Theodora has been interested in Jungs’s ideas since she was in college.
She says: “Being naturally anxious to achieve and perform, the idea of finding inner peace within one’s psyche appealed greatly to me. But I had not the slightest idea how this could be achieved. Till then, it was all theory, discussions, ‘intuitive’ understanding and an ‘inner’ conviction that Jung’s ideas must be true in their essence.
What was lacking for me was the concrete experience of these ideas. It is said that when you want something very much it happens! In this talk I will try to recreate the atmosphere of that wintry month in Edinburgh, what preceded and what followed and the meaning I gave to it.
This was a time where the Ego created space, giving way to an emerging, larger entity and eventually realised its smallness. This was a time where the sense of the ‘unfulfilled’ became so urgent that it took on a life of its own, presented out by dreams, images, symbols, metaphors, directions and surprises.”