Peggy Funk Voth
When The Feminine Is Ready The Masculine Responds
Peggy Funk Voth MSW is an advanced candidate in the Analyst Training Programme of the Ontario Association of Jungian Analysts in Toronto. Before entering training, she regularly attended lectures and served on the executive of the Calgary Jung Society. She has been in private practice for ten years in Calgary.
Lecture: Friday 19th March, 2010, 7.30 p.m.
Parkdale United Church, 2919 8th Avenue NW, Calgary
The feminine and masculine principles operate as the great archetypal opposites in the human psyche. Characterized by qualities such as receptivity, warmth and fertility, the feminine principle represents a state of being. Associated with initiating, penetrating and fertilizing, the masculine principle stands for activity, or doing. Women and men have both of these energies in their psyches. Coming to wholeness requires that we value and develop both principles equally. Understanding how these archetypes influence each other can bring an appreciation for the unique role that each of them plays in psychological health.
Driven by instincts, the animal kingdom can tell us something about the dynamic of feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness. In this lecture, the estrus cycles and mating behaviors of cows and bulls will serve to amplify the possibilities of psychological states in humans. Rites undergone by men and women of indigenous cultures show us something about relating consciously to these archetypal energies within ourselves, and will be used to offer guidelines for our inner work.
The lecture will explore feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness as one aspect of the interplay between the feminine and masculine principles in the psyches of both genders. The following issues will be considered:
• What constitutes psychological readiness on the part of the feminine principle? What does this look like in the female psyche? In the male psyche?
• In what ways does the masculine principle respond to the readiness of the feminine principle? How does this manifest in the female psyche? In the male psyche?
• What would the states of feminine readiness and masculine responsiveness mean for us in our everyday lives and in the analytic process
Ticket Prices
General (non-members) $25
Students/seniors over 65 $15
Members $20
Tickets can be purchased online at www.calgaryjungsociety.org or at the event.
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