Binding Connections from the President
Ginette Paris, page 10
Welcome to our latest edition of Jung
Our upcoming programme also has a
Downunder. This second half of 2008 is
focus on the work of Marion Woodman,
a busy time for us in the Jung Society.
Kathleen McPhillips is offering a reading
Alongside our regular monthly meetings we
group following an enthusiastic response
have a reading group, a workshop and the
to the talk she gave us in February which
Annual Christmas Party to look forward to. I
explored Woodman’s work. In October Joan
do hope that you will be attending many of
Harcourt, a BodySoul Rhythms practitioner
our events and participating in the ongoing
who has trained with Woodman, speaks on
dialogues of our community.
the archetype of the Crone, and presents an
Anne di Lauro opens her book review of Ginette Paris’s Wisdom of the Psyche with a
Addressing Climate Change, page 14
Psyche and the City, page 26
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BodySoul Rhythms, page 24
accompanying BodySoul Rhythms workshop, "Becoming Crones".
quote by the author: "The future of depth
Our third theme concerns love and
psychology is concerned [with raising] the fever
relationships. In August Judith Pickering
of imagination, to amplify the loving connection
discusses a relational approach to individ-
that binds us to the world." We begin and
uation, the theme of her recently released
finish our programme with events whose
book, Being in Love: Therapeutic Pathways
focus resonates with this concern. In July
Through Obstacles to Love. The following month
Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and myself
Bo Robertson presents a Cinema and Psyche
will address some responses and reactions
event entitled "Myths to Live By: Pygmalion as
to global climate change in a panel entitled
a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy".
"Depth Psychology meets Climate Change:
This will explore mentor/teacher expectations,
Weaving Threads between Self and World".
illustrated by movies including Pygmalion and
My article "An Elemental Imbalance" in this
Educating Rita.
issue acts as an introduction to this evening.
In keeping with tradition we conclude
In November we hear from Craig San Roque
our year with the Annual Christmas Party.
on "The Inner City of Sydney", who shows
We are going Spanish this year at Capitan
Erica Cordell’s photos and reads excerpts
Torres Restaurant. I do hope you’ll join us for
from the chapter he has been invited to
passionate discussions and tempting tapas,
write for Thomas Singer’s upcoming book
after Craig San Roque’s talk on November 8.
Psyche and City:The Soul’s Guide to the Modern
My thanks to Tim Hartridge for once again
Metropolis.
designing and producing a beautiful edition
C.G.Jung Society of Sydney
News
of Jung Downunder. His talent, skill
Yolanda and Lesley Hamlyn have
Library
and inspiration are most generously
particularly focused on promoting
There is a collection of books, journals
given for the benefit of the Jung
us to the clinical community, while
and tapes available for members
Society. Thanks also are due to Lucy
June Reynolds does an excellent job
of the CG Jung Society to borrow.
Davey and Jon Marshall for their fine
of liaising with the general public.
Borrowers are permitted two books
editing and proofreading. Sally Gillespie, President
An enormous amount of work
and two tapes, for a two month
has been done by Monica Roman
loan period. Renewals are possible
and Marcel Abarca to order our
if borrowers contact the Librarian,
FRom the Committee
financial affairs and records up to
Lucy Davey (Ph. 9572 7210), or the
Each year brings changes to our
a professional standard. Our books
Honorarium, Lenore Kulakauskas.
Committee. This year we farewelled
have never looked so good. Bo
It is important that borrowed
Peter Mann, Technical Officer and
Robertson is busy promoting our
items are returned in reasonable
Louise Fanning, Special Projects
advertising while our bookstall is
time – the following warning note
Officer, both of whom resigned in
well-stocked with many of the latest
was suggested by a member of the
order to allow more time for their
imported Jungian-related titles as well
Society.
own creative projects. We are very
as second-hand titles thanks to the
grateful to them for their generous
informed buying of Jon Marshall.
contributions to the Jung Society.
Our Honorarium, Lenore
At the same time we welcomed
Kulakauskas, works tirelessly to see
Tori Collins and Yolanda Waldman
that all the administrative wheels
into our ranks. Tori has taken on the
keep turning while coming up
maintenance of our website, while
with many innovations to promote
Yolanda is assisting Lucy Davey in
and enhance the work of the Jung
the library. Their fresh energy and
Society. It’s a privilege and a delight
enthusiasm boost us all.
to be the President of such a talented,
Tim Hartridge has lifted our profile
committed and generous Executive
enormously with his beautiful graphic
Committee. On behalf of the Jung
design work on the Jung Downunder
Society I thank them all for their
newsletter and our website, making it
great work.
very easy for us to promote ourselves
Sally Gillespie
through our various networks.
For those that Steal a Book from this Library:
Let it change into a serpent in their hand and rend them. Let them be struck by palsy and all their members blasted. Let them languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease for their agony until they sink to dissolution. Let book-worms gnaw their entrails in token of the worm that dieth not. And when at last they go to their final punishment: Let the flames of hell consume them forever and aye.
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WEAVING VOICES “We have come to know the gods as disease... Now we are seeing the repressed gods return as natural disasters on a global scale.”
