The APT-Birmingham Public Lecture
Saturday 18 January 2025
FANTASY, ACTIVE IMAGINATION AND THE RED BOOK: THE EMERGENCE OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY AS A DISTINCT DISCIPLINE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
Katerina Sarafidou
Katerina Sarafidou
Active imagination and Jung’s unique understanding of fantasy are two of his most original contributions to the understanding of the dynamics of the psyche and to working with unconscious processes. Yet Jung references the subject only sparingly in the Collected Works. His own self-experimentation was documented in the Red Book and took the form of entering into waking fantasies and dialoguing with the characters that appeared. The development of this approach into a systematic way of engaging with the inner world made analytical psychology a distinct discipline of psychotherapy beyond the cure of neuroses. This seminar will explore Jung’s active imagination as this is elucidated in the Red Book and Black Books, its implications for the understanding of the psyche, and its role in individuation.
Katerina Sarafidou is an Honorary Member of the British Jungian Analytic Association. She is the Jungian Head of Research and former Jungian Director at the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She carries out academic research at the Warburg Institute and teaches in several psychoanalytic and Jungian trainings. She is one of three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year study on Jung’s Red Book.
APPLICATION DETAILS
This event will be held via Zoom Video Conferencing only between 10.15am and 12.45pm.
The cost for this lecture is £50 for WMIP members and £60 for non-WMIP members.
Bookings should be made/confirmed as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
PAYMENT DETAILS
Please make BACS payments as follows:
Bank: Barclays, Sort Code: 20-08-44, Account No: 03737950
Account Name: The Training in Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy
(Please use your name as a reference)
For further details and queries contact:
Sue Harford, Administrator to the Training Committee,
telephone: 07789 545908, email: aptc@wmip.org
The APT-Birmingham
Public Lectures
For enquiries contact Sue Harford,
Administrator to the Training Committee
Unit 1A, West Stockwith Park,
Stockwith Road, Misterton,
Nottinghamshire DN10 4ES.
Telephone: 07789 545908
Email aptc@wmip.org
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