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| PACIFICA AT ERANOS: THE LEGACY TOUR, August 13-22, 2008 |
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At the Psychological Club of Zürich on Wednesday, August 13
The Outer Cradle of Analytical Psychology
with Emmanuel Kennedy
Jung’s psychology originated in and through his inner being; his soul was the “inner cradle” as it were, of his psychology. Institutionalized Analytical Psychology, however, originated in and through the founding of the Psychological Club of Zürich in 1916 which became a venue for formal discussions between Jung, his students, analysands, and invited speakers. The Club was Jung’s main forum respectively the “outer cradle” of Jungian Psychology. The presentation will provide detailed information on the prehistory, early history, as well as various reminiscences of the Club.
Marie-Louise von Franz and Her Relationship to Nature
with Emmanuel Kennedy
Best known for her work with fairytales and dreams, Marie-Louise von Franz was Jung’s most brilliant and inspired disciple. During her lifetime, she made important contributions to Jung's major studies, particularly his inquiries into the psychology of medieval alchemy. With the help of photographs, pictures, dreams, and
incidents from the life of von Franz, Emmanual Kennedy will illustrate how she saw and related to outer concrete nature as well as inner nature, specifically to aggression.
Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas is a Jungian analyst living in Switzerland. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Psychology Club of Zürich and of the Foundation for Jungian Psychology. In addition, he is the Literary Executor of Marie-Louise von Franz. His father knew and worked with Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz, and was the Executive Director of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York. |
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At Einsiedeln Monastery on Thursday, August 14
Darkened Waters: Stories Around an Image of Grace
with Elena Hinshaw-Fischli
Einsiedeln as a cultic place, and its particular Black Madonna, merit a second, closer look. Why might the nature of this place be so alluring to hundreds of thousands of visitors over many centuries? It is a place where C.G. Jung lectured twice on the famous alchemist Paracelsus. Venerated by many different creeds, who else than a mother of Christ might the black "image of grace" also be? With who and what does she bring us in
connection? Through her research of historical material, critical reading, examination of sources, and long exposure to this particular image, Elena Hinshaw-Fischli will share her conclusions. We will find that they diverge considerably from the official stories that we will hear in the morning tour.
Elena Hinshaw-Fischli is a psychotherapist and dance therapist, co-founder of Daimon Press, member of the national council on sexual abuse by the clergy, and author of several documentary films. Elena has lived and worked in Einsiedeln, Switzerland for twenty years. |
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At the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich on Friday, August 15
Walking in Jung’s Footsteps
with Daniel Baumann
The C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich was founded in 1948 as an institute for training and researching analytical psychology and psychotherapy. C.G. Jung served it until his death in 1961. Sixty years later, the Institute still
focuses on training of Jungian analysts and psychotherapists as the teachings of Jung
continue to be developed and supplemented with relevant findings of current research.
Daninel Baumann will take us on a journey, visiting the Institute and other special places of historic significance.
Daniel Baumann, dipl. Arch., studied architecture at the Zürich Technical University where his great-grandfather, C.G. Jung was once a professor. Today he divides his time between his own architectural firm and leadership of the Curatorium of the C.G. Jung Institute, where he is the President of the Board of Directors. |
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At the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich on Friday, August 15
The Pictures Archive of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich
with Vicente de Moura
The C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich is the home of over 4,000 pictures created by patients of C.G. Jung. They include the visions of Christiana Morgan, the original “Ms. X,” and a woman who was a gifted painter suffering under psychotic fears. By encouraging his patients to express their psychic world in a series of paintings,
Jung launched them on a pilgrimage of archetypal encounters in a quest for psychological integration. These
images offer an unprecedented view of how Jung worked and the effect of his technique in the development of the psyche. During our visit to the Institute, Vicente de Moura will share some of these precious paintings and stories.
