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DTSTART:20081004T140000Z
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SUMMARY:ENERGY: A CENTRAL PSYCHIC AND ECOLOGICAL ISSUE and COMPLEXES AND EMERGENCE: A Case Study
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URL:http://www.jung.org#Italian2
LOCATION:The Embassy of Switzerland, 2900 Cathedral Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.
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 Who: Caterina Vessoli, Ph.D & Brigitte Egger, Ph.D=0D=0A=
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 Fees: $50.00, members in advance; $75.00, nonmembers; $40.00 seniors over 65 and full-time students=0D=0A=
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 We will deepen our reflections on the theme of energy, central both in ecology and psychology, as well as on the concepts and methods of analytical psychology to link the energy issues in both fields and conclude on the necessity of considering outer and inner nature on equal terms.  First, we will evoke energy in ecology as the motor of all life on earth and of all transformation of matter; the use of energy as an irreversible process leading to more entropy; the only “renewable” use of energy as coming from the sun; the specific consequences of energy use (e.g., the production of greenhouse gas) as more problematic then the use itself of energy.  Second, we will explore energy in the psyche: energy as illustrated in myths; energy as a world-creating symbol; the symbol as a “polyvalent seminal” aptitude.; we will further discuss the close link between energy, symbol, and technology; and see how technology, which like the symbol allows the mobilization and transformation of energy, attracts nowadays the whole attention devoted in pre-modern cultures to symbol.  Third, we will address the methods of “reading” problematic collective issues, transposing the therapeutic knowledge from the personal to the collective level. The Jungian approach, faced with a problem, is to listen to the symbolic content of the symptoms to discover what life might ask of us, in contrast to the contem-porary way of intervening with a deliberate purpose.  More generally, the core themes of our time can be seen as carrying the unconscious projection of core needs of the soul.  All these reflections invite us to promote a profound cultural turn toward more introspection, for which Jungian psychology offers powerful tools and insights. =0D=0A=
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 Emergence is present in our everyday clinical experience. I observe this whether I am working in research on the association experiments or in my everyday clinical relationships with my patients.  I observe this phenomenon in the activation of complexes, through emotional expressions, dreams, and personal relationships, as well as the transference and counter-transference contents.  The concepts of psyche’s self-organization and emergence are themes recently rediscovered in our newest analytical literature. The terms self-organization, or emergence, derive from quantum physics theory, and this theory can explain fascinating Jungian “oddities” such as synchronicity and archetypes.  When understood from the point of view of quantum field theory, these concepts are perhaps no longer so scientifically puzzling.  Today I will present a clinical vignette in which the emergence of new contents in the analytical relationship illustrates how matter and psyche can be two faces of the same coin, like Janus, the two-headed god who could see into the past with one head and in to the future with the other, a god of time and harvest.  In this case emergence of new meanings and symbols are bound to opera singing and to the early experience of the voice of the mother.  The intense exchange between baby and mother is constellated by a synchronic event in the counter-transference. The expression of emotions through voice and language allows the co-construction of a healthy relationship.  =0D=0A=
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 For this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.=0D=0A=
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 Caterina Vezzoli is a Jungian training analyst residing in Milan, Italy. Her fields of study, research, and professional interests include psychothera-peutic hypnosis, sexual disturbance, addictions, children and their dreams, the association experiment, and the effects of psychotherapy.  Her interests in clinical research have seen her involved in different projects in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry of the Milan University.  As Supervisor she has on-going collaborations with the Italian National Health Service in the Units for the Treatment of Addictions and in the Department of Developmental Psychology.  Caterina earned her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Padua, Italy; she received her diploma in analytical psychology at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich , where she is also a training analyst.  She has been president, director, and currently serves as treasurer of CIPA, the Jungian Training Institute of Milan.=0D=0A=
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 Brigitte Egger is a Jungian training analyst with private a practice in Zürich as well as an ecologist with a doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich.  She concentrates her research on the psychic and symbolic dimensions of collective issues and works at introducing this dimension into practical environment protection -  especially concerning energy and water, further predators, landscape, and market globalization - thus building up the field of psychecology.=0D=0A=
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 Come early; parking is on the street. Also, or this program, we plan to offer CEUs for Social Workers.  =0D=0A=
 
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