The President’s Lecture Series

As part of the C. G. Jung Foundation's initiative to reach out to the many Jungian communities worldwide to share information and build community, we are presenting a new program, entitled The President's Lecture Series.

By sharing information among the various Jungian communities, we can draw together in our work to enlarge analytical psychology to its fullest capacity, benefiting a new audience of people in their quest for greater consciousness.

Date: Friday, May 21, 2010, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location: Jung Center, 28 East 39th Street, New York City

Speaker: Darrell Dobson, PhD, President, Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies

Bringing Jung into the Classroom: Psyche at School, Symbol as Teacher

How do we honor the psyche in the classroom? How can we train teachers to understand the symbols that arise in the psyches of their students and in the world around us? What does an understanding of Jung have to offer our educational system?

In an era when standardized test scores are prized more than meaningful experiences and corporate values are mistaken for educational goals, this presentation explores ways to invite depth, meaning, and authenticity into public education settings. The presentation is for everyone who would have loved to have been schooled by teachers trained in Jung’s approach, and for everyone who would like the same for their children. The presentation includes ideas, stories, and examples of practices that draw on analytical psychology to honor psyche in the classroom.

Darrell Dobson, PhD, Darrell Dobson has a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Toronto. He is the author of Transformative Teaching: Promoting Transformation through Literature, the Arts, and Jungian Psychology (2008), and his work can be found in the anthologies Education and Imagination: Post-Jungian Perspectives (2008) and Perpetual Adolescence: Jungian Analyses of American Media, Literature, and Pop Culture (2009). He is the president of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and is editor of Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies. He is the author of numerous academic articles including “Royal, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Archetypal Reflectivity and the Construction of Professional Knowledge” in Teacher Education Quarterly (Summer 2009). He lives in the woods in Canada with his wife and two young sons.

The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies was founded in 2002 by an interdisciplinary group of academics seeking opportunities for scholarly discourse on analytical psychology, focusing on the research and theories of Carl Gustav Jung and the post- and neo-Jungians. Membership in the society is open to all academics, analysts, therapists, practicing artists, students, candidates in training, and interested members of the public. JSSS publishes an academic, peer-reviewed, journal, entitled Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies, formerly known as JUNG: the e-Journal of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies. JSSS organizes a yearly international, interdisciplinary, academic conference through which members can present scholarly papers, organize roundtable discussions, and provide interactive workshops. The next conference will be held at Cornell University in August 2010. For more information about the JSSS, visit their website: www.thejungiansociety.org.

Tickets: $20.00 C.G. Jung Foundation Members; $25.00 General Public.
Reserve your seat by calling the C. G. Jung Foundation at 212-697-6430,
or by emailing info@cgjungny.org.

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Date: Tuesday, June 8, 2010, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location: Jung Center, 28 East 39th Street, New York City

Speaker: Robert Moss, MA

SYMBOL MAGNETS: Symbol, Dream, I Ching and the Pauli Effect in the Development of Jung's Synchronicity Theory

When Jung was immersed in his study of the symbolism of the fish, the theme started leaping at him in everyday life. In a single 24-hour period, after writing about an ancient inscription involving a fish-man, he noted a sequence of six meaningful coincidences that all related to fish, a “run of chance” in which more than chance seemed to be at play. This was one of the sequences that prompted Jung to ask whether it is possible that the physical world mirrors psychic processes "as continuously as the psyche perceives the physical world.”

Jung found that living symbols engrained in the imaginal history of humankind are charged with magnetic force that can draw clusters of events together. In their origins, “symbol” and “coincidence” mean very nearly the same thing: that which is “cast together” or “falls together.” As Jung discovered repeatedly, the magnetic power of a symbol can bring together inner and outer events in ways that shift our experience and understanding of reality.

In this lecture, Robert Moss, the creator of Active Dreaming and a lifelong student of Jung, will discuss key factors in the development of Jung’s synchronicity theory: Jung’s personal experience of symbol magnets, his guiding dreams, his discovery of the I Ching and his remarkably fertile intellectual friendship with Wolfgang Pauli, the pioneer of quantum physics, who described dreams as his “secret laboratory.” Jung and Pauli goaded each other, in a 25-year correspondence, to step beyond the boundaries of their disciplines and seek to develop a working model of a universe in which mind and matter are constantly interweaving and may unfold from a common fundament, the unus mundus. We’ll explore the mystery of Pauli’s “Chinese woman,” a possible anima figure discussed by Jung and Pauli, who stepped out of his dream life and into the world at the center of a revolution in science, and the notorious Pauli Effect by which big things tended to blow up in the presence of the brilliant physicist and his roiling emotions.

Robert Moss, MA, is the pioneer of Active Dreaming, an original synthesis of shamanism and modern dreamwork. Born in Australia, he survived three near-death experiences in childhood. He leads popular seminars all over the world, including a three-year training for teachers of Active Dreaming and a lively online dream school. A former lecturer in ancient history at the Australian National University, he is a best-selling novelist, journalist and independent scholar. His seven books on dreaming, shamanism and imagination include Conscious Dreaming, Dreamways of the Iroquois, The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence and Imagination and The Secret History of Dreaming.

Tickets: $20.00 C.G. Jung Foundation Members; $25.00 General Public.
Reserve your seat by calling the C. G. Jung Foundation at 212-697-6430,
or by emailing info@cgjungny.org.

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