Welcome to the C.G. Jung Foundation
in New York City!

Spring 2020: The Religious Ground of Jung’s Analytical Psychology

12 Mondays: 6:30-8:00 pm
February 10 - May 11 (excluding February 17 and April 6)

Instructor: Royce Froehlich, PhD, MDiv, LCSW

This course will draw material mainly from Jung’s essays in Collected Works Volume 11, Psychology and Religion: West and East. It is intended to inform participants about the religious background of some of the general principles of Analytical Psychology and its contribution to the East-West psycho-spiritual dialogue, and will serve mental health professionals interested in the spiritual aspects of Jung’s approach to psychotherapy.

Credit: 7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for each Continuing Education Course.

Spring I: Classes begin the week of March 3, 2020

Gilgamesh, Akhnaten: The King Heroes and a Call for a New Ecological Consciousness

5 consecutive Tuesdays, 6:30–8:00 pm
Beginning March 3

Instructor Ilona Melker, LCSW

Gilgamesh and Akhnaten are two king heroes whose stories from the ancient world inform us about the development of the heroic ego successfully separating from Mother and becoming victorious over Mother Nature. They are both important stories for the development of human consciousness and spirituality. In this course we will discuss the Epic of Gilgamesh as well as Akhnaten’s contribution to individuation, consciousness and spirituality.

Attachment in Relationships

4 Thursdays, 6:30–8:20 pm
Beginning March 5 (excluding March 26)

Instructor David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA

Have you ever wondered how our earliest relationships influence, inform and even shape our later adult relationships? If so, then you’re interested in attachment. In this course, we will review the forms of attachment, examine how attachment style affects adult life, and delineate the biological basis, that is the neuroscience, of attachment. Participants who complete the course will gain a pragmatic understanding of attachment in their own lives and how it informs the lives of those they care about.

In Thrall or Debt to Circe? Jungianism and the Devouring Uroboros

5 consecutive Thursdays, 7:00–8:30 pm
Beginning March 5

Instructor William Baker, PsyD

Homer’s story of Odysseus and Circe provides a vital amplification for a paradox one might face in approaching the unconscious with Jung’s analytical psychology. Just as Circe becomes either an invaluable guide to the underworld or a seductive destroyer, depending on the attitude one takes in approaching her, Jungian psychology may be used to either genuinely and consciously engage the depths, or as an intoxicating shortcut to archetypal identification.
Location: 15 East 11th Street, Apt 1L.

Spring II: Classes begin the week of April 14, 2020

Contemporary Jungian Dreamwork

5 Tuesdays, 7:30–9:00 pm
Beginning April 14

Instructor Harry Fogarty, MDiv, PhD, LP

Drawing upon Marian Dunlea’s BodyDreaming, we will review Jung’s approach to dreams. We will read as well as explore and discuss the methods Dunlea details regarding the interconnection of body, mind and psyche. Our focus will be both our own dreamwork and dreamwork within the clinical setting. 
Location: 150 Columbus Avenue, Apt. 20D, near West 66th Street.

Art and Psyche: Dreams and Art

5 Wednesdays, 6:30–8:00 pm
Beginning April 15

Instructor Maria Taveras, LCSW.

This course will explore the intimate relation between art and psyche.  We will emphasize the role of dreams in the psychic origin of artistic creation.  Our primary reference will be Daniel Bergez’s new book Painting the Dream: A History of Dreams in Art from the Renaissance to Surrealism.  In experiential exercises, we will also have an opportunity to paint our own dreams and compare the results to famous examples from the history of art.  Fee for materials: add $25 to tuition fee.

Attachment in Spirituality and Religion

5 consecutive Thursdays, 6:30–8:00 pm
Beginning April 16

Instructor David Walczyk, EdD, LP, NCPsyA

The influence and connection between our childhood relationships and our adult relationship with spirituality and religion will be the focus of this course. Pragmatically, we will consider how attachment style informs and often unconsciously structures the forms of spirituality and religion we are drawn to and engage with, as well as the types we reject, as adults. No prior understanding of attachment is required to take this course.

