THE MYSTERIES OF RELATIONSHIP: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF
THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF LOVE
JUNE 21, 22, 23, 2012
The C.G. Jung Institute-Boston
21 Hartford Street
Newton, Massachusetts
(19.5 Continuing Education Units will be offered)
The Summer Intensive is open to all who are interested in the Jungian approach to the psyche. While many lay persons also attend the program, it is particularly suited to professionals in counseling, psychotherapy, psychiatry, nursing, social work, medicine, religion, education, and the arts. The program is strongly recommended for those who are considering training in Jungian analysis.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The program’s central theme this year focuses on the psychological perspectives of love and relationships. As a backdrop for our considerations, we note Jung’s evocative statement that “Eros is a kosmogonos, a creator and father-mother of all higher consciousness.” (Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 353) He adds that while he has never been able to explain what it is, “... we are in the deepest sense the victims and the instruments of cosmogonic love.” You are invited to participate in the always stimulating exploration of the Intensive’s theme as six faculty members from the C.G. Jung Institute -Boston bring their own perspectives shaped through case studies and insights from depth psychology.
OBJECTIVES
1. To describe in case presentations the role of unconscious dynamics operating in love and relationships.
2. To consider the archetypal dimensions of Eros as a force appearing in diverse cultures, religions, mythologies.
3. To present approaches toward understanding and working with the dynamics of psychotherapeutic relationships.
SUGGESTED READING
Jung, C.G. “Late Thoughts,” in Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Revised Edition. New York; Vintage Books, 1973.
Stevens, Anthony. Archetype Revisited: An Updated Natural History of the Self. Toronto: Inner City Books, 2003.
THE PROGRAM - THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 2012
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM
INTRODUCTION AND ORIENTATION
Randall Mishoe, D.Min. IAAP
9 AM – 12:30 PM
EROS: TRANSFORMATION AND SPIRITUALITY
John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., IAAP
When Eros, god of bonding, god of chaos and god of sex, enters our lives he opens us up to the archetypes of the collective unconscious and invites us to set forth on an individuation journey. Although famous for leaving us wounded, Eros can also be a healer and transformer. In his Psychology of the Transference, Jung shows us how Eros can guide the process of personal transformation for analyst as much as for analysand. Lovers proceed on a similar but less well-marked path. Meanwhile, Eros’ Hindu sister, Kundalini, has much to teach us about differentiating our emotional states of mind, as Jung demonstrates in his 1932 seminar on the topic. When Kundalini awakens and rises through the chakras of our bodies, each experience is more spiritual than the last, and each requires learning the lessons of those that went before. Finally, the various schools of Tantra have developed a number of highly varied techniques and exercises for exploring the transformative potential of Eros/Kundalini.
Suggested Reading:
C. G. Jung. The Psychology of the Transference (CW16, pp. 163-320).
C. G. Jung. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga (1932 Seminar; Princeton/Bollingen).
J. R. Haule. The Love Cure: Therapy Erotic and Sexual (Spring, 1996).
12:30 PM – 2 PM
LUNCH (ad lib)
A list of local restaurants will be provided.
2 PM– 5:30 PM
SABINA SPIELREIN BETWEEN JUNG AND FREUD: A SYMMETRY NO LONGER SECRET
Brian Skea, Ph.D., IAAP
Since the 1982 publication of Aldo Carotenuto’s book, A Secret Symmetry: Sabina Spielrein Between Jung and Freud, based on recently discovered journals and letters, there has been increasing interest in the life and work of Sabina Spielrein. She was Jung’s first psychoanalytic case at the Burgholzli Hospital in 1904. Spielrein recovered, enrolled in medical school, published two important papers, and went on to become a Freudian analyst.
John Kerr’s A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein (1993) is the most comprehensive text on the role Spielrein played in the complex relationship between Jung and Freud. In addition, the Journal of Analytical Psychology has published an English translation of Spielrein’s 1912 ‘Destruction’ paper (1994) and has devoted a whole issue, January 2001, to important articles on Spielrein. My own contributions include ‘Jung, Spielrein and Nash: Three Beautiful Minds Confronting the Impulse to Love or to Destroy in the Creative Process’ (2003) and ‘Sabina Spielrein: out from the shadow of Jung and Freud’ (2006).
