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Please Note: Thursday, November 26, 2026 (Thanksgiving) there will be no program.
This program WILL BE RECORDED.
Western man has retained fewer and fewer ways to be initiated into his own psychic nature; initiation therefore became one of Jung‘s main concerns in psychotherapy: initiation into the repressed unconscious nature, which is fundamental to any healing. Now this is a view of psychotherapy in which Hermes, as the archetype of the unconscious, is the guide, most of the time the only guide.
--Rafael López-Perdraza, Hermes and his Children
The contemporary fixation on hypermasculinity—visible in parts of the manosphere and in renewed fascination with the male warrior-hero—raises a psychological question: What do we mean when we speak of “the masculine”? How might we understand masculine and feminine as symbolic poles of psychic experience rather than fixed attributes of men and women?
Taking the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy’s evocative phrase, “a new phase of eros,” as our point of departure, this four-part course explores the masculine as a symbolic and psychological process. Through Jungian psychology, poetry, myth, and contemporary film and television, we will consider eros and gender fluidity, embodiment and relationships between men, aggression and archetypal possession, vulnerability, shame, and shadow.
Throughout the course, Rafael López-Pedraza’s image of Hermes as guide into unconscious psychic nature will accompany our inquiry. What might initiation into previously unconscious aspects of ourselves mean for contemporary masculinity—and what may happen when such an initiation fails to take place?
Click here to see the recommended assignments for the course, which include readings and viewings.
Prices for Course
Non-Members: $122.00/per ticket
Individual Members: $84.00/per ticket
Senior 65+ Members/Student/Analytic Candidate Members: $68.00/per ticket
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Matthias Leutrum, born in Stuttgart, Germany, is a certified Jungian analyst and licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. He trained at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA) in New York, where he currently serves on the faculty and as the Director of Training. Leutrum received his MFA in painting from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris, and has exhibited his work internationally. He has presented papers at numerous Art and Psyche conferences, the JAP Latin America Conference, as well as the IAAP conferences in Buenos Aires and Zurich. His articles, “Giacometti’s Gaze” and “The Analyst as User Illusion: Therapy in the Time of COVID-19,” have appeared in the Journal of Analytical Psychology. |
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