A Flash of Golden Fire:

Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the Alchemical Imagination

Presented by Thomas Elsner, JD, MA, Jungian Analyst

Saturday, October 15, 2016, 10am - 3pm

9696 Culver Blvd., Suite 205, Culver City, CA 90232

Tuition $80 (4 CE’s Psychologist, LMFT AND LCSW)- Intermediate post-licensure instructional level

This workshop focuses on the psychology of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, seen as an experience of a night-sea journey into the collective unconscious. Though published about one hundred years before Jung’s birth, there are significant parallels between Coleridge’s visionary poem and Carl Jung’s alchemical studies, particularly as these relate to healing the Western split between psyche and nature.

Jung extensively explored both Goethe’s Faust I and II and Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra experiencing these two visionary narratives as belonging to a golden chain linking alchemy with depth psychology. Today we need this link from Coleridge to help us transmute the loss of a living relationship to nature into the living waters of a new myth.

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the archetypal patterns between Coleridge’s poem and the night-sea journey.

2. Assess the meaning of the night-sea journey as the psychological process of individuation.

3. Demonstrate the relationship between psyche and nature in our current myth.

4. Describe the alchemical images as aspects of the healing process.

Thomas Elsner JD, MA, Jungian analyst, is a member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California, and faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Thomas trained as a lawyer, and then as a Jungian analyst at The Centre for Depth Psychology in Switzerland. He has a private practice in Santa Barbara.

The C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California is approved by the California Psychological Association to provide continuing professional education for psychologists and maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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