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C.G.

Jung Society of Sydney

News
FRom the President
Winter is a time for hearty fare, and we have plenty aromatic talk Red and Gold: The Alchemy of
on the menu here in our latest Jung Downunder Crushed Grape and Roasted Bean. What better
which will satisfy the appetite. We start with a lead start to our Annual Christmas Party which follows
article from Jacinta Frawley who brings her highly on after?
original musings on meeting Hecate at the council Two very special events highlight our upcoming
pick up. Lucy Davey then whets our appetite with programme. On Wednesday, September 23 we
an indepth review of Stanton Marlan’s book The launch Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate
Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness. Change edited by Jonathan Marshall, the first
And there is sustaining fare ahead in our Events title in the Society’s new press Jung Downunder
Calendar. We begin in July with David Tacey Books. This is a great milestone for us at the Jung
speaking on Jung, Ecopsychology and the Society so please do come and join us at Gleebooks
Sacred, a vital and pressing topic for our times. for our celebration. In October Sarah Gibson
In August our Cinema and Psyche event will be runs a highly original and insightful workshop on
presented by Bruce Isaacs who will explore the Cinderella entitled If the Shoe Fits. This is a bring
themes and narratives of Jindabyne, a riveting and your favourite shoes event; please book early to
controversial Australian movie. Just as relevant make sure you don’t miss out.
will be our September panel of Jacinta Frawley, I hope you agree that we are serving up a banquet
Charles Plumridge and Jon Marshall speaking on with many great dishes and that you will join us
The Secret Life of Money. Expect new views on in their savouring. My thanks as always to Tim
a very old topic! In October Tim Hartridge serves Hartridge for his wonderfully rich and exciting
us up a sumptuous dish of image and sound in graphic design work on this edition of Jung
an exploration of Night Soul Journeys. And to Downunder, and to Lucy Davey, Jon Marshall and
finish off we have a wonderful night planned in Tori Collins for joining me in editing & proofreading.
November with Peter Dicker who will muse over I look forward to meeting with you soon.
the symbolic rituals of wine and coffee in his Sally Gillespie

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FRom the Committee
The Committee has had a rewarding start to submissions for the first book ever to be published
2009 with all of its workshops and groups filling to by our Society entitled Depth Psychology, Disorder
capacity as well as having excellent attendances at and Climate Change, to be launched at Gleebooks
each of our lectures. All this extra interest has kept in September.
Lenore Kulakauskas very busy as she updates the There is new energy in the Library as Lucy Davey
membership database, takes bookings and deals clears out old duplicate titles making room for new
with day-to-day finances. Undaunted by all this purchases. Our new, technically gifted Assistant
she has plunged into studying the world of web Librarian Maylin Tan has taken on the role of
maintenance and design, the benefits of which updating the library database. Lesley Hamlyn has
are already flowing through to our own website. bravely volunteered to be our new Advertising
This is freeing up more time for our wonderful art Officer, while former committee member Louise
director Tim Hartridge to work on his sumptuous Fanning has happily returned to our ranks after
designs of Jung Downunder as well as our a year off. June Reynolds’s continues to be our
advertisements, which are contributing to our welcoming face in her liaison work for the Society,
growing membership. which includes organising Commiteee meetings
With all this increased activity Yolanda generously hosted by the Toxteth Hotel in Glebe.
Waldman’s election to the role of Vice-President Bo Robertson gives thought and attention to the
has been greatly welcomed by the Committee. social aspects of our gatherings while Treasurer
Using her excellent organisational abilities and Marcel Abarca gives order to our figures and
people skills Yolanda is bringing many benefits to advice on our costings.
the Society including liaising with the Australasian I was thrilled that all our serving Committee
College of Natural Therapies who has generously members re-nominated for election at our AGM
offered us free use of their rooms. this year. Being President of such an enterprising,
Exciting new projects are on our horizons. Tori enthusiastic and harmonious Committee is one
Collins is working on producing CDs of our talks of the great pleasures of my life at present. The
which will soon be available for sale through combined talents and energy of the Committee
our bookstall. This supersedes the borrowing of are a great bounty for this Society as we explore
audiotapes of talks, which are now being assessed new avenues of interaction with our larger Sydney
and preserved for archival purposes. Meantime community.
Jon Marshall has been very absorbed with editing Sally Gillespie, President

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i n g o n t h e
Mus Pickup
Cou n c i l
Hekate's dedication to household garbage
Jacinta Frawley

‘‘
Well you said you were going to clean up and you really did,”
my neighbour says. “Yes I really did, didn’t I”, I say, nodding
proudly. I am standing in the middle of the street admiring
a pile of crumpled boxes, a set of shelves, an old bed, past Christmas
decorations, a particularly hated selection of curtains from various past
houses (all bought second hand), a broken vacuum cleaner and a working
organ (gift of a different neighbour from a previous council pickup). “I
like your couch,” I say to my neighbour whose head and feet I can see
peeking out over each end of the cream couch, which is placed on the
street verge.

