SUMMER STUDY ONLINE PROGRAM 2023
Program 2

Identity, Alienation and Exile

July 17-21, 2023

This week begins with an examination of the “As-if” personality, also referred to as Imposter Syndrome, and a discussion of its regenerative nature. The next session centers on the relationship of Jung’s work in the Red Book and Black Books and the poetry of Fernando Pessoa, exploring the question: “Who is the I, that I claim I am?” Mid-week we explore the colors and moods of exile energy as it manifests in our personal lives and in the collective and as it shows up in the consulting room. Our fourth session will focus on the psychological implications of immigrating to a new place, intergenerational trauma and the role of the uncanny in these experiences. We will end the program with a discussion of the alienating effect of trauma on the ego.

 

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Welcome and Orientation
Monday, July 17
11:30 am – 12 noon ET

 

Who am I Really? The ‘As-If’ Personality and Imposter Syndrome
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

This seminar explores the fragility of self in the ‘As-If’ Personality, the popularly termed imposter syndrome. This person lives on illusions and is both the mirror and the mask, presenting in artifice. Known for a slickly contrived persona/ego image, behind it the ‘as-if’ person withdraws into fantasy. Inside is alienation and self-isolation, loneliness. The issues affect intimacy with oneself and others due to the difficulty being present. The areas include not belonging, sexual addiction, aging, the cultural influence of social media, the role of the father and mother, body image and split selves. All these are promoted by the culture of social media where reality and illusion are often blurred.

The complex aspects are explored through composite clinical examples, dreams and a fairytale as we seek to ground this elusive personality type. The purpose of exploring the ‘as-if’ and imposter personality is to find what can be replenishing and regenerative to the person and culture

Instructor: Susan E. Schwartz, PhD

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An I and Self-Othering

Tuesday, July 18
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

Countless lives inhabit us.
I don’t know, when I think or feel,
Who is thinking or feeling.
I am merely the place
Where things are thought or felt.
Ricardo Reiss 11/13/1935

At the end of Memories, Dreams, Reflections Jung made some perplexing remarks on himself and his own “I.”  “The older I have become, the less I have understood or had insight into or known about myself.  …. In fact, it seems to me as if that alienation that so long separated me from the world has become transferred into my own inner world, and has revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.” As Jungians we have been accustomed to the enigma of the unconscious but there seems to be another mystery hidden in plain sight: “Who is the I, that I claim that I am?” “What is the I?”

To explore these questions, we will first turn to Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), a great Portuguese poet, before relating his work to Jung’s Black Books and The Red Book. Pessoa was the pioneer in subjecting the very notion of the I to radical analysis.  While at the time, different psychoanalytic schools were examining the relationship of the ego to the unconscious, assuming the ego was a single subject, Pessoa would question the subject itself: Who is the real author of this poem just written?  Am I the subject?” How many I’s I am? What is an I? What if the unified identity, or clearly defined subjectivity or personality is an illusion?  In his explorations of subjectivity, he pre-dates contemporary philosophical debates by seven decades. As a French philosopher, Alain Badiou, put it in 1998: “If Pessoa represents a singular challenge for philosophy, if his modernity is still ahead of us, remaining in many respects unexplored, it is because his thought-poem inaugurates a path that … to this day, philosophy has yet to comprehend.”

Psychology has yet to consider Pessoa’s contributions. We will engage Pessoa’s thought to bring his poetic light on illuminate questions of the subject I, other, identity, self-othering and relate it to Jung’s own soul quest in his Black Books and The Red Book.

Instructor: Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD

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(The image is of the path between the barracks at Dachau Konzentrationslager)

Weaving and Unravelling Our Shrouds:
Encountering Exile as a Complex in Psyche and
Embracing Our Jouissance as a Path towards Source

Wednesday, July 19
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

“The opposite of Home is not distance but forgetfulness” – Elie Wiesel
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble.
It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” – Mark Twain

Exile is an archetypal energy that is very much constellated in our current time. We see it activated and played out in our local communities, and on the national and international stage. We are even enacting it with Nature herself. Exile can bring dissociation and withdrawal, or it may enflame rage and an aggressive enacting of violence. It results in a loss of Home, sometimes literally but always imaginatively. In our time, awareness of this archetypal happening brings a potential for creative action that can transform our communities and institutions yet for this to happen we need both an authentic individuality and some felt connection to the collective and to the Self. Clinically, we may understand the exile experience as connected to anxiety and depression, archetypal happenings in the psyche that impose distance, the inability to connect, and a sense of being walled off or sealed in a tomb.

