Description
The C. G. Jung Society, Seattle, in partnership with the Jungian Psychotherapists Association, is proud to announce:
Erica Lorentz, Jungian Analyst
(In-Person & Online)
Body As Shadow: Jung on Re-membering the Body
Friday Lecture, September 19th 2025
7:00 – 9:00 pm
In 1913, Jung followed his Soul into the unconscious. This journey was the Rosetta Stone for the rest of his research and work. His destiny was to redeem the embodied soul from vilification and exile for modern psychology. We will trace through neuroscience and history how and why our healthy instinct, emotion, intuition, energy, imagination, somatic unconscious, and the feminine was pushed into the cultural unconscious. This is the story of how our embodied soul was forced into the shadow.
Jung states that we cannot have a soulful life or transform without connection to our body. Body and Soul are inextricably linked. We will demonstrate how his favorite method of working, embodied active imagination, offers us the ability to engage with our embodied soul and the inter-active field, thus retrieving it from the shadow. This is his legacy to us.
In-Person & Online
4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
Room 202
Erica Lorentz, Diplomate Jungian Analyst (IAAP) is a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of New England where she has served on the Training Board. Her book Body as Shadow: Jung’s Embodied Individuation Process will be published by Karnac London this fall. She has been an adjunct faculty at Antioch New England Graduate School of Professional Psychology, and a training analyst with the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts. Pacifica Radio and the Jung Platform have featured her work, and her lectures can be found on YouTube. Since 1986 she has given lectures and workshops in the US, Canada, and the UK, and had the honor of teaching in India last year. Her area of expertise is working with the embodied mythopoetic process in analysis and the inter-active field. Her initiation into Jung’s embodied active imagination started in 1975 when she began studying Authentic Movement (the Jungian form of movement work) with her mentor Janet Adler.
