THE CG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO

THE CG JUNG INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO
NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE
NUMBER 11: WIN- NUMBER 18: WINTER 2010
Poetry and the Creative Unconscious
Sunday, February 20, 2011
1-5 PM at the Institute
RSVP by Feb. 16 to ptstowell@gmail.com
With two outstanding Bay Area poets we will explore the
creative process from two very different perspectives.
Our first speaker will be poet and critic Alan Williamson,
Professor in the English Department at U.C. Davis and at
Warren Wilson’s MFA Program. The University of Chicago
Press described him as “the unequalled detective of the
mythic reverberations behind the psyche’s complex inner
weather.” He will present the process of writing poetry
from a literary point of view. His most recent publication
is The Pattern More Complicated: New and Selected Poems
(University of Chicago Press).
You are cordially invited to a special event
celebrating the publication of
The Book of Symbols
Friday, December 10 at 7 PM
Books, Inc. in Opera Plaza
Please see the next page for details.
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Rusty Morrison will be our second speaker. She is co-publisher
(with her husband Ken Keegan) of OMNIDAWN, a
major publisher of avant garde poetry. As a graduate of
the Saint Mary’s College MFA program, she has emerged
as a poet with a personal and interior voice. Her collection
the true keeps calm biding its story won the 2008 James
Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
She will discuss the making of the poems in After Urgency,
which was selected for the Tupelo Dorset Prize by poet
Jane Hirshfield.
We will have a discussion of the ideas which emerge from
the talks, moderated by poet and co-chair of the Friends,
Phyllis Stowell. After a break for refreshments, Rusty
Morrison will read from After Urgency, followed by Alan
Williamson reading new work.
An Important Announcement -
I regret to announce that we will not be able to hold the annual Solstice Potluck this December.
My home is under renovation and I am moving to New York City for a 2 month stay, making it impossible
to host this wonderful event. The Friends Committee is working to see if we might celebrate the
Summer Solstice in 2011 instead. In the meantime, I hope you will take advantage of Ami Ronnberg’s
visit to San Francisco to present the new ARAS publication The Book of Symbols on December 10. If a
group would like to gather after the presentation, at about 8 PM, we could all go to dinner. If you are
interested, please email me at debogrady@mac.com. I will make us a reservation at a restaurant close
to Opera Plaza, where we can relax for a bit before the holidays. ~With my warmest regards,
Deborah O’Grady

Mark your calendars for Friends events in 2011
ART & THE ARTIST: WILLIAM T. WILEY & MARY
HULL WEBSTER
Sunday, March 20, 2011
1 - 5 PM at the Institute - RSVP by Mar. 16
Artist Mary Hull Webster, a new member of the Institute
Board and former Staff Assistant, presents her resonant
psychological and archetypal video animations and
discusses her most recent work, alongside the visual
alchemy of her husband William T. Wiley, who will give
us a close-up view of the making of his biting and witty
political canvases.
MELINDA HAAS: CAN MUSIC SAVE THE WORLD?
Sunday, May 15, 2011
1 - 5 PM at the Institute - RSVP by May 11
Melinda Haas, a Jungian Analyst practicing in New York
City and Vermont, presents her work on music education,
our ADHD world, and the power of music. Attendees
will enjoy both recorded and live music during this
very special afternoon. We will end the day with a wine,
cheese and early summer fruit reception.
Details for all the above will be sent in future
Rhizomes as well as via email to FOI members and the
Institute community.
RSVP to: ptstowell@gmail.com
Gatherings are always free to members of the Friends of
the Institute. Guests: $20 suggested donation.
Information for a Special Event
Book launch celebration of
The Book of Symbols
Friday, December 10, 7 PM
Books, Inc. in Opera Plaza
San Francisco
Friends of the Institute are cordially invited
to a book launch celebration for the new Taschen
release, The Book of Symbols: Reflections on
Archetypal Images. Ami Ronnberg, National
Curator of the Archive for Research in Archetypal
Symbolism, in conversation with Jungian Analyst Dr.
Thomas Kirsch, guides us through the world of image
and symbol in an illustrated introduction to “The
Book of Symbols.” Reflecting on the book’s thirteen
years of creation and development, we will experience
first hand the compelling beauty and psychological
depth of this rich and beautiful volume.
The Book of Symbols combines 322 original
essays about particular symbols with images from
cave art to contemporary art. The thought-provoking
texts and almost 800 beautiful, full-color images
come together in a unique way to convey hidden
dimensions of meaning. The Book of Symbols
illustrates how to move from the visual experience
of a symbolic image in art, religion, life or dreams to
directly experiencing its personal and psychological
resonance.
