PSYCHO-COSMOS
AN ONGOING, MONTHLY WORKSHOP SERIES
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Once a month, beginning January 26th. All sessions are recorded. You can sign up anytime throughout the year, and get access to the readings, recordings, and discussions—-though joining us from the beginning is encouraged. More details and monthly topics below.
Both astrology and psychoanalysis are frameworks for deeper and more nuanced understandings of ourselves, our desires and limits, and one another.
Both astrology and psychoanalysis are also often maligned as quackery or pseudoscience.
This workshop series will place various psychological themes in relation to astrological houses, planets, and images and seek to make unexpected and generative links between the fields.
We’ll come together once a month via zoom in order to traverse the psycho-cosmic arena with an eye on the generative, strange, and messy edges where the psycho- and the cosmos overlap and diverge.
COURSE STRUCTURE AND DETAILS
There are no prerequisites. Participants are encouraged to find their own interests within the course topics and follow them. There are recommended readings.
There will be a group discord where I will share my sources, reading recommendations, slides, and where participants can share notes, work, and chat with one other. And a class google drive with PDF readings, an extensive reading list/sources, and recordings.
The course structure: lecture/slideshow, Q+A and group discussion. Optional presentations on individual work throughout the year.
*NOTE: Participants are encouraged to attend live. Classes will be recorded. All sales are final.
This course is for:
-anyone curious about, annoyed by, or obsessed with astrology and/or psychoanalysis
-astrologers, therapists, or other practitioners
-artists looking for different and unexpected ways to approach their work
-those who want a jumpstart new creative work or research
-those who want a grounding yet freaky framework for a year of studies
Come away with:
-a deeper understanding of the origins of both psychoanalysis and astrology
-texts and paths for further study
-increased critical thinking skills
-deeper understandings of the works of key figures in psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and astrology, including Jung, Freud, James Hillman, Dane Rudhyar, Liz Greene, and others.
-tools and language for understanding your own astrological chart, readings, and life in both psychological and cosmic terms
-a vast reading list
SCHEDULE AND MONTHLY THEMES
All dates are 2025 and all workshops are held on SUNDAYS.
2 hours each, beginning at 11am ET.
JANUARY 26, 2025: ASTROLOGY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND THE CREATIVE PROCESS
Freud said: “The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious. What I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.” This first class is an intro to thinking about psychoanalysis and astrology together, from the perspective of the creative.
FEBRUARY 23, 2025: HOROSCOPES: THE HOUR, THE ZODIAC, AND PERSONALITY
Horoscope, from horoskopos, means ‘hour marker.’ We’ll discuss the 1st house, how the birth chart is set up, and the psychoanalytic hour.
The Ego and the Id by Freud; Jung’s writings on the Self; The Astrology of Personality by Dane Rudhyar.
MARCH 30, 2025: THE (UN)CONSCIOUS AND THE NATAL CHART
Sun and Moon, dark/light, Jung’s writings on astrology and alchemy, Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams; Freud and Jung on the unconscious.
APRIL 27, 2025: THE PLANETS, COMPLEXES, INDIVIDUATION
First chapter of Liz Greene’s Jung’s Studies in Astrology; Jung’s case study of Miss X; Jung/Freud split and their letters; Dane Rudhyar’s writings on analytical psychology in The Astrology of Personality.
MAY 25, 2025: SATURN: MOURNING AND MELANCHOLIA
We’ll discuss the planet Saturn in astrology, Freud’s seminal essay “Mourning and Melancholia” and consider Lars von Trier’s movie Melancholia.
Liz Greene’s Saturn: A New Name for an Old Devil; Freud’s “Mourning and Melancholia”; Lars von Trier’s Melancholia; Julia Kristeva’s Black Sun.
JUNE 29, 2025: SEX, DEATH, AND THE ENTRANCE TO THE UNDERWORLD
We’ll discuss sex and death, eros and thanatos, and the 8th house in astrology, an arena called by the ancients the ‘gate to hell,’ and mysterious ruler of topics such as sex, death, debt. We’ll also talk about the archetype of the vampire in movies, pop culture, books.
The Erotic by Lou-Andreas Salomé; writings by Sabina Spielrein; Bataille’s writings on eros and death; Freud on the death drive; selections from Jamieson Webster’s Disorganization and Sex; vampire movies + books.
JULY 27, 2025: UNDERWORLD AND UNCONSCIOUS: PLUTO, DREAMS, TRASH HEAPS
The Dream and the Underworld by James Hillman; selections from Hal Foster’s Compulsive Beauty; surrealism; Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life; The Astrology of Fate by Liz Greene.
AUGUST 31, 2025: MOON, MOTHER, MATTER
“Leonardo da Vinci and the Mother Archetype” from Erich Neumann’s Art and the Creative Unconscious; “Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood” by Freud; Camilla Paglia’s “Erich Neumann: Theorist of the Great Mother”; Paglia’s “Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts” from Sexual Personae; The Mother in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Elissa Marder.
SEPTEMBER 28, 2025: MADNESS, DREAMS, AND THE 12TH HOUSE
Freud’s self-analysis, The Interpretation of Dreams, Freud and Jung on madness, Louise Bourgeois and H.D. on psychoanalysis and the creative process.
OCTOBER 26, 2025: PSYCHOANALYSIS + ASTROLOGY AS ART: MERCURY, FICTION, AND CASE STUDIES
Healing Fiction and Re-Visioning Psychology by James Hillman; Jung’s writings on Alchemy and Mercury; Freud’s Dora: A Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria; and Jung’s Miss X.
NOVEMBER 30, 2025: NEPTUNE AND THE OCEANIC FEELING
Liz Greene’s The Astrological Neptune and the Quest for Redemption; selected writings by Freud on the oceanic feeling; Jung on the collective unconscious.
DECEMBER 28, 2025: ON THE COUCH AND IN THE ZOOM ROOM: PRACTICING AND STUDYING ASTROLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS
Discussion of methods for practicing and studying astrology and psychoanalysis; optional class presentations of work completed during the year.
