LESSON-ROTTMAN

Fall I: Classes begin in October on Zoom

Moving the Needle:
A Jungian Approach to Archetypes in the Second Half of Life
5 consecutive Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom
Beginning October 27, 2025
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Youth, as a stage of life, has been put front and center in literary fairy tales, often more so than the stages of midlife and older age. This course is an overview of what has been lost, forgotten and deliberately erased from canonical collections such as The Brothers Grimm. Over the five sessions, we will do an in-depth study of two stories, one a Grimms' tale and another from the folkloric record, that showcase their difference from youth tales. We will explore archetypes and motifs of role reversals, inversions of fortune, acquisition of wisdom and the effectiveness of collective action in stories about the second half of life.

The class also serves as an introduction to Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR) methodology and students are encouraged to incorporate this approach into their own creative practices.  JABR is relatively new and has been written about by academics and taught by Jungian art therapists. Building upon the concept of trans-disciplinarity in physics, it applies Jung's work on the transcendent function to offer creatives a way to examine subjectivity and multiple meaning making without hierarchies. It is not a form of art therapy but can be therapeutic in the creative process.

These are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

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TUITION

All 5-week courses are $175 for the general public and $150 for members.

REGISTRATION

The full fee must be paid at the time of registration.
Please register through the payment buttons on this website.

$175 General Public


$150 Members

IMPORTANT NOTES

When you pay you must also email your current email address and telephone number to the Foundation at cgjungny@aol.com. The Foundation will send you an email message and you must reply to confirm receipt. If you are taking this course for 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists, please specify which license you hold and give your NYS license number.
Class size is limited. Early registration is strongly recommended. Refunds for continuing education courses, less $15 for administrative services, will be made up to seven days before the first session. There will be no refunds issued after classes have begun. No exceptions will be made. Programs are subject to change without notice.

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