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Friday, September 10, 2010
11 am to 5 pm Eastern US
A Global Internet Seminar: Viewable live from any home computer or group site
The world stage is a dramatic place full of actors surging with archetypal energies, which not only affect the world’s leaders but the countries, regions and other tribes that they serve. Caught in these unconscious storms, most countries and their leaders have no idea of the archetypal patterns into which they have fallen or how to contain them in a safe and productive manner. Instead they get “acted out” and in their most vicious forms involve troop deployments, IED’s, smart bombs, or even flying airplanes into skyscrapers. Perhaps more than any other recent leader in history, Barack Obama carries a staggering magnitude of projected fears, hopes and dreams; so much so that he was awarded a Noble Peace Prize before barely lifting a finger. Obama’s success or failure will to a large degree rest on his ability to become aware of and exploit in a positive manner these archetypal forces. In order to have true international progress, the warring polarities between the West and the rest of the world must somehow be transcended into a new reality, a “global individuation” of sorts.
Join us in this 5 hour live seminar from Zurich and California where 3 world leading Jungian analysts, Murray Stein, Bernard Sartorius and Thomas Singer, will explore these profoundly important questions.
For the first time ever this (and hopefully future seminars) WILL BE OFFERED LIVE TO ALL COMPUTERS WORLD WIDE. As long as your computer has high speed internet and can access our web streaming viewer, you will be able to watch the seminar live and email questions to our presenter in Zurich in real time.
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Date:
Friday, September 10, 2010
Cost:
$47 per person; with online registration to multiple international sites
Time Zones:
Eastern US: 11 am to 5 pm
Central US: 10 am to 4 pm
Mountain US: 9 am to 3 pm
Pacific US: 8 am to 2 pm
Alaska : 7 am to 1 pm
Hawaii: 6 am to noon
Western European Time Zone (UK): 16:00-22:00
Central European Time Zone (Zurich): 17:00-23:00
5 hour Seminar Schedule:
1. 11:00 am (Easter US Time) Live from Zurich, Part I: Introduction to Carl Jung on leadership, politics, and collective events with Murray Stein.
2. 12:00 (ET) Live from Zurich, Part II: Reflections on the evolution of culture in the West from ancient to the present time and the current confrontation between Islam and the West with Bernard Sartorius.
12:50 pm (ET) Break
3. 1:00 pm (ET) Live from Zurich, Part III: “What is the contribution that Analytical Psychology can make to an understanding of international politics and leadership, with special reference to the figure of Barak Obama?” A dialogue between Murray Stein and Bernard Sartorius, with Thomas Singer and audience.
4. 2-3pm (ET) 1 hour “lunch” break
5. 3:00 pm (ET) Live from Sonoma, Part I: Unconscious forces shaping international conflicts; The structure of the group psyche and various projective elements with regard to specific world leaders–Bush, Osama, Obama, Kennedy, etc; The theory of cultural complexes; & Obama as carrier of the transcendent function. Thomas Singer – live from California.
6. 4:00 pm (ET) Live from Sonoma, Part II: Obama’s position on Afghanistan and the unconscious role the U.S. is adopting;Obama’s relationship between hero, savior, and sacrificial leader in world affairs; Obama as representing the transcendent function and it’s ability or inability to find resolution to the conflicts inherent in cultural complexes. Thomas Singer – live from California.
5:00 pm (ET) End of Seminar
Murray Stein, PhD is a supervising training analyst and president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). He is the author of The Principle of Individuation and many other books and articles in the field of Jungian Psychoanalysis. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He has lectured internationally and presently makes his home in Switzerland.
Bernard Sartorius, lic. theol. is a Jungian analyst and ordained Swiss Protestant minister. He received his degree in theology from the Univerity of Geneva and completed his analytical training at the C.G. Jung-Institute of Zurich in 1978. He is a supervising training analyst at ISAP Zurich and has private analytical practices in Geneva and Zurich. He has traveled and written extensively on the polarity between Islam and the Western world. He has published numerous articles on international symbolic subjects in “la Vouivre,” “Spring” as well as other journals.
Thomas Singer, MD is a psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School and a supervising training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is a member of the IAAP and on the board of ARAS. He has published extensively including: “The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society” (Routledge Press, 2004), “Initiation: The Living Reality of an Archetype” (Routlege Press, 2007) & “Psyche and The City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis, (Spring Publications, 2010)
Further Seminar Description: C. G. Jung wrote several suggestive papers on politics and world affairs using a symbolic approach to understand contemporary events and political issues at a deeper level. Some of these were collected and published after the Second World War in a volume entitled Essays on Contemporary Events. This volume included the famous paper of 1936, “Wotan,” the 1945 paper “After the Catastrophe,” the 1946 BBC talk “The Fight with the Shadow,” and the extensive “Epilogue to ‘Essays on Contemporary Events’” of 1946. Ten years later he published a paper on the then new phenomena of many sightings of Flying Saucers, which he took to auger the beginnings of a new myth for modern people. Many Jungian analysts following him have written on the psychology of culture and its development through several stages of consciousness from ancient times to present day attitudes, and they have linked this discussion to a psychological interpretation of critical issues on the stage of national and international politics. In recent years, the theme of cultural complexes has been introduced into the literature of Analytical Psychology as a supplement to Jung’s earlier formulations. Following these lines of thought and taking the global phenomenon of “Barak Obama” as a symbolic as well as a political figure as a point of focus, this seminar will build on the work of C.G. Jung, Erich Neumann, M.-L. von Franz, Thomas Singer, Samuel Kimbles, Andrew Samuels and others. The seminar will also address the practical matter of how Jungian thought might be useful in current political analysis and the understanding of cultural change and evolution.
Learning Objectives:
1. To gain an understanding of Jungian thinking about collective and international dynamic, theory and practical applications.
2. To learn about the creation, use and misuse of archetypal collective projections on the world stage
3. To gain a perception of the deeper movements of cultural evolution and development over centuries and impact of these on contemporary events.
4. To become sensitized to psychological issues in politics, national and international.
5. To be introduced to some new terminology and conceptualizations in analytical psychology that bear on collective life and social and political dynamics.
Recommended Readings:
Jung, C.G. 1936/1964. “Wotan,” in Collected Works, Vol. 10, paras. 371-399. PrincetonUniversity Press.
Jung, C.G 1958/1964. “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,” in Collected Works, Vol. 10, paras. 589-824. Princeton University Press.
Langwieler, G. 2010. “’Wotan’ – a Political Myth of the German Collective Unconscious: Three debates of Shadow Aspects of the Collective Identities of Germans and Jews in the Germany of National Socialism,” in Cultures and Identities in Transition: Jungian Perspectives, edited by Murray Stein and Raya A. Jones. Routledge.
Sartorius, B. 2009. “A Collective Symbolic Life of Nothingness in Postmodern Times,” in Symbolic Life 2009, edited by Murray Stein. Spring Journal Books.
Singer, T. 2004. “The Cultural Complex and Archetypal Defenses of the Group Spirit,” in The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society,” edited by Thomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimbles. Brunner-Routledge.
Singer, T. 2010. “The Transcendent Function and Cultural Complexes: A Working Hypothesis” in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, 55:234-241
Stein, M. 2004. “On the Politics of Individuation in the Americas,” in The Cultural Complex: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives on Psyche and Society,” edited byThomas Singer and Samuel L. Kimbles. Brunner-Routledge.
