Who Is A Friend?
Friends and Frenemies:
The Role Of Friendship in Life and in Analysis
With Jungian analyst Henry Abramovitch of Jerusalem, israel
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
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, Henry 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.
Saturday, February 22
1 p.m.- 3 p.m. (EST)
Members: $15; Non-Members: $20
Students/Senior Members: $10
By ZOOM
Registration Link: https://JanetPlanet.eventbrite.ca
John Beebe previews his talk:
For info please call (514) 971-8664.
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.
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On the Dynamics of Relationship:
If Only the Kids Would Pipe Down, I Could Hear the Other Relatives Complain
A lecture by James Hollis of Washington D.C.
Saturday, March 15
1 p.m.- 3 p.m. (EDT)
Members: $15; Non-Members: $20
Students/Senior Members: $10
By ZOOM
Registration Link: https://jameshollis.eventbrite.ca
James Hollis previews his talk:
Our psychic life is swarming with clusters of energy. Jung called them "splinter personalities." Is it any wonder, then, that our relationships with others can be so fraught, so troubled when we have only begun to approach the many presences within each of us that are from time to time acting out? Even our sense of self is subject to which "noisy kid" within is remonstrating the loudest at the moment.
This presentation will explore the dilemma and point to the on-going assignment we all face if we are ever to improve our relationships. Ultimately, no relationship with another can ever exceed the measure of our monitoring and integrating the relationship with the noisy folks within each of us.
James Hollis, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D.C., a long time visitor to the Montreal Jung Society, and author of twenty books, the latest being Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love, and Other Grievances.
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A Fifty-Year Anniversary Celebration
Saturday, April 26
An In-Person Event
Location: Institut de Tourisme et d'Hôtellerie du Québec (ITHQ)
3535 rue Saint-Denis (Métro Sherbrooke)
Noon-4 p.m.
Fee: $30
Registration Links to Follow.
For Info please call (514) 971-8664.
We are planning an event for April 2025 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the C. G. Jung Society of Montreal.
This will be the first of three events to mark this milestone. Two more will take place next year–2025-26.
The April event will feature personal reminiscences about the five decades the Society has existed. There will be historical moments remembered, recollections of people who have played pivotal roles.
We hope to hear from long-time members as well as those who have participated only occasionally, especially in more recent years.
If you wish to share your personal reflections, please contact us at: jungsocietymontreal@bell.net.
There will be food and drink to enhance the spirit of the moment.
See the following webpage for special contributions.
https://sites.google.com/site/cgjungmontreal/50th-anniversary-of-c-g-jung-society-of-montreal
