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URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2020-09-20-elsner/
SUMMARY:Visionary Poetry and Jungian Psychology:  Archetypal\, Sociopoliti
 cal and Personal Dimensions of Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Marin
 er
DESCRIPTION:Visionary Poetry and Jungian Psychology: \nArchetypal\, Sociopo
 litical and Personal Dimensions of Coleridge’s "The Rime of the Ancient 
 Mariner"\nPresented by\nThomas Elsner\, JD\, MA\nSunday\, September 20\, 2
 020\, 4:00 - 6:00 pm PT\nlink to video\nSamuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem\,
  The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798)\, is one of the most famous poems 
 in the English language and\, according to Poet Laureate Ted Hughes\, “o
 ne of the few truly great symbolic poems.” As such\, it provides us with
  an excellent starting point to explore the relationship between poetry an
 d depth psychology. Because Coleridge was a genius of the imagination who 
 opened up depths of the mind’s oceans far beyond his time\, the well-spr
 ings that informed his art live also in us\, in the unconscious\, in our d
 reams and\, unknowingly\, inside the cultural journey of death and rebirth
  we are in the throes of today. Where do our personal and cultural night-s
 ea journeys come from? Where are they heading? Can we take seriously the i
 dea that poets speak truths that apply to all of us? As we explore such qu
 estions\, we will discover that the European Romantic movement in general\
 , and Coleridge’s work in particular\, with its focus on the erotic reci
 procity between mind and nature\, spiritual freedom\, the spontaneous over
 flow of powerful feelings\, individual creativity\, the supernatural\, and
  the psychological primacy of the unconscious mind\, form an important lin
 k in a golden chain stretching thousands of years from Gnosticism through 
 alchemy and into 20th-century Depth Psychology. \nLearning objectives:\n
 ​Describe how depth psychology can help us uncover the meanings of symbo
 lic poems.\nGive examples of psychological truths found in Coleridge’s p
 oem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.\n​\nThomas Elsner\, JD\, MA is a ce
 rtified Jungian analyst practicing in Santa Barbara who completed his anal
 ytical training at the Center for Depth Psychology according to C. G. Jung
  and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zurich\, Switzerland. He was core faculty a
 t Pacifica Graduate Institute for many years where he taught courses on de
 pth psychology and literature and has lectured on the topic nationally and
  internationally. As a recipient of the annual Fay Lecture series in analy
 tical psychology\, his book on Coleridge and Jung will be published by Tex
 as A&amp\;M in late 2020. 
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