The Bollingen Lectures

The Bollingen Lectures

2007 Bollingen Lecture
Archetypes of Relatedness

Intimacy and Commitment in Relationship - Fri. Lecture
Surviving Challenges in Relationship - Sat. Workshop

Deldon Anne McNeely
October 5 & 6, 2007

There is much about intimacy and relatedness that is still a mystery to us in the 21st century. We are still evolving a capacity to form lasting and satisfying intimate relationships.

We long to form deeper bonds of love first with ourselves, then with those closest to us, to our neighbors and even to our enemies. Unconscious factors and archetypal patterns influence our ability to know true relatedness.

How do we prepare ourselves and our children for intimate relationships? What psychological barriers to trust and constancy can we eliminate?

How do we maintain constructive attitudes toward loss and separation? How are our anima and animus projections affecting our relationships?

Neuroscience is giving us so much new information about the brain and our heart (or capacity for true relationship). How can we keep brain and heart working together for the benefit of both?

Friday Evening Lecture
The lecture will speak to this topic through images of Dionysus, a god of intimacy and passion, as well as through the insights of depth psychology and the other sciences. How do we approach, enter, and maintain relationships?
2 CEUs and OPA/MCEs available

Saturday Workshop
The workshop will allow participants to be engaged with questions raised around challenges in relationship. The day will include a slide/music meditation on Dionysus, experiential exercises, and a discussion of material raised in the group.

Wear comfortable clothing for movement. You may bring a written topic or question expressing your concerns about relationship to be put into a hat for discussion.
5 CEUs and OPA/MCEs available

Dr. McNeely is a diplomate in Clinical Psychology with a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University. She studied at the Jung Institute in Zurich and graduated from the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, where she now serves in the training program. She maintains a private analytic practice in Virginia Beach where she makes her home.

She is on the staff of the New Orleans seminar in Jungian Psychology and is a patron to the Baton Rouge Jung Society. Dr. McNeely was trained in dance and body therapies by Malcolm Brown, Gabrielle Roth, Carolyn Fay and others. She has been interested in group and couples therapy, and was active in training group therapists before beginning her analytic study.

Her books include Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology; Animus Aeternus: Images of the Inner Masculine; and Mercury Rising: Women, Evil and the Trickster Gods.

Dr. McNeely comes to us highly recommended.

Previous Bollingen Lectures

2006: Maureen Murdock, "Black Madonna as Portal to the Sacred Feminine" and "The Heroine's Journey: Healing the Deep Wounding of the Feminine"

2005: J. Marvin Spiegelman, "Encountering the Divine "

2004: James Hollis, "Creating a Life"

2003: Ann Ulanov, "Aliveness and Deadness"

2002: Pauline Napier, "The Sad Soul"

2001: Lionel Corbett, "Psyche and the Sacred"

2000: Polly Young-Eisendrath, "Women and Desire: Beyond Wanting To Be Wanted"

1999: Christine Downing, "Freud and Myth: Origins of Depth Psychology," and "Journeys to the Underworld"

1998: Murray Stein, "Transformation: The Emergence of Self," and "Four Pillars of a Jungian Approach to Psychotherapy"

The Bollingen Fund

The Bollingen Fund was named after the "confession of faith in stone," as Jung called his tower÷the house he built for himself with his own hands at Bollingen. Over the years, as he would begin to feel that the house was incomplete, he would add rooms and courtyards and even an upper story. Bollingen was always the place where Jung said he felt most deeply himself.

As you may know, a generous anonymous donation has given JACO the opportunity to create an endowment fund. The originator of this fund contributed generously, matching 50 percent of the money donated by our members and friends in the community. This original phase is now over. We are deeply grateful to our original donor, who had the foresight to plan for JACOâs continuing wellbeing, and to all who responded to the call for donations.

We still welcome donations to the Bollingen Fund, which will help ensure JACOâs continued survival over the years ahead. Your donation is tax deductible. Please clearly indicate "Bollingen Fund" and send with your registration or separately to JACO, 59 W. Third Ave., Columbus, OH 43201.