C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, May 9, 2003, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Workshop: Saturday, May 10, 2003, 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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Jungian film studies differs from other psychological approaches to film, especially in the difference between a semiotic or signs approach (Freudian/Lacanian) and the Jungian symbolic approach. Moreover, movies offer an experience analogous to active imagination and aspects of being in a Jungian analysis.
The lecture and workshop will point out how movies and depth psychology arose together at the end of the 19th century—as Pat Berry has described —and how both seemed to be responding to the need for individual experiences newly threatened by the complexity of modern urban life and what Jung called "mass-mindedness."
The material will be illustrated with movie extracts throughout and include a discussion of Lydia Lennihan's paper "The Alchemy of Pulp Fiction," examples of "Grail journeys," archetypes and gender in Field of Dreams and American Graffiti. If time allows, we will discuss the use of films in clinical work along the lines that Mary Dougherty writes about in her chapter on Gender and the Movies using, among other films, an extract from The Piano.
The workshop will explore individuation in movies and how men and women figure differently and compensatorily in these narratives. The focus will be on successes and failures in "becoming who you are" as shown in the movies Field of Dreams, Dark City, The Truman Show, and Pleasantville.
We will also look at individuation in movies that, ironically, are made for a "mass market" by looking at the films of Steven Spielberg. And we will focus on the development of his male characters and of the theme of masculinity in general over thirty years of films from Duel, Jaws, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, to E.T., Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan.
The intent of the lecture and workshop is for participants to have a greater awareness for what they can get from movies and importantly, for what they, themselves, are bringing!
Christopher Hauke is a Jungian Analyst, member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology and Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He also teaches on Jungian topics for several psychotherapy trainings, supervises candidates and lectures widely.
His current interests include the culture and history of psychoanalysis, its practise and theories, with reference to contemporary cultural and political change in the twenty-first century. He is the author of Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities; co-editor of Contemporary Jungian Analysis; Post-Jungian Perspectives from the Society of Analytical Psychology and of Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image.
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