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Intro to Jung for Artists, Rascals & Dreamers with Ann McCoy
Ann McCoy with Lunar Birth
Many artists feel possessed by energies coming from the unconscious, in ways that are mysterious to themselves: dancers and actors have spoken of being taken over by psychic forces as though possessed; for painters and sculptors psyche comes through a physical hands-on process–an alchemy of transforming materials. In this course Ann will explore the role of the unconscious in the artist’s process and illustrate the role that key aspects of Jungian psychology can play in this dynamic.
Intro to Jung for Artists, Rascals & Dreamers with Ann McCoy
Ann McCoy is a New York-based sculptor, painter, and art critic, and Editor at Large for the Brooklyn Rail. She is an artist with a fifty year career, and known for her large scale drawings of the dream world. Her work is found in many museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum and many others and was featured in the Venice Biennale 1985 Art and Alchemy curated by Arturo Schwarz. She was awarded a 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in art. She lectured on art history, the history of projection, and mythology in the graduate design section of the Yale School of Drama until May 2020, and taught in the Art History Department at Barnard College from 1980 through 2000.
Ann worked with Prof. C.A. Meier for twenty-eight years in Zurich and with James Kirsch in Los Angeles. She has a background in Jungian psychology and philosophy. She has studied alchemy since the early seventies in Zurich, and Rome at the Vatican Library. Most of her work is based on her dreams, and their relationship to alchemical texts, and Christian alchemy in particular. For McCoy, alchemy is a symbolic language of processes dealing with spiritual transformation. Incarnation of spirit into matter is the key concept of the alchemical practice. The imagination is the gateway to the gods. Ann lectures on Jung and the artistic process from over fifty years of analytical experience and feels strongly that creative people have a unique approach to the unconscious, that comes from working with actual materials, and in-between dream states.
Intro to Jung for Artists, Rascals & Dreamers
with Ann McCoy
1 • April 18: The Personal Unconscious and The Collective Unconscious
2 • April 25: The Anima and the Animus
3 • May 2: Rebirth
4 • May 9: The Shadow
5 • May 16: The Self
6 • May 23: The Mother
7 • May 30: The Spirit
8 • June 6: The Trickster
9 • June 13: The Opposites and the Transcendent Function
10 • June 20: Alchemy, Incarnation, and Transmutation
Ann McCoy with egg from Death of My Father
Recommended Course Reading (Optional):
Man And His Symbols
Two Essays on Analytic Psychology
Four Archetypes: Mother / Rebirth / Spirit / Trickster
Aion
Class Videos:
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Session One:
Session Two
Apr 25, 2021
Rebirth
Session Three
May 2, 2021
Anima & Animus
Session Four
May 9, 2021
Shadow
Session Five
May 16, 2021
The Self
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Session Six
May 23, 2021
The King / The Ego
Session Seven
May 30, 2021
Mother / Father (Archetype & Complex)
Session Eight
Jun 6, 2021
Trickster
Session Nine
Jun 13, 2021
Spirit
Session Ten - Finale
Jun 20, 2021