Workshops and Seminars

The C.G. Jung Foundation presents

The Archetype of the Outsider:
Belonging and Exclusion in the 21st Century

a daylong seminar led by
Melanie Starr Costello, Ph.D.

Saturday, November 11, 2006
10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

In community we share values, mythologies, history and instinctual concerns that satisfy our basic need to belong. As we individuate, we recognize correspondences between our internal dynamics and the quality of our connections to family, to community, and to those outside the bounds of these groupings.

How does our behavior at the border of consciousness, as revealed in dream and fantasy, illumine our functioning at the group level? How is the body involved in the expansion of consciousness when we encounter those outside the bounds of our belonging? As we explore the constructive and destructive aspects of the outsider archetype, we discover correspondences between the manifestations of the Self in the individual and the collective experience of our time.

Melanie Starr Costello, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, and holds a doctorate in the History and Literature of Religions from Northwestern University. A former Assistant Professor of History at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Dr. Costello has taught and published on the topics of psychology and religion, and medieval spirituality. Her book Imagination, Illness and Injury: Jungian Psychology and the Somatic Dimensions of Perception was published by Routledge this year.