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Jung at Heart (2024-2025): Spontaneous Waking Visions
February 1, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Prepaid Cost: $90.00Event Navigation
Saturday, February 1, 2025; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
SPONTANEOUS WAKING VISIONS:
AUTONOMOUS COMPLEXES OR TRANSPSYCHIC REALITY?
This presentation explores spontaneous waking visions and their dynamism for transformation, which propels the individuation process. Spontaneous waking visions were of interest to Jung (1977), and he proposed that the visions contained unconscious material that is incubated for some time, which creates energy so that the unconscious material eventually projects into space and time. There, they are perceived as if they are their own object because the ego has not yet associated with the autonomous complex from which they came (1919). When visions are experienced as negative, they can lead to psychosis. When positive, they are often a deeply felt “religious” experience. The sitings of ethereal beings probably have some substantiality that emerges from a “transpsychic reality underlying the psyche” (1948). Jung thought that modern humanity would experience spontaneous phenomena, such as waking visions, as “dreams and fantasies and neurotic symptoms… and would devalue them” (1919; 1960). Was he right?
Marybeth Carter, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst with a degree in religious studies with honors from Indiana University and in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where she is now an adjunct faculty. She is chair of the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) and also serves on the board of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Marybeth’s interests are in the creative arts, transcendent states, and the process of individuation. Some of her published work includes “Crystalizing the Universe in Geometrical Figures: Diagrammatic Abstraction in the Creative Works of Hilma af Klint and C. G. Jung,” “Satan’s Mouth or Font of Magic What Is It about the Anus?” and “Painting an Especially Bright Spirit: A Jungian Lens on the Art of Agnes Pelton” all published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche. Her book The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis, co-edited with Stephen Farah, is published by Routledge. Correspondence: Marybeth.Carter@msn.com.
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