Elisabeth Marton’s 2002 documentary, My Name was Sabina Spielrein, is the first film about the life of Sabina Spielrein. Based on Kerr’s book, Christopher Hampton has adapted his play The Talking Cure (2002) for the recently released film A Dangerous Method (2011), directed by David Cronenberg. Participants are encouraged to view the two films before the presentation.
Suggested Reading:
Carotenuto, A (1982). A Secret Symmetry. Sabina Spielrein Between Jung and Freud. New York:Random House.
Kerr, J. (1993). A Most Dangerous Method. New York: Knopf.
Skea, B. R. (2003). ‘Jung, Spielrein and Nash: Three Beautiful Minds’. In Terror, Violence
and the Impulse to Destroy, ed. John Beebe. Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag.
Skea, B. R. (2006). ‘Sabina Spielrein: out from the shadow of Jung and Freud.’ Journal of Analytical Psychology, 51, 527-552.
THE PROGRAM – FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2012
9 AM – 12:30 PM
THE ARCHEYPTE OF THE VESSEL: CONTAINMENT IN THERAPEUTIC PROCESS
Annette Hanson, MA., IAAP
This talk focuses on the value of deep connections and entanglements in the therapeutic relationship via the archetype of the vessel. A Jungian perspective conveys that the unconscious is ultimately the vessel that contains the therapeutic process and that within the professional relationship between analyst and client there remains a personal relationship. It is the extent to which an analyst has the capacity and willingness to feel the client’s suffering not only professionally but also humanly, which creates a portal for the unconscious to transform the psyche. Jung stated “It is inevitable that the doctor should be influenced to a certain extent…that the doctor quite literally takes over the suffering of his patent and shares it with him” (Jung, 1954/1966, p. 171) The analyst’s primary role is like that of a receptive and hollow vessel, which beckons the unconscious to take form. Paradoxically, the analyst must also be a proactive agent arousing and strengthening the client’s conscious mind. The client in turn must bear his or her suffering, which is often no easy task in the context of a human relationship. In this talk, I will speak to the nuances of analytic inter-personal bonding that occur both consciously and unconsciously between analyst and client and how the analyst can negotiate this process for the benefit of the client’s individuation.
12:30 PM – 2 PM
LUNCH
2 PM – 5:30 PM
A JUNGIAN APPROACH TO COUPLE THERAPY
Anita U. Greene, Ph.D., IAAP and Thayer A. Greene, Ph.D., IAAP
Jung’s understanding of psychological complexes, his insights into the nature of typological differences, and his unique recognition of the archetypal and personal levels of human interaction are a representation of the value offered by a Jungian approach to couple therapy. Thayer and Anita will share their clinical experiences and observations in working with partners where projective dynamics and lack of self awareness create both difficulties and conflicts in authentic communication. They will also share their personal experience and mutual self-discovery during their sixty years of marriage.
THE PROGRAM – SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012
9 AM – 12:30 PM
RESTORING WHOLENESS: THE SYMBOLISM OF THE KABBALA AND THE REPAIR OF THE SOUL
Richard L. Kradin, M.D., IAAP
In his late works, C.G. Jung exhibited a keen interest in alchemy arguing that in many instances the alchemical work was in fact directed at the purification of the soul. Although, Jung was acquainted with many of the symbols of the Kabbalah he did not systematically examine its comparable role as a cure of the soul. Despite a pronounced interest in legalism and the performance of “works,” an undercurrent of mysticism can be traced throughout the history of Judaism from biblical times through the modern Hassidic movements. In the 12th century a new text, the Zohar, appeared in Gerona, and was credited to the 2nd century rabbinic mystic Simeon bar Yohai. This text was enthusiastically greeted and interpreted, most famously by a group of Kabbalists in Palestine led by Rabbi Isaac ben Luria. His innovative interpretation of the Kabbalah is responsible for much of modern mystical thought in traditional Judaism. Whereas esoteric symbolism of the Kabbalistic texts is difficult to penetrate; it is abundantly clear that the aim of the Kabbalists was to revivify the soul and to recreate personal connection with the divine, by focusing on a re-visioning of the one’s daily efforts and meditations. It is also evident that this system shares much with Jung’s approach to the harmonization of the psyche as discussed in Jung’s last treatise Mysterium Coniunctio.” This seminar will review the history, symbolism, and practices of the Kabbalists with emphasis on how their approach pertains to the restoration the ego-Self axis. Dream imagery and active imagination will be adopted for the purpose of illustrating how Kabbalah and Jungian analysis are in fact parallel traditions.
