C. G. Jung Society of Montreal
WINTER/SPRING 2024-25
Who Is A Friend?
Friends and Frenemies:
The Role Of Friendship in Life and in Analysis
A lecture by Jungian analyst Henry Abramovitch of Jerusalem, Israel
This is a ZOOM event.
A recording will be available for those who have registered and paid but cannot attend.
Saturday, January 18
1 p.m.- 3 p.m. (EST)
Members: $15; Non-Members: $20
Students/Senior Members: $10
By ZOOM
Registration Link: https://whoisafriend.eventbrite.ca
For info please call (514) 971-8664
Here is a short video clip of Henry Abramovitch previewing his talk.
Friendship is in crisis. Fewer and fewer people have lasting, true friends, even though having one is the best predictor of a long, and healthy life. Friends can also be the source of poignant, painful feelings, as in alienation or even betrayal of a friend.
In this presentation, I will discuss the depth psychology of friendship, drawing on the insights of Aristotle, Montaigne, Emerson and Murray Stein, beginning with an active imagination. I will then explore the quality of true friendship, how friendships form and break, and the role of friendship-like feelings in clinical work.
Henry Abramovitch is the founding President of the Israel Institute of Jungian Analysis in Honor of Erich Neumann; Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University; and the author of The First Father Abraham: The Psychology and Culture of A Spiritual Revolutionary; Brothers & Sisters: Myth & Reality; Why Odysseus Came Home as a Stranger; and a detective story, Panic Attacks in Pistachio.
With Murray Stein, he has co-authored a series of plays including “The Analyst and the Rabbi,” “Speaking of Friendship,” and “Eranos,” all available on YouTube. A native of Montreal, he lives and practices in Jerusalem.
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Not Making Nice:
Film Discussion of “Janet Planet”
A Lecture by John Beebe of San Francisco, CA
This is a ZOOM event.
Registration Link: https://JanetPlanet.eventbrite.ca
A recording will be available for those who attend and for those who have registered and paid but cannot attend.
Saturday, February 22
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m. (ET)
Members: $15; Non-Members: $20
Students/Senior Members: $10
For info please call. (514) 971-8664
Here is John Beebe giving a short preview of his talk.
Playwright Annie Baker’s impressive first film as director, Janet Planet, shows eleven-year-old Lacy living in the 1990s with her divorced mother, an acupuncturist, in a beautiful part of Western Massachusetts. Neither Lacy nor her mother are happy, but they share a secret opposition to their lives as women that both are having trouble articulating. Their tensions reveal with exquisite nuance the urgency and poignance of coming to identify what one needs to say no to in order to be able to come of age psychologically. Dr. Beebe will lead us in analyzing this mother-daughter complex from a postmodern Jungian perspective.
John Beebe is a Jungian analyst and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. His books include Integrity in Depth and Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type. His eight-function, eight-archetype model of psychological type is widely studied and applied.
He has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film and has co-authored, with Virginia Apperson, The Presence of the Feminine in Film. He has often used psychological type and archetype to explore developments in the cultural and political unconscious.