Nancy Swift Furlotti, M. A., Ph. D. candidate, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, California. She is a past President of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. Nancy did her analytical training at the Los Angeles Institute while also participating in the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Switzerland. She is, also, an active faculty member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the C. G. Jung Institute of Colorado, and an associate member of JPA. Beyond these, Nancy teaches and lectures in the US and Switzerland, and has a number of publications: The Archetypal drama in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly; Angels and Idols: Los Angeles, a chapter in the book, Psyche and the City: A Soul’s Guide to the Modern Metropolis. Her article, Tracing a Red Thread: Synchronicity and Jung’s Red Book, was published in Psychological Perspectives. Most recently her co-authored book, The Dream and Its Amplification, has just been released.
Nancy has a deep interest in exploring the manifestations of the psyche through dreams and myths with a specific focus on the dark emanations from the psyche. A current focus of research is on Mesoamerican mythology, ritual, dreaming, and healing the split between science and nature. Her interest in exploring symbols and deepening her understanding of Jung, have landed her on two foundations: The Philemon Foundation, where she was a founding board member and served as Vice-President, Treasurer, and Co-President of the Board of Directors. She has been a board member of ARAS (Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) for more than 15 years. She is, also, chair of the Film Archive Committee that oversees the Remembering Jung Video Series, 30 interviews with Jungian analysts, and the films, A Matter of Heart and The World Within. Nancy is in the process of organizing a Jung Endowment at UCLA in collaboration with the department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Semel Institute, which will bring Jungian theory and training back into a major university.
David Van Nuys, PhD
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Good afternoon Dr. Dave - it was wonderful to listen to this interview with you and Nancy and it was icing on the cake to get the transcript. This is an important and very practical book for all of us who are not versed in Carl Jungian's way and theories. My plan is to purchase this book, as special initiation gifts for my granddaughters and I am blessed to have 4.
Have a great day. Regards always Linda
Thanks, Linda. Great idea. I have 4 grandkids, too, but not old enough to read this material!
David
You were talking (among other things) about synchronicity, tigers, and wolves. Those three entities have been following me for awhile. If one searches in Google synchronicity, wolf, tiger, a blog (Synchrosecrets) with my comment below the text (just like I'm doing it right now) appears near the top (#2 at the moment). Since I was kind of "disappointed" that it's not #1, I was curious to see who is #1. It's this one: http://voices.yahoo.com/synchronicity-awareness-4199311.html. There are links to three videos (at least in my case) on that web page: about ENERGY drink (one of my recent comments here is about drinking a sip of aqua doctrinae every day), about solving your lack of ENERGY problems, and about renewable ENERGY in Colorado. I am interested in renewable energy (I'm far from satisfied how it's developing in my life) and it was interesting to see.
Synchronicity is alive and well! :-)
The Archetypal drama in Puccini’s Madam Butterfly - I thought that the butterfly (another "entity") is missing this time, but it's not.