Romantic Love Songs and the Transcendent Function

According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in myth, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.”

Please join the authors as they discuss their article:

Collins, J.C., & Hamer, M.R. (2019) Romantic love songs and the transcendent function. New York, NY: Quadrant, Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. XLIX:1 pp. 39-50.

In their presentation the authors will:

• Identify and describe romantic love using archetypal, alchemical and phenomenological Jungian perspectives.
• Explore the psychological landscape and multidimensional symbolism of romantic love.
• Illuminate the subject of romantic love from a depth psychological perspective.
• Discuss how romantic love songs and the creative process of the songwriter provide a doorway to an experience of the transcendent function.
• There will be a brief period of question and answer with the authors after their presentation.