It is difficult to imagine anywhere a person who does not say “I love you” to their partner on their wedding day. However, as time marches on some partners then say “I don’t love you anymore.” Some partners say “I love you” but their desire is really somewhere else or with someone else. Some say there is no more love yet remain together. And some say nothing at all and assume what was said on their wedding day is enough.
Given the many and varied answers to desire and love in marriage, Jane has developed her talk to engage the participants with the opportunity to reflect on the work of C.G. Jung’s sense of Marriage as a Psychological and Non-Psychological Relationship, Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig’s Psychology of Marriage as a Relationship of Well-Being and/or Salvation and a look at marriage within soul through the lens known as Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority, specifically, as seen in the work of Wolfgang Giegerich and Josep Maria Moreno Alavedra.
Saturday’s workshop will be focused on calling forth questions and comments from participants in group discussions. Case studies of couples and their psychology of marriage in addition to the use of fictional examples of tensions of love, desire and intimacy will be core to the day. For example, movie clips and readings from stories that are relevant to marriage will be integrated into the day.