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For Dr. Jung, the unconscious was a source of information for consciousness and the dream was its most direct expression. Information from the dream confronted the limited view of consciousness and compensated for its one-sidedness. The working through of this confrontation of consciousness with the unconscious was via what Jung in his early papers called the transcendent function. In this confrontation, Jung said, the psyche re-centers itself at a midpoint between consciousness and unconsciousness that he called the Self. Later in his career Jung had other formulations of the Self and the transcendent function.
We will explore Jung's original formulations and his development of these concepts, particularly how they help us understand the nature of dreams and the techniques for their interpretation. We will use examples of dreams from Jung's work and from clinical case material of Dr. Horne and workshop participants.
On Friday evening Dr. Horne will present the concepts in a didactic form and on Saturday participants will be invited to be in dialogue with him and each other so that all can explore the material in depth.
Michael Horne, M.D., is a Jungian analyst and a psychiatrist. He is a clinical associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Washington, where he has an analytic practice and teaches. He is especially interested in using philosophy and theology to understand the processes of psychic transformation in Jungian psychology and their relationships to the other analytic schools. In good Jungian fashion, in complete contrast to his theoretical preoccupations, he has also been immersed in the pragmatics of infant observation for the last two years.