Past Projects of Heide Kolb, Certified Jungian Analyst

Past Projects

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Jung in Everyday Life

Both Freud and Jung envisioned psychoanalysis as a new "Weltanschauung." Before being assimilated by the medical model, psychoanalysis existed as a new vision of relating to and understanding the world within and around us. Jung always emphasized the need to viscerally experience his work. Jung's work is best understood if one imagines it as a life long yet daily practice of relating to psyche within and around us.

In this seminar we will discern tools and techniques aimed at integrating Jung's view of psyche into our daily lives. Inevitably we will have to revisit Jung's understanding of the personal and archetypal dimension of the Shadow and the dynamics and purpose of projections. We will discuss the need for a balanced attitude towards dreams, fantasies, daydreams and other manifestations of the unconscious and explore Jungian work as a spiritual tradition. Story and images will accompany us in our attempt to translate Jung's work into our own personal daily practice.

For more info please contact the C.G. Jung Foundation

I grieve for you my Brother
Jung's Answer to Job:
Finding Meaning in Trauma and Suffering

In this course we will explore one of Jung's most influential, albeit controversial, works, his Answer to Job. Often regarded as the essence of the Jungian myth, we will engage some of its central themes, such as the role of human consciousness in the face of terror and trauma and the reality of the "divine drama" in the unconscious autonomous psyche. We will look at the spiritual dimension in Jung's work which offers a depth-psychological examination of the Judeo-Christian myth and a new paradigm for inner development and transformation. Current events and selected works from literature and film will help us ground our explorations and approximate our role in the great drama of the objective psyche.

Held at the C.G. Jung Center at 28 East 39th Street, New York City

Tuition: $110 for members and $125 for the general public.

Registration: The full fee must be paid at time of registration. You may register by mail ( download this form), by telephone or fax with your MasterCard or Visa, or in person at the C.G. Jung Foundation, Monday–Thursday 10:00 am - 5:00 pm. FAX # 212-953-3989. Seating is limited and early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended.

For more information, visit- http://www.cgjungny.org/continuinged.html#ces09e

The Lion and the Antelope

At its core, Jungian thought has always mirrored the newly arising mythologem, which can be poetically expressed as the Return of the Goddess and psychologically viewed as the recovery of the feminine principle in the human psyche.

We will look at the relationship between the return of the feminine and the notion of an “Ecological Intelligence,” a term coined by South African Jungian Analyst Ian MacCallum.

How can we begin to reconcile the Human-Nature split? What is the nature of the newly emerging consciousness? What are the consequences if we fail to make the psychological leap? These are some of the questions we will engage. Particular emphasis will be given to the role of aggression, violence and destruction that seem to plague or current times, but are also unavoidable consorts of the returning Goddess stirring in the depths of our unconscious psyche.

For more information, visit- http://cgjungny.org/forums.html#tue200810

The C.G. Jung Foundation of New York
One-Week Intensive Summer Study Programs 2008

"Living with Integrity: Understanding the Role of the Archetypal Charlatan and the Trickster in One’s Life"

The dynamics of the charlatan and the trickster seem to be in conflict with living with integrity. Yet, in this seminar we will discover how one can only move towards an authentic life when one becomes conscious of the psychic reality of the Charlatan within oneself as well as in the world at large. We will explore how to relate to this powerful archetypal force without identifying nor blindly projecting it into others.

Please note that this class can only be taken as part of the one-week Intensive Summer Study program at the C.G. Jung Foundation.

Workshop

The C.G. Jung Foundation presented

Charlatans, Healers, Visionaries, False Prophets:
What is What and Does it Matter?

A Jungian Exploration of the Flakiness of Life

a daylong seminar led by
Heidi Kolb, LCSW, NCPsyA

Every spiritual truth is gradually reified and turns into a substance or tool in the hand of man.

— C. G. Jung, CW 13

In this workshop, we will discover how we can relate to the psychic reality of the Charlatan, neither identifying with it nor blindly projecting it onto others. From Jung to Einstein, anyone who has made a major contribution to our culture has been accused of being a charlatan by some. The image and the dynamics of the Charlatan are a specific appearance of the archetypal Shadow that we can fall prey to when Power overtakes Eros.

We will examine how the archetype of the Charlatan shapes our relationship to political, cultural and religious leaders and also to the world of psychoanalysis, Jung and the Jungian community. The controversial figure of Carlos Castaneda, a charlatan for many, a spiritual teacher for others, will serve as a focal point in our attempt to comprehend the Healer/Charlatan paradox. Jung’s understanding of the power of the Black Magician as it is contained in the ever-present shadow of the Healer, makes this workshop relevant for any practitioner in a healing profession, any explorer of consciousness or any seeker of meaning and “truth.”

Workshop with Heide Kolb

A five week course presented by the C.G. Jung Foundation, beginning November 2007

Mjollnir, Thor’s Hammer

The Battle for Psyche

Today’s world is dominated by warfare and environmental changes that make the threat of extinction more real than ever. But in addition to all the external battles and changes, there is another, less visible, fight occurring and that is the battle for psyche. In this course we will define and approach psyche as a consciously held relationship to the invisible world that is in danger of disappearing in our current age. We will discuss Jung’s appreciation of the individual psyche or soul as well as the world soul, the “anima mundi”. We will explore the role of the imagination and the impact of technology on our relationship to psyche and we will investigate tools and attitudes that allow us to become stewards, even warriors in the battle for psyche. Selected readings and examples from film and the art world will be provided.

The Jungian Advanced Seminars presented by the C.G. Jung Foundation and the C.G. Jung Institute of New York (a fourteen week seminar)

C.G. Jung, 1912

A Jungian Perspective on the Idea of Evil

“I have discovered that all evil comes from this, man’s being unable to sit still in a room”
Blaise Pascal

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.”
Blaise Pascal

The idea of evil presents us with an eternal problem. No matter how we try to define it, its elusive nature always evades our grasp. The problem of evil does not allow for quick solutions. As clinicians we can sense its presence in the dynamics of sadism and masochism and in the fragmentation of psychotic processes.

In this course we will try to understand how the notion of “unimaginable” evil manifests and is experienced in the human psyche. We will begin by approaching the problem of evil from a theoretical and phenomenological perspective. Then we will trace how depth psychologists from Freud to Jung to Melanie Klein, Wilfried Bion, Thomas Ogden, Michael Eigen and Donald Kalshed have attempted to translate the metaphysical concept of evil into psychological dynamics.

Jung struggled intensely and wrote much on the problem of evil, although not in a systematic way. We will spend time exploring Jung’s personal confrontation with evil, which was his experience of Nazi Germany.

We will also explore several perspectives on how we may be opened to incursions from the dark side of the Self. And we will engage with the Jungian concept of “integrating the shadow” to explore how that can help us to relate to and even protect us from what we experience as evil in ourselves, in our patients and in the world at large. To amplify the dynamics of the problem, w will use fairytales and contemporary contributions from film and literature.

Heide M Kolb

Certified Jungian Analyst