C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, April 12, 2002, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Generally overlooked in psychology, humor is an everyday experience that we usually take for granted. However, a world without humor would seem unbearable. Humor relates us to each other and to the rich complexity of emotional life. Because of that, we love our comedians. Grand humor feels like true epiphanies, and everyday humor represents tiny creations or repetitions of such experiences. Humor opens psychological space or, as Bergson said of laughter, removes the constrictions of the mechanical from the living. The ritual of humor often evokes difficult emotions but transcends them, as opposed to tragedy. In fact, tragedy evolved out of comedy and there is a real question regarding which is more profound.
Workshop: Saturday, April 13, 2002, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. (note time)
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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In the workshop we will expand upon the theme of the Fool and humor, and their connection with the Unknown. The Fool steps off into the Unknown but seems to know how to survive or thrive. What is the transcendent attitude, or the attitude of Faith? What is the difference between the Fool and genuine foolishness? Shame is the main emotion of "feeling foolish." How does the creative Fool transcend shame and why doe the banal, literal fool feel trapped in shame? What is the difference between tragic man and comic man, and how do we shift between these modes? Where does the world of psychotherapy fit into this picture? Does the psychological world favor the tragic emotions over the more positive ones such as joy and excitement? If so, why? We will explore such questions using slides, intellectual material, and practical examples.
Ladson Hinton, M.A., M.D., is a Jungian analyst who teaches and practices in Seattle. He trained as a psychiatrist at Stanford and is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He maintained a clinical practice in Palo Alto for many years. Dr. Hinton taught at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and the Pacific Graduate School, and was a member of the Stanford clinical faculty. After moving to the Northwest in 1991, he became the first president of the North Pacific Institute for Analytical Psychology. He has written and lectured on mid-life, interpretation of fairy tales, animal symbolism, shame as a teacher, approaches to narcissism, and other topics. Recent interests have been the "Unicorn Hunt" as a metaphor for psychological evolution, and dreams, and the "Horizon of the Unknown."
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