Calgary Jung Society

The Calgary Jung Society  presents:Dr. Karen Evers

Lecture:  Life Stage Development and Jung
Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 7:30 p.m.
University of Calgary, Science Theatre 141

Carl Jung is well known for pioneering the investigation of development in the second half of life.  What is less well known is that Jung had a theory of development that covered the entire life span.  This lecture will give an overview of Jung’s theories and compare these to what is known today about life stage development.  Topics covered include:

• Historical context of Jung’s developmental theories
• What is known “empirically” - well-known analytic theories of development
• Jung’s worldview
• The three parts to Jung’s developmental theory – ego, individual, and the world

Members:  $25  •  Non-members:  $40  •  Students & Seniors:  $20

Workshop:  The Mechanisms of Individuation
Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
University of Calgary, Science Theatre 130

This full day workshop will focus on the processes and psychological mechanisms Jung identified to be involved in Individuation.  Topics covered include:

• Review of the concepts of libido, ego, self, individual, individuation, collectivity, and adaptation
• Discussion of quotes from Jung regarding the mechanisms of individuation:  splitting, projection, compensation, complementarity, enantiodromia, and transcendent function
• Illustration of principles through dream series
• Clinical implications of these mechanisms for therapists and techniques in therapy 

Members:  $100  •  Non-members:  $125  •  Students & Seniors:  $90

Lecture and Workshop:  Members:  $115  •  Non-members:  $155  •  Students & Seniors:  $100

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Tickets may be purchased in advance, by phone or in person from the U of C Campus Ticket Centre ,  or in person or online from our good friends at Self Connection Books.

Background Reading for this event:

Primary Sources: 

• Volume 4 of the Collected Works, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Section 2, Theory of Psychoanalysis
• Edinger, Edward. Ego and Archetype, Part 1, Individuation and Stages of Development. 

Secondary Sources 

• Volume 7, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology
• Volume 8, Structure and the dynamic of the Psyche
• Wilber, Ken, Engler, Jack, and Brown, Daniel P. Transformations of Consciousness
• Jacobi, Jolande. The Way of Individuation 

A native Canadian, Dr. Evers studied nursing in the USA and received her MSN at Yale University with a specialty as a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Nurse Practitioner. She spent 21 years in Switzerland, studying at the CJ Jung Institute in Zurich, and later became training and supervising analyst at the ISAP Zurich training institute. She obtained her PhD at the University of Essex Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies; her dissertation was entitled “The Ego Concept in the Works of CG Jung”. She also taught Advanced Nursing Practice while in Switzerland at the University of Basel. She has returned to Canada to continue her analytical work as well as her teaching and supervisory activities in Victoria, BC.