Vicente de Moura a is a psychologist, training Analyst, and Lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He is the Curator of the Pictures Archive at the Institute. He is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Zürich. |
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At Eranos on Monday, August 18
Eranos: A Vision and Its Enactment
with Robert Hinshaw
How did the Eranos Conferences come to be? Who was Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, and what led her to found the unique entity that came to be known as Eranos? What have been some of the significant events that took place as a result, and who were some of the 'key players'? What was Jung’s role and how was he stimulated by his experiences there? What significance have the Eranos Conferences had in the world of Jungian Psychology and elsewhere? What have its guiding principles been? This presentation will address such issues and help us to be oriented in the beautiful and historic space in which we find ourselves during the second week.
Robert Hinshaw, Ph.D. has lived and worked in Switzerland since the early 70's, when he began training at the old C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich located in the Psychology Club building and helped to run Spring Publications in its early years. The first generation Jungians were his teachers and later his authors and many became his friends. Today he is a training analyst, faculty member of the Zürich Jung Institute, and publisher of Jungian and related literature at Daimon Verlag in Einsiedeln (www.daimon.ch). He attended his first Eranos Conference in 1972, became a student member of the staff, and remained active there throughout the years. |
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At Eranos on Tuesday, August 19
Psychic Energy as Portal to Presence in Poetry and Culture
with Dennis Patrick Slattery
C.G. Jung's groundbreaking work on psychic energy opens many corridors to understanding energy fields, morphic resonance, as well as the power of metaphors in art, poetry, and culture. This talk will explore the presencing power of psychic energy when it inhabits or dwells in culture and poetry. The power of making an image, an affect, an idea present is the result of this coagulating of psychic energy. The implications of Jung's discovery in one of the most important essays he wrote, will be worked along the grooves of poetic utterance.
Dennis Patrick Slattery, Ph.D. has been teaching for 40 years. He is currently the author or co-editor of 12 volumes, including three volumes of poetry. His works include The Wounded Body: Remembering the Markings of Flesh. With Lionel Corbett, he has edited Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold. He has just published, with co-editor Glen Slater, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture (Daimon Verlag 2008). He has also edited and contributed to a forthcoming collection of essays, co-edited with Jennifer Selig, Educating with Soul. |
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At Eranos on Tuesday, August 19
Dreaming Jung’s Legacy Forward: DreamTending at Eranos
with Stephen Aizenstat
Dream workers of the 21st Century pay homage to Carl Jung by carrying his insights forward. The “heartbeat” of DreamTending, Dr. Stephen Aizenstat’s orientation to dreams, is the recognition that dream images are alive. In this morning session, he will introduce DreamTending as a system of healing—useful in working with the concerns of personal life as well as the conditions of the world soul, the anima mundi. Dr. Aizenstat will elaborate on the idea that images are alive and, at root, elemental—part of Nature’s Dreaming. In the beauteous, tradition-steeped setting of Eranos, he will invite participants to gather in dream circles where they will learn ways of experiencing dream images as living, embodied beings, engaged in their own activities and not ours alone.
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D. is the founding president of Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Dr. Aizenstat is a Clinical Psychologist, a Marriage Family Therapist, and a credentialed public schools teacher and counselor. His areas of emphasis include depth psychology, dream research, and imaginal and archetypal psychology.
Aizenstat’s original research centers on a psychodynamic process of “tending the living image,” particularly in the context of dreamwork. In 2005, he participated in the Earth Charter+5 International Workshop in Amsterdam, a United Nations project, where he continued to bring the insights of depth psychology and dreamwork to the dissemination of the Earth Charter. Stephen Aizenstat’s forthcoming book, DreamTending: Teachings for a Dream-centered Life, will be released by Spring Journal Books. |
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At Eranos on Wednesday, August 20
Mirror of the Present: The I Ching, Jung, and Eranos
with Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
“The I Ching is a formidable psychological system that endeavours to organize the play of archetypes... into a certain pattern, so that a reading becomes possibile.” C.G. Jung
The I Ching is an ancient Chinese oracle, rooted in a shamanic tradition almost four thousand years old. It exerted an important influence on C.G. Jung and particularly on his introducing the notion of synchronicity. Drawing on The Original I Ching Oracle, translated by Rudolf Ritsema and Shantena Sabbadini, this session will explore the origins and development of the I Ching oracle. However, the most effective way to come to understand this map of the "play of archetypes" is to use it as a mirror. For this, participants will be introduced to the actual practice of I Ching consultation through the use of the yarrow stalk method. There will be time in the afternoon for interested participants to explore the system in greater depth by having a hands-on
experience as was the decade long tradition of psychological use of the oracle in the Eranos Round Table Sessions.
