class limit of 10.  Classes will be held in a home in University City. To augment the seven meetings, participants will have access to a shared weblog for additional discussion/dialogue.  You may contact Rose Holt at (314) 740-6207.

Rose Holt, a Jungian analyst who divides her private practice between St. Louis and Chicago, is a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago.

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A Study in Dream Interpretation
Presented by Shirley Fontenot
8 Wednesdays (Feb.2,16/Mar.2,23/Apr. 6,20/May 4,18)
7:30 – 9:30 P.M.
Text: Dreams, A Portal to the Source, by Edward C. Whitmont and Sylvia Perera

“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.” (CW, 10, para. 304)

In this study group we will approach this “hidden door” and explore ways of discovering the richness that awaits us and reveals itself to us in symbolic form.  We will do this through study and discussion of the material presented in this text and in doing so enhance our ability to explore our own dreams as well as, for those who are therapists, to work more effectively with dreams of clients.  Although this text was written primarily as an introductory guidebook for therapists who seek to integrate a basic approach to dream interpretation into their clinical practice, it is also a rich resource and very useful for those who appreciate the significance of dreams and seek a deeper understanding of them.

Class limit of 10.  Classes will be held in a home in University City. You may contact Shirley Fontenot at (314) 740-0105.

Shirley Fontenot, D.Min., a diplomate of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, is a Jungian analyst practicing in St. Louis and Chicago.

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Exploring the Shadow through Art-making
Facilitated by Deborah Stutsman
5 consecutive Tuesdays (Mar. 29/Apr. 5,12,19, 26)
7:00 – 9:30 P.M. 

Carl Jung often instructed his patients to draw their dreams and fantasy imagery. “Shadow” is all that is instinctive and as yet unseen in us, that which asks to be absorbed into consciousness in order to bridge the opposites. Giving tangible form to our inner images and feelings allows psyche to “see” herself, a process which can promote insight and growth.

This series will be a hands-on, playful, experiential art-making group in which participants will explore their own imagery through media which encourage the intuitive function.  It is not about making “art” in the traditional sense, and no previous art experience  is required.  Class limit of 8.  Classes will be held in a home in the Central West End.  You may contact Deborah Stutsman at (314) 361-1120.

Deborah Stutsman, ATR-BC, LPC, is a board certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor, who has a private practice in St. Louis and contracts independently with the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute in their Psychology and Religion Intensive Treatment Program.

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Jesus said “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

Translated from the Gospel of Thomas by Elaine Pagels

Where to Purchase Texts

Texts for the study groups may be purchased or ordered from your local bookseller. 

If they are unavailable locally, they may be ordered from the Chicago Jung Institute,  1567 Maple Ave., Evanston, Illinois 60201. 
By phone at (847) 475-4848, or contact their website at www.jungchicago.org.

A third source is the Houston Jung Center at (713) 524-8253, Ext. 18, or www.cgjunghouston.org

Continuing Education Credits 

            The C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago has agreed to grant CEUs to participants in our programs where both the program presenter and the program material meet their criteria.  Credits will be for Psychologists (APA), Licensed Clinical Social Workers, Licensed Marriage and Family Counselors, and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselors.  Each local program presenter is responsible for obtaining course approval, for collecting a $15 fee, and sending it to the Chicago Institute, and for all communications with program participants regarding CEUs.  The Institute will mail CEU verification notices directly to participants.  The St. Louis Jung Society will make different arrangements regarding the presentations of speakers from out of town.

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If the individual is not truly regenerated in spirit, society cannot be either,
for society is the sum total of individuals in need of redemption.
—C.G. Jung, C.W.10

The whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals.  In our most private and subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. 
We make our epoch.
– C.G. Jung, CW 10

Fall/Winter 2004

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Workshops and Lectures

WORKSHOP
The Social Dream Matrix: 
Bringing Our Collective Wisdom Together

Presented by Carol Lark, Ph.D., ATR-BC, CGP, and Deborah Stutsman, M.A., ATR-BC, LPC

Lecture & Matrix: 

Friday, September 17, 7:00 - 9:00 P.M.

Matrix & Art Making:

Saturday, September 18, 9:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.

