C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, April 11, 2003, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Workshop: Saturday, April 12, 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
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
Most probably we are not conscious of the influence of the persona on our everyday life—starting from the first impression we get from somebody or the impression we want to make on people, over the impact of fashion or "life-style" to the growing popularity of plastic surgery.
Also, in our analytical psychology we easily tend to neglect the seemingly superficial aspects of life and mankind by focusing only on the depth of the unconscious manifestations.
And yet, as analysts, as teachers, as professionals in any field and even in our private life, we depend socially also on our chosen persona, which tends to become more autonomous, the less we acknowledge its importance.
A few key ideas that will be explored in the lecture and workshop:
• Persona and Mask: Jung's attitude on the subject
• Beauty in Life, Myth and Fairy-Tale: Ideal and Shadow
• Fashion, Cosmetics and Plastic Surgery: Help and Influence of the Trickster-Archetype
• Body, Skin and Clothing: Hopes, Fears, Taboos and Tattoos
• Seduction by and Seduction of Models
• Persona, Life-Style and Zeitgeist
• The function of the Persona in Child Development: "Is Barbie bad?"
• Caring for or neglecting the Persona: Heath and Sickness, Wellness and Depression.
Urs H. Mehlin, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst with a practice in Zurich. He has been a training analyst since 1988 at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich-Küsnacht. He received his doctorate from the University of Basel and is a diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich-Küsnacht. Once General Stage Manager of the Geneva Opera House, he maintains his interest in, and his ties to, the performing arts. He has published in the field of Developmental Psychology, Analytical Aspects of Artistic Creativity and Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Theatre.
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