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Desire, Confusion, and Transformation

Date
May 03 2025
Time
CT
1:00 pm - 4:00 pm CDT
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm(Local Time)
Location
The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, TX, USA
Website https://junghouston.org/knowledge-center

Speaker

  • José Leal

    José has an M.A in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies from the University of Essex, where Andrew Samuels was his academic supervisor, and an MSc in Systemic Psychotherapy from the Milton Erikson Institute from Monterrey. Since 2013, he has trained with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. He works as a psychotherapist in private practice and writes the column ‘The Spiritually Ambivalent Therapist’ for Thresholds, a Journal of Psychotherapy and Spirituality, from the British Association of Counseling and Psychotherapy.

Through the study of three fairy tales and a brief active imagination exercise we discover powerful archetypal symbols that help us untangle our moments of confusion and frustration.

When we do not know what we desire, or we cannot understand its powerful effects on us, we become confused and psychically dismembered. Through these three fairy tales, we can discover powerful archetypal symbols that help us untangle our moments of confusion and frustration. We will explore several alchemical symbols, including the alchemical round of transformation, to illustrate how the psyche can re-member and reconstitute itself. The psyche’s ability for transformation is a powerful -yet it is also dangerous force if left unattended. A brief active imagination exercise will help integrate the contents.

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