C. G. Jung Society of Montreal
AUTUMN 2024-25
The Writings of C. G. Jung
A Four-Week Reading Seminar
Animated by members of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal
Thursdays, November 7, 14, 21 and December 5
7-9 p.m. EDT
By ZOOM
FREE admission with registration
Readings will be sent upon registration.
Please read the materials before each session to enhance the conversation.
Nov. 7: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpceCpqjsjHN0jbDOF1FvzscREJzFXKofd
Nov. 14: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeqrqTwpHdOU_afoBjMnXwKMZnFjgKC0
Nov. 21: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-ChrzIpG9TV8wuCd3MaUupKPG8GClE_
Dec. 5: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMtdemopzgjHtJFdfSga1L8gtQApAlQRVP6
November 7
The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man
In this 1933 essay, Jung ponders the increasing interest in Eastern wisdom and the Western psyche’s impoverished state. Can the superior man still be exalted amidst collective anomie or madness? Do his observations still ring true in 2024?
Murray Shugar is the editor of the Montreal Jung Society newsletter and its website. He also co-leads classes at the Thomas More Institute in Montréal.
November 14
“Your inner emptiness conceals just as great a fullness”
Mysterium Coniunctionis, Jung’s last great work, completed in his 80th year, proposes to heal a mortal wound of Western culture through the metaphors of alchemy. Edward Edinger wrote that if you can achieve a living relationship to this book, you achieve a living relationship to the autonomous psyche.
Harvey Shepherd, a retired journalist, is a member of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal. He invites participants to join him in the adventure of exploring some passages from what has been called the summa of Jungian psychology.
November 21
Encounter With the Unconscious
In this chapter from Memories, Dreams and Reflections, written when Jung was an old man, he reflects on what we now call The Red Book period. This reading offers an excellent overview of the confrontation/conversation with “seemingly autonomous” inner figures that influenced much of his later thinking.
December 5
Exploring The Transcendent Function
The Transcendent Function mediates the dance of opposing energies embodied in the conscious and unconscious contents of the psyche to bring about a new attitude. Consideration of the aesthetic, dreams and symbols are key to navigate the “directedness” of consciousness.
. Carol Knowlton-Dority is a Visual Artist. Her practice brings together contemporary visual art, meditation and interactive experiences
She explores the evolving nature of emotional experience, touching on themes of love, loss, desire, and hope.
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Departures*:
A Father's Absence/A Son's Legacy
With Psychologist Mathieu Langlais of Montréal
This is an In-Person event.
Thomas More Institute
3405 Atwater Ave. (Métro Atwater)
Saturday, November 23
9:30 a.m-5:00 p.m. (EDT)
Film screening: 9:30 a.m.-Noon
Discussion: 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
FREE LUNCH INCLUDED
Members: $40; Non-Members: $50
Students/Senior Members: $25
3 CE/OPQ Credits: RA06493-24 (For health care professionals)
Plus $45
Registration Link: https://DeparturesMLanglais.eventbrite.ca
For info please call (514) 971-8664
*The film "Departures" is in Japanese with English subtitles.
Departures, Yōjirō Takita’s 2008 Oscar winning movie, tells the moving story of Daigo, a young man initiated into the sacred art of nōkan, a buddhist ritual of tending the bodies of dead people in preparation for their funeral. But perhaps more importantly, the background story is about the fate of a man who was raised in a home with an absent father.
In this workshop, taking a mainly clinical perspective, we will use the movie as a case study, eliciting other clinical examples along the way, to better understand some of the mythology about the absent father. We will examine how it plays out dynamically as the psychotherapy evolves, and how sometimes an absent father is a necessity, if not a blessing.
Mathieu Langlais is a psychologist and psychotherapist, member of l’Ordre des psychologues du Québec. He is trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Jungian psychology and Archetypal Psychology. He practices in Montréal and teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of Archetypal Psychology. His interests are in working with dreams, images and films, and the interdisciplinary treatment of disease.
WINTER/SPRING 2025
Saturday January 18 Who Is A Friend? The Depth Psychology Of Friendship in Life & Analysis
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. With Henry Abramovitch of israel
Saturday February 22 Film discussion
1:00 to 3:00 p.m. With John Beebe of San Francisco, CA
Saturday March 15 With James Hollis of Washington, D.C.