The back of the couch is toward the After all, items selected for the council
street hiding most of her from view pickup need thought. These objects
and she lies reclining as we discuss were clearly not in use yesterday. This
the council pickup. She is amazed is no impulse throwing away. The old
that there is always so much to be packing boxes, rusted watering cans,
collected every six months, where no-longer-loved toys and broken
does it all come from? I wonder where sporting equipment up and down the
it was before it appeared overnight street have clearly been in disuse for
on the street? Are there piles of this some time. These are the items that
stuff in back gardens everywhere? were not deemed good enough for

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W E AV I N G
VOICES

a charity shop, or a garage sale. No friend or family useful for their original purpose they have also not
could be found who would take them. Nothing yet been transformed into a new use. They have
here could be packed off to a natural disaster victim not yet found their new life as recycling, landfill,
or aid agency. Nothing here shouts “keep me for compost or fuel for power stations. If, as Jung
that school project, dress up day, fancy dress party, I would tell us, there is story and god in every human
can be turned into street art!” activity, what is the story god in the refuse sorted,
I wonder about the now empty garages and placed and displayed with great care in front of
corners of the shed, the under-houses and attic our houses. Who is the story god in something
spaces that held these items in the time and space that until yesterday we were hiding, and are now
between when they were useful and when they deliberately putting on display? Who is the god in
became refuse on the street. What must it be to the council pickup?
rest in a corner, in transition from the useful, to The ancient Greeks dedicated their household
‘not sure about that’, to being rubbish? Are these garbage to Hekate, “the distant one”. An
corner spaces now empty or are they filling up underworld goddess, the guardian of those caught
already? My neighbour and I wander up and down in liminal spaces--witches, vampires, ghosts, the
the street mentally picking over the piles in front homeless and derelicts--Hekate also guards and
of each house. To touch anything seems to go guides the liminal spaces of our domestic lives as
too far and imply a sense of desire or an assertion the guardian of household doorways and presides
of potential ownership that somehow seems over transitions of childbirth and death.
indecent in our own street. I feel that if I were to Hekate’s rites were repeated each month on the
touch something it would claim me and I would be evening of the first sighted new moon. Houses
obliged to take it home. Then we arrive at another were thoroughly cleaned and purified and the
neighbour who is putting out piles of plants. She garbage deposited at the crossroads at which
knows that the council won’t take green waste an image of the Triple Hekate was installed. The
and instead is hopeful that the council pick up, garbage particularly included personal refuse
which always draws people onto the street, will such as hair and nail clippings. Having made this
encourage some passer-by to take her excess sacrifice, one was to walk away without looking
plants. A talented gardener, she has so much back. The dedication of bodily cast offs such as
success that she doesn’t know what else to do with nail clippings and hair is an act of sacrifice of self.
the plants and so she chooses to set them free to Discarded parts of bodies are necessary to make
find their own new homes. spells and directly dedicating these important
This makes me think about the power and life in ingredients to the Queen of Witches circumvented
objects. Manna, “God’s sweet word”, has been Hekate’ minions gaining power through magic,
withdrawn from these street objects. No longer for if they were to take the dedicated garbage they

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‘ I also wonder where else


Hekate lurks. Perhaps in the
rubbish bin of discarded
concern with identity theft, how we are always
being warned that our casualness about personal
details (modern nail clippings) can cause our
identities to be stolen and used against us without
emails in computers or in our knowledge. As if we were possessed or
bewitched. I think of all those scrap bins under all
delete buttons that don’t


those kitchen sinks –the scraps not yet moved to
really delete . . . the compost or rubbish bin yet no longer potential
food for the householders, but certainly potential
would be stealing directly from Hekate herself and nourishment for Hekate’s animal devotees mice
draw her wrath—a type of magical protection and cockroaches. I think of the piles of old letters,
racket. There is a residue to this superstition in the birthday cards, memories of times past, tossed into
complex attitudes to people who search through boxes, but no, though these are held in a liminal
the council pickup before the council removes space Hekate seldom claims these as her own.
it. Some residents seem to view this as akin to Residues of memory she usually leaves for our
stealing—“it was put out for the council it is descendents to sort after we are gone. Nor does
meant for the council”, while others feel grateful she expect to receive everything that is discarded
that some use is to be made of their discards. into a corner. The soccer boots and skin pads
The first view is akin to fear of black magic where abandoned in the hallway will come back to life
something is taken away from the victim for a next week. The little piles of pens, hair clips, coins,
potentially malevolent purpose and the second, and half scribbled notes gathered together on
also a magical view, hopes for transformation of the kitchen bench will be scattered again through
material into something new, from garbage to the house and used many times before Hekate
something useful. claims them. No, Hekate is better found in another
I also wonder where else Hekate lurks. Perhaps in imaginal realm.
the rubbish bin of discarded emails in computers, Just as she takes the garbage of the household
or in delete buttons that don’t really delete and the body Hekate also takes the “garbage of
but rather move items from the visible part of the soul” for she is also the goddess of divination
our computer to hidden folders from where and dreams. There is a view that dreams are “day
those modern magicians, IT specialists, can still residues” regurgitated by the brain with the goal
retrieve items years later. Hekate is the ghost in of ordering and tidying our thoughts, the better
the unconscious of the computer. I think of our to work and love the next day. But there is no