We will look at the archetypal energies of Exile as an autonomous happening in the psyche that can be the beginning of an individuation journey. However, it may instead lead to adaptations that make wholeness impossible. Jouissance is a term that connects us with the primal drive to TRANSGRESS in service to authentic individuation. Being in connection with one’s Jouissance means to embrace one’s personal ‘fate’ and to be in cooperation with what connects one to Source.

Those who cannot perform normative cultural narratives often find their voices silenced. They are not mirrored by the culture in which they find themselves. Cultural Narratives such as fairy tales fail to mirror our human experience in many ways. And yet, they offer archetypal images that may provide a path towards a new mirror, if one is willing to stray from the offered path. The possible new path forward lies at the archetypal core of an image. To Queer an experience is to resist defining it. The willingness and capacity to transgress in service to psychological and spiritual development is at the very center of authenticity. This capacity is fragile and currently threatened by our Zeitgeist which is one of polarization, cancel culture, and overt demonstrations of violence towards anyone who cannot perform the hegemonic narrative being imposed. Resistance and the capacity to transgress is at the core of conscious individuation. Queer energy and Jouissance offer a practical methodology in analytic practice.

Instructor: David Solem, MSW, MAPC, MA

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Immigration Experiences: Looking at Mysteries,
Trauma and the Uncanny

Thursday, July 20
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

In this program we will explore many sides of immigration. The presentation will highlight research and lived experiences about immigrant mental health, acculturative stress, and xenophobia; the psychological implications of immigrating to a new place; intergenerational trauma; and the role of the uncanny. Sometimes, immigrant parents bring with them remnants of their past that linger unconsciously within a family as secrets and untold stories. These can include traumatic events before or during their migration. Intergenerational transmission of trauma can become an aspect of immigrant children’s experiences when parents have fled their home countries because of persecution and violence. A clinical example will help to understand this process.

In addition, we will look at stories that immigrants tell about their journeys. An ancient story is the mythical tale of The Aeneid. Written by Virgil, it describes the wanderings of the Trojans, who fled after Greek armies had sacked their city. It builds on the epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey. The leader of the Trojans is Aeneas, who tries to guide his people to Italy. Their story conveys many archetypal components that relate to any migration, such as tremendous efforts, heroic feats, multiple detours, a variety of losses, fights, acceptance, and rejection.

Unexplainable occurrences often typify many immigrant stories. A review of the uncanny can help to elucidate both the irrationality and eerie feelings, such as dread and horror, that usually accompany them. Both Jung and Freud were interested in the uncanny, and many of their observations are still relevant for understanding weird eruptions of the unconscious into everyday life. The uncanny is a radical piece of human psyche that we simply cannot fully explain. Many immigration experiences can give us some insight into this phenomenon.

Instructor: Robert Tyminski, DMH

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Developmental Trauma and the Alienated Ego

CANCELED

Friday, July 21
12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET

Developmental Trauma occurs when there is early and repeated trauma and loss which happens in the child’s important early relationships. These may include rejection, abandonment or even strong negative emotions coming toward the child. This corresponds to what Erich Neumann in The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype identifies as both the negative elemental mother and the negative transformative mother.

The resulting personal difficulties that arise from early developmental trauma can be devastating: isolation, alienation, nihilism and despair.  These concepts will be further elucidated through case examples, myth and fairy tales.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the causes of developmental trauma.
2. Discuss the effects of developmental trauma including the alienation that occurs in adulthood
3. Describe the negative elemental Mother
4. Describe the negative transformative mother

Instructor: Julie Bondanza, PhD

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Summer Study 2023 Faculty  

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.

John A. Desteian, JD, LP, diplomate Jungian psychoanalyst, has been in private practice in Saint Paul since 1983. Recently, he has moved to Zurich, Switzerland. He is the author of Coming Together, Coming Apart (1989, 2021) and numerous articles and book reviews, appearing in professional journals and anthologies, which concern interpersonal (object) relations, gender, creativity, and politics. He was the founder, chairman, and executive director of Jungian International Training-Zurich and the Canadian Foundation for Jungian International Training-Zurich and was co-president of the Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists (AGAP) and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). He is presently on the governing committee of the International Seminar in Analytical Psychology Zurich.

