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Giannini-The Elegant Evolution of Typology
Posted by: | CommentsLecture with John Giannini, The Elegant Evolution of Typology
April 1, 2011
Accepting one’s type, as well as its breadth of outlook, are key themes in John Giannini’s sweeping take on the Jungians’ “stepchild.” Giannini will discuss how and why he wrote an extensive book on typology entitled Compass of the Soul. He will discuss its value for individuals that is lost among most psychologists, including analysts, who, along with Jung, have treated the types as orphans. Yet, this famous Swiss medico, scholar and mystic implied that the types are archetypes, and so also spiritually powerful, but never systematically did so. This task became the burden of Giannini’s book. Jung also showed them to be a “critical psychology,” as well as the ground of every intellectual theory.
Now, Giannini sees them in deeper contexts. He has learned from evolutionists their connection with a nature that evolved through “elegant” moments that made possible our existence. Similarly, the types have evolved in us in many such ways. Also, these archetypes emerged in an elegant and profoundly personal time in Jung’s life, as described both in Memories, Dreams and Reflections and in his Red Book (Liber Novus). In this context, they take on even more depth and spiritual meaning for individuals, as well as for society.
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago and Evanston. He holds an MDiv in Religion and Psychology from St. Albert’s College, an MA in Psychology and Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an MBA from Stanford University, and an LCPC certification with the State of Illinois. John has published articles and lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Canada on the wounded child within, and narcissistic/addictive behavior. He is the author of Compass of the Soul, an updated understanding of typology. He is now completing a book entitled The Sacred Secret: The Maternal Principle and Her Love in Persons and Nature.
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv – Workshop April 2011
Posted by: | CommentsTYPOLOGY AS THE BASIS OF A LIFE JOURNEY
Saturday Workshop: April 2, 2011
Giannini will lead participants, with their constant input, in a life journey, based on the four couplings and aided by Erik Erikson’s eight life ages, as well as Jung’s overarching two stages of life, which are discussed in Jung’s mid-life crisis, as now so amazingly described in his Red Book. Our journey with the couplings begins with an SF parental phase, followed by an ST competitive phase, then a typical mid-life crisis, a plunge into an NF creative phase of new discoveries with memories, dreams and reflections, and finally an expanded NT philosophical/spiritual phase. Giannini will seek participant input throughout.
Finally, in the NF and NT phases, Giannini will demonstrate that the intuitive function here not only embraces the other types, but also is found in the essence of every archetype, every synchronicity experience, and finally constitutes the basic structure of the synchronicity principle, which Jung described as the “universal substratum in the environment,” and so of psyche.
Expectations and Preparations:
That the instructor will be open to full participation and dialogue.
That each participant will know his/her typology.
That each participant will have read the assigned material that the instructor will send or, if so desired, read Chapters 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11 and 12 of Compass of the Soul.
Recommended Readings:
Compass Paper ONE
Compass Paper TWO
Compass Paper THREE
Compass Paper FOUR
Compass Review Galipeau
Compass Review JAP
Giannini Chapter Nine B
Giannini Chapter Nine A
JOHN GIANNINI, MA, MBA, MDiv is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Chicago and Evanston. He holds an MDiv in Religion and Psychology from St. Albert’s College, an MA in Psychology and Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School, an MBA from Stanford University, and an LCPC certification with the State of Illinois. John has published articles and lectures widely throughout the U.S. and Canada on the wounded child within, and narcissistic/addictive behavior. He is the author of Compass of the Soul, an updated understanding of typology. He is now completing a book entitled The Sacred Secret: The Maternal Principle and Her Love in Persons and Nature.
The Red Book Study Group, Spring 2011
Posted by: | CommentsThe Red Book Study Group
Doroethy and Ron Leonard will be leading a 6 week study group. The focus is on the art and the creative process, as well looking at the content as a mystical process. Other than discussion, we will contribute our related art and/or our dream content, as well as active imagination and mythic imagery. Liber Novus (literally means A New Book in Latin)
About the Red Book, Jung said:
The years…when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life. Everything later was merely the outer classification, scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.
Dates: Sundays 2011–February 13, 20, 27, March 6, 13, 20