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punishment nor consequence nor judgement keeping the environs ordered by regulating
of mess in Hekate. She is not concerned with parking, moving on the homeless, dispersing idle
Saturn’s need for order, nor the compulsion of teenagers, reprimanding unruly school children,
puer Hermes to recycle and reconnect, nor Apollo’s monitoring pedestrian crossings and catching
search for meaning. It is not her goal to have an Hekate’s favourite animal, stray dogs. This is the
ordered existence, dreams do not have to have work of consciousness, Apollo and Saturn at their
meaning; instead she welcomes the garbage of best, yet there is something emotionally satisfying
our households, bodies and souls at their most in recognising an underworld goddess beckoning
mundane and devalued. Hekate is not trying to us to look beyond the obvious. Certainly my
teach us something through our dreams though she children would have no difficult seeing the Queen
may be trying to lead. And as a guardian of doors, of Witches constellated in our house when it is
at what imaginal door might she be beckoning? time to clean their rooms.
I notice over the year who does and does not Returning home I feel a little less concerned
put anything out for the council pickup. New to sort and discard, as I know there will be
arrivals, renovators, those preparing to sell, and other council pickups. I know that I have made
families all seem to shed their belongings regularly. myself and my gardening neighbour happy by
These are dynamic households in movement and metaphorically looking back and taking some
transition. My elderly neighbours seem to have of her plants which, like the soccer boots in the
much less stuff to discard. Have they already hallway and the many things scavenged for many
with each transition, departure of a child, death different reasons from the street, have been
of a spouse, or retirement shed all they need to reprieved from Hekate this time around. But
shed? Are they comforted and comfortable with perhaps this was always her aim, to enliven the
their possessions? Are memory and familiarity street community, to allow us to sort and to bring
continuing to infuse their possessions with manna? shadow parts of ourselves, our garbage, into the
Are they leaving the sorting for the final council light of day and see that there is no shame in it,
pickup to others? The council pickup reminds that for Hekate is also “the luminous one” who travels
there will come a time that we too will be moved at night with a torch to bring illumination to the
from the centre of life to the verge. hidden places.
Council is the arm of political power which is Perhaps the story god of the council pick up is
closest to daily life and whose primary role is about Hekate’s blessing of discarded parts of ourselves
reassurance of our conscious viewpoints through so that we too may pick up some counsel for
keeping the streets clean, removing graffiti and ourselves.

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The Black Sun
Stanton Marlan The Black Sun: The

T
his rich and challenging work contains
material for those seeking depth in the
inner life. Marlan approaches the role of
depression in psychic life, by reflecting on an
image, the sol niger – the black sun, “linked
to the deepest issues of our mortality and to
both tragic and ecstatic possibilities” (p. 3).
For Marlan this image, given some attention
in Jung’s work, needs further exploration
associated as it is with the descent into the
unconscious. His discussion concentrates on
Review by Lucy Davey the alchemical dimensions of the image, and on
ways it has been analysed and interpreted.
Marlan’s work begins with a consideration of


the “dark side of light” (p. 9). While Jung saw the
move into soul work as marked by melancholy
The black sun, an ages-old
and a “struggle with the shadow” (p. 10), Marlan
image of darkness, has not proposes that experience of this darkness forms
been treated hospitably in part of the “condition of any humanness”. In
alchemical terms, the nigredo, the blackness,
the modern world. Modern contains the treasure we seek when working
psychology has seen darkness towards integration.
Energy’s identification with light and sun leads to
primarily as a negative force,
Marlan’s claim of a “devaluation of the dark side of
something to move through psychic life” (p. 15). He asserts its value as intrinsic
and beyond, but it actually to an engagement with the instinctual side of the
psyche. An encounter with destruction and death,
has an intrinsic importance


often indicated by images of dragons, toads and
to the human psyche... poison, is necessary, pointing to the dangerous
elements of this process at whatever stage these
(front dust-jacket The Black Sun). concerns emerge.

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BOOK
RE V IE W

Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Texas A&M University Press 2005)

Marlan continues his discussion by moving “feared unthinkable… the core of its voidness”
into the “burnt out place of the soul” (p. 26) (p. 73). Marlan points out that analysts work
the locus of the black sun. Marlan places his with analysands through such a death process to
comments in the context of other writings both overcome sterility and self-defensive reactions.
literary and professional. There are numerous Artists such as Matisse, Calder and Rothko
references to Marlan’s own work with analysands, each attempt to convey the paradox of the black
and illustrations by them are used to enrich his sun – “lightless light”. A number of these works
comments. Von Franz’s comments on the “shadow are reproduced in grey-scale in Marlan’s text,
side of the Sun”, taking the source of light and though one feels that in many cases the power
life as a hostile force, give further breadth to the of the original is only partly conveyed. The quality
view that there is real hostility emanating from the of sixteen colour reproductions included in the
inner world. Issues with illness and mortality for edition I read emphasises what would be gained
individuals arise as a mark of the struggle to find by seeing all the figures in colour. Figure 3.12 –
access to this inner world. Janet Towbin’s work The Seduction of the Black
The work by Julia Kristeva, Soleil Noir (“Black – conveys her effort to “capture the luminous
Sun”), was published almost two decades before paradox at the heart of blackness itself” (p. 95),
Marlan’s study. Kristeva’s view of the black sun but the subtle tones elude reproduction.
aligns with depression and melancholy, marking In the exploration of what Jung calls the “light
an impenetrable loss. As Marlan comments, the of darkness itself” (Marlan’s title for Chapter 4)
melancholy is “transformed into an attachment to attention focuses on the nature of the albedo –
an inexpressible affect” (p. 44). Only after reading the whiteness which emerges from the blackness
later chapters did I appreciate Marlan’s words, of the nigredo. Rather than a move from one
since he emphasises the creative power he sees opposite to the other, it allows the perception of
associated with depression. an illuminative quality intrinsic in the blackness.
The image of the sun as “cold” and “totally Marlan’s exposition here ranges over Platonic and
uncaring” links it to death, and the sense that “in neo-Platonic views, alchemical and Kabbalistic
life’s vital signs [lies] the immanent abyss of death” writers, and the concept of chakras. The scope of
(p. 61 citing Cioran). Literature, philosophy and the discussion widens with Marlan’s references to
art can express the many profound facets of this Chinese thinking about the subtle body.
experience. Thus for Lacan the psyche’s energy is While I found the first part of Chapter 4 extremely
directed against the ego and pushes it towards the challenging, the latter part with its emphasis

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‘ ...the black sun as an image of a non-Self has helped me
to reimagine my understanding of the Self as Jung has
described it. . .

