Presented by George Bright, M. A., M. Sc, D. T.
Attendance: In-person + Zoom
Continuing Education: 2 CE Credits Available
Recording: The program will be recorded.
In preparation for the upcoming lectures on the Red Book, George Bright asks that you all have a copy of the reader's edition on hand.
This series aims to give a close and substantial reading of The Red Book : Liber Novus in four two-hour seminars. Participants will read the text aloud in each seminar, set it within its historical contexts, and consider relevant intertexts. We will consider its meaning and allow for its impact upon us personally and its implications for clinical practice. The Red Book is Jung’s presentation of his text in images, and the seminar will examine these images in detail and reflect on them. Participants are encouraged to use the break times and end of the day for informal conversation with the instructor and one another. Light refreshments will be provided.
This part of the seminar will cover Liber Secundus, Chapters 14 (Divine Folly) and 15 (Nox Secunda). In this sequence of four chapters of Liber Novus Jung’s personal transformation continues in the first layer of the text and in the second layer, added a year later, he sets out the origins what was to become in his later writings “the individuation process”. The dynamic of this is not personal ambition for development but that “the divine wants to live with me.” In Nox Secunda Jung finds himself committed to the madhouse for a religious mania. In his 1912 publication Transformations and Symbols of the Libido he had himself pathologised religious belief. Two years later, as a result of the experiences he narrates in Liber Novus, he has left the world of thinking for the world of feeling and is open to experiencing what he had rejected. It is no accident that Jung gave these chapters titles that suggest that the experiences they treat lie in the dark (Nox/Night).
Learning objectives:
- Describe the historical significance of Jung's Red Book: Liber Novus in the development and practice of analytic psychology.
- Describe the historical significance of Jung's Black Books.
- Describe what is meant by the term active imagination and its use in analysis.
- Give an example of how Jung utilized active imagination in his confrontation with the unconscious.
- Describe how Jung's theory of the archetypes arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
- Describe how Jung's theory of the collective unconscious arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
- Describe what Jung meant by “the objective psyche” and give a clinical example.
- Compare Jung’s Liber Novus account of initiatory experience with clinical analytic training and the practice of analysis.
George Bright, M. A., M. Sc, Dip. Theol. was educated at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. He is a Training & Supervising Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a co-founder of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, a London-based group engaged in the study of Jung’s Liber Novus and Black Books. He works in private practice in London. His 1997 paper, Synchronicity as a Basis of Analytic Attitude, won the Michael Fordham Prize.
Presented by George Bright, M. A., M. Sc, D. T.
Attendance: In-person + Zoom
Continuing Education: 2 CE Credits Available
Recording: The program will be recorded.
In preparation for the upcoming lectures on the Red Book, George Bright asks that you all have a copy of the reader's edition on hand.
This series aims to give a close and substantial reading of The Red Book : Liber Novus in four two-hour seminars. Participants will read the text aloud in each seminar, set it within its historical contexts, and consider relevant intertexts. We will consider its meaning and allow for its impact upon us personally and its implications for clinical practice. The Red Book is Jung’s presentation of his text in images, and the seminar will examine these images in detail and reflect on them. Participants are encouraged to use the break times and end of the day for informal conversation with the instructor and one another. Light refreshments will be provided.
This part of the seminar will cover Liber Secundus, Chapters 14 (Divine Folly) and 15 (Nox Secunda). In this sequence of four chapters of Liber Novus Jung’s personal transformation continues in the first layer of the text and in the second layer, added a year later, he sets out the origins what was to become in his later writings “the individuation process”. The dynamic of this is not personal ambition for development but that “the divine wants to live with me.” In Nox Secunda Jung finds himself committed to the madhouse for a religious mania. In his 1912 publication Transformations and Symbols of the Libido he had himself pathologised religious belief. Two years later, as a result of the experiences he narrates in Liber Novus, he has left the world of thinking for the world of feeling and is open to experiencing what he had rejected. It is no accident that Jung gave these chapters titles that suggest that the experiences they treat lie in the dark (Nox/Night).
Learning objectives:
- Describe the historical significance of Jung's Red Book: Liber Novus in the development and practice of analytic psychology.
- Describe the historical significance of Jung's Black Books.
- Describe what is meant by the term active imagination and its use in analysis.
- Give an example of how Jung utilized active imagination in his confrontation with the unconscious.
- Describe how Jung's theory of the archetypes arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
- Describe how Jung's theory of the collective unconscious arose from the experiences he records in Liber Novus and give a clinical example.
- Describe what Jung meant by “the objective psyche” and give a clinical example.
- Compare Jung’s Liber Novus account of initiatory experience with clinical analytic training and the practice of analysis.
George Bright, M. A., M. Sc, Dip. Theol. was educated at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics. He is a Training & Supervising Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology and a co-founder of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, a London-based group engaged in the study of Jung’s Liber Novus and Black Books. He works in private practice in London. His 1997 paper, Synchronicity as a Basis of Analytic Attitude, won the Michael Fordham Prize.
