What course will individuation take in the 21st Century? Jung once said that it would take six hundred years for his psychology to be accepted. What is the next step in this process?
In this lecture, Dr. Sandner will discuss the dimensions of Jungian analysis: clinical versus symbolic; the role of transference; the role of spirituality; and their possibilities for the future. Analytic work will have to widen its range, unify its concepts, and increase its spiritual understanding if it is to endure for another century. We must find and develop its potential, not for money or medicine, or psychology or personal gain, but for the deepening of humanity.
This will be a discussion/participation workshop in which Dr. Sandner will describe and then demonstrate various methods of modern active imagination, including meditation, visioning, rattling, drumming, and enacting scenarios.
Participants will be encouraged to develop a lifelong spiritual practice that is, however, always subjected to critical analysis. In this way one can build and live one's myth and bring purpose and meaning to life. This kind of activity followed with passionate intensity can lead to an awakened life.
Donald F. Sandner, M.D. has practiced as a Jungian analyst in San Francisco for more than 30 years, and he has been president and is a continuing member of the teaching faculty of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He has lectured in most of the Jungian training centers and has written more than 25 articles and book chapters on Jungian psychology and cross-cultural healing. His book Navaho Symbols of Healing is now in its second edition. Dr. Sandner is a graduate of the University of Illinois School of Medicine and had his residency in psychiatry at Stanford. He studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich and was certified as a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco.