Where Spirit and Psyche Live
Opening Lecture: Saturday September 10, 2022 by Dr. Hansueli Etter
Certification Course:
- September 13, 27
- October 11, 25
- November 8, 22
- December 6, 20
All classes take place on a Tuesday from 8:00 pm – 9:30pm UTC-4
“In myths or legends… we get at the basic patterns of the human Psyche.”
Marie-Louise von Franz, 1973
A meaningful life is one lived in relationship to the Self and to the archetypal rhythms of nature. While we each need to navigate our own way through life, we learn of these natural rhythms and the life pro-offered by the Self when reading fairy tales, legends, and the mythological journeys of heroes and heroines. It is through these texts that we hear another voice which extends our personal understanding about life. A voice that both beckons us on to riches, or also warns of great tragedy.
While Dr Rosaly Roffman reminds us that “mythology is the story of humanities’ relationships to the divine”, it was Marie-Louise von Franz who provided our deepest understanding of fairy tales as “nature’s constants”, allowing us to understand the wisdom of these stories.
This is the world of Psyche revealed to us through fairy tales.
Through fairy tales, we are brought into the world which Jung referred to as “The Spirit of the Depths” where each adventure speaks to our hunger for soul, and each story illuminates that invisible path which leads to The Self. Here is a telling of time eternal, and the voice of the “antique soul” teaching us about life as it has been recounted by generations eternal.
In this course, students will learn the art, love, and the discipline of seeing the depths of meaning contained within fairy tales, and strengthen and re-awaken a passion for these seminal stories which remind us that “once upon a time in a land far, far away” is present here and now in our own psyches.
Highlights:
- Presentations from an international faculty of Jungian Analysts and Archetypal Pattern Analysts will demonstrate how myths, legends, fables and fairy tales are filled with images and meaning that can guide us to greater wisdom. Our approach to stories and sacred texts will honor the work of Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, and several other seminal figures in this specialized field. Students will have direct access to some of the foremost leaders in the modern day study of archetypal patterns in stories.
- This certificate program will provide students not only with the opportunity to observe in-depth translations of fairy tales, but will also allow direct learning through participation. Several sessions will be dedicated to a real time learning experience. Students will enhance their ability to understand initial conditions, identify the archetypal pattern, and discover the archetypal processes within fairy tales, and their role in shaping the direction and content of the story.
- Students will receive an orientation on how to work with fairy tales and the work of identifying key Jungian elements of the Feminine and Masculine, the Shadow, Anima/Animus, the Self, psychological functions, and symbols of the Psyche within the story.
- We will be working with fairy tale images and themes as they relate to Archetypal Coherence in a story. In this light, the program will focus on archetypal structure and processes and the presentation of universal, archetypal patterns.
- Special Opening Lecture – In addition, students have the rare privilege of learning from Dr. Hansueli Etter as Guest Presenter in this course. Dr. Etter, who is a Senior Jungian Analyst based in Switzerland and was a long-time colleague and personal friend of Marie-Louise von Franz, will present a very special opening lecture on Saturday, September 10. This lecture is open to the entire Assisi Community (students and graduates from other programs, alumni, and members of the public from across the world). Students enrolled for the Beginning Fairy Tale Analysis program are automatically registered for this presentation.