C. G. Jung Society
of the Triangle
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Lucie Magnus, Jungian Analyst, Diploma Candidate
Archetype Of The Southern Belle and
Reflections on Toni Wolff's Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche
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Lecture: Friday, June 3, 2005, 7:30 PM
The Southern Belle is a familiar American archetype and as such draws her energy from deep within the instinctual nature of the Eternal Feminine. Which goddesses make their appearance in the Belle? How can their energy be savored, and how is it soured? What are the “directives” inherited by Southern women that warp and woo? We will look at the cultural and psychological factors that alternately enhance and constrict this natural energy. How can the Belle develop and transform?
This exploration into the myth of the Southern Belle will include lecture, discussion, and images from film and literature as we attempt to tease out a sliver of the infinite resources of the eternal feminine energy inherent in life.
- Workshop: Saturday, April 16, 2005, 10:00AM – Noon (note non-standard time)
Reflections on Toni Wolff's Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche.
In 1934 Toni Wolff presented a paper to the Psychological Club in Zurich entitled “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche”. She proposed a structure in the feminine psyche consisting of two intersecting continua: the personally related Mother/Hetaira pole, and the impersonally related Medial Woman/Amazon pole. Wolff suggested that one aspect of these possible adaptations is lived consciously while the others remain potentials in a woman’s psyche.
This workshop will examine Wolff’s descriptions of the four natures and explore archetypal, literary, and film images of these four feminine ways of being in the world. We will have time to reflect on our own patterns of relatedness in order to become more conscious of how feminine energy animates our lives. Each of the four adaptations, Mother, Hetaira, Medial Woman, and Amazon, is inherent in a woman’s psyche (or a man’s anima) and we become more whole as we gain access to and expression of these various aspects of our nature.
- Lucie Magnus is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. She has been a member of the New Orleans Jungian Seminar since 1997, and is currently in the final phase of training with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. The Southern Belle is her inspiration and nemesis and the topic of her thesis.
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