C.G. Jung Society, Seattle C.G. Jung Society, Seattle
Objectives: The lecture and workshop will provide images and strategies for sensing and dealing with edges and boundary situations in the experiences of everyday life. The lecture will explore the nature and function of reversals in psychological experience, demonstrating why the experience of shifting fortune is important to a soulful life. The workshop will show how to interpret the psychological logic by which the oppositions felt by individual persons actually belong to a larger wholeness in the make-up of the self.
Lecture: Friday, February 9, 7 to 9 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$15 members, $25 nonmembers
2 CEUs
This presentation will explore holidays like Mardi Gras that celebrate and honor liminal moments, in-between places, the masked marginal moments of everyday life that are neither here nor there. The meaning of the behaviors at such celebrations will be interpreted as the acting out of psychological realities that we unconsciously present within the self. We are always on the edge! The psyche is a topsy-turvy festival!
Workshop: Saturday, February 10, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Center, Room 202, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle
$50 members, $60 nonmembers
5 CEUs
To learn about preregistering for the workshop, see Preregistration Policy and Form.
Aristophanes, the grand comic genius of ancient Greece,
once wrote: 
“Comedy also knows the truth!” It will be the
assumption of this workshop that comedy and clowns can
teach truths about the depths of psychological life. The
workshop will explore four tensions important to dramatic
comedy and to comedians: the low over against the high, the
comic over against the ironic, wit over against humor, and the
clown over against the fool. Each of these will be demonstrated
with examples and each will be discussed in the group as a
different image of a complex of opposites within the psyche. It is as Charlie Chaplin once
said: “I wanted everything a contradiction” and as the Book of Proverbs in the Bible put it:
“Even in laughter the heart is sad, and the end of joy is grief.”
David L Miller, Ph.D., is Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse
University and is a retired core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa
Barbara. He has been an affiliate member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts
and is an honorary member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. Since 1963, Dr. Miller has worked at the intersections of religions and mythologies, literatures and literary theory, and depth psychology and culture. He is the author of more than sixty articles
and book chapters, as well as five books, including the following: Gods and Games: Toward
a Theology of Play; The New Polytheism: Rebirth of the Gods & Goddesses; Three Faces of God;
Hells and Holy Ghosts; and, Christs: Meditations on Archetypal Images in Christian Theology. For
more information, see Dr. Miller’s Web site: http://web.syr.edu/~dlmiller/.
This program has been approved for 7.0 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: 7.0 units for lecture and workshop $15; 2.0 units for the Friday lecture $10; 5.0 units for the Saturday workshop $10.
Updated: 6 January, 2007
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