NOVELS OF INDIVIDUATION, a course by Julie Bondanza

Course

Five Alternate Mondays

September 09, 23, October 07,  21, 04

This term we will be looking at literature in which the protagonist learns some new aspects of him or herself. Some of these are shadow, others are forgotten memories, others may be a reflection on former behavior. They are novels with an individuation theme.

The titles we are working with include:

     Emma by Jane Austen (please read this text before the first class )

     The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

     Sula by Toni Morrison

     Austerlitz by Georg Sebald

     Atonement by Ian McEwan

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a diplomate Jungian analyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Washington, as well as for various Jung societies across the country. Presently she serves the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park and lives in Washington, D.C.