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Michael Conforti, Ph.D., Jungian Analyst

Dreams & the Objective Psyche

Lecture: Friday, October 21, 2005, 7:30 PM

The world’s great wisdom traditions access a domain that transcends individual consciousness.  Sages, mystics, shamans, and others reach beyond the veil of manifest reality to understand and articulate those influences and forces that are the most dramatic shapers of individual and collective experiences.

C.G. Jung’s approach to psyche and dreams extends this tradition and makes it accessible in contemporary experience.  His discovery of the objective psyche and the archetypes offers us the opportunity to reconnect to this innate sense of wisdom and order.  Jung’s far-reaching vision extends well beyond individual/subjective experience, bringing us back into contact with the eternal psyche.  However, current trends in psychology and within our contemporary collective understanding totemize individual experience and our own subjective reactions, creating an even greater estrangement from these archetypal and spiritual influences.

In this lecture, Dr. Conforti will discuss these shifts from the personal to the transpersonal, and the consequences of this movement.  To illustrate Jung’s approach to the objective psyche, we will look at dreams as a way of accessing this profound level of the psyche.
 

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Workshop: Saturday, October 22, 2005, 10:00AM – 4:00 PM

This daylong seminar is designed to offer participants the opportunity to better understand Jung’s approach to the archetypal nature of dreams and images. Dr. Conforti will offer an in-depth presentation of a number of dreams. In this way, participants will see the relationship between the personal and archetypal nature of dreams, and the discipline involved in sorting out the archetypal, non-personal nature of images.

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Michael Conforti, Ph.D., is a pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies.  He is the founder of the Assisi Conferences, a Jungian Analyst, and has taught at the C.G. Jung Institute-Boston and the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York.  Dr. Conforti lectures in the U.S. and abroad, including in Italy, Denmark, the Caribbean, Canada, Venezuela, and at the C.G. Jung Institute-Zürich.  In addition to his clinical practice, he consults to organizations, helping them to identify archetypal patterns.

He is the author of Field, Form, and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature, & Psyche, Spring Journal Books, 1999.

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