Spoto 2010 Reading List

Hi Everyone,
Here is the reading list information from Angelo. Looking forward to seeing you all in a few months!
Best, Paula

Ok, gang, below is a provisional reading list to play with for our October get together. As always, do what you can with it. Read at least a little, or read a lot...as your soul moves you (and as time permits). My guess is this is all mostly familiar material. So, it may be mostly rereading you are actually doing. I may throw in something else as it comes to me. We'll see. But, this should work for most people. I am getting the feeling too that this year's meeting is a summary of sorts of all that has gone before it. Perhaps, we will be moving to a different approach in future meetings, less didactic, more keyed to an intense, Jungian examination of pieces of literature or art, music, plays, etc. by the group. Perhaps, we'd want to tackle the Red Book next time, and utilize break-out groups more intensely. We could even follow a format like the Rubin Museum, where one person interviews another person on a pre-selected image from the Red Book unknown to the interviewee. An incredible amount of material has been covered over the years. So much to draw on. We have done weekends on Shadow, Anima-Animus, Dreams, Active Imagination, Greek Mythology, Alchemy, Synchronicity & Quantum Physics, Type and Archetype, and...what am I leaving out??? Someone solve the mystery! Reading list, below.
Hesse, H - Demian
Jacobi, J - The Way of Individuation
Jaffe, A - The Myth of Meaning
Jung, C.G. - Psychological Types or The Psychology of Individuation
Meier, C.A. - Personality: The Individuation Process in the Light of C.G. Jung's Typology
Spoto, A. - Jung's Typology in Perspective, Chapter 6
Stein, M. - Individuation
Von Frantz, M.-L. - Man and His Symbols, Part 3

Do You Think This Guy is an Artisan (SP)?

http://video.telegraph.co.uk/services/player/bcpid1137883380?bctid=21337502001

Pretty impressive!

Seminar: Jung's Red Book Revealed

Cindy wanted to share information about this Web-based seminar on Friday, January 22, 2010. You can view the seminar from yourhome computer.
http://ashevillejungcenter.org/RedBook.aspx

Another way to connect Archetypes and Type

I thought that you all might be interested to take a look at this page from CAPT website that discusses the synergy between the MBTI® tool and the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator (PMAI®):

http://www.capt.org/pmai-assessment/type-archetype.htm

Katherine

Hello All,
I wanted to get the two quotes from Jung I shared up as well as a third one I discovered in my notes.

Long experience has taught me not to know anything in advance and not to know better, but to let the unconscious take precedence. Our instincts have ridden so infinitely many times, unharmed, over the problems that arise at this stage of life that we may be sure the transformation processes which makes the transition possible have long been prepared in the unconscious and only waiting to be released.

CW 9i, p. 293 para 528

Life is crazy and meaningful at once. And when we do not laugh at over the one aspect and speculate about the other, life is exceedingly drab, and everything is reduced to the littlest scale.

CW 9i, p. 31 para 65

The 'inferior' function...would have the significance of a releasing or 'redeeming' function. We know from experience that the inferior function always compensates, complements, and balances the 'superior' function.

CW 9i, p. 303 para 541

I also had a bit of a synchronistic event at the Philadelphia airport. When I was looking for reading material (I'd stuck to Jung on the outbound journey), I found a book called My Life With the Saints by James Martin, SJ that is a spiritual memoir as well as being a primer on some of the Catholic figures who shaped Martin's journey (e.g., Thomas Merton, Ignatius of Loyola, Joan of Arc). On the back cover there is this pull quote from the Washington Post Book World:

Martin's final word is as Jungian as it is Catholic: God does not want us to be Mother Theresa or Dorothy Day. God wants us to be most fully ourselves.


Looking forward and smiling,
Katherine