Shantena Augusto Sabbadini (www.shantena.com) worked as a theoretical physicist at the University of Milan, Italy, and the University of California. He was involved in research on the foundations of quantum physics and in the first identification of a black hole. In the 1990's and early 2000's he helped organize the Eranos Round Table Sessions and lectured at Eranos about the I Ching, physics, and philosophy. He is associate director of the Pari Center for New Learning in Tuscany, Italy (www.paricenter.com). |
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At Eranos on Thursday, August 21
Moving Eranos Forward
with John van Praag
For more than 70 years, Eranos has provided a setting and a congenial group within which many of the world's greatest thinkers have gathered to discuss an incredible variety of important and far-ranging issues. When the Eranos Foundation resumed the Eranos conferences in 2006, it did so with deep respect for what was accomplished in the past. It developed a vision that is firmly based on the foundations of Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and all the great participants of the previous century. John van Praag, Chairman of the Foundation, will give an overview of the rebirth of Eranos against the background of its past, illustrated with the film Eranos Reborn. He will dwell especially on what must be the enduring elements of the spirit of Eranos, and what he sees as
the new requirements for an Eranos of our time.
John van Praag, a classicist from Utrecht University, has lived and worked as a businessman and entrepreneur in Europe, the United States, and Asia. Among his involvement in various charitable organizations is his role as a trustee and chairman of the Dartington Hall Trust in England. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce in the UK. He currently devotes his time to his position of Chairman of the Eranos Foundation in Ascona, Switzerland, and to other interests in international culture and spirituality. |
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At Eranos on Thursday, August 21
Depth Psychology’s Deepening Journey: From the Unconscious to Anima Mundi
with Richard Tarnas
As we trace the evolution of modern thought that brought forth depth psychology at the end of the nineteenth century, and as we follow depth psychology’s own unfolding over the past hundred years, it is not hard to see the outlines of something like a spiritual journey—a collective journey, of the Western mind and soul, affecting each of us individually, and indeed the planet as a whole. In this presentation, Richard Tarnas will explore and try to articulate some central elements in this journey, from the forging of the individual self, reflective but isolated, to a possible awakening of the human self to its embeddedness and co-creative participation in
a larger ground of meaning and purpose.
Richard Tarnas, Ph. D. has been an associate faculty member at Pacifica for the past decade, and also a professor of philosophy and cultural history at the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is the author of The Passion of the Western Mind, a history of the Western world view from the ancient Greek to the postmodern. His most recent book, Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View, received the Book of the Year Prize from the Scientific and Medical Network in Great Britain. |
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At Eranos on Friday, August 22
The Feminine Influence on the Work of C.G. Jung and Marion Woodman
with Marion Woodman
It was Marion Woodman's good fortune to begin her analytic journey in London, England with Dr. E. A. Bennet, an early friend of C.G. Jung. It was also her good fortune to analyze with Barbara Hannah and receive supervision from others of that generation, including Marie-Louise von Franz. Marion will share the uniqueness of her experiences with these extraordinary teachers—all of them Great Mother, gentle and fierce with her in
her psyche/soma struggle—and illustrate the ways in which they influenced her work in the area of psyche, soma, and dreams.
Marion Woodman, LLD, DHL, Ph. D. (Hon), is a Jungian analyst, teacher and author of numerous books. Marion has been exploring the relationship between psyche and soma through her work and teaching for 30 years. A visionary and teacher, she has developed some of Jung's ideas in an original and creative way. Marion is a founding member of the Marion Woodman Foundation, sponsor of BodySoul Rhythms Work. For more information on Marion’s work, visit www.mwoodmanfoundation.org. |
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