C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, SeattleLecture: Friday, January 12, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
2 CEUs
Since its inception, analytic theory has been dominated by the idea
of Rene Descartes that the human subject, or self, is separated from
the objects of his or her experience. In recent times postmodern
philosophers have criticized the subject-object model by saying that
the human self is not a thing with intentions like an automobile, but, rather, "appears" as the
phenomenon of our involvements with people and things in our various "worlds" such as, for
example, the "world of my family" or "my work world."
In my presentation I will be outlining the
selfhood or characteristics of the postmodern approach to identity by using as an illustration the work of the contemporary conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, particularly the piece entitled When Elephants Paint. If you're not familiar with philosophy, try not to think your way into this worldview. Rather, let it work on you as if it were poetry, which in some ways it is. If you receive the presentation in this way, you will have a chance to find your own unique entry point into this somewhat puzzling but ultimately rewarding material.
Workshop: Saturday, January 13, 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$40 members, $50 nonmembers
4 CEUs
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
In the workshop we will try to imagine how the postmodern view of human life might be lived out in our everyday worlds of involvements. It has been criticized for being destructive, nihilistic, apolitical and amoral. However, deconstruction of received wisdom can make space for hidden points of view, the awareness that all events occur in a context can help us to hear the marginalized voices, and that we only make known a fraction of our reality leaves space for the numinous.
Recommended reading: Sources of the Self, by Charles Taylor.
Michael Horne, M.D., is a psychiatrist and analyst who lives and practices in Seattle, Washington, where he is the former training director at the North Pacific Institute of Analytical Psychology. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry with a part-time academic appointment at the University of Washington where he teaches contemporary analysis. He is editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, an international Jungian journal of clinical practice. His experiences of analytic training at the San Francisco Jungian Institute and his contact with analysts of differing schools got him puzzling about the profusion of theoretical voices within Analytical Psychology and other analytic schools. With rudimentary philosophical knowledge he began a quest to understand this confusion by attempting to uncover how the philosophical underpinnings of the various analytic theories influence both analysts and the culture-in-general’s thinking about such important everyday issues as human identity, motivation, ways of knowing, ethics, and spirituality.
This program has been approved for 6.0 CEU’s by the Washington Chapter, National Association of Social Workers (NASW) for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists and Licensed Mental Health Counselors. Provider number is #1975-157. The cost to receive a certificate is as follows: 6.0 units for lecture and workshop $15; 4.0 units for the Saturday workshop $10.
Updated: 1 January, 2007
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