Fairy Tales And Myths As Collective Expressions Of Human Problems
Dream Interpretation Group Supervision for Therapists, Counsellors working with Clients' Dreams.
Jungian analysis includes linking personal dreams to the dreamer’s cultural mythology, folk tales and fairy tales. There is no culture that does not have its own mythology, which indicates its vitality for us as human beings. Much like dreams, fairy tales speak to that of which we should be conscious but often are not, and like dreams they are hard to interpret and understand, and speak a different language to our conscious language.
The Jungian approach to fairy tales is different to the Freudian or Bettelheim viewpoint. Jung understood archetypes, archetypal images and the collective unconscious as the organising structures of human knowledge and experience. These are expressed to the individual through the psyche via dreams, myths and tales. He took a psychological and empirical approach to fairy tales, observing that their motifs and symbols recur in individual dreams. Jung also observed that our instinct of, or for, the numinous and sacred expressed itself in fairy tales, often as the hidden, dying and resurrecting god/goddess, related to the rising or announcing of renewed consciousness.The Fairy Tale group & Dream Interpretation groups
WHEN: Wednesday mornings at 10am for 90 minutes, fortnightly and monthly.
WHERE: Online (Zoom) Cost: $50 per session.
WHERE: Online (Zoom) Cost: $50 per session.
Facilitator: Jacquie Flecknoe-Brown, Jungian Analyst and Mental Health Counsellor, Melbourne, Australia. Phone 0413 990 878
Einstein suggested that creative imagination is the essential element in the intellectual equipment of the true scientist, and that fairy tales are the childhood stimulus of this quality.
