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ANZSJA offers professional development programs/events for clinicians who wish to expand their clinical approaches to include Jungian and post Jungian perspectives.
ANZSJA Analysts also offer public talks and events for people interested in exploring Jungian and post-Jungian ideas and their application to the individual, society and culture.
These events may include public lectures, seminars and workshops, screenings, performances and exhibitions.
Our listings include diverse events across Australia and New Zealand.
Join us for one, two or all three of our seminars in the Great Mother Series, please see details below.
The Death Mother wields a cold, fierce, violent, and corrosive power. She is rampant in our society right now. When Death Mother’s gaze is directed at us, it penetrates both psyche and body, turning us into stone.
~ Marion Woodman, 2009
Presented by Dr Violet Sherwood and Dr Brooke Laufer.
This presentation will focus on the Death Mother archetype, beginning with placing the Death Mother within the context of Neumann’s Mother archetype map and exploring her current social and cultural manifestations, including an exploration of the various archetypal complexes that show up in mothering (for example, the Vampire mother).
We will go on to explore the powerful impact of the Death Mother in her fullest sense at the level of literal and psychological infanticide.
We will weave psychoanalytic infanticidal attachment theory with the Death Mother complex as experienced within mother and child, and how to recognise and be with this presentation in the therapy room. There will be room for discussion.
ntimately known and yet strange like Nature, lovingly tender and yet cruel like fate, joyous and untiring giver of life—mater dolorosa and mute implacable portal that closes upon the dead …
… the mother carries for us that inborn image of the mater natura and mater spiritualis, of the totality of life of which we are a small and helpless part.
~ Jung, CW9i Para 172
Presented by Juliana Prpic and Dr Janis Maxwell
Jung described the Great Mother as an archetype of duality. On the positive side, she embodies “all that is benign, all that cherishes and sustains, furthers growth and fertility.” Conversely, her shadow holds all that “devours, seduces, and poisons.” Expanding on Jung’s insights, his student Erich Neumann articulated a more detailed framework, mapping the Great Mother onto a quaternity. This mandala of opposites includes the nurturing Good Mother and the fearsome Terrible Mother, alongside the positive transformative feminine and its counterpart, the destructive transformative feminine—the Witch and the Muse.
In this presentation we will continue exploring the quaternity of the Great Mother Archetype, focusing on the transforming power of the Witch and the Muse.
ungian arts-based research (JABR) is doing therapy with the whole world. It means making knowledge through creativity, the imagination and the unknown psyche or the unconscious, interacting with the wisdom of centuries materialised in art traditions…
… the artwork tells the artist that it is finished, there is then opportunity to collect, reflect upon and gather meaning for the world in something like an alchemical projection.
~ Rowland
Presented by Merilee Bennett & Juliana Kaya Prpic
Drawing on the work of Susan Rowland1 we will engage with a Jungian Arts-Based Research (JABR) approach to create a doll symbolising the Great Mother archetype. JABR integrates creativity, art-making, and psychological inquiry into a transformative process that dis-members and re-members old forms of knowing and being, transforming art-making into a bridge between the individual and the collective unconscious. Your doll will be stitched and painted and adorned.
Through the four stages of JABR—paradigm, preparation, process, and projection—we will consider the archetypal framework, prepare through reflection, and embrace spontaneity and synchronicities during the creative process. The completed dolls will serve as autonomous entities, embodying the energy of the Great Mother while offering personal and collective meaning.
Presented by Mark Winborn
This seminar focuses on teleological themes in the work of C.G. Jung and Wilfred Bion. As part of the exploration, we will focus on the similarities and differences between Jung’s concept of individuation and Bion’s concept of ‘becoming.’
Additionally, two approaches to the concept of individuation are outlined; one which holds individuation on par with a spiritual pursuit (individuation as romantic ideal) and one which holds the individuation as a concept that potentially informs each analytic moment (individuation as clinical concept).
A collective problem, if not recognized as such, always appears as a personal problem, and in individual cases may give the impression that something is out of order in the realm of the personal psyche. The personal sphere is indeed disturbed, but such disturbances need not be primary; they may well be secondary, the consequence of an insupportable change in the social atmosphere. The cause of disturbance is, therefore, not to be sought in the personal surroundings, but rather in the collective situation. Psychotherapy has hitherto taken this matter far too little into account. (Jung 1989, 233–4)
~ Jung, C.G. 1989 [1961]. Memories, dreams, reflections. New York: Vintage. Pp233-4)
Presented by Craig San Roque & Juliana Kaya Prpic
In this presentation we will explore:
Myths and fairy tales give expression to unconscious processes, and their retelling causes these processes to come alive again and be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between the conscious and the unconscious.”
G. Jung CW 9:ii para280
Held over three Sundays to immerse in the world of Fairy Tales
Deb, from New Zealand, Alison from Canada, and Mary Rose from Australia studied at ISAP Zurich and have been pondering Fairy Tales together since 2016. In considering the fairy tale in relation to the process of individuation we bring a fairly classical Jungian approach to our study of fairy tales. Our different professional backgrounds and different countries of residence contributes to the many threads that unfold during our discussions.
