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THE RED BOOK - A Seminar with Bette Joram, Ph.D.

THE RED BOOK – A Seminar with Bette Joram, Ph.D.

$10.00

  • Hosted by Bette Joram, Ph. D.
  • Location: Zoom
  • CLASS CANCELLED- NOV 12
  • 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of every month.
  • Time: 7 – 8:30 PM Pacific Time
  • Cost: $ 10/ session

In this seminar, we read and discuss C. G. Jung’s magnum opus, The Red Book, which details his encounter with the unconscious from the years 1913-1930. In our time, we have the luxury of hindsight and over 20 volumes of the Collected Works from which to view Jung’s original struggle with himself. Together, we bear witness to the enormous containment Jung was forced to create when confronted with the full force of the unconscious. “Taken to the mat” again and again, Jung sweated it out intellectually, physically, morally, and spiritually, within these pages. As we read and discuss The Red Book, we, too, struggle with the implications of this material for our own understanding of ourselves, the times we live in, and the meaning and consequences that our own encounters with the unconscious present to us, and the way the unconscious affects society at large.

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“THE YEARS OF WHICH I HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU, when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this.  It began at that time and the later details hardly matter anymore.  My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.  That was the stuff and material for more than only one life.  Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life.  But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.” – C.G. Jung, 1957

 

 

  • Our text is The Red Book: Liber Novus  A Reader’s Edition, by C.G. Jung, Edited and with an Introduction by Sonu Shamdasani
  • No advance reading is required.
  • We will be reading and discussing the work in small, consecutive sections week by week, until we have completed the book.  
  • Our instructor Bette Joram will be the Zoom Host as well as record each session. All sessions will be recorded. 
  • The Jung Society has made this class simple and affordable in a way that supports the operations of the Jung Society.
  • This is an ongoing class that folks can pay for per session.
  • No one will be excluded due to inability to pay.  Please contact our office manager, office@jungseattle.org for assistance. 
As Jung wrestled with powerful images and experiences sent forth by the unconscious, he was “taken to the mat” again and again.  As he sweated it out intellectually, physically, morally, and spiritually, within these pages, so will we. As we read and discuss The Red Book together, we, too, will struggle with the implications of this material for our own understanding of ourselves, the times we live in, and the meaning and consequences that our own encounters with the unconscious present to us, and the way the unconscious effects society at large. The Red Book lays the groundwork in which Jung began to formulate the constructs which later appear throughout his Collected Works. 

People at all levels of knowledge and experience are welcome to this seminar. Each of you will enrich our communal experience and add to the knowledge and understanding of all.

 

 

 

Bette R. Joram, Ph. D., LMHC, is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle. She has presented classes, lectures, seminars, and workshops on Jungian subjects at Antioch University, Bastyr University, the C. G. Jung Society, Seattle, and by invitation since 1989. In addition to teaching Introduction to Jungian Psychology, she has given presentations on Dreams, Alchemy, the Uroboros, the Horse and Appointment with the Wise Old Dog. Dr. Joram received her Ph. D. from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Clinical Psychology in 2005. She is currently Co-President of the C. G. Jung Society, Seattle.

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Venue: ZOOM

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THE RED BOOK – A Seminar with Bette Joram, Ph.D.

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