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The Metamorphosis of the Gods: Archetypal Astrology and the Transformation of the God-Image in The Red Book
Featuring Keiron Le Grice
9/26/18 at 11AM Eastern US Time
The Asheville Jung Center is very pleased to announce an upcoming webinar about the new book Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Volume 2
hosted by the co-editors Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt. In this webinar
they will bring in Keiron Le Grice to speak about his chapter titled
“The Metamorphosis of the Gods: Archetypal Astrology and the
Transformation of the God-Image in The Red Book.” A broader
consideration of the significance of Jung’s Red Book must take into
account the historical moment in which it was created. If it is relevant
not only to Jung himself, as the articulation of a personal mythology,
but also to Western civilization at large, then we must turn our focus
to the evolution of the modern West as revealed in its major historical
and religious transitions. One way this might be done, in keeping with
the tenets of Analytical Psychology, is to consider the archetypal
factors impinging upon the Western psyche and the cultural Zeitgeist in
the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from the time of Jung’s birth to
the creation of Liber Novus. In so doing, we might gain some
perspective on the significance of our own time and our evolving
conceptions of the spiritual dimension of experience.
Dr. Le Grice is Core Faculty and Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies
specialization of the Depth Psychology program at Pacifica. He was
educated at the University of Leeds, England (B.A. honors Philosophy and
Psychology) and the California Institute of Integral Studies in San
Francisco (M.A. and Ph.D. Philosophy and Religion). He is the author of
four books including The Archetypal Cosmos: Rediscovering the Gods in Myth, Science, and Astrology, The Rebirth of the Hero: Mythology as a Guide to Spiritual Transformation, and Archetypal Reflections: Insights and Ideas from Jungian Psychology. A founding editor of Archai: The Journal of Archetypal Cosmology, Dr. Le Grice now serves as Senior Editorial Advisor at Archai and as commissioning editor for Muswell Hill Press in London. |
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Chiron Publications' Book Spotlight for September
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In 1934, Erich Neumann, considered by
many to have been Carl Gustav Jung’s foremost disciple, sent Jung a handwritten
note: “I will pursue your suggestion of elaborating on the ‘Symbolic
Contributions’ to the Jacob-Esau problem . . . The great difficulty is the
rather depressing impossibility of a publication.” Now, 80 years later, in Jacob and Esau: On the
Collective Symbolism of the Brother Motif, his important work is finally published.
In this newly discovered manuscript,
Neumann sowed the seeds of his later works. It provides a window into his
original thinking and creative writing regarding the biblical subject of Jacob
and Esau and the application of the brother motif to analytical psychology.
Neumann elaborates on the central role
of the principle of opposites in the human soul, contrasting Jacob’s
introversion with Esau’s extraversion, the sacred and the profane, the inner
and the outer aspects of the God-image, the shadow and its projection, and how
the old ethic—expressed, for example, in the expulsion of the
scapegoat—perpetuates evil.
Mark Kyburz, translator of C.G. Jung’s
The Red Book, has eloquently rendered Neumann’s text into English. Erel
Shalit’s editing and introduction provide an entrée into Neumann’s work on this
subject, which will be of interest to a wide range of readers, from lay persons
to professionals interested in Jungian psychology and Jewish and religious
studies.
Erich Neumann was born in Berlin in
1905. He emigrated to Israel in 1934 and lived in Tel Aviv until his death in
1960. For many years he lectured and played a central role at Eranos, the
seminal conference series in analytical psychology. His writings include Depth Psychology and a New Ethic, The Origins and History of Consciousness,
and The Great Mother. The
correspondence between C.G. Jung and Neumann was published in 2015.
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Cruelty to Others Webinar
Deliberate, gratuitous cruelty to others causes enormous suffering. We constantly hear of such cruelty in the form of torture, tyranny, imprisonment, bombings, and similar behavior, not to mention interpersonal acts of cruelty such as belittling others, teasing, bullying, racial prejudice, betrayal, and the like. This webinar will discuss some of the psychological, biological, and social sources of cruelty.
In this webinar we attempt to understand the psychology of
sadism, genocidal behavior, and cruelty to animals. Dr. Corbett also discusses the nature of torture, its psychological and political
roots, and its effects on its victims and perpetrators. Finally a
discussion of cruelty to oneself, including forms of self-torture such
as masochism, self-mutilation, and the issue of self-induced pain found
in some ascetic religious practices, religious martyrdom, and the
controversial issue of stigmata.
Lionel Corbett, M.D., trained in medicine and
psychiatry in England and as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung
Institute of Chicago. Dr. Corbett is a core faculty member at Pacifica
Graduate Institute teaching depth psychology. He is the author of The Religious Function of the Psyche and Psyche and the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion. He is co-editor, with Dennis Patrick Slattery, of Depth Psychology: Meditations in the Field and Psychology at the Threshold: Selected Papers. |
| | | The Mythmaker by Mary Harrell
The Mythmaker is a personal myth, a fiction, based on author
and depth psychologist Dr. Mary Harrell’s life. After the sudden death
of her mother, seven young children and an overwhelmed father were left
to figure out what to do. Acknowledging that seminal happenings
enwombed in our past seek re-membering, and in the tradition of personal
mythtelling, Dr. Harrell, began a writer’s journey, to re-collect the
meaning of her story. She proceeded in a series of spiralic returns
gathering meaningful shards of symbolic experience.
Dr. Harrell, as we all do, found herself asking, “Who or what is here
right now, to inform this long ago, and also, present moment?” Such
self-reflective activity took her back to memories, not as they were,
but as she perceived them to be. With each return, she found a different
fiction, an echo, a fabrication, and also the better truth that brought
her closer to coherence, that soulful state best described as
wholeness. Through this process the past emerged and the full story
found its way to the pages of this book. Beyond the death of Dr.
Harrell’s mother, an additional reality within The Mythmaker
story is irrefutable. An angel, an imaginal figure, began entering the
author’s life when she was fifteen years old. The angel’s aim was to be
an ally, thereby transforming grief into a story of healing. Her
presence reminds us that preposterous aspects of our own myth may inform
the deeper truth of our experience.
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