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SUMMARY:The Insect and the Dark Sun
DESCRIPTION:The Insect and the Dark Sun\n\nPresented by\n\nEva Wertenschlag
 -Birkhäuser\, MA\, Diplomate Jungian Analyst\n\nSunday\, December 12\, 20
 21\, 11 am - 1 pm PST (UTC - 8)\n\nThis presentation will provide an exper
 ience of the dreams and paintings of the Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser (1
 911-1976). A unique aspect of Birkhäuser’s paintings is that they expre
 ss a modern individual’s call by the inner world.\n\nDuring his life\, t
 he neuroses and depression that afflicted him became an opening to the cre
 ative power of the objective psyche. Birkhäuser was given new life and me
 aning by allowing this unknown factor to express itself on canvas. Who is 
 this unknown guest\, that sometimes takes the shape of an insect? It turns
  out to be the completely “other” who fertilizes the soul. Its dark ey
 e seems to be the sun in its nocturnal state when the light is reborn.\n\n
 Marie-Louise von Franz had this to say about one of Birkhäuser’s dreams
 :\n\n“A wonderful dream! These dream images show impregnation by the dar
 k god. The dark chthonic god is trying to make the soul fecund. We are liv
 ing in outwardly evil times\, but underneath great things are in motion\, 
 as at the time of Christ's birth. This underlying process\, the hieros gam
 os\, is being illustrated here. It is the fundament of the world\, but it 
 is taking place in you.”\n\nBirkhäuser’s work is thus a dialogue with
  the unknown “other\,” and their mutual transformation. The “other
 ” turns out to be the creative spirit of nature\, of our instinct\, the 
 bringer of renewal. The artist’s own individuation process can be seen a
 s a pregnancy depicted in pictures\, bringing forth a new myth.\n\nEva Wer
 tenschlag-Birkhäuser\, MA\, Diplomate Jungian Analyst\, born in Basel\, S
 witzerland\, is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Berne. She receiv
 ed her diploma as an analyst from the C.G. Jung Institute Küsnacht (Züri
 ch) and is President of the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychol
 ogy (Zürich) where she is also a faculty member and a training analyst. S
 he has published several books on the religious and healing dimensions of 
 her father’s artwork. In her forthcoming book on the creation myth of th
 e West African Dogon people\, she explores their archaic vision of the cre
 ation and transformation of consciousness.\n\nEnglish language book on the
  artwork\, with plates: Windows on Eternity\n\nPeter and Sibylle Birkhäus
 er-Oeri Foundation website\n\nLearning objectives:\n\n 	Explain how archet
 ypal movements in the collective unconscious can contribute to individuati
 on.\n 	Explain the underlying process by which creative activities\, such 
 as painting\, may become a dialogue with the unconscious and thereby lead 
 to an individual’s transformation and renewal.\n
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