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Thursday, 9 November, 2023
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
The salmon is an initiate of the mysteries of transformation and self-sacrifice. As the folk who live near the coasts of Europe and America watch these glittering fish wrestle and leap their way upstream to the spawning ground each spring, they may puzzle as to why the creatures are so feverishly eager to perform this act. Intent on reaching their freshwater birthplace from the sea, the fish seemed to be…
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Sunday, 8 October, 2023
Jingchao Zeng in the The I Ching as a Potential Jungian Application: History and Practice give a introduction to the i Ching and Jung’s interest in it and then describes Jung’s three uses of the I Ching – as physical use (to preview future potentials of outer reality), psychological use (to reveal one’s psychological state), and psychical approach (to engage with the divine through spiritual agencies). Clinical material showing the…
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Sunday, 8 October, 2023
El Comité Latinoamericano de Psicología Analítica
The umbrella group of Latin American Jungian groups El Comité Latinoamericano de Psicología Analítica is holding it’s 9th congress this coming week. The conference will explore the intersection of Analytical Psychology with various aspects of society, culture, and lived experience. Themes include a focus on conflicts and transformations, engagement with political and environmental issues, exploring links to clinical psychology, psychotherapy, and neurosciences, along with discussions on ethics and the care…
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Thursday, 6 July, 2023
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
A Monthly ARAS Feature As a sense organ, the ear allows us to communicate, to sense approaching danger and to take in the wonders of music. It is second in importance only to the eye in the history of religious symbolism. Yet in those traditions that emphasize the deity’s capacity to speak, the ear rises to primary significance. On the one hand, the ear receives religious experience: “Yahveh said to…
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Thursday, 8 June, 2023
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Dog symbolism comes at us from both sides. Experienced by man as both a treasured domestic friend and as a wild, ever-hungry wolf-like animal, the dog threads us between the opposites of internal darkness and light, life and death. As companion of herders and hunters, the dog became a symbol of vigilance and fidelity. As predator and scavenger in the wild, it became a symbol of greed and impurity. In…
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Friday, 21 April, 2023
I long felt that I was wearing Hermes’ hat—a hat that made me invisible. Invisibility allowed me to see without being seen. No one paid attention to me because, consciously or not, I was taking pains to be ordinary, to be as unremarkable as possible. Neither very beautiful nor very ugly, neither a queen nor a tramp, I was gliding like the mist and I never openly opposed authority. It…
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Friday, 24 February, 2023
Centerpoint
Poo problems, prostate pain, and lustful longings: The story behind Freud’s first (and only) trip to the U.S.
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Thursday, 16 February, 2023
Jerome Bernstein
Sadly Jerome Bernstein died on 22 January 2023. His stature in the Jungian world is hard to overstate and his legacy is a treasure that we will draw on for decades. Jerome was born and grew up in Washington. His early career was in the federal government eventually becoming Deputy Director of Manpower Training programs in the Federal Office of Economic Opportunity. He started his own consultancy firm and was…
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Friday, 6 January, 2023
The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Jerome Bernstein
TheChineseZodiac.org image for 2023, Year of the Rabbit. We are excited to ring in 2023, the Chinese zodiac’s year of the Rabbit! The rabbit brings with it new beginnings, fertility and good luck. As a symbol of renewal, the rabbit is reflected in the Japanese tradition of preparing pounded rice cakes called mochi (full moon) for the celebration of the New Year. All over the world, moon and rabbit are…
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Thursday, 5 January, 2023
Psychosocial Wednesdays
Jerome Bernstein
Since 2020, in the form of a digital salon, Psychosocial Wednesdays provides a space where colleagues from all over the world and different disciplines can exchange their creative works and thoughts among themselves and with a wider audience.  In 2023 the series takes its name by heart and explores the process of individuation and freedom after freedom in the 21st century (individualized and liquid society) from a psychosocial perspective. We dediced to give space…
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