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Date: February 8 & 9, 2002
Event: Dr. Patricia Sohl
Noah's Ark Lecture and Workshop
Dr. Patricia Sohl
February 8 & 9, 2002
Noah's Ark: An illustrated guide to the dynamic function of the collective unconscious.
C.G. Jung's work includes a description of the symbol-making process operating deep within the human psyche. The products of this process he termed "archetypal images" because they express psychological themes universal to humanity from ancient to modern times. Archetypal images serve an important role in the continual growth and development of our psyches, and this lecture will use the image of Noah's Ark to discuss this. (see reverse for more details)
Lecture: Friday February 8, 2002 - 7:30 p.m.
Christ Church Crump Room, 3602 - 8th Street SW, Calgary
$15 (non-members); $10 (members, guests & students);
Workshop: Building an "Inner Ark" (see reverse for more details)
Saturday February 9, 2002 - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Christ Church Crump Room, 3602 - 8th Street SW, Calgary
$100 (members); $120 (non-members) $80 (students);
Please pre-register.
Patricia Sohl is a physician and analyst with a diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. She was born and educated in the United States (B.A. Sarah Lawrence College, M.D. Tufts University Medical School, M.P.H. Harvard University) but has lived most of her life in Copenhagen, Denmark. Here she worked in private practice and was a member of a clinical team that rehabilitated freedom fighters who had survived torture. Recently Patricia's husband, Torben Gronning, was recruited to Silicon Valley and they have relocated to Northern California. In February Patricia will become Curator of ARAS at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco.
For more information or to pre-register for the workshop, please call the C.G. Jung Society of Alberta in Calgary. Phone: 558-2221, wait for the prompt, then dial 403-111-5056. Please leave a message and your call will be returned.
Mailing Address: Box 63177, 2604 Kensington Road NW, Calgary Alberta T2N 2S5
Website: www.cgjungsocietycalgary.com
The archetypal power of an ark is the comforting message that any catastrophe - be it a personal crisis, or a collective threat like war - comes to an end. Even during the darkest hours the flood did not stand unopposed, there was always the ark floating on it, carrying within the seeds of renewal. An ark is not a container for chaos, rather it is a vessel for survival and transformation. The lecture which presents the powerful imagery and symbolism of the Ark as expressed by the collective unconscious through time and across cultures is richly illustrated with slides from the San Francisco and New York Jung Institutes' ARAS collections. ARAS stands for Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism. Originally collected by Olga F. Kaeptyn in Ascona, Switzerland and used at the Eranos meetings and by Neumann to illustrate his book on the Great Mother, the archive was brought to New York by Paul and Mary Mellon after WWII. (It was the Mellon fund, which established the Bollingen Press at Princeton to publish Jung's works in English.) Currently ARAS houses 25,000 slides and photographs of mythological, ritual, and symbolic images from all over the world and from all epochs of human history, Paleolithic to modern. Each image has a file with scholarly description and archetypal commentaries. The collection is cross-referenced according to archetypal themes and includes slides from the estates of Joseph Campbell and Maria Gimbutas. Patricia will use the ARAS images of the ark to illustrate the lecture and as a means of introducing the collection to the Calgary audience. ARAS is a service organization open free to the public; there are plans underway to digitize the collection and make it accessible via internet.
Friday's illustrated lecture focuses on the archetypal image of Noah's Ark as it has been expressed by the collective unconscious in myth, ritual, art, and cultures. The seminar on Saturday turns to the personal level in our psyches: the personal conscious and personal unconscious. Probably most, if not all, of us know the feeling of "needing an ark" as a safe haven for times when we worry if we will survive a difficult situation, or as a refuge for times when we wonder how we will manage to withstand overwhelming forces (be they great pressures in the outer world or strong inner emotions), or as a sanctuary for times during which we carry on, do our best, and hope that our little bit of earth-reality will endure. The image of Noah's Ark is rich in lessons for these times. The ark contained Noah, his family and all the animals, and supplies for the journey. The psychological meaning is that the vital function of our inner "ego-ark" enable us to have a personal identity, relate to others, manage our aggressions and instinctual urges, be creative, and be responsive to the demands of the Self, the ordering principle of the entire personality.
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