ON-DEMAND COURSE

Personal Myth & The Quest for Meaning

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
Dennis Patrick Slattery
TOPIC
Archetypes
Format
4 Class Course
DURATION
6 hours

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

How do we use our creativity to bring more meaning and purpose into our personal life? This four-class course will guide you to connect your creative spirit with your personal mythology or personal life story. It will also empower you to live more purposefully, even amidst the challenges which life tends to bring on our way.

Course Description

Dennis P. Slattery explores several angles on the complexity of personal mythology. Jung himself saw it as “the task of tasks” for anyone of us.

Not knowing some of the contours of our personal mythology leaves us open to all forms of propaganda, abuse and misdirection. Especially when we unknowingly or knowingly begin to live out another’s personal myth, leaving our own gasping at the side of the road unacknowledged and unlived. Participants will engage the four arenas covered in each class to come to a greater understanding of what myth is wanting to live through them.

“Thus it is that I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth. I can only make direct statements, only ‘tell stories.’ Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.” – C.G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, pp. 3-4

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Search for more meaning in your life and want to explore your life experiences as your own personal myth.
  • Learn practical techniques to spark your own creativity.
  • Discover practical tools to write your own personal mythology.
  • Live a life that will sustain you even in the midst of life’s difficulties by discovering your personal myth. 

class descriptions 

Class 1 – Personal Myth
Dennis will use sections from his own book, Riting Myth, Mythic Writing: Plotting Your Personal Story (2012) to engage some of the terms of a personal myth. He will also offer “riting meditations” between each session.

Class 2 – Joseph Campbell and The Hero’s Call To or Refusal of The Adventure
Several key passages from Campbell’s The Hero With a Thousand Faces is selected to deepen our understanding of being called and – if one so chooses – refusing the call.

Class 3 – Living Myth and Mimesis
The ancient Greeks discovered what Aristotle called mimesis, which is a process by which we discover something in the outer world that has a connection to our inner world. Our creation of a personal myth is generated in part from such a connection. Mimesis also rests at the heart of narratives that have particular resonance in our lives.

Class 4 – Psyche, Poetics and Mythic Analogies
Jung himself wrote that “analogy formation” is a law which to a large extent governs the psyche. We ask how the power of analogy is operative in the creation of our personal mythology.

Course overview

What you will receive

*You will receive a certificate of completion, but it’s not from an official accrediting body. Please check if it will be accepted by the organization you wish to use it with.
4 audio recordings
Auto-generated subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

Dennis Patrick Slattery

Dennis Patrick Slattery Ph.D., has been teaching for more than 54 years, the last 27 of which have been in the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus.

Scholarships

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