’ page 147

on the work with one of Marlan’s analysands


acted as an effective clarification of the more
process: there are conflicts lying beyond a “simple
rational mastery”, creating enormous tension.
theoretical exposition. The analysand, in this Marlan stresses that the monstrous is essential to
case an artist, permitted Marlan the use of select this experience, not to be passed over in “idealized
images she drew and painted at different stages transcendence”, but to be negotiated. We are
of the analysis. For those who, like myself, find faced not with the natural, reasonable or normal,
such material with added commentary helpful but with realities which demand effort to ensure
in absorbing the implications of a theoretical that the struggle will be fruitful.
presentation, this section of the work is particularly Marlan maintains the need to be aware that
valuable. confrontation with the life of the psyche results
The centre point of the development in the both in defeat and in transformation. The threat
individual at this stage of the process is the solar to the ego can be related to Kristeva’s view
plexus. This is both a physical point and very often that the black sun is a metaphor marking an
a site of intense awareness of dynamic energy and impenetrable loss. Death within the psyche or soul
discomfort. In the Taoist tradition it is referred to brings confrontation with paradox, involving the
as the “elixir field” (p. 112) from which emerges terrifying and monstrous. Marlan cites a dream in
the newly rejuvenated life. This section of Marlan’s which an alchemist figure advises the dreamer to
commentary not only utilises earlier material, but “see the silence”. In this segment his reference to
also refers to diverse concepts which linked to his the colour illustration (Plate 14) which reproduces
central concerns. the “figure of Mercurius” indicates that this is a
Marlan states his ultimate aim as the monstrous image, closely linked to the alchemical
“reimagination of [his] understanding of the Self as tradition. Not only the “three extra heads” Marlan
Jung described it” (p. 147). Jung’s theories about mentions, but other details contribute to the
the Self and integration have, in Marlan’s view, monstrousness and to the symbolic force of the
been assimilated in such a way that the “enormity figure.
of the struggle involved in any engagement The final chapter of this work requires careful
with… the darkness of the unconscious” has been and repeated reading. Marlan considers mystical
lost (page 150). The power and demands of the theology, the Self and the No-Self, concepts of
process are essential in any consideration of the the soul, and negativity of being. He relies in

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REVIEW

many areas of his discussion on Hillman’s writings lengthy comments closer to the particular point of
on alchemy, but he provides illustrations in an reference.
attempt to clarify (a paradox!) his exposition The concerns of this work include both practice
of the dark elements of this process. Invoking and theory, and it presents a wealth of analysis
Eastern and Western traditions, he attempts not so and comment which leads one beyond this book,
much a synthesis as a wider, more complex view. as well as inviting repeated and closer reading. As
His focus ensures the “colours of psychological Marlan declares in his final paragraph, darkness
experience [and] differentiated impelling images” is “the Other that likewise shines”, and this work
are not flattened and depleted by “categories allows us a clearer view of this complex and, in
of exclusion” (p.191), avoiding entrapment in a many ways, disquieting reality of the world of the
“linear, historical progression” along fixed phases. psyche.
For me the impelling image reproduced in a
work which presents a wealth of illustrations is
Figure 4.7, a Chinese ink rubbing entitled “Inner
Circulation”. This image of the “subtle body”
employs the precision of the Chinese calligraphy,
with the details of the symbolic anatomical
structure which flows down the page. Every
segment of the illustration presents miniature
images within the central image. The inner world is
presented as closely linked to the body, the source
of “the vital force though whose sublimation the
spiritual, immortal man is born” (p. 109 – citing the
work of Rousselle).
One aspect of the presentation and format of
the text of this work is in my view less than ideal:
the footnotes are grouped together after the main
text. For a conscientious reader this has the effect
of distracting from the thrust of the particular
point being made. In one case, a lengthy footnote
(#94 pp. 231-233) presents a vital excursus
about major elements of Marlan’s thinking in the
light of theoretical positions held by Lévinas and
Hillman. It would be helpful to have this and other

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2009 Program July-Nov
Saturday, 11 July
Jung, Ecopsychology and the Sacred
Dr David Tacey Page 14–15

Saturday, 8 AugUST
Cinema and Psyche
Bruce Isaacs, PhD Page 16–17

Saturday, 12 SepTEMBER
The Money Panel
Jacinta Frawley, Charles Plumridge, and Jonathan Marshall Page 18–19

WednesDAY, 23 SepTEMBER
Book launch
Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate Change
Jung Society Page 20–21

Saturday, 10 OctOBER
An Exploration of Night Soul-Journeys
Tim Hartridge Page 22–23

Saturday, 24 OctOBER
Workshop
If the Shoe Fits: Rethinking Cinderella
Sarah Gibson Page 24–25

Saturday, 14 NovEMBER
Red + Gold: Alchemy of Crushed Grape & Roasted Bean
Peter Dicker Page 26–27

Saturday, 14 NovEMBER
The Christmas Party
Following the talk by Peter Dicker
Jung Society Page 28

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C.G. Jung Society of Sydney
The C.G. Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote discussion of the ideas of the
Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Each month the Society arranges Guest Speakers
to present a diverse range of Jungian topics in the form of talks, workshops and special events,
which can be found in the following pages. The Society is open to all members of the general public
and offers a rich and varied monthly programme of speakers both Australian and international.
Certificates of Attendance for professional development hours are available at all events.