Nietzsche and Jung: Modern Human in Search of a Soul: The Healing Function of Art

Tuesday, January 14, 2020 (Note: This is the 2nd Tuesday in January)
12:30 – 1:30 pm

A First Tuesday Lunch Forum presented by Yunus Tuncel, PhD and Maria Taveras, LCSW.

Jung’s ideas echo those of the Nietzsche of the same period in that every human being has an inner spark, a “creative fire” to work on.   We will see how works by both of these great thinkers are small stops on life’s journey and the self-creation of the artist. Both Nietzsche and Jung see art as a forum for self-transformation and healing. In and through art we can deal with our problems and suffering and turn negative emotions into positive, uplifting ones. As he presents it in “The Healing Function of Art,” Jung sees great potential in art’s capacity to heal.

The Archetypal Construct: Creative Synthesis in Visual Communication

Tuesday, February 4, 2020
12:30 – 1:30 pm

A First Tuesday Lunch Forum presented by Gusty Lange, MPS, MA, ATR.

This presentation explores the connection between archetypal symbolism and its roots in corporate identity. We will also look at how Jean Gebser’s concepts of time, space, consciousness are rooted in the archetypal construct which exists universally from archaic roots and timelessly into the future. This archetypal construct will be seen as inherent in the appearance of the archetypal web, a concrete visual and psychic form, representing the 20th century transiting into the 21st century.

Dreams: Their Meaning and Uses from an Orientational Jungian Approach

Saturday, February 29, 2020
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by David Rottman, MA

Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

In his revolutionary book The Way of the Image, Jungian analyst Yoram Kaufmann said he “crystallized Jung’s ideas” in formulating the Orientational Approach to the psyche. In this workshop we will use the Jungian Orientational approach to explore 10 dreams for their revelations about human psychology. We will apply this approach to understand outer life situations, in work and relationships, as we do a dream.

Complexes and Complexity: The Multiplicity of the Psyche

Saturday, March 28, 2020
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by Katherine Olivetti, MA, MSSW

Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

In this workshop, Katherine Olivetti will discuss Jung’s complex theory, and connect it to more recent depth psychological literature. Through lecture, discussion, and experience participants will have the opportunity to learn how to work with a complex, their own or a client’s, how to understand the part the complex plays in the overall defensive structure, how the movement of complexes is related to dissociation and trauma, and how healing occurs. Participants are asked to bring a notebook for written exercises.

Journeys through Underworlds: The Psyche Keeps Score

Saturday, April 18, 2020
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by Mark Napack, MA, STL, MS

Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

This workshop will explore underworld journeys as archetypally expressed in classic underworld tales and myths. Aeneas, Odysseus, and Dante, as well as Orpheus and Persephone, will be joined with psychological insights. In addition to psychotherapeutic applications, our goal will be to learn from these journeys in order to come through to a belonging in this world with greater wholeness.  We will look at the contribution of Jungian analyst Donald Kalsched to trauma theory and psychotherapy and analysis.

Aging: The Penultimate Transition

Saturday, May 2, 2020
9:30 am – 4:30 pm

A day-long workshop led by Julie Bondanza, PhD

Contact hours: 6 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

Aging held a special significance for Jung and he wrote extensively about it as a crowning of a life struggle with individuation. In “The Stages of Life” he writes that an aging person has a duty and responsibility to devote serious attention to himself/herself.  Jung called this period the “Afternoon of Life,” a time to explore what we have neglected or repressed during our lifetime.  This session will explore both the losses and opportunities for transformation using life examples, dreams, myths and fairy tales.  

New Issue of Quadrant Published

Vol XLIX:1 Fall/Winter 2019

Articles include:

• When Images Speak: Archetypal Perspectives In Drawing and Storytelling
  — Bráulio Porto
• Romantic Love Songs and the Transcendent Function
  — Jan Clanton Collins and Marc R. Hamer
• Through the Muck: Disentangling Love, Power, and Beauty in Outer and Inner Relationships
  — Brigitte Goetze
• The Labryrinthine Depths of the Lion-Fish
  — Joel A. Crichton
• Book Reviews
  — Dave Solem
• In Memoriam: The Rev. Dr. John Romig Johnson (1935—2019)
  — Alvaro A. Giraldo