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.

In this presentation and discussion, we will explore the archetypal conflict and crisis expressed by Euripides in his last great work. The conflict still exists today, and can be seen in the hostility AA still arouses in many, which Ernest Kurtz believed was due to its Existentialist roots, at odds with positivist, Enlightenment ideals.

Jung may have rejected art, but the new research paradigm of Arts-Based Research has decided that his The Red Book (2009) is a pioneering text. ABR is the rediscovery and discovery of forms of knowing and new knowledge through art practice. Jungian psychology offers the existing literature on arts-based research a language and further skills on its primary ontology of the psychic image, intuition, embodied knowing and collaboration with the universe.

We will explore what we have been called to, the work we have engaged both personally and professionally, and the ways in which our personal myth unfolds through the vocational work we have responded to. It will include insights from renowned mythologist, Joseph Campbell, as well as an exploration of a scene from Genesis.

Traditional descriptions of God in the world’s theistic traditions are no longer satisfying for many people. Jung’s discovery of the transpersonal Self, an innate God-image or divine essence within the psyche, offers a practical and powerful alternative that avoids many of the problems associated with anthropomorphic, patriarchal God-images.