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“It is the goal of individuation to reach the sense of the continuation of one’s life through the ages. It gives one a feeling of eternity on this earth.” C.G. Jung

Join to find out what’s happening in the psyche as it grows, even though the body decay. How much free will is possible when the world within, the world without, the personal and collective all come together in the individual in the eternal struggle of becoming one’s Self.

“Considered form the standpoint of realism, the symbol is of course not an external truth, but it is psychologically true, for it was and is the bridge to all that is best in humanity.” C.G. Jung

Bridging the opposites, connecting them through a common ground, this is the beginning of a symbol. They can be for one’s moment, one’s life or even for all humankind. Join to learn more about the thing between consciousness and the unconscious: The Third

“When someone is able to perform the art of touch on the archetypal, he can play on the souls of People like on the strings of a piano.” C.G. Jung

Everything that is created and endures through time is for Jung a manifestation of our collective unconscious. The layer of our psyche that connects all human beings, through space and time. The people who can access this layer and bring forth its fruits we call artists and if they can foresee the ebbs and flows of mass psychology, we call them prophets. Join for a unique view on what creates culture and what culture creates in us.

“Two people see the same object, but they never see it in such a way that the images they receive are absolutely identical” - C.G. Jung

For Jung, everything we experience is filtered through our psyche. What we experience is all but objective and it can tell us so much about ourselves. This event will deal with this topic and what it means to be subjective as an subject.

“night after night our dreams practice philosophy on their own account” C.G.Jung

There are few things in life as subjective as one’s dreams. Influenced by Freud’s use of dreams as an analytical tool in psychotherapy, Jung spent his life listening to and analyzing the dreams of his patients. While Freud saw in dreams as simple falsification of wishes, saw Jung the modest immediate feedback of the unconscious and the direct path to our past, fairy tales, mythology and religion.

“These zodiacal signs are symbols that have been projected onto the sky form times immemorial, and probably reflect the structures of the unconscious” C.G. Jung

Jung was always interested in all products of human culture, the older, the better. And some of the oldest is astrology, the “oldest form of psychology”, as he says. But there is more to it, a factor of time for which the unconscious has a very keen orientation. An orientation that is better understood in the East than in the West. Join to find out more.

“One most not imagine for a moment that the alchemists always understood one another. They themselves complain about the obscurity of the texts, and occasionally betray their inability to understand even their own symbols and symbolic figures” C.G. Jung

Obsession. There is no other way to describe Jung’s interest in the alchemical art. But what drove it? And what has willful fantasy to do with it? Join to find out more.

“It is not possible to live too long amid infantile surroundings, or in the bosom of the family, without endangering one’s psychic health. Life calls forth to independence, and anyone who does not head this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis” C.G. Jung

Jung as a therapist often experienced the influences that family has on the formation of a child, but those influence are not as obvious as one might think. Join to learn more about Jung’s view on all aspects of family and who influences who and how the collective is closer than one thinks.

“Of the essence of things, of absolute being, we know nothing. But we experience various effects: from ‘outside’ by way of the senses, from ‘inside’ by way of fantasy” C.G.Jung

How does the the fragile consciousness persist and orient in the endless chaos of the world? According to Jung, it does this utilizing the four functions of sensation, thinking, feeling and intuition to experience the world outside (extraversion) and the world within (introversion). And everybody has their most favorite way, giving them a “type”. Join this event to learn more about Jung’s way to explain personality how consciousness grows.

“Consciousness, no matter how extensive it may be, must always remain the smaller circle within the greater circle of the unconscious, an island surrounded by the sea; and, like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of living creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming” C.G. Jung

The dynamics of our psyche shape our lives. We forget and repress things into the unconscious, but they re-emerge as fantasies or dreams. There is a lot of movement in the hidden parts of us and contents and images can move freely in either direction. Jung’s model of the psyche is extensive and intricate and this event’s purpose is give a better insight into it.