Port Townsend Friends of Jung

Port Townsend Friends of Jung Presents: Old Age: A Jungian Appraisal

When: 4 consecutive Tuesdays in October (October 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th).  

Time: 3:30pm to 5:30pm. 

Location: The Pink House Meeting Room at the Port Townsend Public Library.

This October will begin a 4 session facilitated reading/study/seminar to re-discover the beauty and necessity of the timeless book Old Age: Journey Into Simplicity.

Renowned Jungian analyst Helen M. Luke has created a classic text on aging wisely. In this beautiful survey of ideas on growing into old age she reflects on the final journeys of discovery and new challenges as the Self moves towards completion and wholeness.

In examining some of the great masterpieces of literature produced by writers at the end of their lives she elucidates the difference between growing old and disintegrating, encouraging the reader to grow emotionally and mentally during the culminating stage of life.

From Homer's "Odyssey", Shakespeare's "King Lear", and the "Tempest" as well as TS Eliot's "Little Gidding" from the last of the "Four Quartets" this will be a rich, deep dive.

There are, then, two kinds of experiences which we call suffering-that which is totally unproductive, the neurotic state of meaningless depression, and that which is the essential condition of every step on the way to what C.J. Jung has called individuation.

Helen M. Luke
 

Participants must acquire the book "Old Age: Journey into Simplicity" by Helen M. Luke and read the first 33 pages prior to the first meeting.

For further information contact Ron Strange at ron.j.strange@gmail.com