Course "Reflection of Development Stages"

The curriculum “Reflection of the stages of human development in the individual development of each of us.”

Myths are the dreams of humanity

This is an updated version of the seminar series I've been running since 2007. It was previously called "Living the Mythological in Psychotherapy."

The program consists of a series of four two-day seminars, with intervals of two to three months between each. The group is closed and meets once a year.

Objectives of the program:

  • theoretical – study and understanding of Erich Neumann’s theory of the origin and development of individual consciousness;
  • practical – immersion into a mythological space for sensory contact with the archetypal motives of each group member;
  • breaks - to live through the experience gained, learn to see connections, reflections of mythological motifs in everyday events, development of self-analysis.

In the process of work, we constantly keep our attention focused on two planes - I am an individual and I am an extension of many.

Seminar I – Primordial Time

  • Myth and fairy tale.
  • The logic of myth. The laws of the miraculous.
  • Illo tempore – it is time, the original time, the time of dreams.
  • The origin and development of consciousness – E. Neumann's theory: Stage I. Creation myth: Ouroboros – the Great Mother – the division of the world's progenitors.
  • What we do: we work with myths, with dreams, do a meditative exercise, draw, and build a group mandala.

Seminar II – The Hero’s Pain and Loneliness

  • Erich Neumann's Theory: Stage II . The Myth of the Hero: Birth of the Hero – Murder of the Mother – Murder of the Father.
  • Depression is decay: a cessation of external and overactivity of internal processes.
  • Search for form.
  • What we do: work with myths, watch cartoons, fill the alchemical pictures of "Pretiosa margarita novella" with our own associations.

Seminar III – The Life Path of Hercules

  • A practical workshop. Filling mythological stories with personal experience.
  • We don’t talk about heroic deeds – usually there’s not enough time.

My article, “The Space Between Worlds,” was published in the Moscow Association of Analytical Psychology’s collection, “Deep Psychology and Mythology,” for 2011.

IV Seminar – Return

  • Erich Neumann's Theory: Stage III . The Myth of Transformation: The Captive and the Treasure – Transformation or Osiris.
  • Maturity and responsibility.
  • Collective and individual.
  • What we do: we work with a fairy tale, with excerpts from Egyptian hymns, we draw, we make a collage.

There may be another one-day additional seminar – Stages of Feminine Development .

In constructing the seminars, I relied on the ideas of Erich Neumann, Mircea Eliade, Carl Gustav Jung, Karl Kerenyi, Yakov Golosovker, N. Afanasyev, Mikhail Evzlin, James Hollis, Marie-Louise von Franz, Yolanda Jacobi, and others.

I reserve the right to make changes to the sequence of material offered within the seminars.

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The program in Moscow is closed. It may be held in other cities. To participate or organize the program, please send me a message .

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