Event

The Frankenstein Prophecies

A 10 class webinar

The Frankenstein Prophecies:
Jungian-Archetypal Reflections on Ecological Crises and the God Wars

Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D.

Course description: Based on a close reading of Mary Shelley's novel this webinar series explores multiple ways her story is a re-telling of the mythic tale of Prometheus and the Christian story of creation within the context of science and technology. As such Shelley's story haunts our time as a prophetic unfolding of the origins of technological power. Using a Jungian-Archetypal approach, this series takes up these prophetic amplifications as a collective symptom that calls us to remember what we have forgotten regarding our place within nature and the cosmos.

Speaker: Robert Romanyshyn, Ph.D., is an Affiliate Member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and an emeritus professor of psychology in the Clinical and Depth Psychotherapy Programs at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has authored six books, has contributed chapters to numerous edited volumes, and published essays and reviews in many professional journals. In addition to lectures and workshops presented in the U.S., he has taught and lectured in Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and parts of Africa.

Brief Description of the 10 sessions

# 1-August 12: A presentation of seven prophetic themes in Mary Shelley's original story.

# 2-August 26: Introduction: Technology as Cultural Symptom and Collective Dream

# 3-September 16: Stealing Fire from the Gods: Titanic Hubris

# 4-September 30: Conceived by Man, not Born of Woman

# 5-October 14: Flight from Death

#6-October 28: The Eichmann Complex

#7- November 11: The Last Generation?

#8- November 18:The Orphan

#9- December 2: Fire and Ice

#10-December 16: What are Poets for in a destitute time?

Dates:

August 12, 26
September 16, 30
October 14, 28
November 11, 18
December 2, 16

Time: 60 minutes per session starting at 5 pm PST / 8pm EST

Cost: $150 for 10 sessions. (Includes an audio recording of the live event).

Sign up before July 26th and get 10% discount and pay only $135,-