C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Winter 2001 Events and News

Creative life always stands outside convention. That is why, when the mere routine of life predominates in the form of convention and tradition, there is bound to be a destructive outbreak of creative energy. This outbreak is a catastrophe only when it is a mass phenomenon, but never in the individual who consciously submits to these higher powers and serves them with all his strength.

— C.G. Jung, The Development of Personality, Collected Works volume 17, para. 305

Jung Society Winter 2001 Events

Winter 2001 Inside Pages

This feature publishes member-to-member contributions. The Winter 2001 edition is available as an Acrobat (.pdf) file.

Library News

We are still in need of volunteers other than myself to staff the library (see Library page). During my two-year tenure, I have averaged seven to eight weeks (full-time equivalent) of volunteer time each year. This is in addition to my 190-mile commute each library Monday. The Society does not ask me to commit two months of my personal time to the library… it is my choice. My belief has been that circulation would increase if we were open more hours. This has not been the case. If anything, circulation is at an all-time low.

Next June my tenure as librarian will expire. I encourage other members to consider volunteering. We are asking for a three-hour block of time, three to four times per year. Six to eight volunteers would meet library needs.

Our library has over 2,000 texts and they are listed in an electronic database. We are moving toward completing electronic databases for our journals, for members who use the library as a resource for research and writing. At our November Board meeting, Debra Tachibana asked if the databases for texts and journals would fit on computer diskettes that could be sent to interested members. In this way, since library hours are limited, individuals could search the databases on their PCs and then be able to request materials from the library by special arrangement. Does this idea appeal to any of you? (A Microsoft Excel™ format would be used.)

We are eager to fill in missing journals to our collections of Journal for Analytical Psychology and Parabola. The following are volumes and issues of journals we need. If you have some copies you no longer want, please consider the Society library as a repository.

Journal for Analytical Psychology: 4 (2), 8 (1,2), 9 (1), 11 (1,2), 17 (2), 18 (1,2), 31 (1,4), 32 (1,2,3,4), 33 (1,2,3,4), 34 (1,2,3), 35 (3), 37 (1,2,3,4), 39 (3,4), 40 (2,3,4). We have no issues for the years 1995 through 2000 (volumes 41-46).

Parabola: I (1,3), II (1), IV (3), V (2), VII (2,3,4), VIII (1,3), X (1,2), XI (1,3), XII (2).

I have been spending a great deal of time at home on the Internet researching sites related to Jungian psychology and psychology in general. (Note: Many of the sites mentioned here are also on the Society's Links to Related Resources page.)

A site rich in psychology resources is Blackwell Publishers (www.blackwellpublishers.co.uk). Blackwell is one of the world's largest publishers of professional journals and texts. One of these is the Journal for Analytical Psychology. If you are a member of an institution that subscribes to the journal, you can also access the electronic version on your PC (see the Blackwell web site). Anybody can subscribe to the hard copy journal over the net or via mail. The Blackwell web site has a wealth of links to other psychology web sites (choose Psychology Resources from the Subject Index page). If you go to the online forum for the Journal, you are directed to a forum on an article from the most recent issue of JAP. These selected articles can be downloaded or printed for your personal use at no charge. Individuals can also register to participate in the forum. (I do not know if participants are restricted to professionals in the field.) The text for the online forum can be read by all web site visitors.

Two Jung sites of special interest are The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco (www.sfjung.org) and The C.G. Jung Page (www.cgjungpage.org). The first site is that of the San Francisco Training Center. Just entering the site is special. They have many links to other U.S. sites and the London and Zurich schools. Don Williams started the "C. G. Jung Page" a few years ago in Colorado. CHECK OUT THIS SITE! It is a site rich in resources. Daryl Sharp's Jungian Lexicon is available at no charge. Excerpts from Mary Ann Mattoon's Jungian Psychology in Perspective are also available (search on "mattoon"). There are forums and articles and ever so much more. One link takes you to Loyola University (New Orleans) and a list of Jungian reading materials categorized by subject (www.lib.loyno.edu/bibl/jung.htm) and there are links to publishers of Jungian texts such as Chiron, Daimon, and Inner City.

Finally, do not forget our own Society web site (www.jungseattle.org). Library hours are updated routinely, Society events are listed, and a bulletin board is the most recent addition. An important feature for the Society is a link to Amazon.com. If you order books from Amazon.com and if you enter the Amazon site through www.jungseattle.org, the Society receives a small percentage of the sales.

My love for books and literature search has introduced me to a number of other sites. Using "online bookstores" as search words, I came up with 195 sites. Many of these are well known, like Amazon.com (www.amazon.com) and Barnes & Noble (www.barnesandnoble.com). There is a site that lets you enter the ISBN number of a book and tells you the prices being charged for that book at different online bookstores (www.isbn.nu). Trying to find a book published some time ago? Try Alibris (www.alibris.com) or Bibliofind (www.bibliofind.com). If you favor independent bookstore owners, look into A Book Collectors Bookstore (www.abcbooks.com). You will be able to enter a specific town or state and bring up every independent bookstore owner belonging to the independent's association in the defined geographic locale. You are able to link to many of the independents directly from the page(s) of results.

This has been a very electronic newsletter, including sending it to Debra and Kenji by e-mail for submission. A bookstore is still the only store I really enjoy going to—but electronic books are coming very fast. For any of you interested in where electronic books are with at least one publisher, check out the Routledge site, www.routledge-ny.com. The Taylor & Francis Group, which Routledge is part of, announced an e-book intiative in July 2000. This publisher plans on getting all of their 17,000 titles in electronic format in the not too distant future. If all of this is too much, remember that our Society library has some 2,200 texts and many journals and tapes as well. Keep reading and keep Jung.

—Linda Sheaffer, Librarian

President's Message

At the October Board meeting Korey Schulz was elected to the board in the position of technical support for our office computer. Welcome, Korey, and thanks for helping get our new computer up and running.

Our program committee, with the able help of Jean Bekey and Robert Freeman, is finishing the schedule for the coming spring and already has two probable speakers for next fall.

Seminar style education continues to thrive in the Jungian community. In the Encountering Jung series by NPIAP a number of informative and stimulating presentations have sustained the enthusiasm of the roughly 15 students in the course. In Marla Herbig's study group on Jung's Psychological Typology, about a dozen people found a lot to talk about, share, and think about.

The organizational purpose established in our bylaws calls for public education through a variety of forms, and these seminars seem to meet a real need. It's possible that the line between education and therapy may be too blurred to be clearly discerned, especially within a community like ours where the development of conscious awareness is considered a desired objective for personal growth. It would be fascinating to know, however, if any studies have been made or books published on the relationship between learning about psychological phenomena in a small group environment and the personal development of the participants. I would like to think there's a strong positive correlation, and would welcome the chance to talk with anyone who has read something about this that they would like to pass along.

—John Krausser, President

Membership

Since publication of the Autumn newsletter we have had seventeen new members join us.

Thirty-three have renewed during the same period of time, including Nancy Alvord, again at the Sustaining level. Our renewed thanks to you, Nancy, and everyone else who helps keep our Society going.

For more information about membership, see the Membership Information and Form page.

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