An
Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring 75
Elemental
We see it in the news everyday: the elements of nature out of balance. Drought, hurricanes, bushfires and floods, alarming images which illustrate the escalating scientific evidence that human activities are producing climate change.
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How we live is disordering our
and unfettered travel. In his book Heat,
environment, and nature is reflecting
George Monbiot writes that it takes a
back to us our own imbalances. The
different kind of consciousness from
question we now face is how to take
our contemporary sensibility, if we are
the necessar y actions to respond
to fight for the austerity and greater
to a situation that is so hard to truly
regulations that are clearly required
acknowledge and accept. We both want
of us to avoid disaster. One of the great
to know and don’t want to know, as it
challenges to modern consciousness is
becomes apparent how much change is
to embrace the value of limits.
required of us. We are confronted by the
Jung often lamented the separation of
knowledge that we need to challenge
modern consciousness from nature, and
the vested powers of corporations and
the symbolic meanings once found there.
governments, as well as confronting
“Thunder is no longer the voice of a god
a demanding ego in ourselves. We
nor is lightning his avenging missile. No
want to cling to present perceived
river contains a spirit, no tree means a
entitlements such as cheap electricity
man’s life...” Jung, Collected Works 18::§585
Imbalance
by Sally Gillespie
Yet in facing our current environmental
almost pathological anxiety, if the fatally
situation, there is a growing response
easy abuse of their power is to be avoided.”
of fear and guilt that resonates with an
(Jung, CW 18:§1367)
instinctual feeling that there are indeed
The personal and collective initiation
spirits in nature who are disturbed and
process that lies ahead will be gruelling
angry. Our hubris is all too apparent,
as we face worldwide food shortages,
while what to do about it is hotly
energy restrictions, rising outbreaks of
debated. A regression to pre-industrial
“
ways of behaving and thinking is not possible. Maturity and consciousness are called for, and a rite of passage
Maturity and consciousness are called for, and a rite of passage needed, one that will take us from a juvenile narcissism...
needed, one that will take us from a
disease, species extinctions and other
juvenile narcissism and grandiosity to a
ef fects of rapidly changing climatic
position of responsibility and restraint,
patterns. Many lives are at stake, and
as we acknowledge both the natural
while af fluence cushions wester n
ecosystems and the human communities
industrialized nations, we also bear
upon which we depend.
greater responsibility for creating
“The still infantile man of today has
global environmental imbalance.
had means of destruction put into his
What we see happening ‘over there’ in
hands which require an immeasurably
the desertification of Africa or the air
enhanced sense of responsibility, or an
pollution of China, is a consequence
”
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Imbalance Elemental
An
of our lifestyles here. How we respond
of balance with the other elements
to this knowledge both defines us and
devours with its burning energy and its
determines our future. Consumer
increasing demand for more resources.
choices become more complicated
The candle burns at both ends, creating
with increased awareness. I watch
a way of life that pivots on growth and
my own conflicting desires as I learn
overheated economies, while self and
more about the carbon emissions of
meaning are consumed in the drives of
my travel, my heating, my groceries.
ambition.
I see myself slowly moving from being
Externally the over use of fire in
environmentally aware as a willed act
high energy-consuming lifestyles is
of sacrifice, to making a necessary and
creating a hothouse of higher global
heartfelt choice.
temperatures, with increasing bushfires
Facing the disorder of the elements of
and droughts. Internally a conflagration
nature requires an internal accounting
of imperatives fuels activity that creates
of my own imbalances. The disasters of
inner emotional deserts. We need to
fire, air, earth and water in today’s world
become conscious of both the fiery gods
mirror the disorders of these elemental
that power us on in search of greater
forces within myself and others. The
economic growth and achievement,
outer reflects the inner, or as Jung
and the fire muses that inspire us to
suggests more graphically, the demons
create sustaining meaning and purpose.
of nature are playing unconscious havoc
Less devotion to competitive Mars,
in response to our denial of them in
and more attendance to the hearth of
outer reality:
Hestia, support the cultivation of a fire
“The demonism of nature, which man
that centres earthy life, where stories
had apparently triumphed over, he has
and visions can be shared to guide a
unwittingly swallowed into himself
sustainable life on earth.
and so become the devil’s marionette.” Jung, CW 18:§1365
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Air fans fire. Contemporar y life is a whirlwind of air spirits with its
The fire spirit kindles passion, warms
frenetic digital communications and
the heart and lightens the way. But
the exponential growth of airline
a fire demon who is over-fed and out
travel. Along with the war ming
temperatures encircling the globe,
of us at this time are confronted with
there is the overheated air of constant
developing a global consciousness and
chatter swirling around us and within
finding a way to individually live within
us. Hurricanes act as a vent to release
this awareness.
the build up of hot air. They are on
Relationship to earth is pivotal to the
the rise in the world, while internally
way the energies of fire and air play
we experience storms of anxiety and
out. Being caught in the airy realms,
restlessness as mental activity becomes
disconnected from earthy life, whips up
overcharged.
a dust storm; becoming embroiled in
Alongside the chatter, the media
a firestorm of ambitions burns out the
delivers the confronting ecological
land. The fate of the earth needs to be
truths of our interconnectedness. We are
“
learning that warmer air temperatures af fect ever y aspect of life on earth, from desertification and the spread
Air fans fire. Contemporary life is a whirlwind of air spirits with its frenetic digital communications....
