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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology

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We are dedicated to helping men and women grow in conscious awareness of the psychological realities in themselves and society, find healing and meaning, reach greater depth in their relationships, and live in response to their discovered sense of purpose.

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 8h

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." - Carl Jung

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 7d

"The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites — day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil."

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 7d

"The Questions That Shape a Life": How Jung’s Ideas Help Us to Meet Our Real Needs
5 Mondays, 7– 8:30 pm ET on Zoom
Begins Nov. 10th Instructor: David Rottman
Info at cgjungny.org

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 7d

Consciousness – Accessible and Unbound: Exploring Two Perspectives – Jung’s Unconscious and Gebser’s Structures of Consciousness
5 Thursday sessions online via Zoom. Starts November 13th with Bob Piller.
Full info at cgjungny.org

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 8d

". . . and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society." - Carl Jung

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 8d

"We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious . . .

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 9d

"There are truths which belong to the future, truths which belong to the past, and truths which belong to no time." - Carl Jung

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 11d

"The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him."

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 12d

"If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love." - Carl Jung

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 12d

Moving the Needle:
A Jungian Approach to Archetypes
in the Second Half of Life
5 Mondays, 7:00 – 8:30 pm, ET
Online class via Zoom
Beg. October 27
Info at cgjungny.org

Archetypes & motifs of role reversals, acquisition of wisdom and the effectiveness of collective action in the second half of life.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 12d

An Archetypal Exploration of
Love and Narcissism
a Zoom seminar led by Susan Schwartz
Full info at shorturl.at/J60gz
CEs for NYS LCAT, LP, LCSW, MSW
General public welcome!
Explore narcissistic relationships through dreams, myth and clinical treatment.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 12d

Jungian Dream Interpretation
5 Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 pm ET, online only via Zoom.
Begins Oct. 9th

Learn to interpret dreams! General public welcome!

Full info at shorturl.at/XrYaS

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 15d

"To this day "God" is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions, and change the course of my life for better or for worse."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 16d

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 17d

"Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 19d

“The meaning of my existence is that life has addressed a question to me. Or, conversely, I myself am a question which is addressed to the world, and I must communicate my answer, for otherwise I am dependent upon the world’s answer.”

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 20d

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 21d

"The more a man lays stress on false possessions, and the less sensitivity he has for what is essential, the less satisfying is his life. He feels limited because he has limited aims, and the result is envy and jealousy."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 22d

"Both are elements within his nature, and both are bound to come to light in him, should he wish—as he ought—to live without self-deception or self-delusion." (3/3)

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 22d

"He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what crimes he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as real and the other as illusion. (2/3)

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 22d

"[T]he individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil, as it is posed today, has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost possible knowledge of his own wholeness. (1/3)

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 22d

An Archetypal Exploration of
Love and Narcissism
a Zoom seminar led by Susan Schwartz
Full info at shorturl.at/J60gz
CEs for NYS LCAT, LP, LCSW, MSW

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 22d

Jungian Dream Interpretation
5 Thursdays, 6:00-7:30 pm ET, online only via Zoom.
Begins Oct. 9th

Learn to interpret dreams!

Full info at shorturl.at/XrYaS

7.5 CE contact hours for licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists.

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The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 23d

"Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away."

The C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology @cgjungny.bsky.social · 24d

"Magic is a way of living. If one has done one’s best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place." - Carl Jung