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February - June 2010

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History and AimsThe Society was formed in 1975 to promote the ideas of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). A rich and varied programme of monthly talks, workshops and reading groups presented by Australian and international guest speakers is offered.

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Welcome to the Jung Society’s 35th year which we celebrate

with a high quality programme of events drawing upon both classical Jungian and the latest of post-Jungian perspectives.

Jung’s much-anticipated Red Book has finally been published. By way of introduction to understanding the importance of this pivotal work of Jung’s, John Woodcock has written an account of The Red Book’s Zurich launch for Jung Downunder, and in March we go further into the significance and contents of The Red Book in a presentation with Claire Dunne and Terence McBride, which is guaranteed to be rich in anecdote and insight.

Fairytales are another feature of this programme. Sarah Gibson will give a talk on the creative inspiration of fairy tales as well as facilitate an eight session women’s story circle. Sarah’s lived experience of working with fairytales is profound and we are fortunate to be getting a sneak preview of her interactive fairytale project Re-Enchantment.

The latest developments in post-Jungian theory and practice are brought to us by John Woodcock in his introduction to the revolutionary

From the president ..............

and challenging work of Wolfgang Giegerich, while David Russell explores the tension of opposites in his talk on Jung in the era of evidence-based practice.

David will then follow up his talk with a highly stimulating workshop on the therapeutic experience. Finally Jonathan Marshall’s June talk brings us to a topic many of us feel all too familiar with: Chaos. Jon muses on its myths and archetypes in a marriage of classical Jungian and post-Jungian perspectives.

This is my last editorial for Jung Downunder as I will be resigning as President at the March AGM to take up PhD studies. I am delighted that David Russell has accepted the Committee’s nomination to be our next President. His deep experience and knowledge of Jungian community, theory and practice will be a tremendous asset to the Society in the time ahead. My best wishes to him for the new era and my sincerest thanks to all the Committee members that I have worked with over the last four years for all their support and contributions.

Sally GillespiePresident 2006 - 2010

weaving voicesArticles written for the C G Jung Society of Sydney

Also available on the website www.jungdownunder.com

On 23rd October, 2009, I was present at a seminar held in the C. G. Jung Institute at Zurich for the inauguration of the publication of The Red Book by C. G. Jung, edited by Sonu Shamdasani. Interestingly we encountered a small glitch at the outset when the projector failed to project the red colour onto the screen. The problem was overcome quickly and we moved on but perhaps there is a significance yet to be revealed . . .

The Red Book took Shamdasani 13 years of meticulous scholarship, love and dedication. His Zurich presentation covered two main areas: the structure of the book and its ‘location’ in Jung’s opus and in Analytical Psychology in general.

The Red Book’s structure is intricate and complex. It is an unambiguously unscientific book in which he records his own mental states, or soul processes, and then elaborates on them. There are thus several layers of language systems that he uses, none of which use scientific concepts.

Jung’s method of elaboration is more poetic or artistic in nature, in keeping with his acknowledgement of the reality of the psyche with which he was holding a dialogue. Jung worked on The Red Book for 16 years intending to publish but never doing so. Shamdasani told us that Jung said that to read his Red Book is to understand his psychology. The corollary to this is that if you haven’t read this book then you do not understand his psychology! Shamdasani went on to say that the most significant event in the development of Jung’s thought was the non-publication of The Red Book.

A REPORT ON C.G. JUNG’S THE RED BOOK

weaving voicesArticles written for the C G Jung Society of Sydney

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Institutes have sprung up all over the world, begun training programs, education programs without the benefit of the one book that is the foundation of his later Collected Works. With the publication of this book a totally new light is cast on Jung’s biography.

The Red Book records the process of Jung becoming Jung. Shamdasani talked of Jung’s pre-war visions, drawing his attention to prophecy and a possible career as a prophet. The Red Book shows us how Jung the prophet became Jung the psychologist, making the enormously significant shift from prophesying to trying to understand how prophecy works, i.e. how do subjective states of mind connect with later external world events?

This question is still very much alive today and thus the publication of The Red Book, the ‘common denominator’ of all Jungian Schools, is timely and portentous.

Shamdasani told us that what happens next depends on us. The work of editing and publishing is done, and he told us that he is still amazed as there were “too many reasons for it not to be”. Perhaps in this statement lies a clue for the projector’s failure at the beginning of our seminar. It may be a reminder to us all that whenever something comes into the world, something of great significance, we must remain alert to the workings of forces that work against it.

