Workshops and Seminars

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents

DIONYSOS:
The Performance of Ecstasy and Madness in Art,
Analysis and Contemporary Culture

a daylong seminar led by
Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D

Saturday, March 4, 2006
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

 

This workshop traces the long trajectory of the Dionysiac mythologem from its earliest origins in ancient Greek tragedy to its contemporary enactments in catharses of the canvas, concert hall and consulting room. Neglected and dishonored for millenia, Dionysos now regularly appears to us through his wrathful dark side, with images of dismemberment, destruction and death. How do we contain the frenzied and polarized opposites of both rapture and suffering, ecstasy and anguish that follow in the wake of this raving god of the wild? Through a combination of lecture material, slides, tapes, poetry and readings, we will learn with recognition and remembering, how to avert his reprisals of rending rage, and instead, welcome and invoke the bounty and many blessings of this basically enlivening and invigorating god.

Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst in private practice in Portland, Maine. He is a faculty member and supervising and training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute in Boston and lectures and teaches widely throughout North America and Europe. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles in professional journals and books and writes particularly on the relationship between analytical psychology and Greek mythology, poetry, painting, film, postmodernism, and critical theory.

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Saturday, March 4, 2006 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
To be held at the C.G. Jung Foundation
28 East 39th Street, New York City

Tickets should be purchased in advance by mail, by phone or fax with credit card, or in person Monday – Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

For further information, please call 212-697-6430 or FAX 212-953-3989.
You can also email your questions to info@cgjungny.org

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Please print this page, complete the requested information, and mail to: C.G. Jung Foundation, 28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016

Brown Workshop: Saturday, March 4, 2006

_____   Foundation Members / Students with ID, $55
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_____   General Public, $70
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Refunds (less $15 for administrative services) will be made up to seven days prior to the program, but not thereafter.

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