A History of the Dream

A History of the Dream: Fate and Destiny from Gilgamesh to Jung

The President’s Lecture Series

As part of the C. G. Jung Foundation's initiative to reach out to the many Jungian communities worldwide to share information and build community, we are presenting a new program, entitled The President's Lecture Series.

By sharing information among the various Jungian communities, we can draw together in our work to enlarge analytical psychology to its fullest capacity, benefiting a new audience of people in their quest for greater consciousness.

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
Location: Jung Center, 28 East 39th Street, New York City
Speaker: Erel Shalit, PhD

A History of the Dream: Fate and Destiny from Gilgamesh to Jung

The dream is a muthos, a mouth that gives expression to the voice of fate and destiny. A story of the dream is told from the ancient dreams of Gilgamesh and Nebuchadnezzar to the Greek discourse; from Freud and Dora on to Jung's final dream.

By tracing the dream and the image, we follow man's grand opus of turning pre-destined fate into prospective destiny, until hubris may again endanger the future.

Dr. Erel Shalit is a Jungian psychoanalyst in Ra'anana, Israel. He is a training and supervising analyst, and past President of the Israel Society of Analytical Psychology. He has served as liaison person of the International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) with the Jung Society of Bulgaria. He is a past Director of the Shamai Davidson Community Mental Health Clinic, at the Shalvata Psychiatric Centre in Israel. Erel Shalit has served as officer in the IDF Medical Corps, and is a member of The Council for Peace and Security. He is Academic Director of the 'Jung's Analytical Psychology' program at Bar Ilan University. He is the author of Requiem: A Tale of Exile and Return (Fisher King Press 2010),  Enemy, Cripple, Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path (Fisher King Press 2008; the book was a nominee for the 2009 Gradiva Award for Best Theoretical Book, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis), The Hero and His Shadow: Psychopolitical Aspects of Myth and Reality in Israel (2004), The Complex: Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego (2002), and Archetypal Images of the Life Cycle (forthcoming 2011). Dr. Shalit lectures at professional institutes, universities, and cultural forums in Israel, Europe and the United States.

Tickets: $20.00 C.G. Jung Foundation Members; $25.00 General Public.
Tickets should be purchased in advance by mail, by phone or fax with credit card (Visa or MasterCard), or in person Monday — Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For further information, please call the C. G. Jung Foundation of New York at 212-697-6430, or FAX 212-953-3989. You can also email your questions to info@cgjungny.org.

Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.

• We Ship Worldwide.
• Credit Cards Accepted.
• Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press

Soul Food and Farming Soul: Reserve Your Place at the Table

Reserve your place at the table for 
Soul Food and Farming Soul


Fisher King Press author, PATRICIA DAMERY, Jungian analyst, Biodynamic farmer and author of Farming Soul: A Tale of Initiation, will discuss the soul wound of a land based people losing their land and right livelihood and will share some of her own return journey to land and the parallel, necessary process of integrating a spiritual perspective into her psychotherapeutic approach. Copies of Farming Soul will be available for purchase at this event.

SOUL FOOD Is a series of talks, conversations & courses on spirituality, philosophy, myth and psychology. Sponsored by Point Reyes Books, Elephant Mountain Sangha, Point Reyes Dharma Friends, Spirit Matters, Point Reyes Presbyterian Church & Yoga Toes


Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Point Reyes Station, California -  Point Reyes Presbyterian Church
Contact: Point Reyes Books

Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.

• We Ship Worldwide.
• Credit Cards Accepted.
• Phone Orders Welcomed. Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press

"Enemy, Cripple and Beggar is an intensely moving book that speaks deeply to the psyche."

"Enemy, Cripple and Beggar is an intensely moving book that speaks deeply to the psyche." Ann Walker, Ph.D., published in Psychological Perspectives, volume 53, issue 2, 2010. Read the Review

Fisher King Press publishes an eclectic mix of worthy books including Jungian Psychological Perspectives, Cutting Edge Fiction, and a growing list of alternative titles.

International Shipping - Credit Cards Accepted - Phone Orders Welcomed. 

Call Toll free in the US & Canada: 1-800-228-9316 

International +1-831-238-7799 skype: fisher_king_press

RISKY BUSINESS: Nature and Environmental Disasters

New Publication from Inner City Books

RISKY BUSINESS: 
A Jungian view of environmental disasters 
and the nature archetype
by Stephen J. Foster
ISBN 9781894574334. Index. 128 pp. 2011. $25.00

Order Directly from Inner City Books

In Risky Business, environmental disasters, our relationship with nature and the Nature archetype are explored from a Jungian perspective through the use of nature myths that illustrate greed and environmental destruction.

Our relationship with nature is considered through a felt-sense of nature’s presence, what Jung called the “One World” or unus mundus. Using Jung’s complex theory and his work on archetypes, the author combines his background working as a scientist for hazardous waste cleanup projects and his training as a Jungian analyst to examine the psychological problem of toxic environmental spills.

Risky Business examines how Jung’s theoretical ideas activate the psychology of not only the individual but also the collective when environmental disaster occurs. Specific toxic spill case studies illustrate how the Nature archetype can be expressed within communities that struggle with cleanup; the resolution of conflicts between parties often reveals the presence of what Jung called the Self working at the level of the group.