Book Launch! Workshop!


Depth Psychology, Disorder If the Shoe Fits:
and Climate Change Rethinking Cinderella
6pm WEDNESDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER 10am–4pm SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER
A collection of essays, stories and poems With Sarah Gibson
inspired by our successful evening on Venue: The Centre 14 Frances Street,
climate change and depth psychology. RANDWICK.
See details on page 20–21. See details on page 24–25.
Venue: Gleebooks For bookings phone Lenore Kulakauskas
49 Glebe Point Rd, GLEBE on 9365 7750

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Jung,
Ecopsychology
Sacred
and the
with Dr David Tacey

eco-spirituality and env

T
oday there are several in the world (anima mundi), and not
sources for developing an merely inside the human mind.  The
eco-spirituality or ecological core work in this discipline remains
wisdom. These include eco- Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth,
philosophy, social ecology, eco- Healing the Mind, edited by Theodore
feminism, eco-theology, Romantic Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen
cultural theory and Jungian K. Kanner, with forewords by James
ecopsychology.  Hillman and Lester R. Brown. This talk
Ecopsychology is one of the most will review the field of ecopsychology,
important disciplines of our time.  It has discuss its sources in Jung and
emerged from the works of C. G. Jung Hillman, and consider the relation of
and James Hillman, and has followed ecopsychology to Aboriginal Australia
their passion for discovering psyche and the local environmental situation.

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GROUP
TALK

SATURDAY, 11 JUL
6.30pm for 7.00pm
484 Kent Street,
Sydney

vironmental awareness

Dr Tacey is Reader in Literature at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He is


author of nine books, including The Spirituality Revolution: The Emergence of
Contemporary Spirituality, ReEnchantment: The New Australian Spirituality,
How to Read Jung, (co-edited with Ann Casement), and The Idea of the
Numinous. He has published over a hundred essays and articles on culture,
religion and depth psychology.  

Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20

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cinema
psyche with Bruce Isaacs

I
n my work, I explore the meeting to reflect on the human condition.
place of cinema – as an art form My discussion will focus on an
and as a discursive industry – and analysis of Jindabyne, Ray Lawrence’s
the ways in which we, as individuals excellent Australian film of 2006.
and collective groups, make meaning Jindabyne represents a continuation of
out of our personal and collective Lawrence’s exploration of contemporary
lives. Contemporary cinema is perhaps (Australian) subjectivity, and offers a
the dominant mode of personal and rich and complex text for analysis. This
collective engagement with art, myth, discussion will explore ways of thinking
religion and other textual systems that about personal and social conditions
encode our being. As such, cinema illustrated in the depiction of a
seems to me an ideal point at which relationship to the nation (Australia), the

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GROUP
TALK

SATURDAY, 8 AUG
6.30pm for 7.00pm
484 Kent Street,
SYDNEY

landscape (and the land), the family and scenes, drawing on my own approach
the community. I will offer a reading of to analysis of film (as distinct from other
the film in terms of narrative and theme, textual systems).
as well as a close analysis of several

Bruce Isaacs holds a PhD from the University of Sydney and is a lecturer in the
university’s Art History and Film department. He is the author of Toward a New Film
Aesthetic, (Continuum Press, 2008). He has published extensively on film traditions,
film aesthetics, and the rise of what he terms a collective film culture.

NB – This is not a screening of the film Jindabyne.


Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15

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Jung writing on another financial crisis in 1936 . . .

Together with these illusions goes another helpful


procedure, the hollowing out of money, which in the
near future will make all savings illusory . . . Money
value is fast becoming a fiction . . . Money becomes
paper and everybody convinces everyone else that the
little scraps are worth something . . .

’ CW Vol 18, §1320

The
Money Pane
with Jacinta Frawley, Charles Plumridge

T
he current media is full of considers definitions of money and their
news about the economy, the implications, how money relates to daily
Global Financial Crisis, budgets business life and the global financial
and deficits. But how do we really crisis, and reflects on wealth, status and
think, feel and experience money in market psychology.
our lives? Jon Marshall discusses the different
Tonight a lively panel consisting of a cultures of money and exchange
Jungian analyst, a financial analyst and throughout the world, the ‘magic’ of
an anthropologist speak about different money – the way it 'wants' to increase
views and myths of money to open up – as well as reflecting on money as a
a discussion that goes beyond the usual fractured symbol of the self.
preoccupations and taboos of money Come along and join us for a
talk in our culture. subversive evening of conversation
Jacinta Frawley considers what Jung about money, as you’ve never heard it
and the post Jungians have thought discussed before.
about money. Charles Plumridge

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TALK

SATURDAY, 12 SEP
6.30pm for 7.00pm
484 Kent Street,
SYDNEY

nel
and Jonathan Marshall

Jacinta Frawley is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Gymea in southern


Sydney. She writes and presents on various topics from a Jungian perspective. Her
most recent article “Musing on the Council Pickup” appears in this newsletter.

Charles Plumridge is a former stockbroker and financial analyst who is currently


enjoying life as a small business owner and investor.

Jonathan Marshall is an anthropologist and a Research Fellow at the University


of Technology in Sydney. He is the author of Living on Cybermind: Categories,
Communication and Control and Jung, Alchemy and History.

Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20

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C.G.Jung Society of Sydney – BOOK LAUNCH
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LAUNCH
GROUP

WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP
6pm for 6.30pm
Gleebooks
49 Glebe Point Rd

Depth Psychology GLEBE


Admission FREE

Disorder &
Climate Change
Edited by Jonathan Marshall

Depth Psychology, Disorder and Climate Change is the 


first in what we hope to be a series of publications from
Jung Downunder Books.  This title originated in the Jung
Society's 2008 panel on Depth Psychology and Climate Change
and features essays, poems,converstations and stories by:

Anne Di Lauro Lenore Kulakauskas


Anne Noonan & Julie Macken Marie Tulip
Bronwyn Goss Max Harrison and Susan Murphy
Craig San Roque Pam Stavropoulos
David Tacey Peter Dicker Come and join
us in celebra
Glenda Cloughly Peter White the launch of ting
this highly or
Jacinta Frawley Robert Bosnak and topical b iginal
ook, along wit
Jonathan Marshall Sally Gillespie h the
inauguration
of
Jung Downu
nder Books.

There is a large variety of different avoidance, reflections on disruption in


ideas and approaches in this collection, dreams and myths, warnings on the
providing a wide appeal for all tastes.  dangers of our immediate responses,
The invited authors were told that we studies of  images, thoughts on the
did not want another litany of dreadful benefits of a depth psychological
facts about climate change; we wanted approach, musings on the relationship
reflections on the psychology involved.  between psychology and disorder, and
What we have received are writings much, much more.
on new ways forward: insights into

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an exploration of
night soul-journeys
through image and sound

T
here are times in our lives Using imagery from the Nekyia and the
when all external wisdom fails Nox I will draw a comparison between
and the only way forward the metaphors of ocean crossings and
is to discover a new path and new desert journeys as ‘soul journeys’, and I
strengths within the Self. This is when will talk about the use of personal ritual
we know we are ready for change as a doorway to Self Initiation.
and we can confidently undertake the
journey of Initiation. A note about –
Jung named this experience ‘Nekyia’, Vision Quests and the NOX ritual
the night sea-journey of the soul. He In indigenous cultures it is usually the
considered it a difficult and dangerous Shaman who who embarks upon the
experience. In my years of probing path of Initiation. Through vision quests
another type of night-journey, I have and spirit journeys, he undergoes the
explored night desert crossings called necessary ordeals before he can serve
Nox (latin ‘night’). Through undertaking his culture in the role of spiritual guide
symbolic ritual desert crossings I’ve and healer.
experienced the opening doorways of In 1984, with the aid of several friends,
perception, rich with mystical images I created a ritual initiation practice
and sounds of soul. known as the NOX ritual. Drawing upon

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GROUP
TALK

SATURDAY,10 OCT
6.30pm for 7.00pm
484 Kent Street,
SYDNEY

a fusion of shamanic, sufi and qabalistic a reconnecting bridge across mystical


traditions, I explored the metaphoric and qabalistic deserts of No-knowledge,
night-desert soul journey. During the creating a passport rich in the symbol-
last twenty years I have taught the retrieval of Soul-knowledge. Such night-
NOX as a practicum for exploration journeys challenge us to be open and
of the Unconscious, and a necessary to embrace all that self-transformation
step toward Self Initiation (a form of may entail.
Individuation). The practice is used as

Tim hartridge works professionally as an art director/graphic designer and also


runs workshops and retreats exploring the Western Mystery Traditions. He is a
contributing author to several books and occasional writer of magazine articles. He
also runs two of the largest Australian online communities exploring occult themes.

Members $5, Non-Members $20, Non-Members Concession $15

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‘ As a contemporary fairy tale – which means a psychological
one – Cinderella is a story about why women don’t want other
women to have pleasure. It is also a story about how women can
be enemies of their own desire; how women, out of fear of other
women’s envy, want to frustrate themselves.


Adam Phillips The Guardian, Saturday 29/11/08

Rethinking

In perhaps the oldest

illustration of Cinderella

from the early sixteenth


C inderella is one of
the most popular fairy
stories. Why has the
Cinderella story survived for over 1000
years? What does it have to say to
contemporary men and women?
envied and being the envious one.
We delve into the layers of meaning
about fairy godmothers, feet and shoes
and the fantasy of the perfect fit in a
relationship. What is it we really desire?
Buying a pair of shoes will never be the
century, Nuremberg. Sarah Gibson will lead this workshop same again.
Cinderella weeps by the exploring Cinderella from different The workshop will involve large and
hearth after her stepmother social and psychological perspectives. small group discussion as well as time
has tossed lentils and Interpretations of this fairy story take us for your own reflection. You will be
peas into the cinders and from rags to riches to escaping abusive asked to wear or bring along your
ordered her to sift them. family dynamics. We confront being favourite shoes.

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WORKSHOP

SATURDAY, 24 OCT
Time: 10am–4pm
Venue: The Centre
14 Frances Street
RANDWICK

Cinderella with Sarah Gibson

Sarah Gibson is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Sydney. Sarah trained


with ANZSJA and works clinically with adults, with a particular interest in
sandplay and creativity. She is also an artist and filmmaker currently completing
Re-enchantment – an interactive journey into the hidden world of fairytales, an
interactive documentary to be hosted by the ABC and due to be completed at
the end of 2009. Sarah lectures in Media Arts at the University of Technology,
Sydney. Her previous documentaries include The Hundredth Room and Myths
of Childhood.
Members $140, Members Concession $120, Non-Members $180
SATURDAY, October 24 Time: 10am – 4pm
Venue: The Centre 14 Frances Street, RANDWICK
Bookings: Lenore Kulakauskas: Tel. (02) 9365 7750

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Redand Go
The Alchemy of Crushed Grape &

