“Understanding Archetypes: Perspectives, Patterns and Fields,” presented by Dr Suzanne Cremen

Name: “Understanding Archetypes: Perspectives, Patterns and Fields,” presented by Dr Suzanne Cremen
Start: 2025-03-13T19:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-03-13T21:00:00+10:00
Location: St. Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point

Schedule

Thu Mar 13 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+10:00

Location

St. Mary's Anglican Church, Kangaroo Point | Brisbane, QL

March Presentation
Understanding Archetypes: Perspectives, Patterns and Fields
Presented by Dr Suzanne Cremen
**New date**
Thursday, 13 March 2025
Supper (optional): 7:00pm - 7:30pm
Presentation (in-person and online):
7:30pm - 9:00pm
St Mary’s Anglican Church Hall
455 Main Street
Kangaroo Point Qld 4169
Members & Concession: $15
Non-Members: $25
Concession: $10
“It is a great mistake in practice to treat an archetype as if it were a mere name, word, or concept. It is far more than that: it is a piece of life, an image connected with the living individual by the bridge of emotion.
” ~ C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols, p. 96
All products of the human imagination have an archetypal basis, including the most
sublime art, ingenious ideas, and political and social movements. Yet there is a great deal of popular misunderstanding about archetypes, which misses the nuance and specificity of Jung’s understanding.
This lecture provides an engaging orientation to this core concept for newcomers, while those experienced in Jungian psychology will be inspired and validated by the discussion and contemporary applications of archetypal theory which is not part of our everyday discourse. we’ll learn about archetypes as structuring patterns of the psyche, related to complexes, that influence our ways of perceiving and responding to the world. We will consider different metaphors for understanding archetypes as universal patterns of human experience. We’ll also look at archetypes in terms of fields or networks that are constellated around or exist between people, and structure our systems of relations (such as the Orphan archetype in Australia).
Attention will be paid to archetypal patterns which are dominant and re-emerging in the collective today, and how we may respond to these more consciously and constructively. There will be opportunity for personal reflection and discussion. A further reading list will be provided.

Presenter | Dr Suzanne Cremen
Dr Suzanne Cremen is the founder of the Life Artistry Centre (www.lifeartistry.com.au), where since 2005 on Jinibara country (Sunshine Coast hinterland) and Wurundjeri country (Melbourne) she has taught, consulted, and hosted much-loved graduate level courses and retreats facilitating the creative applications of depth psychology. She is the author of From Career to Calling: A depth psychology guide to soul-making work in darkening times (Routledge 2020), a finalist in the Australian Career Book Awards supported by the Royal Society of Arts. Suzanne holds a PhD from La Trobe, two Masters degrees from Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA (Jungian and Archetypal Studies; Engaged Humanities and Mythological Studies) as well as degrees in Law and Arts (UNSW).
For five years Dr Cremen served on the faculty of the Pacifica Graduate Institute teaching a course on the depth psychology of vocation. Her Jungian-oriented research – on topics from personality type, to art and nature, to Argentine tango – is published in international and peer-reviewed journals. She has chaired symposia and spoken on the applications of archetypal psychology at major international conferences, including in New York, Canada and Australia. Suzanne is a past president and honorary life member of the CG Jung Society of Queensland, and an advocate for the therapeutic power of the arts and the archetypal imagination in transforming and healing the cultural psyche and our relationships with the natural world.