The event is free and open to the general
public. Copies of the book will be available for
purchase.
Membership News and Announcements
•The Institute will be presenting the art of painter
Johanna Baruch beginning early December 2010.
Johanna’s oil on wood panel paintings take their inspiration
from the depth and beauty of the cosmos, and its
mysterious resonance with our inner journey. To see more
of Johanna’s work, please visit her website at
www.johannabaruch.com.
•The Bodleian Library recently released An Englishwoman
in California, The Letters of Catherine Hubback, 1871-76, edited
by Friends member Zoë Klippert in the U.K. The U.S.
release is scheduled for November 15, 2010, distributed
by University of Chicago Press. For more information,
visit the website - press.chicago.edu and search on An
Englishwoman in California.
Do you have an upcoming event or announcement you
would like to share with members of the Friends? Please
email your information to debogrady@mac.com. The
deadline for the Spring Rhizome is February 7, 2011 for
events in March, April, and May.
Reading Group News:
On Thursday, December 9, the East Bay Reading
Group will continue their discussion of THE RED BOOK,
with The Opening of the Egg at Deborah O’Grady’s home.
E-mail: debogrady@mac.com. In January they will take
a break from the Red Book and begin discussing other
Jungian readings. The first will be an essay by Noirin
Ni Riain in MUSIC AND PSYCHE: Song and the Psyche:
Whispers of the Mind, which discusses the deep source of
hearing words in the silence, including poets like Rilke
and Dickinson. This links the October music and anima
presentation by Dr. John Beebe with the poetry event
in February. For directions, please e-mail Diana Fisher:
fisher.diana@sbcglobal.net
The inaugural meeting of Pamela Sloane’s San
Francisco Reading Group II took place in September. On
Wednesday, November 10 they discussed Marie-Louise
von Franz’ The Interpretation of Fairy Tales. The next meeting
will take place in early December. Friends members
who would be interested in joining this group that meets
Wednesday afternoons at Pamela’s home in the southwest
corner of San Francisco, near César Chavez, please contact
Pamela at pam_sloane@msn.com.
Johanna Baruch continues to host the San Francisco
Reading Group on Monday afternoons at her home
on Pierce Street. For information please contact Johanna at
johanna@johannabaruch.com or ptstowell@gmail.com.
Janice Teece will host the Marin Reading Group
at her Sausalito home. They will be meeting as usual on
Wednesday afternoons from 4 to 6. Their next meeting
will take place on December 8. They will complete the
discussion of The Candle of Vision by the Celtic Mystic
George William Russell (amazing correlation with Jung’s

Volunteers Welcome!
As the Friends of the Institute continues to grow, and our offerings
to increase, managing our events has become one of the major challenges we
face. We are an all volunteer organization, so the efforts of our volunteers have
made it possible to keep better track of our membership and attendance at
events, assist with setup and cleanup of our events, create beautiful reception
presentations, manage our name tags and more.
There are always things for which we can use your help. Perhaps you
have expertise with page layout and graphic arts - we’d love help with Rhizome.
Are you a writer? Would you like to contribute a short article to Rhizome?
Submissions are always welcome. And, of course, helpers at our events,
which is a wonderful way to get to know each other better, are always needed.
To volunteer, please contact either Deborah or Phyllis - debogrady@mac.com
or ptstowell@gmail.com.
With our warmest thanks for your support,
Deborah O’Grady and Phyllis Stowell, Friends Co-Chairs
Reading Group News, continued:
Collective Unconscious) and they will begin discussing
Peter Kingsley, A Story Waiting To Pierce You. Please e-mail
Janice for further information and directions at: jkteece@
msn.com.
The Peninsula Reading Group meets evenings at
the home of Joyce Snyder in Palo Alto. The next meeting
will be held on November 16 to continue discussion of
Beyond the Hero by Allen Chinen, M.D. For further information
about this group and for the next meeting date
and reading selection, please e-mail Joyce at:
joycsnyder@comcast.net.
A new East Bay reading group is beginning to take
shape to meet in January, 2011. Anyone interested,
please contact Phyllis at: ptstowell@gmail.com.
Library News:
Passwords are available for online journals (including the
Journal of Analytical Psychology, Jung Journal: Culture and
Psyche, Psychological Perspectives, and International Journal
of Jungian Studies) through the library web page; if you do
not have the password, you can email the library at library@sfjung.org
and they will send you the information.
These passwords are for the use of the Friends
only; we ask that they not be shared with others outside
the group. The passwords will be changed at the end of
December for the new year and sent out to those who are
current Friends for whom we have email addresses.
