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Sexual Obsessions Excluding the Other with Susan Schwartz, PhD

Online through Zoom
9:30am - 12pm MST

He says I am a fraud, an imposter, no one knows me. He dreams, There is a red stockinged lady outside the bookshop in Zurich, where earlier in the day I had bought Jung’s book, ‘Modern Man in Search of a Soul’.

The morning presentation and discussion explore Jungian analytical perspectives on sexually obsessive behaviors with prostitutes, pornography, the internet and the inherent aloneness as a result. Links are made with French psychoanalyst Andre Green’s concepts of the dead mother complex and narcissism and Hester Solomon, British Jungian analyst writing on the ‘as-if’ personality. The early childhood of unprocessed and unbearable emotions are managed as an adult with these compulsive and addictive behaviors. The masculine/male pathway weaves through the inner conflicts to access the feminine and find the conjunctio within the self.

We ask what is the psyche trying to compensate and why in this way? 

 

Cost: $35 Members / $45 Non-Members


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Presenter’s Biography

Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist is a member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology. She has taught in numerous Jungian programs and presented workshops and lectures in the USA and many other countries. 

Susan has articles in several journals and chapters in books on Jungian analytical psychology. She has a book coming out from Routledge in 2020 entitled, The Absent Father Effect on Daughters. Her analytical private practice is in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA and her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com