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Thursday, June 21, 2012

The Playful Psyche: Entering Chaos, Coincidence, Creation

This volume of essays ensues from the 6th Jungian Odyssey retreat, held at the historic Monte Verità—the Mountain of Truth—in the Canton of Ticino in the southern Swiss Alps. The authors are training analysts and scholarly guests of the International School of Analytical Psychology Zürich.

The modern history of Monte Verità began in 1899 when a group of anarchists settled in this rugged terrain, vowing to re-discover "humanity's harmony with nature" and "the unity of body, soul, intellect." In time this mountain of truth emerged as a magnet for many dancers, artists, and thinkers—among them C.G. Jung himself.

Carrying forward the spirit of the place, the authors of this volume observe the psyche at play in wide-ranging fields that stretch from the science laboratory to the analytic consulting room—from physics and mathematics to collective and personal catastrophe, to synchronicity, symptom, art, song, dream, myth, and the experiencing body. These seemingly far-flung contributions join in a vital persuasion: The playful psyche draws us into the "chaos of chance" and "wondrous mischance" with purpose—namely to imbue life with new meaning. The creative challenge for the ego and individuation is to sustain being at the threshold of the conscious and unconscious—or to dwell at "the edge between chaos and order, where the dance of life takes place." (I Ching)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Stacy Wirth, Isabelle Meier, John Hill
Moments of Meaning: Synchronicity and Individuation
Murray Stein
Can Physics Fly Again?
F. David Peat
Symmetry Breaking and Breaking Into Consciousness: Mirrors, Metaphor, and Meaning
Nancy Krieger
When Psyche Mutters Through Matter: Reflections on Somatic Counter-Transference
Kristina Schellinski
Trapped in the Body: Maintaining a Unified View of Psyche and Soma in Clinical Practice
Brian Stevenson
Sir Alfred Gilbert and the Forgotten Myth of Anteros
Craig Stephenson
Embodied VoiceWork: Moving Toward Wholeness in the Musical Field of Play
Lisa Sokolov
Synchronicities: Riddles of Time and Emotion
Beverley Zabriskie
Cosmos and Culture in the Play of Synchronicity
Joe Cambray


We hope you will join us for the 2013 Jungian Odyssey!
June 15-22, 2013  |  Kartause Ittingen, the 12th century Carthusian
monastery in Thurgau, Switzerland
Echoes of Silence: Listening to Psyche, Soul, Other
With
David Whyte, Poet
Lionel Corbett, Jungian analyst and author
and other guests and faculty of ISAPZURICH

Presented by:
The International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich
For more information about the 2013 Jungian Odyssey, email info@jungianodyssey.ch.