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Date: September 26 & 27, 2003
Event: Kathrin Asper
Lecture: Frida Kahlo, Workshop: Abandonment in Fairy Tales
Kathrin Asper
Lecture: Frida Kahlo: The Expression of Suffering in her Art
Kathrin Asper has chosen Friday Kahlo to illustrate the expression of suffering in art. Frida Kahlo lived a passionate life, strongly rooted in her cultural myth. Polio in childhood and a serious accident at age eighteen led to years of painful surgery and, at times, a highly restricted life. At this point, she started painting, determined to never give it up. Her art is bizarre, sometimes shocking, and very feminine in its themes. There is perhaps no other painter who has expressed pain through art to such a degree of anguish. She has captured the archetypal structures that transform her suffering and speak to the world.(Viewing the movie Frida before this lecture is encouraged. For more information about the film, click here to view its information in the Internet Movie Database.)
7:30 p.m., Friday. September 26, 2003
Christ Church Crump Room, 3602 - 8th Street SW, Calgary
$15 (non-members); $10 (members, guests & students)
Workshop: Abandonment in Fairy Tales
In a common endeavour, the group will discuss the fairy tale, The Donkey (Grimm), from a psychological perspective. Kathrin Asper will intersperse the elements of the tale with commentaries that relate to the theory of narcissism, psychotherapeutic practice and aspects of Analytical Psychology. As the tale can also be matched not only with early abandonment but also with physical disability, such body burdens will be addressed. In a common effort, the group would then proceed to formulate the questions and problems that arise from this field where so little is known and is in so much need of investigation and, what is more, understanding with empathy. Case material, dreams, paintings, art and literature will accompany the workshop.
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Saturday, September 27, 2003
Christ Church Crump Room, 3602 - 8th Street SW, Calgary
$140 (non-members); $90 (members)
Kathrin Asper is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Meilen near Zurich, Switzerland. Having studied literature and educational pedagogies at the University of Zurich and having worked thereafter as a teacher for some years, she enrolled the C.G. Jung Institute. She has been a member of the Curatorium there for many years. Also, she has been travelling worldwide, lecturing, teaching and writing many books and articles.
Her books that have been translated into English are:
The Abandoned Child Within: On Losing and Regaining Self-Worth (Fromm Publications, 2000, 2002)
The Inner Child in Dreams (Shambala, 1992, 2002)
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