Current Presentations, Workshops, and Courses

Mythological Dreams

April 19, 2008

(all-day workshop on mythological dreams with an emphasis on the archetypal images of the "journey" and the "monster")

C.G. Jung Society of Montreal
Montreal

The Butterfly Woman: An Archetypal Image of Transformation

April 18, 2008

(lecture on a dream of a butterfly as an archetypal image of the metamorphosis of the soul, or the transformation of the psyche)

C.G. Jung Society of Montreal
Montreal

Does Myth (Still) Have a Function in Jungian Studies? Modernity, Metaphor, and Psycho-Mythology

March 11, 2008

(presentation on whether myth still has a function in Jungian Studies)

Analytical Psychology Club
New York, NY

Jungian Commentary on a Case Presentation

February 11, 2008

(Jungian commentary on a case presentation for psychoanalytic candidates)

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Study Center
New York, NY

Psychoanalyzing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mythology

Spring 2008

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically the Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

The Butterfly Woman: An Archetypal Image of Transformation

December 5, 2007

(case presentation to psychoanalytic candidates on a dream of a butterfly as an archetypal image of the metamorphosis of the soul, or the transformation of the psyche)

New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

October 19, 2007

(presentation on how Europeans employed mythological amplification in a repressive and euphemistic way to idealize the journey of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade)

Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
Rhinebeck, NY

"Clinical" Implications

October 19, 2007

(presentation on how Jungian analysis is more humanistic than "clinical" and how it applies to cultural as well as personal material)

Jungian Psychoanalytic Association
Rhinebeck, NY

Jungian Commentary on "The Power of Myth"

September 19, 2007

(Jungian commentary on one of the interviews that Bill Moyers conducted with Joseph Campbell for the PBS television series "The Power of Myth")

Rubin Museum of Art
New York, NY

The Sable Venus on the Middle Passage: Images of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

August 15, 2007

(plenary presentation on how Europeans employed mythological amplification in a repressive and euphemistic way to idealize the journey of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade)

International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress
Cape Town

Dream Interpretation

Fall 2007

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on Freudian and Jungian theories and methods of dream interpretation)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

Jungian Ways of Working with Images: Interpretative and Experiential Techniques

June 8-9 and 15-16, 2007

(course for psychoanalytic candidates on Jungian techniques for interpreting and experiencing images that emerge from the unconscious)

NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
New York, NY

The Butterfly Woman: An Archetypal Image of Transformation

May 4, 2007

(case presentation to therapists on a dream of a butterfly as an archetypal image of the metamorphosis of the soul, or the transformation of the psyche)

Philadelphia Jungian Professional Group
Philadelphia, PA

Psychoanalyzing Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mythology

Spring 2007

(semester-long course for undergraduate students on how to analyze psychologically the Tanakh, New Testament, and Quran)

Eugene Lang College: The New School for Liberal Arts
New York, NY

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