Fairy Tales as Cultural Discourse

Fall II
Fairy Tales as Cultural Discourse

5 Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, Eastern Time, USA via Zoom 

November 9 – December 14 (excluding November 23)
Instructor: Mary Apikos

This course is not offered for NYS CE contact hours.

Over the course of five weeks students will be given an in-depth overview of some of the most essential genres in the oral to written story telling tradition.  By understanding the historical and cultural context that a story is told in, we will see how stories evolve to interact with other forces that impact our lives. Whether you are a musician, visual artist, writer or a person who wants to experience art in a more informed way, you will learn how your story is connected to multi-cultural folklore and literary fairytales.

Using a Jungian arts-based research approach, we will start with origin stories and Mother Goose; followed by dilemma stories that have enigmatic endings; cautionary tales and The Brother’s Grimm; the doppleganger motif and Jung’s concept of anima/animus; then finally we conclude with a session on instructive stories that explore mending, hope, and joy.  This is a multi-disciplinary course using music, film clips, art historical and literary references. Readings of both folklore and fairytales as well as scholarly texts are provided for our discussions, but not required, as all resources will be discussed during my presentation.

Learning Objectives: On completion of this class, you will be able to:

  1. Develop an understanding of Folklore & Fairy Tale typology and their multi-cultural variations using Stith-Thompson Motif Index
  2. Interpret symbols found in specific Folklore & Fairy Tales using resources provided on bibliography.
  3. Develop an understanding of key concepts used in Jungian Arts-Based Research
  4. Apply course materials to the making of personal creative works.
  5. Increase understanding of the historical context from which stories emerge and change.

Class sessions:

  1. Origin Stories, Personal Story Maps, Mother Goose
  2. Dilemma Stories, Enigmatic Endings
  3. Cautionary Tales, Nationalism & The Brother’s Grimm
  4. Doppelganger Stories, Jungian Shadow
  5. Ambiguous Loss, Reclamation of Joy

LOCATION

Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

Program Information

PROGRAM COSTS

$150 per single-day program registration. There are no scholarships available for this program.

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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.

FACULTY

Mary Apikos, MA, taught at Parsons School of Design NYC for 17 years. She taught inter-disciplinary courses about aspects of design culture that fell through the cracks to people who fell through the cracks. She is ABD in Cultural Anthropology from CUNY Graduate Center and has worked as an ethnographic textile conservator at the Museum of the American Indian, George Heye Foundation NYC and in private practice where she specialized in the care of sacred materials. In 2022 Mary completed a one-year remote applied arts program at the Centre for Applied Jungian Studies in South Africa. She is a working artist and currently resides in Chicago. Her work can be seen on her website maryapikos.com

Maxson J. McDowell, PhD, LMSW, LP, is a senior Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  Former President of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, he is also a longtime faculty member. He has taught courses in dream interpretation online and in person for over 25 years.  He has published papers on dream interpretation, Jungian psychology, narcissistic injury, systems theory and autism.

Bob Piller, JD, is a retired public interest lawyer with a lifelong interest in the study of the alchemical and esoteric works of Carl Jung, those who influenced Jung, and others who were influenced by him.   Since 2016, he delved deeply into Jungian inspired literature and Jean Gebser’s explorations of consciousness.  Inspired by the significance of Gebser’s genius and contributions, he designed and led a seminar program on Gebserian consciousness and its important and coherent relationship with Jung’s understanding of soul and access to the unconscious.  In 2023, he designed and led a seminar program that focused the unity of the physical body and consciousness in the context of Gebserian consciousness, and how integral consciousness impacts freedom and morality.

David Rottman, MA, is past President of the C.G. Jung Foundation and is a member of the Jung Foundation’s Continuing Education Faculty. He is the author of The Career as a Path to the Soul. He was the editor and publisher for The Way of the Image by Yoram Kaufmann. In private practice, he works with people from the US and many other countries.

Maria Taveras, LCSW, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City.  She is also an award-winning creator of Dream Art.  She creates art from images in her own dreams and is the recipient of two Gradiva Awards from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for her Dream Art.  Her Dream Art has been exhibited in New York, San Francisco, Berkeley, London, Montreal, and Cape Town.

 

 


With the exception of the course on Jung and Gebser, these are online courses, given through the program Zoom. Please download the Zoom program in advance of the first class session at Zoom.us

The Jung and Gebser course is given in-person only at the Jung Center, 28 East 39th Street, NYC.


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.  These programs will not be recorded.


For more information, call or write:

Office of the Executive Director
The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York
28 East 39th Street
New York, New York 10016
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Email: cgjungny@aol.com
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