”
of diseases to dying ocean reefs and
seen, her voice heard. Earth struggles
species extinctions. On a collective level
with an avalanche of material desires
we are experiencing what the astronauts
driven by the demands of the fire and air
first saw when they rocketed into the
dragons: exotic holidays, the speediest of
sky and turned back to view Earth – the
technologies, the most powerful of cars.
beauty, fragility and unity of the planet
Being ordinary, having humility, learning
where we live. Consciously engaging
patience are earthy experiences that are
the airy realm can give perspective. We
shunned in today’s world. The earth gods
need far-seeing intellect and thought
protest through an avalanche of fatigue
to help us face the times we are in.
and body complaints, and the heavy
The challenge is to claim the time and
demons of depression can shut us out of
space to think, and to risk seeing the
the circus of the world. Neither the Earth
immensity of the picture of our current
nor our being can sustain the onslaught
situation. It can be overwhelming and,
of activities that contemporar y life
as with the astronauts, it can radically
demands in order to be 24/7 productive
re-order our values and ideals. All
and performing. Sustainability requires
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Imbalance Elemental
An
cycles, seasons – inbuilt constraints with
“The facts of nature cannot in the
their balancing periods of inactivity and
long run be violated. Penetrating and
non-achievement in order to thrive. Our
seeping through everything like water,
earthy work is to redeem these restful
they will undermine any system that
spirits from their place of banishment
fails to account for them, and sooner or
and shame.
later they will bring about its downfall.”
Rich fertile earth is fed by compost, manure and other rotting detritus.
We in the developed world are living a
Humus is the root word for humility
lifestyle fuelled by the hubris of Icarus
and humbleness. What makes good
– and our wings are beginning to melt
soil also nourishes the soul. Reducing
as we approach the heat of the Sun.
ego’s demands for more possessions,
The flight of Icarus ends in the sea. On
achievements and experiences,
planet Earth inundation looms as ice
enriches the ground of our being.
caps thaw, ocean levels rise and storms
The earth gods require us to shed old
increase. Our contemporary images of
images, structures, beliefs, positions
the ocean dramatically alert us to the
and identities to be more vital. The
consequences of our heroic ambitions.
autumnal season of loss and the winter
In the realms of the unconscious, in our
period of dormancy ensure future crops.
own depths, there is a terror in each
Seeking security through constant
of us as we witness the destruction of
growth and productivity stimulated
precious habitat. We feel helpless before
by artificial means ensures collapse
the tsunami of catastrophic news: floods,
ahead in humans and ecosystems
rising sea temperatures, desertification,
alike. True earthy security is based
increasing salinity. Scenes of drought and
on an understanding and acceptance
flood affect us deeply on an instinctual
of the necessity for restraints and
level. Their disturbing images find their
constraints, for the way we must match
way into our dream life, with their many
needs to resources. Earth knows there
resonances of aridity and thirst, their
are limits and we feel secure when we
capacity to drown and overwhelm.
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Jung CW 16:§227
live within them.
Our waters are deeply stirred by the most potent of emotions. How we
relate to what lies in the unconscious is
change of government in Australia
crucial for us personally and collectively.
that has strengthened the Kyoto
We can be flooded by denial and turn to
Treaty. Here in Sydney, as individuals
all kinds of addictive behaviours, or we
turn off taps, water consumption has
can acknowledge our deepest terrors
been reduced to 1970's levels. We are
and thirsts, and transform destructive
learning that individual actions, carried
behaviours into life-sustaining ones. The
out collectively, turn tides.
watery realm connects us to the life of
There are many polarities to hold in
the unconscious, the place of dreams,
facing climate change: individual need
reverie, imagination and contemplation.
and collective good, present desires
We can go to the waters for healing and
and future livelihood, personal actions
rebirth but to do so requires a surrender
and global outcomes, destr uctive
of ego.
impulses and creative urges. There
“The tempo of the development of
is ample opportunity in the current
consciousness through science and
situation to follow Jung’s urgings to
technology was too rapid, and left the
hold the tension of the opposites in
unconscious, which could no longer keep
order to widen consciousness, and the
up with it, far behind, thus forcing it
possibilities that go with this. To change
into a defensive position which expresses
the world out there we need to change
itself in a universal will to destruction.”
consciousness, to find a sustaining and
Jung, CW 9i:§617
sustainable way of being. Restoring the
It is ver y easy to feel swamped by
natural elemental energies of fire, earth,
the daily flood of information about
air and water into consciousness is one
climate change and become paralysed
way to relate to and reconcile ourselves
in response. Collectively we need to
with the environmental reality of the
meet at the river and draw on the power
world.
of water to feel how small movements change currents. The tidal wave of action and awareness that swept the world in 2007 as individuals flocked to An Inconvenient Truth, fed into a
References: C.G. Jung, Collected Works (Routledge, Kegan & Paul, London) George Monbiot, Heat (Allen Lane, London, 2006) Meredith Sabini ‘Temple to Gravity’, Spring75 [“Nature and Psyche”] (2006):139-153
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Wisdom Of The Ginette Paris author of Wisdom of the Psyche: Depth Psychology after Neuroscience. London and New York, Routledge.