12:30 PM – 2 PM
LUNCH
2 PM – 5:30 PM
THE MYSTERIES OF RELATIONSHIP: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE ENTANGLEMENTS OF LOVE
Manisha Roy, Ph.D., IAAP
This seminar will look at the mysteries of love relationships from anthropological as well as psychological perspectives to determine how the archetype of Eros manifests itself in this mystery. We’ll examine how different cultures circumscribe the expression of love in its many forms and relationships giving rise to even new forms of archetypal experience which are often captured by the art, literature, folklore and religious rituals of the time and specific geography. The instructor’s long experience as an anthropologist and a Jungian analyst will offer examples for the discussion, the purpose of which is to experience the mystery if not understanding it through explanation.
5:30 PM
CLOSING REMARKS
Randall Mishoe, D.Min., IAAP
THE SUMMER INTENSIVE FACULTY
Anita U. Green, Ph.D., IAAP is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York where she taught and served on the Board. She is trained in the Rubenfeld Synergy Method which combines Alexander and Feldenkrais body techniques. She is on the faculty at the C.G. Jung Institute – Boston, maintains a private practice in Amherst, MA, and continues to lecture and write on the integration of body and psyche.
Thayer A. Greene, Ph.D., IAAP, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, a training analyst and a faculty member of the C.G Jung Institute – Boston. He has lectured widely and is the author of a book, and a number of articles in the field. He has a private practice in Amherst, MA.
Annette Hanson, MA., IAAP, is a Jungian Analyst and graduated from the C.G. Jung Institute in Boston. She lives and has a private practice in Exeter, New Hampshire. Annette has written on the subject of analytic containment, and has a special interest in the healing effects of nature on the psyche.
John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., IAAP, has been on the faculty of the Boston Institute for 30 years, and is the author of a variety of books and articles. For an extensive overview of his interests and writings, check out his website at www.jrhaule.net
Richard L. Kradin, M.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst at a Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, member of the MGH Center for Psychoanalytical Studies, former Research Director at the Mind/Body Medical Institute, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. He has authored over 200 articles in the medical and psychoanalytical literature and is the author of five texts including the The Herald Dream (Karnac 2006), the Placebo Response: Power of Unconscious Healing (Routledge 2008) and Pathologies of the Mind/Body Interface: Exploring the Curious Domain of the Psychosomatic Disorders(Routledge 2012). He is the recipient of the Gradiva Prize (1998) for the Best Paper in Psychoanalysis. Dr. Kradin has completed graduate training in religion at Harvard University and at the Hebrew College in Newton, MA, where he has studied with Dr. Arthur Green, a world renowned scholar of the Kabbalah. He lectures internationally on topics related to Jungian psychology, is a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston, and maintains a private analytical practice in Boston.
Randall Mishoe, D.Min., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst and Fellow in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, with a private practice in Charlotte, NC. A member of NESJA as well as President of the North Carolina Association of Jungian Analysts, he serves as Analyst Director of the Intensive. For further information, consult his website at www.randallmishoe.com.
Manisha Roy, Ph.D., IAAP, born and brought up in India, is an anthropologist and Jungian analyst. A diplomate of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, she has been in private practice over 30 years and is located now in Cambridge, Mass. Author of 27 articles and six books, her publications include Bengali Women, Cast the First Stone: Ethics in Analytic Practice (co-ed) and The Reckoning Heart: An Anthropologist Looks at Her Worlds. Dr. Roy also writes fiction and writes in two languages: English and Bengali, her mother tongue.
Brian Skea, Ph.D., IAAP, is a Jungian analyst, trained in Pittsburgh with the IRSJA, and at the New York Jung Institute, graduating in 1992. He has a private practice in Brewster on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and is a member of the teaching faculty and President of the Training Board of the Boston Jung Institute. Before 2004, Brian lived and practiced in the Pittsburgh area as a psychologist and Jungian analyst. He was a faculty member in the Pittsburgh Seminar of the IRSJA from 1995 to 2004, and served as Coordinator of Training for 6 years. Brian was a founding member and past president of the Pittsburgh Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. He has presented papers on trauma and dissociation, and has published several book reviews and papers in this field, including “Jung, Spielrein and Nash, Three Beautiful Minds” in “Terror, Violence and the Impulse to Destroy,” ed. John Beebe (2003) Daimon Verlag, and “Sabina Spielrein: Out from the Shadow of Jung and
Freud,” JAP, 2006, Vol 51, 527-552.
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