F
or reasons that are both well have its roots in the cultural history
obvious and obscure, wine and of their making or procurement, as well
coffee have a hold over us that is as in the psycho-spiritual meanings we
arguably greater than any other food have come to associate with their usage.
or beverage. In our endeavours to explore our
These ancient, mysterious and almost universal love affair with wine
highly sought after substances have, and coffee we will need to consider
throughout the ages, nourished both the dark and essentially mythic origins
body and soul in ways that cannot associated with their making.
entirely be accounted for by the We will also explore a plausible
presence of the key psychoactive correlation or metaphorical association
substances within them: alcohol and between the crushing, fermenting,
caffeine. roasting and grinding that is essential
It also appears likely that our passion to the making of wine and coffee, and
for wine and coffee goes beyond any the tortuous narratives that we find
consideration of taste alone and may both in Christ’s passion and in the many

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GROUP
TALK

SATURDAY,14 NOV
6.30pm for 7.00pm
484 Kent Street,
SYDNEY

Followed by the
Christmas Party!

old
& Roasted Bean
with Peter Dicker

transformative processes of alchemy. spiritual significance. If this is the case,


This will lead us, finally, to consider it might help to explain the passionate
whether our apparently profane hold these two beverages continue to
consumption of wine and coffee have over us.
is at some level actually a kind of
psychological ritual, charged with

Peter Dicker is a former president of the Illawarra Jung Society. He works as


a psychologist in a public health clinic, south of Wollongong. Over the past
two decades Peter has been exploring his interest in Jungian and Archetypal
psychology through various creative projects – lectures, essays, poetry and musical
compositions – and he continues to maintain an ongoing passion for ideas,
particularly in relation to clinical and cultural matters.

Members $10, Non-Members $25, Non-Members Concession $20

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PARTY
TALK

SATURDAY,14 NOV
From 8.30pm

You're Invited!
Come and join our end-of-year
annual Christmas Party.

This year we party at RedSalt


Restaurant, a favoured drinking
place the Crowne Plaza Hotel.
With a view overlooking the city,
you will wine and dine from a wide
selection of cocktail canapés and
party platters, while relaxing with
fellow companions and travellers
from our Jungian community. The
Jung Society Christmas Party has
a fine tradition of warm conviviality
peppered with rich conversations.
A night not to be missed!
Members $20, Non-Members $30

Christmas
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party
ANZSJA
Professional Development Program – Sydney Events
ANZSJA is pleased to announce that it will be running two professional development
events in Sydney in the second half of 2009. These lectures and one day seminars
explore how contemporary Jungian analysts from Australia and New Zealand use
aspects of Jung’s work in their clinical practice. The presentations and discussions will
be grounded in clinical examples drawn from a wide spectrum of presenting issues.
Emphasis will, however, be placed on how Jungian and post-Jungian understandings
of psychological processes and structures can be used to work with people who have
disorders of the self and other complex presenting patterns. The lectures and seminars
are open to clinicians of any background regardless of whether or not they are familiar
with Jung’s work.
Jungian Analysis: The Self as Process in Theory and Practice
Location 1: Sydney (NSW), Friday night lecture: 21st August,
Saturday seminar/workshop: 22nd August
Location 2: Melbourne (VIC), Friday night lecture: 28th August,
Saturday seminar/workshop: 29th August
In this lecture and seminar Warren Colman, training analyst from the Society of
Analytical Psychology, London, and co-editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology
will present his work on imagination and the process of symbolisation, and on Jung’s
notion of the self.
Presenter: Warren Colman (UK)

Jungian Analysis: The Personal and Collective Psyche


- Therapy as a Process of Individuation
Location: Sydney (NSW) Friday night lecture: 6th November,
Saturday seminar/workshop: 7th November
This lecture and seminar will focus on Jung’s ideas about the personal and collective
layers of the psyche, archetypes, and analysis / therapy as a process of individuation.
Presenters: Andrew Gresham, (Christchurch, NZ) and Dr John Merchant (Sydney,
NSW).

To be placed on the ANZSJA mailing list for further details of these events, please
contact pds@anzsja.org.au or leave a message on (02) 9436 0040.
Also see ANZSJA’s Website at http://www.anzsja.org.au
In Memory of Jean McManus

reflections, times, pl

JEAN MCMANUS, who played a pivotal pioneering role in the founding of the C.G.
Jung Society of Sydney, died on 5 December 2008 at the age of 91. She was Acting
Secretary of the original group, and later, for some 26 years until 2001, Vice President
– a position she held during the 12 years I was President.

Jean studied art at East Sydney Technical College London, tracked Jean down, and together they set
before setting off to London in 1950. There she up a study group of seven with monthly meetings
underwent analysis – working with Philip and Eva at Jean’s place at Woolwich in 1972. On 8 March
Metman, Vera von der Heydt and Robert Hobson. 1975 the Jung Society of Sydney was born at the
She was a member of the Guild of Pastoral Inaugural General Meeting at the Quaker Meeting
Psychology and the Analytical Psychology Club, House at Wahroonga with 17 members present.
and a friend of Ernest Freud. She was involved with Jean was a great artist who has left a considerable
the pioneers of art and movement therapy, trained body of work. It is clear that her paintings
as an art therapist, and ran her own Child Care come from a rich and vital inner vision. They are
Centre in London. characterised by a subtle radiance of colour and
In 1964 she returned to Sydney, fired with two an extraordinary quality of light (especially in her
passions: Jungian psychology and art therapy. later water colours). We saw this in her Exhibition
She subsequently played a leading role in the reflections, times, places at the Watch House
founding of two societies: our C.G. Jung Society Gallery, Balmain, in June 2001.
of Sydney and the Australian National Art Therapy Jean was also a great art teacher – not in the
Association. In recognition, she was made a life sense of teaching art theory or technique, though
member of both societies. she was proficient in those areas, but in her gift for
In December 1971, Brian O’Gorman, who had fostering and facilitating creative artistic expression
written to the Society of Analytical Psychology in in others, even people who had never picked up