The Wisdom of the Psyche is
through the imaginal. Like Hillman, her
both a personal story and a manifesto,
approach is lively and polemical as she
written after the author’s descent into
pulls apart modern psychotherapeutic
a deep hole – an empty swimming pool
dogma, putting into question all of the
into which she fell on her head – and her
myths about therapy that therapists of
return to the upper world with the aid
any persuasion might hold dear. Her
of neuroscience and “the Great Mother’s
ideas are underpinned by feminism
milk of compassion”. It is informed by
and Existentialism, particularly Sartre’s
her encounter with death which taught
dictum “We are condemned to freedom”.
her, she says, more about the psyche
She writes: “[T]o develop psychological
than had many years of analysis.
wisdom we must learn, early on, that even
Her voice, though, has not changed from the one we hear in her books
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the most loving relationship cannot spare us the solitude of human destiny.”
Pagan Grace and Pagan Meditations.
She begins by engaging with current
She is the same original, provocative,
models of psychotherapy—the medical
bold, poetic, insightful and incisive
model (the promise of healing), the
writer whom we know from her writings
economic model (multiplying one’s
on myths in everyday life. But this book
psychological investments), the judicial
is more personal and courageous as it
model (negotiating one’s psychic
takes a trenchant look at attitudes and
territory, e.g. jockeying for the role of
issues in the practice of psychotherapy,
victim), and the religious model (the
enlivened by case material and accounts
hope of redemption). None of these
from the author’s own life.
models, she concludes, addresses
Firmly rooted in depth and archetypal
the passionate, irrational, Dionysian
psychology, which she teaches at
aspect of psychological life. She sees
Pacifica Graduate Institute at Santa
the practice of depth psychology as a
Barbara, California, Paris is particularly
celebration of psychological life. It is
influenced by James Hillman and his
depth psychology that teaches us to
work on the renaissance of psychology
dance with the psyche.
BOOK REVIEW
he Psyche
by Ginette Paris Reviewed by Anne Di Lauro
Of the rejected models, the one that
a theory, she asserts, “is a deep thinking
comes closest to the bone for many of
about the life of the psyche and, as such,
us, I imagine, is the myth of therapy as
belongs to the arts and the humanities.”
redemption, analysis as the redemptive
As a practice it belongs to mythology
quest masquerading as individuation,
– a narrative evoking the complexities
“the belief that analysing the unconscious
of human life. Like literature, depth
will lead to a clean, pure, healthy psyche
psychology transmutes the psyche’s
and that one will evolve into a luminous,
story, changing the myth and elevating
loving, dignified, pacified soul.” While
the psyche from shame.
the spiritual need is real, attributing
A work containing such a profusion of
a quasi-divinity to the Self brings the
insights and bold assertions, impossible
danger of inflation. For her, Jung’s
to even hint at in this short space, will
notion of the Self as an ideal centre, a
sometimes surprise, will sometimes
dream of totality, was literally turned on
bring nods of agreement, and will
its head in the aftermath of her accident,
at times jar, requiring readers to re-
when she learned to live out of liminal
examine and revise or reaffirm their
spaces rather than aspiring to live from
own values.
a notional centre.
As we learn, Ginette Paris emerged
As to the future of depth psychology,
from her descent with a new myth of
she urges us to “drop the medical
her own, the springtime thawing of her
pretence”. “Analysis is not so much a
heart that had been frozen in childhood
cure as an education, like learning a
for lack of warm mothering.
new language, a philosophical adventure
In this book, she has combined the
in self-discovery, an art of living more
compassion of the Mother and the
lucidly and intensely.”
rigour of the Father with her new-
The stress by Freud and Jung on the
found sense of the absurdity of life, and
medical scientific basis of their work
produced a Dionysian dance of fresh
was necessary in the beginning, but it
and challenging ideas.
no longer serves. Depth psychology as
"The future of depth psychology is concerned [with raising] the fever of imagination, to amplify the loving connection that binds us to the world." page 240, Wisdom of the Psyche.
Pagan Grace by Ginette Paris.
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2008 Programme July through November Saturday, July 12:
Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology: Weaving Threads between Self and World Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15 Saturday, August 9
The Cure is Effected Through Love: A Relational Approach to Individuation Judith Pickering Page 18–19 Saturday, September 13
Myths to Live By: Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy Bo Robertson Page 20–21 Saturday, October 11
The Crone:
The Archetype of the Wise Older Woman Joan Harcourt Page 22–23 WORKSHOP Sunday, October 12
Becoming Crones: A BodySoul Rhythm workshop Joan Harcourt Page 24–25 Saturday, November 8
The Inner City of Sydney Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis Craig San Roque and Erica Cordell Page 26–27 12
C.G.Jung Society of Sydney The C.G. Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote discussion of the ideas of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Each month the Society arranges Guest Speakers to present a diverse range of Jungian topics in the form of talks, workshops and special events, which can be found in the following pages. The Society is open to all members of the general public and offers a rich and varied monthly programme of speakers both Australian and international. Certificates of Attendance for professional development hours available at all events.
