Eros: Projection, Complex
and Individuation
Saturday, April 22, 2023 10:00 am – 3:00 pm EST
a Zoom seminar led by Julie Bondanza, PhD
Contact hours: 4 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
“Eros is kosmogonos, a creator and father-mother of all higher consciousness.”
C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962), p.353
Eros is a powerful god. In mythology Eros often wreaked havoc, as it does in our own experiences. In our lives Eros mixes quite magnificently with our complexes and can bring us to ecstatic heights or to the depths of despair.
Recognizing that our complexes easily merge with Eros and recognizing that the beloved is often a projection of our psychic contents can help move us on our individuation path. In this presentation we will explore the spiritual and sensual dimensions of eros and the roles both projection and our complexes play in our relationships and in our individuation process. We will amplify our exploration with mythology and fairy tale, dreams and clinical experience.
Learning Objectives: Participants will be able to:
1. Define Eros based on Jung’s understanding.
2. Describe Eros’ attributes based on an understanding of the Greek mythologies involving him.
3. Describe how the archetype of Eros mixes with an individual’s complexes to affect behavior.
4. Describe the interaction between Eros and Projection in human love relationships.
5. Describe how Eros is involved on one’s individuation journey.
Julie Bondanza, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist in private practice in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. She trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was on the teaching faculty for many years. She has been the director of training for both the New York Institute and the Philadelphia branch of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. She is the program director for the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, where she had served for many years on its board, and she teaches in many Jungian venues across the country, both to the public and to analysts-in-training.
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Contact hours: Four CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.
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Saturday, April 22, 2023: 10:00 am–3:00 pm EST
This is an online program via Zoom. This program will not be recorded.