John Woodcock PhD(This report is based on memory and notes taken during the seminar with Shamdasani. Any errors and misunderstandings are mine alone.)

A REPORT ON C.G. JUNG’S THE RED BOOK

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Described as one of Archetypal Psychology’s most brilliant theorists for over three decades, Wolfgang Giegerich is “a practicing Jungian analyst…

renowned for his dedication to the substance of Jungian thought and for his unparalleled ability to think it through with both rigour and speculative strength” (from back cover of his Collected English Papers). In his many books, essays and seminars Giegerich has also made theoretical claims that have surprised, baffled and perhaps even offended members of the Jungian community.

Giegerich’s criticisms of Archetypal Psychology led to a now famous exchange with Hillman. He challenges our comfortable understanding of some of the most treasured Jungian concepts (the unconscious, archetypes, soul, self, the individual etc.) simply by thinking them through to the end. While it is easy to react to Giegerich’s thought, it is far more difficult to understand it. However the rewards that come with making the effort are considerable.

The purpose of this talk is to introduce the thought of Giegerich to the Sydney community by providing some “sign posts” that are essential to understanding his work. From reading his works in depth and also visiting Giegerich in Berlin, John Woodcock will present his understanding of the essential concepts that a reader must grasp in order to “enter” the thought of Wolfgang Giegerich.

6:30pm for 7:00pm Level 2 484 Kent St SydneyMembers $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $206:30pm for 7:00pm

February 13 monthly meeting

Introducing the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich

presenter: John Woodcock

John C Woodcock PhD has lived in Sydney since his return in 2003 from the USA where he practised as a Jungian therapist for 17 years. He also underwent a personal analysis over 13 years. John’s first contact with Wolfgang Giegerich was in 1999 and he visited him in Berlin in 2009. John may be reached at jwoodcock@lighthousedownunder.com. His website of the same name displays his books and essays.

6:30pm for 7:00pm 6 Darghan St GlebeMembers $280 Members Concession $240 Non-Member $3207:30pm to 9:30pm

March 1, 15, 29, April 12, 26, May 10, 24, june 78 session women’s story circle

fairy tales revisited

presenter: sarah gibson

Sarah Gibson leads an exploration into the contemporary psychological resonances of fairy stories such as The Handless Maiden, Baba Yaga and

The Black Woman’s Castle. Fortnightly in a small group, women listen to and engage with the mystery, hidden meanings and inspiration of these tales.

Stories set the inner life in motion, and this is particularly important when the inner life is wedged and cornered. Story greases the hoists and pulleys, it causes adrenaline to surge, shows us the way out…Clarissa Pinkola Estes

This small group of no more than 10 women meets fortnightly, and involves discussion and creative responses to the stories. No prior experience with fairy tale interpretation is needed.

Sarah Gibson is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Sydney. She has been working with fairy tales for a long time both clinically and creatively. She is also an artist and filmmaker currently completing Re-enchantment- an interactive journey into the hidden world of fairy tales for release on ABC early in 2010.

Level 2 484 Kent St SydneyMembers $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $206:30pm for 7:00pm

RED BOOK IMPRESSIONS

Author Claire Dunne will give some personal background to the world

launch and exhibition of Jung’s long awaited Red Book in New York. She will show some of its stunning visual material and share impressions of its contents which she has written up for Parabola magazine in USA.

INTRODUCING THE RED BOOK OF C.G. JUNG

In December 1913 C.G. Jung let himself descend into the imagery of

the unconscious and pursued these

images for some years, in a process he later called “active imagination”. He confronted the powerful factors in the unconscious, which naturally personify themselves, and recorded his experiences in a book which he called the Liber Novus (New Book) or Red Book. In the recently published and beautifully reproduced Red Book we are privileged to witness his primary experience of the unconscious. This became the basis of his psychology and therapeutic practice.

TERENCE MCBRIDE trained at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich and obtained the post graduate diploma in Analytical Psychology in 1979. He is a former president of the C.G. Jung Society of Sydney, and works as a Jungian analyst in private practice in Arncliffe.CLAIRE DUNNE published an illustrated biography, Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, which was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and is currently on the undergraduate reading list for psychological and religious studies in Australian and American universities.