The library is also working on moving its records of books
and materials to a web searchable catalog. We hope this
will be available for patrons to search by the Spring of
2011.
Our Mission
The Friends of the Institute continues our sixth
year as a part of the C.G. Jung Institute of Northern
California. Our purpose is clear: to bring the insights of
Jungian psychology to the world and to bring the world
into a relationship with those of us who are engaged
with the Institute. Others offer therapy and programs
relevant to analysis. Our mission is to integrate
creativity, the arts, awareness of the unconscious and
transformation at a time of worldwide crisis, which
Jung prophetically foresaw over a hundred years ago.
“It is just here that questions arise whose urgency
and vital intensity are even greater than the question of
therapeutic application. Here there are many prejudices that
still have to be overcome. Just as it is thought, for instance,
that Mexican myths cannot possibly have anything to do with
similar ideas found in Europe, so it is held to be a fantastic
assumption that an uneducated modern man should dream
of classical myth-motifs which are known only to a specialist.
People still think that relationships like this are far-fetched
and therefore improbable. But they forget that the structure
and function of the bodily organs are everywhere more or less
the same, including those of the brain. And as the psyche is to
a large extent dependent on this organ, presumably it will – at
least in principle – everywhere produce the same forms. In
order to see this, however, one has to abandon the widespread
prejudice that the psyche is identical with consciousness.”
~C. G. Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis -forward xviii
Have you visited the Institute website? On the home
page, you will find information on upcoming events
of Friends of the Institute, Red Book Dialogues, and
Extended Education programs. You can register for
most events online and renew your Friends membership
there, as well. Please visit the website at www.
sfjung.org.

FRIENDS OF THE INSTITUTE COMMITTEE
2010-2011
Deborah O’Grady, Co-Chair
Phyllis Stowell, Co-Chair
Johanna Baruch
Thomas Kirsch
Thomas Singer
Suzy Spradlin
Institute Website: www.sfjung.org
San Francisco Jung Institute
2040 Gough Street
San Francisco, California 94109
(415) 771-8055
Renewing: Renewals are now due bi-annually in
either January or July. Reminder letters to all members
will be sent for the upcoming year. If you have
questions, please contact Collin Eyre at the Institute
or email “friends@sfjung.org.” Note: renewals are
now possible online at the Institute website.
“All conscious psychic processes may well be causally explicable;
but the creative act, being rooted in the immensity of the
unconscious, will forever elude our attempt at understanding.
It describes itself only in its manifestations; it can be guessed
at, but never wholly grasped. Psychology and aesthetics will
always have to turn to one another for help, and the one will
not invalidate the other.” ~C.G. Jung, Collected Works,
Volume 15, The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature 135
THE BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP
Membership in Friends of the Institute remains at $100 for 2010-2011. Your benefits include
free admission to all Friends sponsored events as well as invitations to certain Institute events such
as book signings and donor events, library privileges, discounts to most Extended Education events
as well as to subscriptions for the Jung Journal and Institute publications, and free use of the ARAS
online website at the Institute’s computer terminal. You also receive the quarterly Rhizome and invitations
to join the book groups. But most of all, your membership offers another way to be a part
of the Jungian community in our region.
INSTITUTE SPECIAL EVENT: RED BOOK DIALOGUES
C. G. Jung’s Red Book, published forty-eight years after his death, fleshes out with voice and vision a radical
midlife recognition: that we can gain a relation to the forces that live inside us by directly engaging with them. Through
seventeen years of self-experimentation and reflection, Jung discovered something of what can be revealed through a
humble and receptive attitude toward the mystery of the human interior. The authenticity of his process invites us all into
a dialogue around the meaning of this journey.
To learn what the Red Book may mean to us now, the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco is hosting a set of “Red
Book Dialogues” between Jungian analysts and leading teachers, writers, and artists. These conversations, bringing together
people who have challenged themselves to engage with their own depths, are designed to appeal to people both
in and out of the psychological professions. In this way, the meaning of Jung’s journey can come to life in each of us.
February 4, 2011
March 25, 2011
Susan Griffin, Poet, Writer, Essayist, Playwright, Screenwriter in dialogue with Tom Singer, Jungian
Analyst and Author
Maxine Hong Kingston, author and senior lecturer at UC Berkeley, Rhoda Feinberg, psychologist, in
dialogue with Naomi Lowinsky, Jungian Analyst and Author.
Tickets for these dialogues can be purchased directly at www.redbookdialogues.eventbrite.com or via a link at our website,
www.sfjung.org.
Admission is $25 ($10 for students with valid ID) Please check our website for more details: www.sfjung.org.