ON-DEMAND COURSE

shadow of relationships 

Jungian Psychology
TEACHER
James Hollis 
TOPIC
Jungian
Format
4 class audio course
DURATION
3 hours 

Payment options: Credit Card or PayPal.

Enjoy fulfilling relationships through working on your shadow. The fantasy of finding wholeness in relationships is a common human experience. It is reflected in ideals of love. However, this romanticized notion has a shadow. We project our lack onto others, which leads to disappointment and endless seeking. Hollis offers inner work as the path to individuation and great relationships.

Course Description

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Relationships are a core component of human life. We are born into relationships and sustained by them. In them we find connection, support, meaning, and love. Relationships also have dark shadows. Cultural stories and societal expectations offer relationships as key to personal fulfillment. This leads us to seek wholeness through connection. We project our lacks onto others, burdening them with the task of meeting our needs. If left unconscious, we experience repetitive disillusionment in relationships and make destabilizing decisions, like affairs or impulsive changes.

In this course, Hollis offers the novel Madame Bovary as a reflection for seeking fulfillment outside of ourselves. Emma is limited by the culture of her time. Societal constraints on her gender leave her powerless to independently create the life she desires. As a result, she unconsciously projects what she lacks onto the world around her Her fantasies for wholeness are temporarily met then ultimately disillusioned in a marriage, an affair, religion, and suicide. Hollis shows how her search is universally shared. Disconnection from inner empowerment, nurturance, and fulfillment leads to projecting these qualities outside of ourselves. Being unconsciously wedded to these projections, we are bound to cyclical boredom, dissatisfaction and disappointment. However, by working through our relationship shadow we can experience deeply enriching relationships.

Hollis speaks of the developmental journey to find what we seek within. Hollis describes the gifts of this inner work as greater wholeness and richer, less burdened relationships. Our companion guide will provide you a reflective space to explore these themes in your own life. It offers ways to understand fantasies for wholeness through another as an invitation to discover desired qualities within. This will support you in reclaiming the empowerment, nurturance and fulfillment you seek outside yourself. As a result, you can live with greater personal authority and enjoy richer relationships.

This program is being offered by the Jung Center of Houston and the Jung Platform. The original recording of this lecture took place at the Jung Center. The recording has been remastered. The lectures are available now.

This program is ideal if you want to be able to

  • Seek deeper, more fulfilling relationships—whether in friendships, partnerships, family, or romance.
  • Understand how one’s projections and fantasies about relationships (shadow) cause dissatisfaction and suffering.
  • Desire a deeper understanding of how the neediness of one’s personality impacts relationships and how to change this.
  • Cultivate personal empowerment and self-nurturance through shadow work
  • Expand your understanding and deepen your work with others on relationships, as a coach, therapist, or healer.

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
Companion Guide
Auto-generated subtitles
Certificate of completion*
Available in English

ABout the teacher

james hollis 

James Hollis, Ph.D., is presently a licensed Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, D.C. He is also a Core Faculty Member at Jung Platform since 2016, and one of the best Jungian teachers of our age.

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