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“You get the feeling that your life make sense the moment it touches nature again. Therefore whenever you have a chance to return to nature, you feel better; at least to a small extent you return to the “mother.” Instinctively your life becomes corrected; it gets the right balance.” - C.G. Jung

We are of nature but at the same time removed from it. Jung had pretty clear ideas what the relationship between humans and nature is and is supposed to be. Join this event to learn more about the phenomena that nature is not only around us but also within us.

„I told nobody that I intended to work out the unconscious phenomena of the psychoses, but that was my determination. I wanted to catch the intruders in the mind - the intruders that make people laugh when they should not laugh, and cry when they should not cry.“ - C.G.Jung

Forgetting, a slip of tongue, accidents. All the kinds of phenomena can origin, according to the psychoanalytic school of thought, from a complex in the unconscious. Join this event to find out more about these „intruders of the mind“, how they behave, how they can be measured through the association experiment and how they can become pathological.

“I had accustomed myself to living always on two planes simultaneously, one consciousness, which attempted to understand and could not, and one unconscious, which wanted to express something and could not formulate it any better than by a dream” - C.G. Jung

This event will be about the basic premises and threads that pop up when Jung is drawn towards a phenomenon or reaches a conclusion. Commonalities between his ideas that creates a strong footing to say that an idea is Jungian, even when that idea might not necessarily be from Jung himself. Join to find out and discuss.

“If the conscious attitude is too infantile, too immature, an old woman appears as a compensating figure. And the old wise man always appears when one is too foolish. Then the moment one becomes mature and reasonable in one's attitude, infantile figures turn up in the dreams, the puer aeternus motif, for instance. You see, when one is old in one's consciousness, perhaps too reasonable, too adapted, too considerate, then one's soul is young, it is a child even, because one needs childlikeness in order not to dry up and suffocate in one's own wonderful adaptation.” - C.G. Jung

The Puer Aeternus, or also the eternal child, is a psychological phenomenon that pop up in dreams of individuals or even shape the psychology of whole cultures. As everything in Jung’s psychology it can have a positive and a negative side. To find out more, join the event and meet this unique character of the psyche.

“So the worst trap is the body. We have all been taught that our minds and other virtues are wings we put on, so we get to flying about above ourselves, and we live as if the body did not exist. This happens often with intuitives, with everybody in fact. The body appears to us as a most serious obstacle.” - C.G.Jung

The discovery of the body and the bodily is for Jung one of the main tasks of the modern mind. While the mind can fantasies about all the possibilities in the world, the body binds it to the here and now, which can create friction and serious trouble for the individual. Join the even to find out more about how the psyche is not necessarily limited to what is inside the head.

“You see to what a huge extent the East honors consciousness as the light benevolently supporting man in the terrible darkness surrounding epitome of evil. All evil comes from ignorance. All evil, the entire sum of life, comes from not knowing. You will find this doctrine in the original words of the Buddha. For whoever is in the the state of consciousness behaves like an automaton. He has no ethic.” C.G. Jung

When we talk about the shadow, very often the topic of evil comes up. This lead to a very lively discussion during the even “Shadow & Projection”. I want to follow up, what evil is for Jung. Where it comes from and what purpose it does serve.

“Through our senses we experience the known, but our intuitions point to things that are unknown and hidden, that by their very nature are secret.” C.G. Jung

For Jung, there exist many pathways how experiences can reach our consciousness. The most mysterious being intuition, which is, as he says, “perception through the unconscious,” seeing the possibilities of things, even more so then the thing itself. Join to find out more about this special function and what life is to someone, for whom intuition is their superior function.

“As a rule, people who have a certain maturity, who are philosophically inclined, more or less successful in the world and not too neurotic share my views.” - C.G. Jung

In my journey to read and understand everything from Jung, there are still some concepts that I have a hard time to wrap my head around. I am feeling that has to do with inconsistencies in some concepts and I will try to explore those in this event. Join me in this investigation.

“The idea in the dream is that something has happened, a new worm has suddenly appeared, the worm which seemed to be a terrific danger; yet we saw that it also has a very positive meaning, the beginning of higher consciousness. That is why so many people are afraid of higher consciousness. For it bears a greater responsibility and danger.” - C.G. Jung

“Man against nature” is one of the archetypal stories that humanity has. While the Steven Spielberg movie “Jaws” from 1975 seems to be just like that, there is an additional, psychological layer there that could have contributed to the massive success that resulted in the birth of the term “Blockbuster”. Join the event to find out more.

PLEASE NOTE: This event is a purely intellectual investigation into Jung’s thoughts and opinions about psychological therapy and therapists. The event is not an instruction for neither diagnosis nor treatment. If you have the feeling to be personally affected in your psychological health, please consider contacting a certified professional. No piece of content of the event should be taken as medical advice.

“As we know, a complex can be really overcome really only if it is lived out to the full. In other words, if we are to develop further we have to draw to us and drink down to the very dregs what, because of our complexes, we have held at a distance.” - C.G. Jung

Even during all his tumultuous life and shifts in scientific interests, Jung stayed a therapists and treated patients. With his contributions to psychoanalysis and the founding of the school of analytical psychology he established certain ideas and corner stones of therapy and therapists. This event will deal with there topics.