This seminar explores the relationship between the Mother complex, the Mother archetype and the Self.
In this seminar, we will consider archetypal and developmental perspectives to explore the effect of our experience of ‘Mother’, revisiting Neumann’s seminal insight that the personal mother functions as a ‘locus of incarnation’ of the Self.
When yearning for connection is thwarted, a negative archetypal constellation emerges; the symbolic realm may be foreclosed.
Drawing on detailed clinical material, we witness how the re-emergence of arrested longing can coincide with reawakened symbolic capacity.
The regressive pull into the wounds of the personal mother complex is understood not simply as a return to the past, but as a purposive process: facilitating a vital, restorative connection to the creative potentialities of the Self.