NEW! Tuesday Evening Reading Group STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28
The Work of Marion Woodman Kathleen McPhillips Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes in the extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman. See details and reading references. Page 16–17 For bookings phone Lenore Kulakauskas on 9365 7750 Saturday, November 8
Annual Christmas Party: Coming all together Hosted by your local C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. Page 28 www.jungdownunder.com 13
Climate Ch
meets dept
Presenters: Peter Dicker, Heather
Weaving Threads between Self and World Jung was arguably one of the first therapists to draw a link between psychology and the global concerns of humanity. He famously suggested that there
dreams, to fantasies and emotions?
was only “a thin thread� of human
How do we understand the interplay
consciousness holding the line between
between psyche and environmental
order and chaos in the world.
emergency? What role does psyche
So it is appropriate that we now use
play in supporting and/or hindering
the depth psychology of Jung to turn our
the necessar y changes to economic,
gaze upon the pressing global concern
political and social structures which are
of climate change. By doing so we
required by the growing environmental
acknowledge that this is a subject that
crisis?
excites many fantasies and perspectives: political, social and psychological.
that will be taken up by a panel of
What kind of psycho-analysis can be
presenters who in turn hope to excite
undertaken in a world that appears to be
a conversation with the audience that
heading towards biological extinction?
will reflect the many responses that this
Does the growing threat of climate
complex subject can ignite.
change require a transformation in how we understand and relate to psyche, to
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These are some of the concerns
EVENTS PROGRAMME
hange
th psychology
SATURDAY, 12 JULY 6.30pm for 7.00pm TALK Blavatsky Lodge, 484 Kent Street, Sydney
r Formaini and Sally Gillespie
Peter Dicker is a former president of the Illawarra Jung Society. He works as a psychologist in a public health clinic, south of Wollongong. Over the past two decades Peter has been exploring his interest in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology through various creative projects – lectures, essays, poetr y and musical compositions – and he continues to maintain an ongoing passion for ideas, particularly in relation to clinical and cultural matters. Peter Dicker
Sally Gillespie is a Jungian psychotherapist in private practice and the President of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney. She is the author of Living the Dream, The Book of Dreaming and co-author of The Knot of Time. Sally has experience in bush regeneration and is a passionate gardener who loves nothing better than being deep in manure in her community garden allotment. Heather Formaini is a Jungian analyst in private practice. Her theoretical
Sally Gillespie
concerns focus on gender, particularly masculinity, and she is the author of the best selling book Men: The Darker Continent. Heather was a founder member of the British organisation Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, and actively campaigns on the politics of fair trade and climate change. She also works with refugees and asylum seekers. In her previous life she was a broadcaster with the BBC and ABC, specialising in the borderline between politics and religion.
Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20
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Marion Convenor: Kathleen McPhillips This group will explore over 6
couple of readings each week.
sessions some of the central themes in
Kathleen McPhillips is a senior
the extensive work of Canadian Jungian
lecturer in Humanities at the University
analyst Marion Woodman. Themes
of Wester n Sydney. She has been
will include: addiction and its causes;
reading the work of Marion Woodman
healing the split feminine; leaving the
for 25 years, and recently attended a
father’s house; conscious femininity;
BodySoul Rhythm workshop in Italy.
working with dreams and fairytales; the
Kathleen’s field of research includes
BodySoul Rhythm program. Readings
gender, culture and religion. She has
will be provided, with the aim to cover a
published extensively in these areas.
RECOMMENDED READING: Addiction to Perfection: The
Leaving My Father’s House
Still Unravished Bride
Shambala Press 1992
Inner City, Books Toronto 1982
Conscious Femininity
The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of
Inner City Books Toronto 1993
Psychological Transformation
Bone – Dying into Life
Inner City Books, Toronto 1985
Viking Press 2000
The Ravaged Bridegroom 16
Books by Marion Woodman
Inner City Books Toronto 1990
EVENTS PROGRAMME TUESDAYS, AUGUST TO OCTOBER 7.00pm READING GROUP
Woodman Reading Group
Darghan Street Psychotherapy Practice, 6 Darghan Street Glebe
EVENT details: 6 SESSIONS DATES: Tuesday, 5th August; Tuesday, 19 August; Tuesday, 9 September; Tuesday, 16 September; Tuesday, 7 October; Tuesday, 28 October. Time:
7.00–9.00pm
PLACE: Darghan Street Psychotherapy Practice, 6 Darghan Street Glebe. BOOKINGS: Lenore Kulakauskas Tel: 9365 7750 • Email: lenorek@bigpond.com Cost: Members: $150 • Member’s Concession: $130 • Non- members: $180
Kathleen McPhillips
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The Cure is Effect A Relational Approach to Speaker: Judith Pickering
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At the core of analysis is a
love is much richer, more exciting and
profoundly transformative relationship:
fulfilling than any fantasy relationship we
“For two personalities to meet is like two
concoct in our limited imaginations.
