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Complexes in Everyday Life
October 3, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
An event every week that begins at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, repeating until November 14, 2017
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Presented by Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D.
By instructor consent. Limited enrollment.
Our complexes are frequently experienced as “blind spots” in our personalities, easily seen by others when we become defensive or taken over by strong feelings, threatening to overtake our ego-self, and wreck havoc on our relationships. Jung understood complexes as feeling-toned ideas which have their genesis in response to profound emotional experiences, with each complex organized by a mutual core of meaning around a central archetypal theme. In this course, we will examine the origin and nature of various complexes, their autonomous nature, how to recognize their personified nature in a dream, and how to live more consciously and in relationship to our own complexes.
Course Objectives:
- Describe what is meant by a complex and give an example of how a person might be taken over by a complex.
- Describe what is meant by the term collective unconscious.
- Define archetype, and give an example of two archetypes from clinical practice.
- Describe how complexes appear in a personified form in dreams
- Describe how complexes behave like an independent beings
- Describe how ego can establish a viable relationship with a complex.
- Describe the role of early emotional events of life in establishment of our complexes
- Describe how complexes are necessary ingredient of psychic life.
- Describe how complexes could be positive or negative
- Describe how a complex can never be eliminated.
- Describe how complexes are personified in analysis
- Describe how the personal unconscious is dominated by complexes
Sherri Mahdavi, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Irvine, and a Jungian analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She is also associate professor of Applied Clinical Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Southern California teaching Depth Psychology courses.
Continuing Education:
Psychologists/LCSWs/MFTs/LPCCs: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Nurses: The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is an accredited provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing. Registered Nurses may claim only the actual number of hours spent in the educational activity for credit.