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laces

a pencil or paint brush. She ran “Practical Painting older people, helping them to get in touch with
Workshops” for years (from 1989) for the Jung the light within, which we all carry around often
Society, and in 1994 she organised with Margaret unconsciously. It is “a treasure in earthen vessels”
Penhall-Jones a very successful group exhibition – a kind of “secret immanence of the divine spirit of
entitled Ins and Outs of the Psyche – An Unusual Art life in all things”, (C.G. Jung, CW 14, p. 432).
Show at Blavatsky Lodge. Physically healthy to the end Jean struggled with
Jean worked extensively with people in old age, a developing dementia in her last months. Among
including at the Sacred Heart Hospice Darlinghurst. her papers her friends found a long prayer of
She regarded old people as “the guardians of the thanks, written some years before when she was
mysteries” and as “psychic historians”. She helped approaching old age. It begins with “I am grateful
them get in touch with the creative spirit within for my life…”, then enumerates many factors
themselves, to bring out the reality of the inner which fill her with gratitude. She proceeds to ask
life of visual imagery at a time when outer life for for help in dealing with some shadow aspects in her
them was floundering. As John Layard expresses it personality and life, of which she is very conscious.
“the personality may expand internally as it decays This beautiful prayer was printed in the booklet for
externally” (Virgin Archetype, p. 278). Tending the her funeral.
psyche, especially in old age, seems to be important I pay tribute to Jean – to her life well lived.
also in Jung’s suggestion that “life in the hereafter Death was for her not just an end but a goal - an
would seem to be a logical continuation of the experience which she seemed to embrace with
psychic life of old age, where with increasing age, conscious awareness - perhaps going to the “light”
contemplation, and reflection, the inner images which she had so often shown in her beautiful and
naturally play an ever greater part in human life” numinous paintings.
(Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p.351). Terence McBride, Jungian Analyst
Jean acted like a psychic midwife with these

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of Sydney
C.G.Jung Society of Sydney General Enquiries
New members and visitors are always welcome. If attending a lecture for
June Reynolds:
the first time please feel free to make yourself known to the Committee
Tel. (02) 9290 1519
members, who will be happy to explain how the Society works and to
answer any questions. You are also welcome to register your email address
with us for our monthly broadcast of upcoming events. Membership
History & Aims & Bookings
The C.G.Jung Society of Sydney was formed in 1975 to promote the ideas Lenore Kulakauskas:
of the Swiss analyst and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961). The Tel. (02) 9365 7750
Society is open to all members of the general public, and offers a rich and
varied programme of monthly talks and seminars from Australian and Library enquiries
international guest speakers. In addition the Society provides a dedicated Lucy Davey:
research and reference library. Tel. (02) 9572 7210
Membership
Annual Membership entitles you to:
• Discounts at all our monthly Talks and Lectures
• Borrowing from our Library, which includes books, journals, cds, dvds &
videos
• Generous discounted prices at our bookshop
• Special member discounts for workshops and other activities
• 10% discount on Jungian books from Pheonix Rising Booksellers, Glebe
You also receive a mailed copy of the Jung Downunder newsletter and
monthly updates via email.
Applications
Membership applications are available from our website – see under
'membership' for the local Sydney society. You can either pay online OUROBOROS
via PayPal or print out a PDF copy of the membership form and post to: The symbol of C.G.Jung Society
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Full annual membership is $60. of Sydney is an ancient Gnostic
Concession, country members or organisation membership is $30. glyph which the Alchemists later
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Executive Committee Member: Bo Roberston self-digester or self-digesting one.
President: Sally Gillespie Member: Lesley Hamlyn The self-digesting Ouroboros
Vice President: Yolanda Waldman Advertising: Louise Fanning slays itself and brings itself back
Treasurer: Marcel Abarca Bookshop Officer: Jon Marshall to life. It illustrates the principle
Secretary & Librarian: Lucy Davey Recording Officer: Tori Collins of human creativity and the
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private spiritual consultations and meditation training in person and via telephone and email.
The Chocolate Madonna Circle is an open group for those interested in connecting with the healing
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BOOK LAUNCH Wednesday 23 September

for details see page 20


2009 PROGRAM
Saturday, 11 JulY Saturday, 10 OctOBER
Jung, Ecopsychology and the Sacred Exploration of Night Soul-Journeys
Dr David Tacey Page 14–15 Tim Hartridge Page 22–23

Saturday, 8 AugUST Saturday, 14 NovEMBER*


Cinema and Psyche Red + Gold: Alchemy of Crushed
Bruce Isaacs, PhD Page 16–17 Grape & Roasted Bean
Peter Dicker Page 26–27
Saturday, 12 SepTEMBER
The Money Panel Saturday, 14 NovEMBER*
Jacinta Frawley, Charles Plumridge, The Christmas Party!
and Jonathan Marshall Page 18–19 Following the talk by Peter Dicker
Jung Society Page 28

Book launch! Workshop


WednesDAY, 23 SEPTEMBER Saturday, 24 OCTOBER
Depth Psychology, Disorder If the Shoe Fits: Rethinking
and Climate Change Cinderella
Jung Society at Gleebooks, Glebe Page 20–21 Sarah Gibson Page 24–25

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