Julie McAfee. 1 hour 19 minutes. Audio.

Topics: Family and Intimate Relationships, Shadow.  

The Vampire Archetype and Vampiric Relationships

Fatal symbiosis and the nourishing of oneself with another's vitality - two central points of vampire legend - are also dark and bewildering elements of the shadow in many human relationships. Jungian analyst Julia McAfee explores the history of the vampire in legend as well as the nature and dynamics of the vampire shadow in personal relationships. Part of the conference set Gold in Dark Places: Shadow Work in the Struggle for Selfhood, which includes the following lectures:

1. The Myth of the Shadow and the Shadow of Myth - Nathan Schwartz-Salant
2. The Typological Counterculture: Introverted Feeling and its Allies - John Giannini
3. The Vampire Archetype and Vampiric Relationships - Julie McAfee
4. World Oppression and the Power of Transformation - John Van Eenwyk
5. The Wounding Shadow of the Wounded Healer: Narcissism and Co-Dependency in the Helping Professions - Jean Shinoda Bolen
6. Shadows on the Rock: Women, Violence, and the Church - Joan Chamberlain Engelsman
7. Depth Psychology and Politics: Reflections on the Mythopoetic Men’s Movement - Andrew Samuels
8. Shadow Issues in the Daughter's Father Complex - Julia Jewett

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© 1991 Julie McAfee
Ⓟ 1991 CG Jung Institute of Chicago