C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Lecture: Friday, February 7, 2003, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Trinity Church, Eighth and James, Seattle (note location)
$10 members, $15 nonmembers
Spirituality has been associated with Jungian analysis from the beginning. Earlier it was considered derogatory, but today it is fashionable. But what is spirituality within the context of analysis? It is certainly different from the familiar religiosities practiced in traditional or even New Age churches and groups. This lecture will define and illustrate spirituality entering the container of analytic process.
Workshop: Saturday, February 8, 2003, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Trinity Church, Eighth and James, Seattle (note location)
$30 members, $40 nonmembers, $25 student/senior members, $35 student/senior nonmembers
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Evidence that God images can and do change over time is well known. This phenomenon has occupied thinkers in the West for a couple of centuries now. Whether they saw the change as bad and as sign of decay and deterioration from a former purity, or as evolutionary and a sign of development and maturation, or as a confirmation that God images are illusory and mostly bent to the service of non-religious motives of one kind of religion specifically (and the resulting consequent changes in culture and religious sensibility and outlook) have been widely noted and intensively discussed. In this seminar I will ask four questions and attempt to answer them:
The questions are linked and revolve around the central hermeneutical problem: "A changing God image--What does it mean?" The answers to these questions derive principally from Jung's understanding of the human psyche and its relation to what religions call Deity.
Murray Stein, Ph.D., is currently President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He is the author of Jung's Treatment of Christianity and Transformation: Emergence of the Self, among other books, and has edited Jungian Analysis and many other books. He has lectured and taught nationally and internationally, most recently at the Second International Conference on Jungian Psychology and Chinese Thought, in Guangzhou, China. Since 1976 he has been a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
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