Fairy Tales:

Stories heal. They can help us hold on, stay courageous, and keep believing that our suffering will lead to a transformation—a much-deserved and long-awaited relief.

Stories help us find meaning, the ultimate component in enduring dark and seemingly hollow periods. In this two-week course, we will read, sit with, ponder, be intrigued by, and play with the Grimm fairy tale The Goose Girl (#89).

“It [The Goose Girl] can be seen as a tale of the transformation of the feminine principle, both in men and women. In this process, the ego becomes humbled and relativized as missing parts of the personality are united with consciousness.”

–Lucille Klein

“Myths and fairytales give expression to unconscious processes, and their retelling causes these processes to come alive again and be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between conscious and unconscious.”

– C.G. Jung

Being a Goose Girl means being naïve, obedient, and without aggression. When faced with ill-treatment, a Goose Girl has no tools to defend herself; she responds with compliance that borders on self-neglect. The story depicts the path to transformation through the encounter with the shadow. Some motifs we’ll explore:

• Losing one’s innocence

• Encountering the shadow

• Power and control in the mother complex

• The horse

INTERPRETING Fairy Tales:

The Goose Girl

with Jungian analyst Begüm Gürses-Sulzer

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Live-Video Seminars

SATURDAYS

March 15 & 22

10am-12pm Pacific / 1-3pm Eastern
5-7 pm GMT / 6-8 pm Zurich
+ Video recording will be available

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer, MSc., IAAP 

Begüm Gürses-Sulzer is a Switzerland-based Jungian Analyst trained at ISAP Zurich and a faculty member of Jung Archademy. She serves on ISAP Zurich and AGAP’s committees and teaches at ISAP.

Working with fairy tales was the most invaluable tool her Jungian training introduced her to. Begüm often engages with these tales and is eager to share the profound symbolic work with archetypal stories.

In her private practice, she works in-person and online with individuals from various backgrounds and situations. Her areas of expertise are addiction (and codependency), eating disorders, OCD, chronic illnesses, and psychosomatic conditions.

As an analyst with experience in other helping professions, she aims to raise awareness of the unspoken aspects, challenges, and blindspots of being a helper. She offers courses and group work for helpers.