dif ferent chemical substances: if there
Becoming who we are is a becoming
is any combination at all, both are
in and through love. We uncover
transformed� (Jung, CW 15:§163).
our truest nature, and become most
Yet the shadow of individuation
authentically r eal, thr ough the
can be a rigid if not frigid form of
difficult and fearful, yet transformative
individualism. This talk re-envisions
intersubjective crucibles of our intimate
individuation as about healing the false
relationships. Relationships may be
disseverations and divisions we have
notoriously confusing, full of the pain of
created between ourselves and others:
disappointed expectations, disillusioned
by opening ourselves out to the world
fantasies, misunderstandings, and
of others through genuine altruistic
mutual projections and identifications,
appreciation of others as they are, rather
but they also have the potential for us
than expecting them to conform to our
to liberate each other from the defensive
fantasies and expectations; by delighting
doldrums of depressed torpidity, into
in, not fearing our differences; and by
new realms of discover y of who we
welcoming the unpredictability of a
might be and become under all the
real relationship rather than continually
deceits and disguises.
trying to control the agenda. Authentic
tedIndividuation Through Love
EVENTS PROGRAMME SATURDAY, 9 AUGUST 6.30pm for 7.00pm TALK Blavatsky Lodge, 484 Kent Street, Sydney
“We only become ourselves with people and for people ... the self is like a crowd, therefore being oneself, one is also many ... one can only individuate with or against something or somebody.” – Carl Jung The path of tr ue love does not
a malignant dowry, defensive patterns of
always run smoothly, but goes of f-
relating based on traumatic childhood
course with alarming regularity. Its
experience which we superimpose
achievement is never once and for all,
upon a new relationship, giving rise
but requires continual renewal, and
to entangled unconscious interlocking
is dependent upon how well any two
scenes. Here both individual analysis
lovers can understand, work through
and couple therapy can inspire and
and disentangle the webs of mutual
enhance the capacity to love well and to
projections and false imputations
become fully ourselves in a process of
imposed upon each other. We bring, like
transformation in love.
Judith Pickering, PhD, is a psychoanalytic couple therapist, Jungian analyst and psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in East Sydney. She is a member of The Australian and New Zealand Association of Jungian Analysts and the International Association for Analytical Psychology, and a senior supervisor on the training faculty of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Psychotherapy. She holds qualifications in Humanities, Asian
Judith Pickering
Studies, Musicology, Music Education, Psychotherapy, Analytical Psychology and Psychology, lecturing in the area of couple therapy and psychoanalysis. Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15
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Myths to Live Pygmalion as a Modern Concept of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Speaker: Bo Robertson Is magic a matter of fiction or religious beliefs only? Can miracles be rationally explained? Can a marble statue be brought to life? If so, how could such a feat be accomplished?
Bo Robertson
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In ancient Greece archetypal
The archetypal patterns displayed
psychological processes were captured
in these myths are still of interest
and depicted in the form of myths. These
to moder n psychology. Thus the
stories taught the principles of living,
“Pygmalion Effect” is clearly illustrated
by showing how specific, co-dependent
by research which shows that a teacher’s
processes of thought, emotion and
anticipation of a student’s performance
reflection become drivers of both
is almost always proved correct (for
constructive and destructive human
good or ill), regardless of the subjects’
actions. One such tale concerns the
initial ability.
sculptor Pygmalion who, despising all
This talk will explore the twin aspects
real women, fell in love with Aphrodite,
of the “Pygmalion Effect” and show how
made a statue of her and laid it in his
biased (positive or negative) expectations
bed. He deeply hoped and prayed that
can change reality as if by “magic”. We
it would come to life and become his
shall discuss the specific emotional
wife and, eventually, Aphrodite granted
states which must be in place to effect
his wish.
change and which separate superficial
EVENTS PROGRAMME
o e by
SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 6.30pm for 7.00pm TALK Blavatsky Lodge, 484 Kent Street, Sydney
desires" from those feelings with roots
The King And I, A Star Is Born, Born
in our heart of hearts. This exploration
Yesterday to give an idea of the richness
will be illustrated by excerpts from films
of the modern versions of the myth and
and plays such as Pygmalion, My Fair
their illustration of our psychology and
Lady, A Winter’s Tale, Educating Rita,
actions.
