Dream Seminar: January 21 and 28, and February 18, 2000, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Society Library (Room 345), 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$50 to preregister for the series, $65 after January 20. Space is limited.
To learn about preregistering, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
In September, Dr. Horne led off our millenial theme of "dreams" with a lecture and a workshop in the transcendent function. Now he returns with a series of three small-group sessions on dreams.
For Dr. C.G. 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 called the transcendent function. In this confrontation, Jung said, the psyche recenters itself at a midpoint between consciousness and unconsciousness which he called the Self.
In this process there is a clash between knowledge obtained via reason and via revelation. It is the balanced understanding of these elements that is the key to successful dream interpretation. In these seminars we will explore Jung's original formulations in these areas and his development of these concepts. We will use examples of dreams from Jung's work and of the participants, in the latter case paying strict attention to the use of the dream material to illustrate the concepts being taught and not for ongoing therapy.
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 processes of psychic transformation. These include, in particular, processes of reasoning from philosophy and processes of revelation from theology. He is interested in the dream as a place in which these processes meet and can be reconciled.
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