A Trip Down Memory Lane

Angelo is trying to piece together a list of the topics we've covered over the years. I was able to come up with the following from my notes:

• 2003: I think this was my first year and we did Jung on Evil. Can anyone confirm?
• 2004: Jung and Mythology
• 2005: Jung and the New Physics (Synchronicity)
• 2006: Active Imagination (Was it that long ago?)
• 2007: Jung and Alchemy
• 2008: The Moral Question

Please use the Comments link to add previous years or comment on this list. Thanks!

P.S. Mollie added the following:

• 1998 or 1999: Shadow and Dreams
• 2000: Animus and Anima
• 2001: Gender Consciousness
• 2002: Working with the Inferior Function
• 2003: Confirmed Jung on Evil

I don't know what year these started - anyone have other topics to add?

Spoto Sustenance 2009

Hi Everyone,

I’m looking forward to seeing you in a little more than a week. As those of us who have participated before in the seminar know, Jungian psychology is hard work! We need snacks to keep us going! Not only that, but sharing food and wine adds to the conviviality experienced over the weekend. So in my role as Snack Coordinator, it’s time to start planning the shopping list. Please let me know:

• Whether you plan to drink wine (or beer), so I have an idea of how much to buy/bring.
• Any dietary restraints you have: I know one person is lactose intolerant and another cannot eat cow’s milk cheeses, only sheep and goat.

Reply either by clicking the comments link at the end of this blog entry, or by replying to my email. The past few years, I’ve purchased a case of wine with 9 bottles of red and three of white. The wine shop helped me pick out Wines Around the World, which was fun. For expenses, the food has been reimbursed from the general kitty. For the wine, we totaled the dollar value of how much was drunk and divided it by the number of people drinking; then each person reimbursed me that amount. Loretta, please confirm we have money in the kitty for food and let me know what my budget is. Here’s the shopping list I went off of last year, although it also included an impulse buy or two:

• Apples – 6 pounds Macoun (my favorite)
• Grapes – 1 bunch red seedless
• Dried apricots – 1 container
• Veggies and dip
• Cheese – 3 cheeses, including cheddar, 1 goat cheese
• Crackers for cheese (include whole grain, sesame-flavored Asian Rice Crackers
• Nuts: walnuts (Ray); 1 big container (qt.-sized) mixed nuts and/or trail mix
• 1 bag hard pretzels
• 1 package pita bread
• 1 pint hummus tahini
• 2 big bags chips (corn and blue corn)
• 1 pints salsa
• Cookies – two tubs of mini cookies
• Yogurt: plain coffee, lemon, and cherry
• ½ & ½ (for coffee)
• Caffeine-free diet Coke (Angelo’s request) and with caffeine (Cindy)
• 3 2-liter bottles of seltzer
• Cider
• Cranberry juice

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for this list.

2009 Seminar Schedule & Logstics

Hi Everyone,
Angelo sent us the 2009 seminar schedule:

Friday, October 9:
Brief get-together for check in and announcements: 8PM - ?

Saturday, October 10:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12 Noon
Break: 12 Noon to 2 PM
Afternoon Session: 2 PM to 5 PM

Sunday, October 11:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12 Noon
Break: 12 Noon to 2 PM
Afternoon Session: 2 PM to 5 PM

Monday, October 12:
Morning Session: 9 AM to 12

Meals:
Note that the Mercy Center is supplying breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast is a self-serve continental style breakfast served in the Sea Scape kitchen. Lunch is the most substantial meal of the day and is served in the Mercy Center dining hall, a short walk from Sea Scape. [Loretta: Is lunch on Monday included this year?] They will deliver dinner to Sea Scape Saturday and Sunday around 5 PM and we agreed to do our own clean up (so that we have more flexibility around when to eat). We'll be setting up a clean up rotation on Friday night.

Hi Everyone,

I'm posting some pictures from last year and adding a poll to show you what's possible on the blog. Angela and I started to meet this week to discuss the reading. We think it will be a great way to keep on track. She is also re-reading some other books she has on archetypes. How about the rest of you? Please click Comment and let us all know!

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Best,
Paula

It's Here! The Reading List for October 2009

As we Spoto Seminar veterans know, it's not too early to start on the assigned readings. Angelo recently sent us some reading assigments, and others added information about where to find them.

He writes: Well, finally I have some reading for you to move on in route to our Mercy Weakened [was that spelling of "weekend" intentional?- PS]. As one of the long term goals of the group is to feel more and more comfortable and confident reading Jung in the original, I am going to suggest the following:

Ch. 5 of Jung's Psychological Types and as much of Vol 9i of the Collected Works (The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious) as the individual can manage.

Carol shares: "I found Collected Works, Volume 9, Part I : Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, in a Modern Library collection of Jung's works entitled :The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung, edited by Violet Staub de Laszlo., copyright 1959. This book was in our local public library.

I have a clarification question on the other reading - Chapter 5 of Psychological Types. Is the title of this chapter The Type Problem in Poetry? Note: Angela confirmed with Angelo that this is indeed the title of Chapter 5.

Stuart adds: If I may, IX i is Titled Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. (IX ii is Aion). The version almost universally referred to, for example in footnotes of other books on Jungian Psychology, is published by Princeton University Press, Copyright 1959, fifth printing 1977. A paperback edition appeard in 1980. Including the Appendix there 712 paragraphs on 384 pages. It is important to be able to refer to paragraphs, in class and on other occassions.

Also if it helps the ISBN is 0-691-09761-5.

I have known people who have bought used copies of the CW off Ebay, other ordered them from Princeton, but any sizeable library should have it.

As you complete the readings, feel free to use this blog to share some intial observations and questions for the group, either by posting a comment (by clicking the link at the end of this post) in response to this post, or being added as an author to create your own post.

Cheers,
Paula