C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, November 8, 2002, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Experiences of the dark feminine are part of the human psyche: existential chaos, death, decay, paradox, dissonance, all that is unknown, unfamiliar, unfathomable, unconquerable. With denial of the dark feminine, a too-heroic stance is adopted and the spiritually composting elements of death, decay and dissonance are disavowed.
The Friday lecture will discuss the archetypal and instinctual dimensions of the dark feminine and its particular relevance to our disintegrative times. Among other examples of the expression of the dark feminine, we will reflect on the Japanese dance form known as Butoh, roughly translated into "Dance of Darkness." Butoh emerged out of post-nuclear Japan and is an exploration of the "unwanted" unconscious in visceral, instinctual form. In Butoh, the intention is to approach the unknown by following, through movement, an internal psychic image to the con-clusion of becoming the consciousness of the image itself. This approach encourages an experience of the primal energies which animate and nourish the very core of our being. It allows for a direct and primal experience of those energies which are lost to us, and when denied turn the energies of the dark feminine against us.
Workshop: Saturday, November 9, 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
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Saturday's workshop will explore dream images though physical exercises derived from Butoh and other movement approaches. Allowing the body to meet dream images through movement encourages a direct and pre-verbal experience of dreams. Direct experience of dream images through the body provides an opportunity to engage the instinctual realm, the dimension of the psyche which is often neglected but vital for a creatively regenerative life. By allowing dream images to connect with inner impulses from deep within the body, consciousness is more fully informed. In movement, in the body, the image comes alive. We become the dream message to ourselves. You dream of a door opening: how is "a door opening" experienced within you, as you?
Cedrus Monte, Ph.D. Dipl., is a diplomate Jungian analyst, trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland. In addition to her training in analytical psychology, she has studied different movement modalities since 1980. She has received two grants from the Susan Bach Foundation of Switzerland, researching the relationship between psyche and soma through the creative process. Part of her research was published in the anthology, Images, Meanings and Connections: Essays in Memory of Susan R. Bach (Daimon Press).
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