A Jungian Interpretation of “Pulp Fiction”
Always wanted to dissect a powerful movie but felt uncertain how to do so? Come and find out how Jungians understand movies! We’ll watch Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and then analyse the content and structure of the movie. The film happens in a series of seemingly out-of-sequence scenes, very much as in a dream. We construct the story, the narrative, in …
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The Belly of the Whale
We have all been swallowed into the belly of the whale at some stage in our lives. For some of us it has been a repeat journey. We may have been tossed into the dark sea by our fellow travelers, as in the biblical story of Jonah and the whale, or we may have just slipped on the pathway of …
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The Belly of the Whale, part 2
What do we do when we find ourselves in the belly of the whale? The crucial idea to remember is that you cannot solve your way out of the problem. By this I mean you cannot work harder, take pills, or think differently, to get yourself out of the situation. You have to wait. It is what we do while …
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Dealing with severe anxiety through online analysis : People unable to leave their home
Anxiety is one of the more common challenges that face people in the 21st-century. No one chooses to become anxious. The types of anxiety that one can deal with cover a wide range of problems, from simple phobias to post traumatic stress disorder. From the perspective of Jungian psychology, anxiety is your psyche’s attempts to solve a problem. So why …
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From loving to loathing: making sense of difficult clients in the professional relationship
For information: http://transference-seminar.eventbrite.ca “We could say, without too much exaggeration, that a good half of every treatment that probes at all deeply consists in the doctor’s examining himself, for only what he can put right in himself can he hope to put right in the patient. It is no loss, either, if he feels that the patient is hitting him, …
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Portals to the Unconscious
The world of depth psychology places an enormous importance on the role of the unconscious in the well-being of individuals. Jung posited the existence of two layers to the unconscious, being the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. As the unconscious is essentially unknowable in its entirety, we have to find ways to demonstrate its existence through its effects. By …
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The Shaman : Archetype, Persona or Gift
“From a psychological perspective, shamans can be described as community-sanctioned spiritual practitioners who claim to deliberately modify their attention in an attempt to access information not ordinarily available to members of their social group” (Krippner 2005, p. 204). This lectures examines the archetype of the shaman. In order to make sense of the vast material associated with this construct, we …
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A Jungian Interpretation of Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction”
The movie is a classic example of how Jung’s model of the psyche can be seen. Each character in the movie represents an aspect of the psyche in the individuation process.In addition the movie is also an important vehicle for a discussion of morals, ethics, and good versus evil. Details Date: 9th March, 2013 Venue: Comox Valley C.G. Jung Society …
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Active Imagination and the Transcendent Function
In this lecture I am going to begin by presenting classical understandings of Active Imagination and the Transcendent Function. I then go on to present a different perspective on the Transcendent Function based on my analytical practice. To illustrate my thinking about this material I will review ideas about Jungian Analysis and the Transcendent Function as evidenced in on-line or …
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Dream Interpretation Workshop
Following from lecture on Portals to the Unconscious, presented on Friday 14th June, a dream interpretation group will occur the next day. We will work as a group to make sense of the spontaneous products of the unconscious in the form of dreams. The group can have a maximum of eight members. Please bring two recent dreams you have had, …
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