March 13 monthly meeting

annual general meeting followed by

the red bookAn introductory evening

presenters: terence mcbride & claire dunne

SARAH GIBSON is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Sydney. Sarah trained with ANZSJA and works clinically with adults, with a particular interest in sandply and creativity. She is also an artist and filmmaker and has just completed Re-Enchantment - an interactive journey into the hidden world of fairytales, to be hosted by the ABC. Sarah lectures in Media Arts at the University of Technology Sydney. Her previous documentaries include The Hundredth Room and Myths of Childhood.

april 10 monthly meeting

fairy tales re-imaginedre-enchantment: fairy tales as a source of

creative inspiration

presenter: sarah gibson

Level 2 484 Kent St SydneyMembers $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $206:30pm for 7:00pm

Jungian analyst Sarah Gibson takes us on a sneak preview of

her groundbreaking interactive project Re-enchantment that has been three years in the making. It is a poetic and provocative act of creative interpretation of fairy tales, threading together perspectives from psychology, social history and popular culture.

Traditional fairy tales have a powerful hold on our cultural imagination. Adapted, revised and bowdlerized, they greet us in print and popular fiction, at the movies and in advertisements. They have been the inspiration for many visual

artists and photographers. Sarah will introduce us to the extraordinary creative re-imagining of six fairy stories by international artists such as Cindy Sherman, Kiki Smith and Paula Rego and in work by Australian artists Rosemary Valadon, Jasmina Cininas, Judy Horacek and Deborah Klein among others.

Exploring the ways fairy tales have provided creative inspiration deepens our connection to the mystery and enchantment of fairy tales. Sarah speaks of her own creative process and encourages us all to engage with and contribute to the Re-enchantment project.

May 8 monthly meeting

Jung in the Era of Evidence-based Psychotherapy

presenter: david russell

Carl Jung was a highly regarded psychiatrist and researcher. He was largely responsible for the transition of the nascent psychoanalytical interest group

from a small and relatively inward-looking gathering into an international and professionally accepted movement. The intellectual divide separating Jung and Freud, eventually too great to bridge, was essentially the recognition of two very distinct emotional drivers: Freud’s for conceptual clarity to a point close to dogmatic understanding, and Jung’s for an experiential appreciation of the inherent complexity and ambivalence of the human psyche.

This conflict of desires, the longing for white-boned clarity with the correlated desire for a definitive practice and the longing for an acceptance of the fullness of the other’s experience, is as relevant today as it was 100 years ago. Evidence-based psychology/psychotherapy, what is called “best practice”, is now de rigueur in medical/scientific worlds.

The aim of this talk is not to argue the case in favour of one desire over the other, or to evaluate the respective methods of observation and measurement. Rather,

it is to accept that what we have here are two legitimate worldviews, two different attitudes to knowledge and interpersonal engagement, two different understandings of the relevance of the client’s experience. A useful question might be: is it of value to be fluent in these two languages of the mind and thus move from one perspective to the other depending on the exigencies of the moment?

6:30pm for 7:00pm Level 2 484 Kent St SydneyMembers $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $206:30pm for 7:00pm

This workshop is open to all. The aim is to invite participants, from all and every background, to consider the therapeutic experience as a meeting

of two embodied minds for the purpose of meaning making and action taking.

There will be an emphasis on ‘case formulation’ as the process of tentative conceptualisation of the psychological disturbance (with reference to the social, cultural, economic, environmental, and spiritual aspects) that brought the client into this particular therapeutic relationship.

It will be via the vehicle of a case formulation that the differing worldviews, of ‘evidence-based’ psychological therapy and of Jungian psychotherapy, will surface and be discussed.

This will not be a therapeutic workshop in that there is no intention to conduct a therapy session.

May 9 workshop

The Therapeutic Experience

presenter: david russell

6:30pm for 7:00pm The Centre 14 Frances St RandwickMembers $140 Members Concession $120 Non-Member $18010am to 4:00pm

Dr David Russell is a psychologist and psychotherapist in private practice (East Sydney). He also holds the position of Associate Professor (Adjunct) in the School of Psychology at the University of Western Sydney. Through the study of the history and philosophy of psychology whilst a student at the University of Sydney he was drawn to the works of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. However, the spirit of the times being as they were, the only area for a PhD candidate in psychology interested in therapeutic methods was cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT). Following a few years in private practice he moved into a teaching/research position with UWS and was responsible, as part of a small and enthusiastic group, firstly for the foundation of degrees in Social Ecology and then a master’s degree in Analytical Psychology (a postgraduate course-work program based on the works of Carl Jung and the post Jungians). David has recently retired from the academic life in order to more fully pursue his therapeutic practice.

june 12 monthly meeting

archetypes of chaospresenter: jonathan marshall

6:30pm for 7:00pm Level 2 484 Kent St SydneyMembers $10 Non-Members $25 Non-Member Concession $206:30pm for 7:00pm

We tend to flee from disorder and chaos, identifying chaos with evil and destruction. However what if spiritual, social and psychological growth

necessarily involves living with, or passing through, chaos?