Bo Robertson, M.Lib.Sc., Dip.Cl.Hyp., JP, is a passionate Emotional Intelligence and Personal Development Trainer and coach, specialising in the study of mind-body connection, Psychocybernetics, the knowledge of human archetypes, motives underlying decisions, and why people do what they do. Bo studied Psychocybernetics in Europe with Professor Marian Mazur, whose book The ABC of Character: the Elementary Guide to Human Potential Bo has translated into English and published. She is currently writing a book on Emotional Intelligence and its dynamic archetypes. Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15
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The Cron
The Arche
Women facing the challenges of
inspiring teachings of noted Jungian
change, physical limitation, loss and
Analyst, Marion Woodman, my own
invisibility that can occur in their later
experiences as a par ticipant in her
years, find the journey to becoming
workshops, and myths and stories
a Crone, a wise elder, is rich and
of older women, we will look at the
meaningful.
thresholds and tasks of this journey
We will discuss the Crone attributes, which can be found in both men and women, and explore the gifts and tasks of conscious aging. Drawing upon the 22
towards wisdom, wholeness and truth, to wearing the “Crown of Age�.
ne
EVENTS PROGRAMME SATURDAY, 11 OCTOBER 6.30pm for 7.00pm TALK Blavatsky Lodge, 484 Kent Street, Sydney
etype of the Wise Older Woman Speaker: Joan Harcourt
Joan Harcourt has participated
small team of leaders assisting Marion
in BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and
and Ross Woodman in a BodySoul
seminars for 8 years with Marion
Program in Hawaii.
Wo o d m a n , M a r y H a m i l t o n a n d
She has co-led dream groups and
Ann Skinner. She has completed
cross-cultural groups. Currently she is
the European BodySoul Rhythms
leading Crone groups. She has trained
Leadership Training Program with the
in analytical group work, gestalt therapy
Marion Woodman Foundation.
and has a private practice as a body
In Februar y 2007 Joan was one of a
psychotherapist in Cambridge.
Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20
Marion Woodman
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Becoming Cr Presenter: Joan Harcourt
A BodySoul Rhythm
The aim of this workshop is to
Our exploration will be through
facilitate opportunities to explore the
meditation, discussion, dream work,
developmental tasks and experience of
music, poetry, movement, play, dance
aging: the losses, limitations and gifts
and art work. This way of working has
for those in the third phase of their
been devised by Marion Woodman
lives. We will explore what gives us
and her BodySoul Rhythm team to
energy, what we value now, what ties us
integrate mind and body wisdom, using
to past patterns which no longer serve
our creative imagination to bridge and
us, what we wish to relinquish, and what
integrate different ways of knowing.
we wish to bring into the future. What is our dream? What steps do we need to 24
take towards manifesting this?
EVENTS PROGRAMME SUNDAY, 12 OCTOBER TIME: 10am – 4.30pm WORKSHOP VENUE: The Centre, 14 Frances St.,
rones
Randwick
workshop
Currently Joan Harcourt is involved in leading groups exploring the Crone archetype. After participating in the BodySoul Rhythm Intensives and seminars with Marion Woodman, Mary Hamilton and Ann Skinner, Joan was one of a small team of leaders in 2007 at a BodySoul Program in Hawaii led by Marion and Ross Woodman. The workshop is educational, not therapeutic. Please wear comfortable clothing. BOOKING DETAILS: Date: Sunday, October 12
Joan Harcourt
Time: 10am – 4.30pm VENUE: The Centre, 14 Frances St., Randwick Workshop fees: $130 Members, $110 Member’s Concession, $170 Non-Members Bookings: Lenore Kulakauskas, Tel: 9365 7750 Email: lenorek@bigpond.com
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PSYCHE AND THE CITY: A SOUL’S GUIDE TO THE
o
The
Inner City Spring Journal Books with
compositions... Stay close to what you
Thomas Singer of the San Francisco
each know inside about the cities you
Jung Institute have commissioned
inhabit – with the understanding that
Craig to write a chapter about Sydney
what is soulful and meaningful to
for a book, on great cities of the world,
you may, or may not, be the same for
with the working title of Psyche and
everyone else."
The City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern
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Why did Tom think Sydney was worth
Metropolis.
a chapter? Is Sydney a great city? Or is
Tom Singer asked in his commission,
it maybe a city becoming great? Is it a
"What makes different cities unique
place with soul, or with a poetry of place?
in terms of qualities of psyche, soul,
What would you write or photograph for
and spirit? What archetypal patterns
such a book? How might you enhance
characterize a city? How does the
the imaginative vitality of the places
history, geography, and psyche of a
close to you?
city’s past and current inhabitants
Sydney is a city of villages – a setting
unite to create each city’s own special
for crime, money, novels, paintings,
identity – both its positive aspects and
documentaries, and films – but nowhere
its shadow qualities?
as beloved of culture as Paris, Vienna
"These questions can be addressed
or New York have become. These cities
in myriad ways – through personal
are sets for major movements in the
anecdote as well through descriptions
imaginative life of the world. And yet
and depth psychological analyses
here we are.... So thank you Tom, it’s a
of a city’s collective histor y, local
great idea, we will think about this.
geography, and ethnic and religious
Craig will read evocative pieces written
EVENTS PROGRAMME
MODERN METROPOLIS
SATURDAY, 8 NOVEMBER
ofSydney
y
Speakers: Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell
6.30pm for 7.00pm TALK Blavatsky Lodge 484 Kent St, Sydney Stay on after this talk for our annual CHRISTMAS PARTY! Details over page
for the Singer book, accompanied by
the Harbour, and Dante’s Nest. Come
Erica Cordell’s gritty photography and
– enjoy yourself and muse about your
pavement rubbings, which illustrate
personal inner city...
many layered, wr yly symbolic, and
“The place where cultural experience is
graphic actions, all beneath our walking
located is in the potential space between
feet. Craig’s pieces include Darwin’s
the individual and the environment...”