Finally, the author discusses a love story written by J. R. R. Tolkien, within the framework of an alchemical model, as an allegory for building a resilient and more engaged relationship with nature.

Stephen J. Foster, Ph.D., M.A., is a graduate of the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts with a private practice in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and has an environmental consulting firm where he calculates cleanup levels for hazardous waste sites in the U.S. and around the world.

On Void States

article by Paul W. Ashton

I have used the term "void states" to describe a very varied set of mental conditions that have a subjective commonality. By this I mean that individuals with very different psychopathology (and even individuals who are simply going through one of life's precarious stages) may describe themselves as "being in a void." Having a way of thinking about and differentiating these states, one from another, is of significance because these states are so different from each other and their management is varied. The condition of "being in a void" may be the result of some trauma or life-event or it may be part of the structure of an individual. That is, it might be a sort of developmental stage in, say, the creative cycle of synthesis, thesis and antithesis, or due to an actual arrest in development, one that leads to a condition of stuck blackness and sense of meaninglessness. Or it may even be an indication of profound spiritual development.

Press Release: Will Fishes Fly

Feb 1, 2011

Fisher King Press is pleased to present:

Will Fishes Fly in Aquarius
or Will They Drown in the Bucket?

Jung’s book Aion serves as point of departure for this publication. The transition of the aeons from Pisces to Aquarius reflects decisive changes in the relationship between man and image – the image which is at the center of what Jung calls psychization, the process of reflection whereby consciousness is enhanced. At the daybreak of history, man extracted the image from the divine waters. Then, the craftsman whom God warned should not make graven images, came to replicate the divine on earth. By means of image and reflection, dream and dreaming, man becomes human, in the sense of not only partaking in events, but able to relate to experience. In Aquarius, images have been rounded up, and man now holds the bucket.

Toni Wolff Revisited - Now Shipping!

Four Eternal Women: 
Toni Wolff Revisited - A Study In Opposites
By Mary Dian Molton and Lucy Anne Sikes
ISBN 978-1-926715-31-5
320 pages, Bibliography, Index

  BUY NOW 

DOWNLOAD A FREE PDF SAMPLE

Toni Wolff was at first the patient, and later the friend, mistress for a time, long-term colleague and personal analyst of Swiss Psychiatrist Carl Jung.

Requiem on the Nile

Article by Erel Shalit

The fire and the flames of revolt sweep across the Arab Crescent. Does the unrest herald the requiem of the Arab Kings? Perhaps these are the torches of democracy that are lit by the oppressed, the banners of freedom that defy non-elected rulers and dictators. Perhaps this proclaims the dawn of a new era, echoing the prospects and possibilities of change in the Middle East.

Or do darker forces linger in the shadow of hope and freedom, hiding behind the veils, holding their horses behind the courageous, ready to ride forth on the waves of uprising, when the time is ripe?

From Archetypes of the Zodiac to Beyond the Mask - The Rising Sign: Press Release

Press Release

Fisher King Press & Genoa House are pleased to present:

Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign Volumes I & II

Well known and respected internationally for her ground breaking work in Archetypes of the Zodiac, Kathleen Burt now offers us a phenomenal distillation of her life work in: Beyond the Mask: The Rising Sign - Volume I: Aries - Virgo (ISBN 978-0981393933) and Volume II: Libra - Pisces (ISBN 978-0981393995).

The Memory of Light

article by Leah Shelleda

Egypt. Another Uprising! Another nation of people fed up with with their immovable dictator. On January 15th the President of Tunisia had done what deposed dictators did - he’d fled the country - as the news sources say.  Who knows if Egypt’s 30 year dictator will finally step down or create heavier reprisals, using thugs loyal to Mubarak.  Today I read Thousands including families with children flowed over bridges across the Nile into Tahrir Square, a sign that they were not intimidated after the protesters fended off everything thrown at them by pro-Mubarak attackers. Many of us have cheered the protesters on, signed petitions, and joined virtual and actual demonstrations in support. And we resuscitate hope.

On Violence and a Holy Tree

Holy Thorn, Glastonbury, England

Photo by Patricia Damery

On Violence and a Holy Tree

by Patricia Damery

In October 2010 my husband Donald and I visited Glastonbury, England, and the legendary Holy Thorn tree on Wearyall Hill. The thorn tree has always been sacred in the British Isles, the hawthorn associated with May and Beltane, its blossoms believed to be an aphrodisiac. The Holy Thorn, however, is a Levantine variety native to Palestine, a blackthorn. Legend has it that the tree is the direct descendent of the Holy Thorn that grew from Joseph of Arimethea's staff when he landed, weary! on Wearyall Hill. It is growing on the strongest energy ley in those parts and has human remains and holy shit (gift of the local sheep) around its base. In contrast to the native hawthorn, blooming only in May, the Holy Thorn blooms twice: at Christmas and in May. In late October the descendent on the grounds by the Abbey ruins had a few blossoms already and at the same time, a lot of tiny red berries from the May bloom.