TRANSLATING JUNG INTO FILM: Gulliver's Travels and the Individuation Process, a workshop by Mark Dean

Workshop 

In this presentation we will seek reconnect with our capacity to understand the language of the soul. Our vehicle for this process will be a film, Gulliver’s Travels (2015), staring Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. We will approach clips of the film on several levels. One is to track the elements in the film as an example of how they are carried along by the individuation process. But more importantly, we will seek to wake up and reclaim our innate capacity to understand mythically, that is, the capacity to engage life through vision logic, the souls logic. Lastly, we may discover that psychological understanding depends, not on facts, but on us.

Watch the movie here

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115195/

Or in pieces, free, on Youtube

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7keAFXcVMv8

Mark Dean, MFA, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, is a Jungian Analyst working in the Philadelphia area. His early work was in the fine arts where he had an extensive exhibiting career and was awarded a number of prestigious awards, including the National Endowment Award. In pursuit of his interests in the psychological dimension of imagery and creative process he subsequently became an art therapist and worked and taught for 20 years in that capacity. He subsequently entered analytic training and graduated in 2017. He is the Co-Founder of The Center for Psyche and the Arts, and currently serves as Vice President of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts.