Calgary Jung Society

Delight and Disillusionment: The Power of the Magical Other
The Eden Project Revisited
with
James Hollis PhD.

Illustration Copyright Kristina Swarner. Re-printed with permission.
Friday Evening Lecture:  September 9th, 2011
7:30 pm ~ 9:30 pm

Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall - Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

 “EarlyBird Pricing” (up to and including) August 15th ~ $30.00
General Admission after August 15th ~  $40.00

Love. Romance. Partnership.
Nothing seems to preoccupy us more than the desire for relationships. Is it time you had a closer look at what is, or is not, working in your personal life?

Renowned Jungian Analyst and author James Hollis, PhD will explore the extremes of relationship, from delight to disillusionment, and the power dynamics invariably at play between ourselves and those closest to us. Among the many open-ended questions Dr. James Hollis will explore are:
• Is the best relationship that we can achieve with our intimate “Other” a function of the relationship we achieve within ourselves?
• What is our hidden agenda in the search for a "Magical Other"?
• What creates our relationships, our yearnings, our catastrophic repetitions?
• What is the difference between being in love and loving? 
The challenge of examining our deepest relationships will ask more of us than we wish to give.
But it is just such a risk that may bare a gift of bringing us to a new experience of love.
 

Saturday Seminar:  September 10th, 2011
10:00 am ~ 4:30 pm

Husky Oil Great Hall - Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
 
General Admission:  $140.00
(includes September 1st, 2011 ~ August 31st 2012 membership to The Calgary Jung Society providing discounts on all lectures & workshops for the coming year)

In this full day seminar with Dr. Hollis, he will ask us to think about relationships and the fantasies we often unconsciously have about them. It will seek to distinguish, through a series of questions and exercises, the sense of “self”, our perceptions about the Other, and the transactions which our history generates. What creates our patterns, our yearnings, our repetitions? Please bring paper and pen with you. Please note that all work within the seminar is individual and private to you; any sharing during seminar activities is done on a voluntary basis only, at your sole discretion.
 

James Hollis, PhD is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst in private practice in Houston, Texas. In addition to his numerous contributions in the field of Jungian Studies -serving as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center of Houston  (from 1997-2008 and continuing in the role of Director Emeritus), currently serving as Director Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation (dedicated to the publication of the complete works of Jung) and Director of the Jungian Studies program at Saybrook Graduate School of San Francisco -  he has authored thirteen books including: The Eden Project: In Search of the Magical Other, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life and What Matters Most: Living a More Considered Life.