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The term "shadow" is used in Jungian psychology to refer to parts of ourselves that we fear, to parts of other people we don't like, to the morally repressed, to the unconscious as a whole. Jungian analysts speak of helping clients become aware of their shadows, but what does that mean in practice? This presentation will explore the shadow, stressing its relation to the normal ego. The ego's standpoint, as Jung has shown, can be analyzed in terms of various functions of consciousness, such as feeling, sensation, thinking, and intuition, expressed typically in extraverted and introverted ways. He postulates that is our birthright to develop as many as four of the eight function-attitudes that he describes in his 1921 book Psychological Types. What happens, however, to the function-attitudes that don't manage to become part of the ego? How do they express themselves when they develop yet do not become part of consciousness? Dr. John Beebe thinks that the function-attitudes outside the ego's control help to structure the shadow. He has identified specific archetypes that carry these shadow sensibilities that don't quite become part of a person's ego, but manifest human intelligence in covert, defensive, and destructive ways. Using clips from classic films, he will show us how to recognize the different archetypes of the shadow and will discuss the particular ways each has of challenging the ego's standpoints and those of other people. He will relate specific shadow archetypes to such common clinical problems as pathological defenses, seductive intrusiveness, passive-aggressive behavior, sociopathy, depression, pathological narcissism, and paranoia.

Learning objectives: Participants will learn:

• To discriminate four aspects of the shadow
• To use Jung's theory of psychological types to distinguish the personal characteristics of different part-personalities within the psyche
• To identify complexes of the shadow in film
• Positive aspects of the shadow

Instructional strategies: Lecture, video, modeling of how to use Jung's theory of types to analyze the shadow, discussion.

When: October 15, 2005, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where: Bloedel Hall at St. Mark's Cathedral, 1245 Tenth Ave. East, Seattle, WA (Parking available adjacent to the hall)

Registration:

• Advance general registration, postmarked by 9/30/2005: $75.
• General registration, postmarked after 9/30/2005 or onsite: $90.
• Students and Interns with student ID: $50.
• JPA members: $35.

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John Beebe, M.D. is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San
Francisco. He is on the Clinical Faculty of the Department of Psychiatry at
the University of California, San Francisco. The founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, he was the first U.S. editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. He has recently published an overview of his seminal contributions to type theory, "Understanding Consciousness through the Theory of Psychological Types," in Analytical Psychology, edited by Joseph Cambray and Linda Carter.