Fagmøte 9. april kl 19 – 21.
Påmelding: sekr@instpsyk.no
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Sted: Institutt for Psykoterapi, Gjerdrums vei 19, Oslo.
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Pris for andre: 200 kroner. Studenter: 100 kroner. Deltakere bes om å betale i forkant på vipps nr 542873.Amalia E. M. Carli, PhD, er født i Argentina (Patagonia) og har bodd i Norge siden 1977. Hun er medlem av Institutt for Psykoterapi og klinisk spesialist i barne- og ungdomspsykologi samt psykodynamisk psykoterapi.
Amalia er også jungiansk analytiker utdannet ved Carl G. Jung ́s Institute, Zurich. Hun har doktorgrad med avhandling «How do Psychotherapists Understand, Navigate, Experience and Integrate Spirituality in their Professional Encounters with Clients?» ved Ramon Llull Univ. Barcelona fra 2019. (Tilgjengelig som PDF ved Sidestone pub.)
Carl Gustav Jung and his coworker Marie Louise von Franz studied alchemical text for several decades and re-connected with ancient alchemical knowledge that still today inspires our understanding of the human psyche (Jung, CW XII; von Franz, 1979; 1980). Alchemists continued a spiritual attitude where humans saw themselves as collaborators and helpers of nature to attain full development, either through pottery, agriculture, baking, mining or metallurgy (Eliade, 1979). Jung acknowledged the relevance of alchemy within the development of chemistry, but recognized other dimensions related to religious and psychological aspects showing the relevance of alchemy to understand the compensatory way the unconscious relates to consciousness. For Jung alchemy illustrates that the unconscious´ function “is not complementary but compensatory (…) (since it) does not simply act contrary to the conscious mind but modifies it more in the manner of an opponent or partner” (Jung, CW XII, § 26).
In Psychology and Alchemy (CW, XII) Jung explains that alchemy has existed for more than seventeen centuries, starting with the first human attempts to influence nature and modify it. From its origins alchemy´s work or opus had a practical dimension pursued in the laboratory, and a psychological dimension which took place consciously and unconsciously within the alchemist. The alchemist then projected thoughts and feelings onto the transformations taking place in the materials – the matter – on which the work was carried upon. The alchemists understood that things are perfect through their equality and they aimed to elevate themselves to a higher dimension as demanded by their work. Their goal was to undergo themselves the same transformational work that they applied onto matter (Jung, CW, XII, para 380-383).
The alchemical opus was pursued with great devotion and this process could take years and would affect the alchemists who nevertheless valued the widening of the achieved wisdom independently of the results of their work. The alchemists projected feelings, meanings and values onto the processes taking place and their opus or work and their experiencing and description of it was filled with symbolic material mainly originated in the alchemists own unconscious and then projected onto matter and the process itself (Jung, CW, XII). By studying alchemy Jung understood the process of transference that takes place within psychotherapy.