Departures: 

A Father’s Absence/

A Son’s Legacy

This is an In-Person event OFFERED Through

THE C.G. JUNG SOCIETY OF MONTREAL

Saturday, November 23

9:30 a.m-5:00 p.m.

• Film screening: 10 a.m.-Noon

• Discussion: 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.

• Members: $15; Non-Members: $20

• Students/Senior Members: $10

• 3 CE/OPQ Credits: RA06493-24 (For health care professionals)

  • Plus $45- Members;

  • $60-Non-Members;

  • $30-Students/Senior Members

• Registration Link: https://sites.google.com/site/cgjungmontreal/home-page
  

• For info please call (514) 971-8664

Departures, Yōjirō Takita’s 2008 Oscar winning movie, tells the moving story of Daigo, a young man initiated into the sacred art of nōkan, a buddhist ritual of tending the bodies of dead people in preparation for their funeral. But perhaps more importantly, the background story is about the fate of a man who was raised in a home with an absent father.

In this workshop, taking a mainly clinical perspective, we will use the movie as a case study, eliciting other clinical examples along the way, to better understand some of the mythology about the absent father. We will examine how it plays out dynamically as the psychotherapy evolves, and how sometimes an absent father is a necessity, if not a blessing.

Mathieu Langlais is a psychologist and psychotherapist, member of l’Ordre des psychologues du Québec. He is trained in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Jungian psychology and Archetypal Psychology. He practices in Montréal and teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on the subject of Archetypal Psychology. His interests are in working with dreams, images and films, and the interdisciplinary treatment of disease.