Lecture: Friday, February 11, 2000, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
In our dreams we continually create our own imaginal world. Thus dreaming is an analogue of what poets do in the creation of their works. We experience our dreams as a child experiences the real world: as a continual surprise, an ongoing discovery. Poets experience the world in this way too. Using poems and images, this lecture links dreaming with discovery, and therefore with the making of art.
Workshop: Saturday, February 12, 2000, 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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In dreaming, we create our own imaginal world, night after night. This workshop explores this process of creation and its connection with what the poet does in the making of a poem. Both poetry and dream result from a "lowering of the threshold of consciousness." The end result is the relativization of the ego, felt as a sense of wonder at always new, and sometimes numinous, experience. This sense of wonder and discovery is evidence of the presence of the child archetype. The openness or "unknowingness" of the dream ego is always childlike. This workshop will explore the connections between the dream ego and the child, and between the dream ego's openness and the poet's. Participants are asked to bring copies of dreams to be discussed; anonymity will be preserved throughout. Poems to be used as examples will include Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" and T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock." Copies of these and of other poems to be discussed will be provided, but reading the two poems prior to the workshop is recommended.
Daniel A. Lindley, Ph.D., L.C.S.W., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Evanston, Illinois, and a photographer. He was for twenty years a professor of English and head of English Education at the University of Illinois (Chicago), and is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is the author of This Rough Magic: The Life of Teaching, as well as articles on rhetoric, pedagogy, photography, and Jungian approaches to fairy tales.
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