Eve Maram, PsyD, is a clinical and forensic psychologist and a certified Jungian analyst in private practice in Orange, California. She has authored two books, Psychopathy Within (Chiron, 2016) and The Schizophrenia Complex (Chiron, 2022), as well as several chapters and articles. She is a member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, as well as the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). As a Jungian analyst, her experience bridges apparently divergent areas of psychology. Along with decades of studying Jung from Küsnacht to southern California, and most recently Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA), her background includes: psychological testing, clinical and forensic assessment; intervention and therapeutic treatment for clients including children and families suffering from child abuse, criminal histories, drug abuse, and mild to severe mental disorders; and 8 years serving on the State of California panel evaluating potentially sexually violent predators in the prisons. She is deeply committed to making the wonderful message of Jung available to this diverse world in the spirit of inclusion, across perceived barriers, holding dear our shared humanity, guided by Eros.

Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst, is also a clinical psychologist and member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. She presents to numerous Jungian conferences and teaching programs in the USA and worldwide. She has articles in several journals and chapters in books on Jungian analytical psychology. Her current book published by Routledge is translated into several languages and into Ukrainian this April. It is entitled The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds. Another book will be published by Routledge in 2023 entitled, The Imposter Syndrome and The ‘As-If’ Personality in Analytical Psychology: The Fragility of Self. Her Jungian analytical practice is in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com.

David Solem, MSW, MAPC, MA, MM, is a diplomate Jungian analyst through The Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts-IAAP. He is a training analyst on the faculties of the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, the Memphis-Atlanta Jungian Seminar, and the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. His publications appear in Psychological Perspectives (2017), Quadrant (2018), and the Journal of Analytical Psychology (2019 and 2021). He has lectured and facilitated workshops for the C.G. Jung Institute of Santa Fe, the Phoenix Friends of Jung, the C.G. Jung Society of Atlanta, the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and the C.G. Jung Society of Washington DC. He is in private clinical practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Craig E. Stephenson, PhD, LP, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, the Institut für Psychodrama (Zümikon) and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He served on the ethics committee and the executive committee of the Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists (AGAP) and on the board of directors of the Philemon Foundation, and worked as Director of Training for the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association of New York (JPA). His books include Possession: Jung’s Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche (Routledge, 2009), Anteros: A Forgotten Myth (Routledge, 2012), Jung and Moreno: Essays on the Theatre of Human Nature (Routledge, 2013), and most recently, The Correspondence of Victoria Ocampo, Count Keyserling and C G Jung: Writing to the Woman who was Everything (Routledge, 2023). He edited Jung’s lectures on Gérard de Nerval, published as On Psychological and Visionary Art (2016) for the Philemon Foundation and Princeton University Press. He is a licensed psychoanalyst in private practice.

Don L. Troyer, MD, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Kalamazoo, Michigan. A graduate of the Analyst Training program of the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, he is a senior training analyst and serves on the Institute’s Training Committee. He is a Board Certified Family Physician and serves on the Board of Apple Farm Community, a Jungian contemplative community in Three Rivers, Michigan. He holds a diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, a Doctor of Medicine degree from Case Western Reserve University Medical School and B.A. in Natural Science from Goshen College. He teaches in many Jungian venues across the country and is interested in the interface between psychology, spirituality and medicine.

Robert Tyminski, DMH, is a Jungian analyst and licensed psychologist in private practice in San Francisco, working with adults, adolescents and children. He is a member and past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he is also on the teaching faculty. He is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Tyminski has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally and has published numerous articles in Journal of Analytical Psychology and International Journal of Jungian Studies, among others. He is the author of books including The Psychology of Theft and Loss: Stolen and Fleeced (Routledge, 2014), Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace (Routledge, 2019) and most recently, The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place (Routledge, 2022).

Sylvester Wojtkowski, PhD, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in New York City. He is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York. He received his doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the New School for Social Research. He is on the faculty of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology and a member of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association. He has presented at workshops nationwide and at several national and International (IAAP) conferences for Analytical Psychology. His publications include “Deconstructing the Monstrous” in Archetypal Psychologies, ed. Stanton Marlan, 2008; “Dwelling Imaginally in Soulless Times, An Appreciation of the Work of James Hillman,” ARAS Connections: Image and Archetype, 2012; “Marriage of Madness and Reason—The Red Book and the Invention of Active Imagination,” presentation at the IAAP Congress at Copenhagen in 2013; and “Seeing Writing on the Wall—Art of Banksy and the Spirit of the Times” at the IAAP Congress in Kyoto in 2016.