Perversion. A Jungian Approach

30/06/2012
10.30am - 12.00pm

Workshop Leader(s): Fiona Ross
Venue: Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London NW1 2BJ
Fee: £30/£25

Fiona Ross  D. An. Psych., CPsychol. AFBPsS. is a professional member of the Society of Analytical Psychology. She works in private practice in London as an analyst and psychologist and teaches within a number of analytic and psychotherapy training organisations. She is author of Understanding Perversion in Clinical Practice: Structure and Strategy in the Psyche (Karnac 2003). Since then she has undertaken research on the contribution Jungian theory can make to the understanding of perversion, and has written a book on this subject which will shortly be published by Karnac.

Lecture
Psychoanalysis has traditionally referred only to sexual perversion. In this lecture Fiona will identify four central differences between the Freudian and Jungian interpretive traditions. She will offer a Jungian understanding of perversion as a response to early trauma, with intra-psychic deception enacted relationally in the outside world through addictive, vengeful behaviour which is not necessarily sexual. This involves broadening the concept of libido, linking instinct to the collective unconscious, understanding the archetypal governance of psychic organisation, and acceptance of a futural sense of the psyche. She will present a theoretical formulation in stages with illustrations drawn from three biographies, exemplifying sexual perversion, bodily perversion, and emotional or cognitive perversion.

All participants attending this lecture will receive a Certificate of Attendance for Continuing Professional Development purposes.

For more information and to request an application form please contact Mayra Angulo on 020 7378 2054. WPF Therapy, 23 Magdalen Street, London SE1 2EN. Alternatively click on Download Document.

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