Erich Neumann met Carl Jung when he was only 27. He attended analytic therapy sessions with Carl Jung then 30 years his senior. The experience for Neumann was transformative.
Erich Neumann met Carl Jung when he was only 27. He attended analytic therapy sessions with Carl Jung then 30 years his senior. The experience for Neumann was transformative.
Carl Jung became his Mentor and Teacher, and opened him to deeper layers of meaning. What Neumann saw previously as concrete became symbolic, the symbolic which could birth new meaning. He found a world view which he cherished, explored and wrote about for the remainder of his life - a transparency between outer and deeper realities, which offered an ability to see the divine IN the world.
Carl Jung wrote to Erich Neumann:
“Your formulations are brilliant, and of incisive sharpness.”…also the powerful impetus for future developments. For this I am most deeply grateful.”
- 2015, Analytical Psychology in Exile
The imagery to which Neumann refers in his writings on the development of consciousness is readily seen in Sandplay scenes created in a Jungian therapeutic process.
In this seminar Heather will offer clinical sandplay therapy material related to Erich Neumann's stages of development, developing ego to effective ego-Self axis. The seminar will track archetypal imagery in sandplay therapy with both children and adults, showing how Neumann's concepts find form in the imagery of sandplay.
The role of the attuned therapist will be considered, including respect for the regressive and progressive movement of psyche and its resonance with Neumann’s posited stages of development.
Heather Lesley-Swan is a Jungian Analytic Psychotherapist, ISST Sandplay Teaching Member, Supervisor and Educator. She lectures and presents globally and maintains a Sandplay practice in Sydney's CBD. Heather is Principal of the Australia New Zealand Sandplay Therapy Institute, a not-for-profit organisation founded to ensure access to internationally validated Jungian Sandplay Therapy education for the helping professions in Australia and New Zealand (www.STANZA.asn.au).
Date: 14th September 2018
Time: 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Venue: Mitchell Theatre Level 1 Sydney Mechanics' School
of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney
Cost: Members $15 Non-Members $25 Non-Member
Concession $20
*Psychotherapists and other practitioners can obtain credit for Professional Development hours recognised by PACFA and ACA for this presentation.
