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Workshops and Seminars
The C.G. Jung Foundation presents
Orpheus, The Lyre Player: Journeying into Soul
a daylong seminar led by Gary D. Astrachan, Ph.D.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
“He of famous name”: magical musician, shaman, poet, priest and lover. Orpheus descends to the underworld to recollect his beloved bride Eurydice, bitten by a poisonous snake soon after their marriage. He is dismembered by Maenads, “mad women,” followers of Dionysos. His head and his lyre continue to sing the secret harmonies of nature.
His fascinating figure has remained a perennial image of artistic, psychological and spiritual transformation for more than four millennia. Praises and hymns to him resound throughout religious ritual, tragic theatre, mystical experience, analytical practice and all of the arts, spectacles, performances and presentations where love and death, rapture and suffering, and bliss and anguish come into play.
We will explore, evoke, and evolve together some of the many contemporary meanings of his multifaceted mythologem through a combination of lecture material, poetry and readings, slides, tapes, music, film and lively discussion.
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.
Saturday, March 10, 2007 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
Workshop Reservation
28 East 39th Street, New York, NY 10016 | Tel: (212) 697-6430 | info@cgjungny.org
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