The C.G. Jung Library of Tampa Bay differentiates itself in the community by its commitment to bringing people from all backgrounds together around the concepts of Analytical Psychology. For those wanting to delve deeply into Jung’s work, we recommend and regularly offer a Certificate Course requiring a serious commitment on the part of participants, but one that is rewarded by an expansive and intimate encounter with Jung’s ideas and essence through his own writings.
In addition, the Library is currently pursuing an affiliation at the university level, engendering a novel relationship through which interested students and health care professionals can earn a micro-credential in Analytical Psychology in order to augment professional experience, improve resume credentials, and earn CEUs. This condensed course is for those looking for an encapsulated introduction to Jungian concepts that requires less time and financial commitment than the Certificate Course and can be accessed virtually.
Founded by C.G. Jung, Analytical Psychology is one of the depth psychology models that must be distinguished specifically from Psychoanalysis, founded by Sigmund Freud, and Individual Psychology, founded by Alfred Adler. While all models speak indirectly and directly of the relationship between conscious and unconscious life, Jung’s model gives us the unique concept of the collective unconscious, which includes the archetypes.
Archetypes are transpersonal, transcultural, and transhistorical patterns of psychic energy that enter through the psyche of each individual as well as connecting the individual to the collective psychology of the species as a whole. By contrast, the individual or personal unconscious is dealt with through Jung’s understanding of the complexes, or the biographical material that has been suppressed or repressed because of its incompatibility with persona-ego functioning. In Jung’s psychology, however, you are not limited by your biography. Healing and wholeness are actually experienced at the level of the archetypes, at the deeper level of the collective, in union with the archetypal Self.
Jung’s focus on the collective unconscious as a deep level of the psyche that is universally shared as one’s “ancestral psychology” gives rise to the importance of symbol-making, religious imagery, myth, and the imaginal realm. It also provides roots in the anima mundi, or world soul. With Jung’s model, one always belongs to a bigger story, whether one knows it or not. Being conscious of that bigger story is critically important for the optimal development of the individual and the survival of the species.
This year-long course is designed for those interested in undertaking an intensive study of the history and development of Analytical Psychology. Course readings will include seminal papers from Jung’s Collected Works, sections of his autobiographical Memories, Dreams Reflections, and supplemental readings including excerpts from several biographies written since his death in 1961. The overarching goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive and illuminating framework for understanding Jung’s life and work.
A video sequence of 12 modules ranging in length from 45 to 90 minutes intended to elucidate Jung’s most foundational concepts in a comprehensive and relatable way. Modules may be purchased individually or bundled at a discount in the 12-module format. Registrants will have ongoing access to all purchased video lecture material, and be invited to participate in virtual Q & A sessions.
"My life has been permeated and held together by one idea: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this central point, and all my works relate to this one theme.""
In this lecture, we will examine the structure and dynamics of the Jungian psyche, and highlight its distinctive, descriptive, and explanatory power.
Discover how the four terms in the title of this course are intimately connected in Jung’s psychological model, and how they dynamically interact with one another in everyday life.
The Persona complex contains archetypal energy coming from the depths of the psyche that moves the personality out into the everyday world, to interface with the who and the what that is “out there” in our environment.
The Ego, or ego complex, is the central structure in our conscious world. It implicates issues of human growth and development, identity, agency, and will.
This new typological model is based on the idea of “whole type,” and utilizes and integrates a typological perspective on the archetypal Self.
The Shadow is conceivably the most important concept that Jung’s psychology offers in our time.
Jung refers to Anima / Animus work as the masterpiece of the individuation process.
There is something in the psyche beyond the ego that is actively and intimately involved in our individuation process.
This lecture highlights Jung’s contribution to the re-enchantment of the universe by way of a concept that brings science and spirituality back into dialogue, following their hostile estrangement beginning in the 17th century.
The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was a conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach.
The urge to individuation gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original form of the One.
Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world unto oneself.
The Library plans to provide a micro-credential in Analytical Psychology that includes approved CEUs for Florida-based mental health professionals. This course covers the essential concepts of Jungian or Analytical Psychology. It includes a solid grounding in Jung’s understanding of the structure and dynamics of the psyche, covering concepts such as projection, enantiodromia, and synchronicity, along with practical considerations having to do with working with unconscious material such as dreams, affect states and somatic states.
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