Sat, Sep 27
|Church of Reconciliation
WORKSHOP: Michael Conforti, Ph.D., "Psyche and Eros: Untangling the Mysterious Union of Love"
In working on with the myth of Amor and Psyche, we will come to understand the innate, archetypal twinship existing between love and death. We will see the workings of these dynamics in film, literature, clinical practice, and from our own life experiences.
Time & Location
Sep 27, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Church of Reconciliation, 110 N Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
About the Event
Psyche and Eros:
Untangling the Mysterious Union of Love and Death
In working on with the myth of Amor and Psyche, we will come to understand the innate, archetypal twinship existing between love and death, and the mysterium tremendum (“mystery that repels”), and the mysterium fascinosum (“mystery that attracts”), and how both are central to the experience of a great love. We will see the workings of these dynamics in film, literature, clinical practice, and from our own life experiences.
Brief Bio
Dr. Michael Conforti is a Jungian analyst and the Founder and Director of the Assisi Institute. He is a faculty member at the C.G. Jung Institute of Boston, the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, and for many years served as a Senior Associate faculty member in the Doctoral and Master's Programs in Clinical Psychology at Antioch New England. A pioneer in the field of matter-psyche studies, Dr. Conforti is actively investigating the workings of archetypal fields and the relationship between Jungian psychology and the New Sciences.
He has presented his work to a wide range of national and international audiences, including the C.G. Jung Institute - Zurich and Jungian organizations in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, Italy, Russia, South Africa, the Ukraine and Venezuela.
He is the author of Threshold Experiences: The Archetype of Beginnings (2007) and Field, Form and Fate: Patterns in Mind, Nature and Psyche (2002). His articles have appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, Roundtable Press, World Futures: The Journal of General Evolution, and Spring Journal. His books have been translated into Italian, Russian, and Spanish.