Jung, Buddhism and the Archetypal Image
Date: 7 July 2012
10am - 12.30pm
Susanna Wright
When Jung began to create his own mandala images, he found he could externalise and study his emotional states through them, and realised there was something universal in this process. His interest was in their deep psychological significance as an ‘ideogram of unconscious contents’: that is, they symbolised ideas for which as yet he had no other means of expression. This discovery started him on an exploration of universal, or archetypal, images, which he realised had long been in use within the spiritual context of Buddhism to reflect and invoke the profundities of emotional experience. These images can still hold a psychic resonance to which we respond across the generations and civilisations stretching between us and those who created them.
The talk will provide an opportunity to study the relationship between the archetypal image and the process of symbol formation. We will think about and discuss our own responses to some examples of Buddhist images.
Susanna Wright, MA, is a Professional Member of the SAP and a training therapist and supervisor with the British Association of Psychotherapists and Westminster Pastoral Foundation. She has also trained and practised in organisational consultancy. She works as an analyst and supervisor in private practice in London and until recently for the Russian Revival programme in St Petersburg.
Cost: £25 (£15 for students with ID) incl. tea & coffee
Venue: The SAP, 1 Daleham Gardens, NW3 5BY
ADVANCE BOOKING NECESSARY
020 7435 7696
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