C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, December 13, 2002, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Workshop: Saturday, December 14, 2002, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$30 members, $40 nonmembers, $25 student/senior members, $35 student/senior nonmembers
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
Jung published Psychological Types (Collected Works Volume 6) in 1921 in German. The work has evoked a wide range of responses, including several attempts to develop tests by which a person can be "typed" as Introverted/Thinking/Sensation/Judging or Extraverted/Feeling/Intuitive/Perceptive—and so on. ("Judging" and "Perceptive" were additions by Myers and Briggs to the original scheme.) These tests have introduced Jungian thought to a much larger public than has been reached by his other works, and devout Jungians have varied widely in their estimation of this part of Jung's collective opus.
This lecture will focus upon negative aspects of each of the types, as Jung himself tended to do, asking the question: If one is, say, an Introverted Intuitive, what is the price one must pay for this fate? Hence: Ways of Being Inferior.
After a quick review of the essentials of Jung's typology, we will look at his emphasis upon the opposites and his insistence upon the inevitability of our strongest function being directly opposed to our weakest function. This workshop will be a getting down to "cases," both Dr. Jarrett's and those of participants, confessing to those more interesting but somewhat regrettable traits in ourselves and others, to see whether these traits can be accommodated within the Jungian personality theory.
James L. Jarrett, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to his long tenure at U.C. Berkeley, he also taught at Columbia University, Colorado College, and Western Washington College (now University) at Bellingham, where he served as president for five years. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Utah and completed his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, always concentrating on philosophy with a minor in literature.
For the last forty years he has published many works in Jungian journals and lectured on Jungian topics in cities across the United States, including Little Rock (his birthplace), and often in London and Küsnacht-Zürich. He recently edited both the two-volume and abridged versions of Jung's seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Princeton University Press).
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