In his volume on Psychology and Alchemy Carl Jung comments that
“the right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings. It is a via longissima, not straight but snakelike, a path that unites the opposites in the manner of the guiding caduceus, a path whose labyrinthine twists and turns are not lacking in terror.”
In fact, says speaker ffiona von Westhoven Perignor, there can be no detours in a labyrinth – for though the way frequently turns back on itself, it is finally just one single path which leads to the centre and then out again.
And yet becoming whole, walking the individuation way, rarely appears straight-forward. Once we understand the symbols that appear along our path and trust the process when we have to turn back on ourselves, we find we may be closer to the centre then we ever imagined.
ffiona von Westhoven Perignor is a Jungian Analyst with private practices in London and West Oxfordshire. She trained at the CG Jung Institute in Zurich and is a training analyst and member of The Guild of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality (GAPS) and The Independent Group of Analytical Psychology (IGAP). For the past five years she has been the visiting analyst in China for the International Association of Analytical Psychologists (IAAP). Her background is in teaching, broadcasting and journalism. She is also a medievalist and has written two books about women in the Middle Ages under her pen-name ffiona Swabey.
The lecture, which is part of the Vera von der Heydt Public Lecture Series organised by The Guild of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality, will take place on Sat 22nd October at 6.30pm at St Pancras Old Church and Gardens, London NW1 1UL.
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