Calgary Jung Society

 

(This seminar is a live webcast from Zurich, hosted by the Asheville Jung Center. The audio/visual facility at Self Connection Books in Calgary is an ideal venue for viewing this in a small group.  The Asheville Jung Center is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.)

Thursday, 13th October 2011, 9:00am to noon.

Presenters:
Murray Stein, Ph.D. is President of the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) in Zurich, Switzerland.
Brigitte Egger, Ph.D. is a training and supervising analyst at ISAPZurich.

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C. G. Jung dealt extensively with the subject of psychic energy in many of his works, importantly in Symbols of Transformation (Vol. 5 in the Collected Works) and the theoretical essay “On Psychic Energy” (in Vol. 8 of CW). Tracking the directions and symbolic expressions of psychic energy is a key feature of Jungian psychotherapy. Phenomena like depression, manic defense and states of inflation, psychic infection and mass social and political movements are but a few instances where a reflection on energy becomes critically important.

In current discussions of energy, however, the topics are mostly about oil and gas, nuclear plants, and alternative sources such as wind and sun. Since all societies today are based on the utilization of multiple types of energy that have been converted from natural elements and turned into forms that can be used by cars, planes, computers, telephones, air conditioners, and everything else that makes human existence possible in the 21st century, energy has become one of the most critical issues facing human beings in our time. Will we have enough energy to go on living as we have become accustomed to, even to survive, or will we run out of available sources of energy and face the extinction of life as we know it? Can the planet sustain the use of energy that humans require, or is the burden too great, the demand far too large, the pressure on the earth too extreme? These are burning questions that impact every corner of the world today.

In this seminar, we will look at the energy issue from the psychological and the ecological points of view. At the center of this discussion is the issue of ecology.

Approaching ecology from a psychological perspective is a new area of increasing importance and emphasis in analytical psychology. It has been named “psychecology” by Jungian analyst Brigitte Egger, who holds a doctorate in ecology from the ETH in Zurich as well as a diploma in analytical psychology. Psychecology weds ecology and depth psychology, doubling the perspective by taking outer and inner nature up on an equal footing. Psychecology sees the root of the environmental crisis as a psychic crisis and explores the psychic and symbolic dimensions of ecological issues and themes.

In this seminar, the issue will be energy.

Date: Thursday, October 13, 2011, 9:00am to noon.
Location: Self Connection Books Audio/Visual Room, 4611 Bowness Road NW, Calgary.
Price: $20

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Brigitte Egger, Ph.D. is a Jungian training analyst at ISAP- Zurich with a private practice as well as an ecologist with a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. She concentrates her research on the psychic and symbolic dimensions of collective issues and works at introducing this dimension into practical environment protection – especially concerning energy and water, further landscape, animals and market globalization – thus building up the field of psychecology.

Dr. Murray Stein is a supervising training analyst and president of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland (ISAP Zurich). He is the author of The Principle of Individuation and many other books and articles in the field of Jungian Psychoanalysis. From 2001 to 2004 he was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He has lectured internationally and presently makes his home in Switzerland.

What is Psychecology?
Psychecology, or archetypal ecology, marries ecology and depth psychology. It doubles the perspective by taking outer and inner nature in equal account and benefits from the problem solving insights of a therapeutic approach.
Psychecology sees the root of the environmental crisis as a psychic crisis. It thus relates always to the psychology of the individual and gives each of us the means to change our attitude and behavior so as to act in better agreement with the deep nature of the world and to better discover the project that life and the universe have with us humans.
Practically psychecology first explores the psychic and symbolic dimension of any ecological theme or issue to know more about the underlying patterns of thinking which influence us. Second it works at introducing this essential dimension into the practical protection of the environment.