Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

South Africa
GAUTENG DEVELOPING GROUP
The Gauteng Developing Group is looking back on a successful and stimulating year.
The highlight of our year was undoubtedly the visit from Dr. Naomi Lowinsky from San
Francisco. Naomi spent a whole week with us, giving us several seminars and supervision. It
was a most thought provoking and interesting time. Through her sharing and openness she
helped us to reflect on our inner self, which was very enriching.
Another highlight was Julian David’s visit from England. Julian annually spends a week with
us. His input is very much appreciated; we always look forward to his time with us. This year
we arranged a weekend away with him in a beautiful place in nature. Nature enhanced his
seminars about dreams and myth, which are always rich in content. Furthermore, we enjoyed
visits from Patrick Tummon, Sheila Cowburn and Paul Ashton from SAAJA, Cape Town. It is
important to us that analysts from SAAJA are willing to come to Johannesburg and present
seminars which are always stimulating. Our own analysts from Gauteng, Elizabeth Martiny,
Fernand Schaub and Leslie Zimmermann are of great value to us with their input. Of note
were the seminars by Elizabeth about Gilgamesh.
Some of our members attended the Mantis seminars of SAAJA in Cape Town during October.
Peter Ammann and Robert Bosnak were the guest presenters. One of our members attended
the joint IAAP/IAJS conference in Zürich in July, and also in July, the IASD (International
Association for the Studies of Dreams) annual conference in Montreal.
Last year we sadly said goodbye to Astrid Berg as our long standing liaison person. The
beginning of this year Patrick Tummon was appointed by the IAAP as our new liaison person.
We are very pleased with this appointment and we enjoy a good working and also personal
relationship with him.
Our Developing Group seems to have developed somewhat differently from other Developing
Groups in the world. We are one of the first groups. We seem different in that we mostly
organize input from analysts ourselves. We don’t have a worked out teaching program for the
year, we invite analysts who are willing to come to visit us. As a result we have had a variety
of most respected and interesting analysts from all over the world presenting to us. Patrick
is allowing us to continue in this way.
We try to introduce Jung to the public by organizing reading groups and occasionally some
members give a public lecture.
Last year we started a so called second tier to our DG which consisted of therapists who had
had very little or no input about
C.G. Jung’s teachings. We put together a program of introductory lectures which were well
attended. Therapists who were interested in continuing studying Jung have now been
integrated into our group.
pg. 133