Walk, The Room in the East Sydney
D.W. Winnicott
Hotel, Charlie Wong Detective, The Man from Belarus, The Two Women Under
Craig San Roque, a Jungian analyst working in Sydney, has a distinctive angle on Australian issues. His publications are attracting international attention. Last year he presented the mysterious Dr Wong Stories, part of a collaboration with renowned eco-philosopher Freya Mathews, on revisioning Tao. This year his theme is “imaginative attention to the city – the place where
Craig San Roque
we live”. Erica Cordell is a Sydney/Redfern photographer artist with a lovingly wr y eye for unnoticed pavements and forgotten historic artefacts in old Sydney. Her family has lived here since the Second Fleet. Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15
‘Style A’ by Erica Cordell
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EVENTS PROGRAMME SATURDAY, 8 November 8.30pm til late Following TALK Christmas Party!
You're Invited! Come and join our end-of-year celebration and Christmas Party. Be tempted to feast on Spanish delicacies – Paella Valenciana, seafood platter, salad, empanadas and much more! Enjoy this special evening in a private banquet room, with a mouthwatering menu, congenial company and lively conversation. A night not to be missed!
Christmas Party INVITATION
VENUE: Capitan Torres Restaurant, 73 Liverpool Street, Sydney 28
Members $15, Non-Members $30
PRACTICAL EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE WORKSHOP Could emotional control skills improve your relationships with family, partners or work colleagues? Give yourself a boost of self-confidence, poise, security and assertiveness by acquiring Practical Emotional Intelligence skills: • learn to manage intense, overwhelming, difficult to control emotions • give yourself an emotional facelift • emotional first aid in a crisis • negative emotions detox techniques • heal some emotional scars We may not be able to predict our feelings for every situation but we can certainly learn to manage our emotions in almost any circumstances. The Practical Emotional Intelligence Skills workshop offers new possibilities to stay cool, calm, collected and confident in life’s most trying moments. Contact: Bo Robertson M.Lib.Sc.,Dip.Cl.Hyp.,JP, Emotional Intelligence Trainer & Coach T. 0404 565 388
ANZAP SATURDAY MORNING SEMINARS at the Australian Museum, College Street Sydney THE UNETHICAL HYPOTHETICAL – AUGUST 2ND
Following the success of the Hypothetical this year, this seminar will use the same format to look at the connection between psychotherapy and the law.
THE ANALYST, THE SEX, THE PATIENT, THE BRAIN – SEPTEMBER 13TH Well-known American therapists, Herb Rabin and Judith Rustin, will be here to present two intriguing papers. Judith will give a talk on Neuroscience and Psychoanalysis, while Herb will inform us about The Analyst’s Loving and Sexual Feelings for One’s Patient.
PSYCHOTHERAPY GOES TO THE MOVIES – OCTOBER 18TH Psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and movie-buff, Professor Carolyn Quadrio, will take us on a journey about the presentation of therapy and therapists in film.
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History & Aims The C.G.Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote the ideas of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). The Society is open to all members of the general public, and offers a rich and varied programme of monthly talks and seminars from Australian and international guest speakers. In addition the Society provides a dedicated research and reference library.
Membership Annual Membership entitles you to: • Discounts at all our monthly Talks and Lectures • Borrow from our Library, which includes books, journals, audio tapes, cds, dvds & videos • Generous discounted prices at our bookshop • Special member discounts for workshops and other activities • 10% discount on Jungian books from Pheonix Rising Booksellers, Glebe • You also receive a mailed copy of Jung Downunder newsletter & monthly updates via email.
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Saturday, July 12:
Sunday, October 12
Climate Change Meets Depth Psychology:
WORKSHOP
Weaving Threads between Self and World
Becoming Crones:
Peter Dicker, Heather Formaini
A BodySoul Rhythm workshop
and Sally Gillespie Page 14–15
Joan Harcourt Page 24–25
Saturday, August 9
Saturday, November 8
The Cure is Effected Through Love:
The Inner City of Sydney
A Relational Approach to Individuation
Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern
Judith Pickering Page 18–19
Metropolis Craig San Roque & Erica Cordell Page 26–27
Saturday, September 13
Myths to Live By:
Saturday, November 8
Pygmalion as a Modern Concept
Annual Christmas Party:
of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Coming all together Page 28
Bo Robertson Page 20–21
Saturday, October 11
NEW! Tuesday Evening Reading Group
The Crone:
STARTS TUESDAY, August 5 — October 28
The Archetype Of The Wise Older Woman
The Work of Marion Woodman
Joan Harcourt Page 22–23
Kathleen McPhillips Explore over 6 sessions some of the central themes in the extensive work of Canadian Jungian analyst Marion Woodman. Page 16–17
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