Legacy Reading Group: Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul by Marie-Louise von Franz

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

What is projection? What happens when we become aware of our projections, individual and collective? We will take up chapters 6 and 7.  In chapter 6, we will look into the tale of Eros and Psyche, so we will take a side journey specifically into that story. In chapter 7, we get into the myth […]

Conversations with Monsieur Le Mot—with Eileen Murphy, MD

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

In this presentation I will introduce you to someone with whom I speak often—someone who knows much more than I do. I experience a shudder on saying this. It feels uncanny to be dialoguing with an entity whose knowledge is stupendous. M. Le Mot (I call him that) knows more than any human being. I […]

Narcissistic Personality Disorder—taking a glance at the work of Nathan Schwartz-Salant

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

The ego’s stability is dependent upon an inner sense of being mirrored by the Self. But when collective forms of religion fail to contain the numinosity and symbolic presence of the Self, the ego is especially hard put to gain a sense of being mirrored from the Self within. And as individuation is a process […]

James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Chapter 3, “Psyche,” pp. 45–67. We will take up this chapter in four sessions—July 3 and 31, August 7 and 21. To know the psyche at its basic depths, for a true depth psychology, one must go to the underworld . Being in the underworld means psychic being, being psychological, where soul comes first … […]

The Little Prince: Navigating by Heart Under the Stars—with Grégory Brun

McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United States

We join again tonight with the Ashland Symposia group convened in Ashland, Oregon. Gregory has been holding small-group discussions on The Little Prince. Following a first evening with this book, we gather one last time. Whether or not you joined the introduction, you’re welcome—this is a conversation, not a lecture. We’ll reflect on some of […]

James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Chapter 3, “Psyche,” pp. 45–67. We will take up this chapter in four sessions—July 3 and 31, August 7 and 21. To know the psyche at its basic depths, for a true depth psychology, one must go to the underworld . Being in the underworld means psychic being, being psychological, where soul comes first … […]

James Hillman, The Dream and the Underworld

Chapter 3, “Psyche,” pp. 45–67. We will take up this chapter in four sessions—July 3 and 31, August 7 and 21. To know the psyche at its basic depths, for a true depth psychology, one must go to the underworld . Being in the underworld means psychic being, being psychological, where soul comes first … […]