Jung Society Melbourne Podcast
Welcome to the Jung Society of Melbourne’s Podcast where we share talks given to the Society by Jungian experts from around the world. We cover the basics of analytical psychology as well as in-depth explorations of all things Jungian including the enriching application of Jungian psychology across literature, film, therapy and in our everyday life. The Society offers a space for the exploration and development of Jungian ideas and practice. We offer talks on the third Friday evening of every month as well as courses and workshops, a Jungian library, a newsletter and discussion groups. Please visit our website at:http://www.jungsocietymelbourne.com/ Or our facebook page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/JungSocietyMelbourne/ Music supplied by: https://www.purle-planet.com
Episodes
49 episodes
Influence of Psychotherapy on the Immune System in Chronic Fatigue, Robert Bosnak
Chronic Fatigue is a complex, acquired condition whose cause is a topic of muchresearch and debate. The severity of symptoms vary, however, around a quarter ofpeople are unable to leave their home due to the multi-system impacts of ChronicFatig...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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50:28
The Enclosed garden: Temenos of the Soul, Juliana Kaya Prpric
The Enclosed Garden is one of the oldest expressions of civilization, and possessesa long and direct relationship to symbolism and mythology. Such a garden creates afertile place of verdant abundance, a haven of peace and quiet, shade and water...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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56:43
Sally Gillespie - Stormy Weather: Engaging with Climate Change
This talk explores ways to engage in climate change conversations to facilitate conscious change. Sally draws on stories from facilitating in depth discussions in a research group, where participants shared their dreams, imaginings, frustrat...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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1:00:35
Claire French - The Goddess Archetype
This lecture discusses the loss of feminine representation, including in the changing myths and religious stories, and its impact on society. It explores challenges for women when they feel alienated from their instinctive femininity and for...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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1:03:57
Tim Falkiner: The Zone of the Pokies Addict
This lecture discusses electronic gambling machines known as “pokies” in Australia, “slot machines” in the United States of America and “fruit machines” in the United Kingdom. It explores their use of symbols, how players may be entranced by...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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59:33
Frith Luton: Circumambulating the Centre - The Symbolism of the Bees, the Honey, and the Hive
This lecture explores the alchemical union of opposites through the symbolism of bees including love and war, sweetness and bitterness, the individual and multiplicity, regeneration and death. Circumambulating the hive is linked with mandala...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:12:13
Robert Johnson: Dionysus the Forgotten God
Dionysus the Forgotten God discusses myths of the complex and fragile God, Dionysus - born of both parents and a third time reborn of the underworld. Both the last Olympian and the first to be cast out. Where the qualities of his brother Apollo...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:44:43
Mary Duffy: Illness, Symptom & Individuation
Illness, Symptom & Individuation approaches the process of integration and healing through experiences of illness and trauma in the life of the body. Mary shares a personal experience of serious, prolonged illness that evaded medical dia...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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45:06
Maureen Buckley-Fox: The Sacred Drama
With a focus on the big questions of the human condition – cycles of birth and death, destiny and free will, suffering and the life journey - Maureen weaves her way through ancient rituals in honour of the earth mother and Goddesses with many n...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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57:00
Mary Symes: Dreams - A Dialogue with the Unconscious
In today’s talk, Mary works with Zen Buddhist 10 Oxherding Pictures and accompanying poetry to establish a way of ‘being with’ the unconscious. These ancient pictures reflect stages an individual might progress to toward enlightenment and a ret...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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1:12:16
Annette Lowe: On the Origins of Religion - Why Does Religion Exist? How Does it Form?
In today’s talk Annette takes us through a rich array of voices and works that speak to the question of the definitions, potential origins and purpose of the mystical experience and religion. Ranging from perspectives in sociology, neuropsychol...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:03:11
Margaret Becher: Mother
Exploring the many manifestations of mother in our psyche from the Great Mother to the personal mother, the mother complex to the inner mother, Margaret draws our attention to one of the fundamental qualities of the maternal. In this talk, a ri...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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1:17:40
Peter Macris: A Gift or a Curse - Depression
Beginning and ending with personal stories of his experience with depression, Peter guides us through two very different conceptualisations: A modern psychological approach that focuses on getting through depression or depression as so...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:08:43
Reverend Lesley Anne Curran: The Function of Imagination
In this meaningful talk, Reverend Curran points to the way that imagination enables us to step outside of ourselves and look at ourselves fully. With imagination we can take what we have experienced directly, what resides in our memory and what...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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52:33
Robert A Johnson: Inner Work - Active Imagination
In today’s talk, internationally respected author and Jungian analyst Robert A Johnson speaks about the practice of active imagination, a practice that for C. G. Jung was just as important as working with dreams. With the inclusion of evocative...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:28:49
Dr Averil Earnshaw: 'Family Time' - Being Caught in Trans-Generational Age-Linked Events
In today’s talk, psychiatrist and specialist child, adolescent and family psychotherapist, Dr Averil Earnshaw takes us on a journey through her innovative theory about the toxic familial waste that can plague our inner psychological space. She ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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1:09:12
Helen Phillips: Creative Envy?
Jungian analyst Helen Phillips presents us with an understanding of envy from a powerful perspective, diving deep into the creative as well as destructive possibilities of envy. Drawing on a Jungian conceptualisation of the development of consc...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:12:55
Robert A. Johnson: The Wounded Feeling Function
Carl Jung described four different types of consciousness that we all possess. On one axis we have the Thinking and Feeling functions, on another Sensation and Intuition. Individuals and cultures tend to favour one type of consciousness at the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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1:06:21
Dr Peter O'Connor: The Mid-Life Crisis - A Jungian Perspective
Dr Peter O’Connor, a retired psychologist with an abiding interest in Jungian Depth Psychology, speaks about the “human fragility and human failure” experienced at the heart of the mid-life crisis. He describes how the first half of life involv...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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47:42
Joan Harcourt: The Crone - The Archetype of the Wise Woman Elder
In this wonderful talk, Joan Harcourt brings the wisdom of Marion Woodman, Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jane Prétat as well as her own life experience and work with older women’s groups to the powerful image of the Crone. Once a source of respect, heali...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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48:53
Dr Christopher Gribbin: Different Visions of the Afterlife in Ancient Greece
With reference to Homer, Hesiod and the Orphics, Dr Chris Gribbin provides a rich exploration of two versions of death and the afterlife in Ancient Greece. Myth captures so much of what humanity understood then and understands now, of how we ma...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:08:32
Anne Di Lauro: Archetypal Themes in Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio
Today we explore the wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio with Jungian oriented psychotherapist Anne Di Lauro. Anne invites us to consider the powerful archetypal energies and images present within the story including the Child and the Pu...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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1:05:24
Colin Thompson: Buddhist Mindfulness and Jung
Today we’ll be listening to mindfulness therapist Colin Thompson as he takes us on a journey from the origins of Buddhism to modern practice. Ranging from the understandings of the Buddha to Jon Kabat Zinn, W. H. Auden, Ezra Bayda and Carl Jung...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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1:01:47
David Tacey Series Talk 5: The Differences Between Spiritual Emergence and Mental Illness
In today’s talk, David Tacey explores the similarities and differences between spiritual experiences and mental illness. He describes the relationship between our sense of a discrete self, the Ego, and a larger sense of an interconnected spirit...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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1:14:32
David Tacey Series Talk 4: Spiritual Intuition in Young Adults
In today’s talk, David draws on his experience as a lecturer and teacher at La Trobe University. He weaves student’s voices throughout revealing a deep yearning for what spirituality represents. He notes how in this generation young adults freq...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:15:47