Wednesday, September 23, 2009; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

Ancient Greece: Women on the Way to Eleusis

Presented by Janis Jennings, Ph.D.

In antiquity, the Eleusinian mysteries enacted the experience of Demeter as she grieved the loss, and the eventual return of her daughter. The myth of Demeter and Persephone offers unique insights about the contemporary relationship between mothers and daughters, how this relationship can begin to be healed. Our discussion will focus on one facet of the rites of Eleusis, the feeling-toned core of the mother-daughter dyad.

Course Objectives:

• Identify ways in which historical injuries to the mother-daughter dyad live in the contemporary psyche
• Describe intra-psychic and archetypal aspects of the mother-daughter bond
• List implications for treating difficulties in the mother-daughter relationship

Janis Jennings, Ph.D., is an analytic candidate at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She is a licensed psychotherapist in private practice in Santa Barbara and earned her Ph.D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in depth psychology. Her dissertation was entitled Hestia, Goddess of the Hearth: Fire at the Center.

Pre-registered: $25.00 | At Door: $30.00
Continuing Education: 2 hours CE, CN, APA available, see Continuing Education page
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page

This program is part of a series
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Series: Pre-registered: $160.00 | 16 hours CE, CN, APA available

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