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Current Presentations
is honored to present:
The Wise Old Woman Spirit -
Help as a Partnership
Modern magic via zoom invites our entry into the
world of eros and, curiously -- emptiness
-- two vital qualities of the Wise Old Woman
spirit that can help us survive... possibly
even thrive.
The Wise Old Woman spirit is a part of our own psychological development
of a feminine wisdom energy particular to each of us, man, woman or other,
a guiding light in a time of vast loss.
We think we know the meaning of eros and emptiness, but we can't yet.
We’re unfamiliar with eros and emptiness in their fullest, most valuable sense.
These very qualities, I suggest, are those about which Jung laments as the
"missing opposites", leading to the dangerous one-sidedness we suffer.
At heart, the WOW spirit is about peace making - peace making within, peace making
with the earth, our families or others… not an ego task "to do," ... but of
holding an attitude of partnership with the WOW spirit - a feminine way of peace making,
the human role, so to speak.
It’s the Wise Old Woman spirit that brings us peace.
Past Presentations
Presenter: Susan K Faron
Title: The Wise Old Woman Spirit - Help as a Partnership
Date: Friday, October 18, 2024
SMN members are invited to join in as we celebrate this joyous and critical book about a vital feminine part developing within each of us - man, woman or other. A compeer of Jung’s Wise Old Man spirit, the WOW spirit is about partnership and how a personal relationship with the WOW spirit introduces a feminine way of peacemaking.
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BIO:
Susan K Faron, PhD, is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst and graduate of the Jung and von Franz
Centre, Switzerland. Practicing as a psychologist, Jungian analyst, author and lecturer, she began in
1983, working with individuals and specializing in relationships and spiritual direction. She has
given seminars at the San Francisco Analytical Psychology Club and has presented internationally
in other forums.
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According to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz
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PRESENTER: Susan K Faron, PhD
TITLE: The Wise Old Woman Spirit-Help as a Partnership
The Feminine Function - Two Men's Experiences
HERE is a GLIMPSE of the
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ABSTRACT:
The feminine function, often unrealized in men, is beyond a solo part in women's functioning. This
presentation outlines how the integration of the feminine principle reveals itself in its peace-
making role. Two qualities unique to feminine wisdom, serve both men and women apart from
traditional or contemporary gender expressions.
OBJECTIVES:
To provide and measure a real-life experience of a feminine wisdom figure on an immediate and gut-level basis for each participant through an empathetic or "re-experiencing" event.
BIO:
Susan K Faron, PhD,
is a Diplomate Jungian Analyst and graduate of the Jung and von Franz Centre,
Switzerland. She graduated from UC Berkeley, Magna Cum Laude, with high honors in psychology, Phi
Beta Kappa, and completed her PhD at the California School of Professional Psychology. Beginning in
1983, Dr. Faron has worked with individuals in private analytic practice, specializing in relationships and spiritual direction. She has lectured at the San Francisco Analytical Psychology Club and has presented
internationally in other forums.
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Paradigm Explorer 2024/1
* The Wise Old Woman Spirit - Susan K. Faron
Chiron Publications 2023, 237 pp, $27, p/b - ISBN 978-1-68503-187-9
This fascinating book develops the archetypal figure of the wise old woman
characterised by eros and emptiness as a counterpart to Jung's wise old man and,
interestingly, focusing on the figure of his wife Emma.
Dreams play a central role,
weaving strands together into life as a whole and forging the essential immanent
coincidence of opposites. Both figures are manifestations of the archetype of the
Self, and the wise old woman spirit is becoming more activated in response to the
growing patriarchal authoritarian dominance seeking control rather than harmony.
The author explores historical manifestations of the feminine Divine depicting
salvation and healing, as also related in fairy tales such as Fledgeling and Rapunzel
- this story in particular represents the oppression of the feminine and the
repression of eros as 'a sacred and spiritual connection to the higher powers.'
An
exegesis of the dark feminine in The Three Spinners highlights the need for
balance, accepting the disreputable parts of ourselves, and the need to trust the
unconscious.
The author discusses the perceptive remarks about eros by both Jung
and von Franz (pp. 109 ff.)
The other essential characteristic of emptiness is symbolised by the womb
as a dark vessel in which new life can develop, related to the Grail as a chalice
for spiritual renewal - more generally, we are all potentially vessels for the Spirit.
The author describes an interview with Carl and Emma's grandson Andreas, and
outlines Emma's life story, including the triangular relationship with Toni Wolff
whereby '[Jung] never took anything from me to give to Toni, but the more he gave her, the more
he seemed able to give to me.' She wrote books about the animus and anima as well as the Grail
legend, and Susan characterises the wise old woman qualities she exhibited as protection,
nurturing, love and guidance.
Two days before she died, Jung had a great illumination 'that lit
up a centuries-old secret that was embodied in her and had exerted an
unfathomable influence on my life.' (p. 151)
The longest chapter is devoted to dream illustrations featuring images of the
wise old woman spirit from around the world, to which the author adds her own
psychological commentary.
These include the New Jerusalem both within and
without as a symbol of renewal and reconstruction. Emma Jung herself appears in
one of the dreams to offer reassurance. Another features Mary taking the dreamer
to an enormous fireplace - fire reduces all to its bare essentials, but this masculine spirit of heat
and power cannot quench our thirst and needs to be balanced by the water of the feminine in a
sacred marriage.
Each of us can enter into a partnership with eros and emptiness to help bring
forth the necessary personal and collective transformation.
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Writer and Editor: David Lorimer
A Psychological Interpretation Of "The Rose"
As presented at the Analytical Psychology Club of
San Francisco
November 2011
Reservations 925-932-2090
THE ROSE
The psychological interpretation of fairy tales, a
less familiar opening to the archetypal dimension
in this country, is nevertheless, a rich source of
vital, earthy and instinctual wisdom that comes to
us in a playful, but serious way. Von Franz would
remind us that fairy tales "mirror the basic
patterns of the psyche more clearly."
At heart, our fairy tale today, The Rose, is about
spiritual reawakening within the feminine. Von
Franz has written, "...the real woman is uncertain
as to her own essence, her own being, of what she
is, or could be." In describing women of the
Western world today, she observes that women seem
to be seeking images which could define their
identity. She states that women are motivated by
disorientation and deep uncertainty, and notes that
Jung sees this due to the fact "that women have no
metaphysical representation in the Christian
God-image."
While modern-day
women are searching for feminine archetypal models
of behavior, Birkhauser-Oeri points out that
"nature itself has a spiritual aim," citing Jung's
statement, "'that nature seeks to transcend
itself'." In this fairy tale, we may learn one way
that transformation of the feminine might come
about. It is noteworthy, that the feminine resides
in men, as well, and is an area of greatest
significance to them.
Susan K. Faron, Ph.D. is a Diplomate Jungian
Analyst from The Research and Training Centre For
Depth Psychology according to C.G. Jung and
Marie-Louise von Franz, Zurich, Switzerland. She
holds a deep passion for Jungian psychology and
feels that her own development serves as the best
foundation for doing psychotherapy with others. She
attended classes twice a year in Switzerland until
she graduated and does research and writing
alongside her private practice here in California.
Susan loves nature, the sea, shells, rocks,
walking, rain, California, and flowers, especially
roses and tulips. She also enjoys painting and
drumming. She lives and practices "among the trees"
in Walnut Creek, and is a wife, mother, and
grandmother. Her web address is www.drsusankfaron.com
or www.walnutcreekpsychologist.org.
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