Workshops

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents
Human Being Human: Film, Culture and Individuation
a daylong seminar led by
Christopher Hauke, BSc

Saturday, April 17, 2004, 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

At the level of the individual, Jungian psychology not only offers a perspective on how our personal history has provided benefits and limitations for our development as human beings; but, through archetypal theory, Jung’s psychology also suggests that our potential may be limited by contemporary collective forces.

Individuals who, somehow, find a path through this despite the limitations of their cultural time and place, may well find themselves out of step with collective values despite experiencing themselves as more authentic and fully ‘human’ in the widest sense. Jungian analysis supplies a remedy in the way it initiates and supports individuation – the fulfilling of everyone’s potential as a human being. This workshop explores the relationship between psyche and culture found in Jungian psychology and contemporary movies and what this tells us about our human ‘being,’ about the culturally derived limitations we should accept, and, above all, about the ones we should challenge.

Christopher Hauke co-edited collection Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image established perspectives from Jungian psychology as a new and enlightening approach to movies. This workshop uses film to illustrate how individuation (“becoming the person you are intended to be”) is not only a key Jungian concept but also a major movie theme. Our discussion will range across both sides of the movie-camera from the perspective of cinematographers to that of the effects of film images on the audience itself.

The ideas presented here for the first time, are from Christopher Hauke’s forthcoming book, “Human Being Human: Women, Men, Culture and Soul” to be published by Brunner-Routledge in early 2005.

Christopher Hauke, BSc, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in London, U.K. and a Lecturer in Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of London, Goldsmiths College. He lectures in the U.K., U.S.A. and Europe. He has published Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities, co-edited a collection of new papers, Contemporary Jungian Analysis, Post-Jungian Perspectives from the Society of Analytical Psychology, and his latest book (also co-edited with Ian Alister) is a collection of Jungian writing on movies – Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image.