Susan E. Schwartz, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

08/17/2025

(Neumann, 1973, p. 76) “If a negative primal relationship has produced a negativized ego, the resulting aggressions can no longer be integrated, and then we have the phenomenon onto which the term narcissism properly applies”.

08/10/2025

Lies, rather than conscious manipulations, refer to unconscious disguises used to avoid confronting unbearable emotional truths. Additionally, lies disrupt the healthy balance between reality and imagination, distorting the perspective required for meaning-making (Eekoff 2023).

08/04/2025

There is some check in the flow of my being; a deep stream presses on some obstacle; it jerks; it tugs; some knot in the centre resists. Oh, this is pain, this is anguish!...To whom shall I give all, that flows through me, from my warm porous body? I will gather my flowers and present them—Oh! To whom?
(Woolf, 2000, p. 57)

07/25/2025

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07/13/2025

A grandiose self affords magical protection, and an independent or omnipotent self needs no others as compensation for the absence of safety” (Modell, 1996, p.88)

07/09/2025

An Archetypal Exploration of Love and Narcissism

Wednesday, July 16, 2025 12 noon – 3:30 pm ET

a Zoom seminar led by Susan E. Schwartz, PhD

Register at: https://www.cgjungny.org/summer-study-online-program-2025/

Contact hours: 3.5 CE contact hours for Licensed NYS Social Workers, Psychoanalysts and Creative Arts Therapists for this program.

The narcissistic response to life propels the Jungian process of individuation. However, the internal splits and fractured selves set up distance between who one is and who one wants to be. Emphasized is the concept of the shadow, dissociation and the intimacy compromised in the singularity of narcissism. This person is characterized by feelings of fraudulence and vulnerability bounded by a wall of impenetrability, a form of self-deception, leaving feelings of being an imposter. Reality is fraught with anguish, panic, absence and void although the person exudes an appealing but always elusive facade. Life can no longer be avoided with compulsions, perfectionism and ego-drive.

A dream series and close look at the Narcissus and Echo myth clarify both the obstacles and pathways towards alignment with Self. The growth towards maturity involves exploring the reality of the psyche, something difficult for this personality type.

Susan E. Schwartz, PhD, trained in Zurich, Switzerland as a Jungian analyst. She appears on many podcasts and presents at Jungian analytical conferences and teaching programs in the USA and worldwide. Susan has numerous articles in journals and book chapters on Jungian analytical psychology. Her books are: The Absent Father Effect on Daughters, Father Desire, Father Wounds (2020) translated into several languages; Imposter Syndrome and the ‘As-If’ Personality: The Fragility of Self (2023); A Jungian Exploration of the Puella Archetype: Girl Unfolding (2024) and An Analytical Exploration of Love and Narcissism; The Tragedy of Isolation and Intimacy (2025), Missing Fathers; Yearning Sons (2026) all published by Routledge. Her website is www.susanschwartzphd.com
Register at: https://www.cgjungny.org/summer-study-online-program-2025/

Tuition for Online Summer Study programs:
All tickets $90 Discounts for full-week registrations.

Descriptions and registration for all five Summer Study seminars at:

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This program will not be recorded.

These are online programs using the Zoom platform.

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06/23/2025

Wednesday, July 16

12:00 noon – 3:30 pm ET



An Archetypal Exploration of Love and Narcissism

The narcissistic response to life propels the Jungian process of individuation. However, the internal splits and fractured selves set up distance between who one is and who one wants to be. Emphasized is the concept of the shadow, dissociation and the intimacy compromised in the singularity of narcissism. This person is characterized by feelings of fraudulence and vulnerability bounded by a wall of impenetrability, a form of self-deception, leaving feelings of being an imposter. Reality is fraught with anguish, panic, absence and void although the person exudes an appealing but always elusive facade. Life can no longer be avoided with compulsions, perfectionism and ego-drive.



A dream series and close look at the Narcissus and Echo myth clarify both the obstacles and pathways towards alignment with Self. The growth towards maturity involves exploring the reality of the psyche, something difficult for this personality type.

Instructor: Susan E. Schwartz, PhD

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06/22/2025

A video on the Absent Father Effect:

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06/15/2025

That dream.. was but the reflection in a mirror...the mirror was broken--

(Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, p. 146)