Romantic Love Songs and the Transcendent Function
February 11, 2025
Lifelong Learner Members & Pacifica Extension Student Members : Free | Offered Live via Zoom
Program Description
According to Dr. Jan Collins and Dr. Marc Hamer, “the phenomenology of romantic love involves the full spectrum of human behavioral determinants, incorporating our biological endowment; the inner world of psyche, spirit, soul, and Self; as well as the outer world of our society, others, and the sociocultural chronicles of romantic love that are expressed in myth, art, literature, philosophy, and religion.”
Please join the authors as they discuss their article:
Collins, J.C., & Hamer, M.R. (2019) Romantic love songs and the transcendent function. New York, NY: Quadrant, Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology. XLIX:1 pp. 39-50.
In their presentation the authors will:
- Identify and describe romantic love using archetypal, alchemical and phenomenological Jungian perspectives.
- Explore the psychological landscape and multidimensional symbolism of romantic love.
- Illuminate the subject of romantic love from a depth psychological perspective.
- Discuss how romantic love songs and the creative process of the songwriter provide a doorway to an experience of the transcendent function.
- There will be a brief period of question and answer with the authors after their presentation.
Program Details
Dates
February 11, 2025, 12-1pm PT
Author Spotlight with Jan Collins and Marc Hamer
Registration
- Lifelong Learner Members & Pacifica Extension Student Members: Free
- General Rate: $25
About the Teachers
Jan Clanton Collins, Ph.D., retired from the Department of Anthropology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, in 2000. Dr. Collins trained with Dr. Edward F. Edinger in New York and Los Angeles and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She was the first Jungian analyst to practice in Birmingham, AL and is a founding member of both “The Friends of Jung South” and “The New Orleans Seminar of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts.”
Marc R. Hamer, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of Psychology, California State University at Northridge [CSUN]. The experimental course that he authored entitled Object Relations, Attachment & Theories of Romantic Love was offered at CSUN for the first time in fall 2014. His depth psychological education included 2½ years of core psychoanalytic training in the doctoral program at The California Graduate Institute, before completing another 5 years in the doctoral program at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he received his doctorate. Dr. Hamer’s clinical and consulting practice is located in Westlake Village, California.
General Information
Program link will be sent out prior to the event. For those unable to attend live, the presentation will be recorded and the link shared after the event.
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Registration Details
February 11, 2025
- Number of Classes: 1 Class
- Class Length: 1 hour
- Class Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM PT
- CECs: 0