Jung differed from our usual Western approach, embracing the fragmentary propositions of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, about world as flux, and the productive and disordered struggle between opposites. This view was reinforced after Jung’s studies in alchemy when he suggested that the experience of chaos, the materia confusa, is also the experience which both leads to transformation and is essential to transformation. At this time, the order that the ego wishes to impose on the world or the unconscious no longer works, and this failure is the moment of the possibility of new life. The whole spirit is hidden in chaos, and disorder is not just to be feared. Indeed, we might say that life is that which resists order and predictability, and the more we are alive, the more fraught is the relationship between what we call order and disorder.

This talk investigates what it might mean to take chaos and disorder seriously, by exploring symbols and images of chaos in Christian, Jewish, Babylonian, Greek, Chinese and other mythologies, and by a return to hidden messages of the ‘collective dream’ of alchemy.

Jonathan Marshall is an anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the University of Technology in Sydney. He is the author of Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication and Control and Jung, Alchemy and History, and the editor of Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate Change.

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JUNGIAN ANALYST: PSYCHOTHERAPISTMarcelle Lawrence BEc.LlB(Hons)

ANZSJA IAAPTrained at the C.G.Jung Institute of Zurich, her professional career includes 20 years working in the therapeutic community. Her interests encompasss mythology, art, poetry and creativity, and the role that culture plays in shaping the bodymind of the individual. She works with sandplay, dreams and images in exploring unconscious processes.Her private practice is in Paddington. Phone (02) 9361 3283

Julia Meyerowitz-Katz I am a Candidate in training with the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts (ANZSJA) and I have spaces for individuals looking for Jungian psychotherapy and analysis. Clients will benefit from my extensive experience as an Art Psychotherapist,and from the close supervision required for Candidates in training with ANZSJA. For any enquiries, please contact Julia Meyerowitz-Katz 02 9389 8936.

Thank You Toxteth Hotel 345 Glebe Point Rd Glebe

for your generous donation of meeting rooms

The C G Jung Society of Sydney’s book, Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate Change, edited by Jon Marshall, originated in the 2008 panel on Depth Psychology and Climate Change and features essays, poems, conversations and stories by various authors. Copies can be purchased at the Jung Society meetings, at Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Rd Glebe or at their online store www.gleebooks.com.au or ordered online at www.lulu.com

Sandplay Workshop Presented by Sarah Gibson & Sally

GillespieThree Phases of the Sandplay Process: Creation, Facilitation, Interpretation. This professional development day is for practicing and beginning sandplay therapists exploring a Jungian approach to the sandplay therapy process.

Saturday February 20th, Balmain. For further details please email sallygillespie@yahoo.com.au or phone Sarah 9810 1898Newsletter printed by John Cole

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Australian andanzsja New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts

Professional Development Program 2010ANZSJA’s 2010 Professional Development Program takes as its point of departure Jean Knox’s (2007) suggestion that Jung’s work is built on the following seven ‘signature’ concepts:

1) The self as an organizing psychic structure2) Archetypes and the collective unconscious3) The dissociative nature of the psyche and the formation of complexes4) The unconscious as an active and purposive agent in individuation5) The psyche as self-regulating - the transcendent function6) Libido as neutral psychic energy, available for a number of purposes7) Psychic imagery as symbols not signs, reflecting something as yet unknown

In order to support the clinical focus of this series of professional development lectures and seminars we have added Jung’s well-known principle that:

8) Clinicians cannot exert influence unless they are available to be influenced by their client /patient (C.W. 16, para. 163).

Each of the professional development lectures and seminars in this series takes one or more of these Jungian signature concepts as its point of departure. They are open to clinicians and trainees from any background. The Friday night lectures look at the wider clinical and theoretical implications of the ideas on Knox’s list, and the Saturday seminars offer an opportunity for attendees to explore more specific clinical applications of these ideas with ANZSJA analysts and with fellow seminar attendees. The Saturday seminars also include input from the presenters on both traditional and contemporary understandings of these core Jungian concepts, as well as their clinical uses.

These lectures and seminars have been structured in this way to make them accessible to clinicians who have little or no knowledge of Jung’s work. At the same time, the innovative approach being taken to the ideas under discussion means that these PD events will also be relevant to clinicians who are familiar with Jung’s ideas but are interested in exploring how they might develop new ways of applying them in their work.

The concepts in Knox’s list will be covered in the lectures and seminars as follows:

Jungian Analysis: The Self as Process in Theory and Practice1) The self as an organizing psychic structure

Jungian Analysis: The Personal and Collective Psyche - Therapy as a Process of Individuation:2) Archetypes and the collective unconscious4) The unconscious as an active and purposive agent in individuation

Jungian Analysis: Symbolisation and the Structure of the Unconscious:3)The dissociative nature of the psyche and the formation of complexes7) Psychic imagery as symbols not signs, reflecting something as yet unknown

Australian andanzsja New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts

Professional Development Program 2010Jungian Analysis: The Nature of The Psyche and Processes of Therapeutic Change: 5) The psyche as self-regulating - the transcendent function (including experiences of the emergent third and item 8 above which is Jung’s clinical principle that one cannot influence a client unless one is available to be influenced by the client)6) Libido as neutral psychic energy, available for a number of purposes

(Reference: Knox (2007) “Who Owns the Unconscious? or Why Psychoanalysts Need to ‘Own Jung’,” p.319 in Who Owns Jung? ed. Ann Casement, Karnac, London).

Sydney (NSW) March 2010 and October 2010Lecture: 7.30pm – 9:00pm Friday 5th March Images, Symbols and Being Creative in Psychotherapy: Working Constructively with What Arises

Presenter: Andre ZanardoSeminar: 9.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 6th MarchJungian Analysis: Symbolisation and the Structure of the Unconscious

Presenters: Andre Zanardo and Sue Austin

Lecture: 7.30pm – 9:00pm Friday 29th October Conscious And Unconscious Relationship In Psychotherapy: A Contemporary Jungian Approach To Transference And Countertransference

Presenter: Jean Knox (from the UK)Seminar: 9.30am – 4.30pm Saturday 30th OctoberThe Mind In Fragments: Understanding And Working With Dissociation In Clinical Practice

Presenter: Jean Knox (from the UK)

Christchurch (NZ) March 2010Lecture: 7.30pm – 9:00pm Friday 19th MarchUnconscious structures and defences, and how an analytic / psychotherapeutic relationship may challenge and change some of them

Presenter: Giles ClarkSeminar: 10am – 5.00pm Saturday 20th MarchJungian Analysis: The Nature of The Psyche and Processes of Therapeutic Change

Presenters: Andrew Gresham and Giles Clark

Perth (WA) June 2010Lecture: 7.30pm – 9:00pm Friday 25th June ‘Jung On The Couch’: How His Experience Shaped His Theories And Clinical Practice.

Presenter: Andrew GreshamSeminar: 10am – 5.00pm Saturday 26th JuneJungian Analysis: The Nature of The Psyche and Processes of Therapeutic Change

Presenters: Andre Zanardo and Andrew Gresham

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jungdownunderprogramme details

february to june 2010

February 13 Introducing the Work of Wolfgang Giegerich Presenter: John Woodcock

March 1* Women’s Story Circle: Fairy Tales Revisited Presenter: Sarah Gibson

March 13 Annual General Meeting (10 minutes) followed by The Red Book - An Introductory Evening Presenters: Terence McBride and Claire Dunne

April 10 Fairy Tales Re-imagined Re-enchantment: Fairy Tales as a Source of Creative Inspiration Presenter: Sarah Gibson

May 8 Jung in the Era of Evidence-based Psychotherapy Presenter: Dr David Russell

May 9** Workshop: The Therapeutic Experience Presenter: Dr David Russell

June 12 Archetypes of Chaos Presenter: Jonathan Marshall

All Saturday evening meetingsLevel 2 484 Kent St Sydney 6:30pm for 7:00pm

*Women’s Story Circle 8 Sessions with Sarah Gibson from March 16 Darghan St Glebe

**Workshop with David Russell May 9 The Centre 14 Frances St Randwick