First Congregational Church UCC
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Early Registration by Sept. 1
Fee includes both sessions
Friends/Early Registrants, $25
All others, $35

Sharing dreams is a traditional practice that dates to pre-recorded times.  While Western dream workers have often emphasized the personal symbolic elements of dreams, indigenous peoples have utilized dream telling as a social necessity for the collective good of the tribe (Wolf, 1994).  Jung’s work conceptualized the process of dream interpretation as a “delicate balance between the personal and the collective”.

Social dreaming that draws on Jung’s theory in a contemporary context can serve as a bridge between the individual and the larger organizational or cultural unconscious.  Gordon Lawrence has developed a specific form of social dreaming, the Social Dream Matrix, which provides a “container for meaning” in which members of a group construct meaning from their dreams, associations and amplifications.

Our Social Dream Matrix will be constructed on behalf of the St. Louis Jung Society in honor of its 10^th Anniversary, in which container we will hold the collective dreamtime of the participants on behalf of the larger Jungian community.  Participants will learn how to create a dream matrix in which to share past and recent dreams, lucid dreaming, amplification and free association in a free flowing process.  While in the Matrix, there is no analysis, commentary, questioning or direct response to each other’s dreams. 

Friday evening the Social Dream Matrix will be established, and the first dreams and images gathered.  Participants are asked to make a commitment to attend both the Friday and Saturday Dream Matrices.  On Saturday morning, the Matrix will convene again, followed by art making to amplify the dream material.  The group will end by discussing the emerging imagery and narratives and their relationship to the dreaming group and the larger world, including the Jung Society.  The size of the Matrix contributes to its transpersonal, universal quality; thus, this workshop welcomes larger numbers of participants.  Limit of 30.

Carol Lark works clinically and expressively with adults, couples, and groups in independent practice at The Art Therapy Center.  She holds a doctorate in Applied Psychology and Art Therapy from The Union Institute, and teaches for SIU-Edwardsville, St. Mary of the Woods College, IN, and GWB School of Social Work, St. Louis.  She has convened the Social Dream Matrix in a variety of settings, including Missouri Art Therapy Association, the Toronto Centre for Psycho-drama and Sociometry, and in a variety of teaching settings. 

Deborah Stutsman is a Board Certified, Regis-tered Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor who works in private practice, and contracts as art therapist for the Program for Psychology and Religion, an intensive treatment program for Religious, at the St. Louis Behavioral Medicine Institute. She serves as the current President of the Board of the C.G. Jung Society of Saint Louis.  She holds a masters degree in Art Therapy from SIU-Edwardsville, and is a practicing artist. 

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TWO SPECIAL LECTURE EVENTS

The Spiral Journey:
Images of Remedios Varo’s Journey Toward Wholeness

Presented by Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.B.A., M.I.M.
Friday, November 5, 7:30 – 9:00 P.M.

First Congregational Church UCC 
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Fee for each event:
Friends/Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15

This lecture explores the archetypal images of the extraordinary artist, Remedios Varo, who painted her story of individuation.  Her work reveals a uniquely feminine perspective of the alchemical process of transformation.  Varo was trained in classical and surrealist art, but her magical images are wholly unique.  They reflect her deep rapport with the archetypal world which she expresses with the detail of a medieval miniature and the sensibility of a woman attuned to a profound understanding of the soul.

Remedios Varo’s extraordinary visual document of her psychological journey even includes a painting entitled Leaving the Psychoanalyst’s Office, which shows the initials FJA for Freud, Jung and Adler inscribed on the office door’s bronze plaque.

 Breaking of the Vessels: 
Destruction & Creation In the Art of Anselm Kiefer;
Art, Alchemy & Terrorism 

Presented by Mary Wells Barron, M.A., M.B.A., M.I.M.
Saturday, November 6, 11:00 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.

First Congregational Church UCC 
6501 Wydown Boulevard
Fee for each event:
Friends/Early Registrants, $10
All others, $15

The contemporary German artist Anselm Kiefer ranks as one of the greatest artists of our century.  Kiefer’s art is not about alchemy; it is alchemical, for it gives us images that can transform consciousness.  This lecture will explore numerous Kiefer paintings as well as his masterpiece, the extraordinary sculpture Breaking of the Vessels, the title of which refers to the creation story of Jewish mystical tradition found in the Kabbalah. 

Kiefer’s work can be said to dismember and recreate the myths of western civilization in physical form so that they may be reborn and renewed in our cultural consciousness.  He invites us to wrestle with the “terror of history” and with ou