First Tuesday Lunch Forums

Informal gatherings are scheduled the first Tuesday of each month. An analyst or other specialist guides discussion on issues that touch our lives — aging, homelessness, current movies, finding balance in our lives, journal writing, and others. Bring a brown bag lunch — coffee, tea and cookies will be provided. No reservations required, suggested contribution fee of $2.00. All are welcome.

Location:

C. G. Jung Center
28 East 39th Street
New York City

Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm (unless otherwise noted).

For more information, call 212-697-6430, or email info@cgjungny.org

Upcoming Tuesday Lunch Forums

Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Jung, Animus and 21st Century American Women

Speaker: Fanny Brewster, PhD

If it was no easy task to describe what is meant by the anima, the difficulties become almost insuperable when we set out to describe the psychology of the animus.

C. G. Jung, Aspects of the Feminine

Jung first came to America in September, 1909. When he returned for his third visit, at the invitation of Fordham University in September, 1912, Jung gave an extensive interview to The New York Times. In this interview, "America Facing Its Most Tragic Moment," Jung spoke of his concerns regarding the personal relationship between American women and men. He also expressed his ideas regarding American women and their role as wives.

Jung's concept of the Animus was being developed during this time period. Over the last century, Jungian women such as Esther Harding, Marion Woodman and Claire Douglas have contributed their voices to developing Jung's ideas regarding the Animus and the Feminine.

Would Jung consider American women to be different than they were a century ago? Would he have a changed opinion of how they are affected by Animus energy? We have an opportunity to take a century's perspective, to look at transformative experiences of consciousness in American women. We can discuss Jung's Archetypal Animus then and now and see how we understand this archetypal energy to exist in our lives and in our relationship with work, play and love.

Fanny Brewster, PhD holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is currently a Candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and a NYS Certified School Psychologist.

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Tuesday, November 2, 2010, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

Dream Art: Creative Process and Active Imagination

Speaker: Maria Taveras

This is a presentation on dream art. It illustrates how to create works of art from archetypal images that emerge from the collective unconscious in dreams. The presentation includes a slide show of sculptures as examples of psychic transformation — especially the transformation of the feminine.

When Jung discusses active imagination, he emphasizes the creative process. "The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all," he says, "consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and in elaborating and shaping this image into the finished work." Marie-Louise von Franz notes that when an individual actively engages an image, Jung advises the individual to give the image "a form." For example, the individual may draw it, paint it, or, as she says, "sculpt it."

Maria Taveras is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and an award-winning sculptor. In her sculptures, she explores the unconscious sources of creativity in an intimately personal way, using archetypal images from her own dreams to illustrate the process of psychic transformation. Her sculpture "Transformation of the Feminine" won a 2004 Gradiva Award from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis. She has exhibited in New York, Montreal, San Francisco, London, Cape Town, and Berkeley. Her web site, which includes examples of her dream art, is www.jungiantherapy.com.

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