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The Call of Destiny—and Beyond
Saturday’s presentation will explore the evolution of Jung’s opus into a coherent world view throughout his lifetime. The focus will be on his understanding of psychological transformation as it began with his confronting the unconscious (1913 – 1928) through his last mature writings (1951 – 1954). I would like to…
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Elixir
Kapka will deliver a talk about her book, ‘Elixir’, before discussing its themes with Dominique Keeling. Elixir is the third in a quartet of novels, each of which delves into a particular region of the Southern Balkans. These are ancient realms of rich nature-culture ecologies, scarred by political trauma. Through…
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A Postmodern Approach to the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls: post-Jungian and much more
The Hebrew Bible is a sacred text to millions of people around the world, and yet some of its content is really difficult to understand and make meaningful. This presentation will consider some of the challenging texts in the Hebrew Bible and whether an approach that includes dialogics and queer…
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2024 Spring Conference – The Responsibility of Analytical Psychology at the Time of Climate Disaster – IN PERSON
First Talk: Śiva Naṭarājā – The Lord of Dance - Ruedi Högger During the latest World Climate Summit, held in Egypt in November 2022, António Guterres, Secretary General of the UN, entreated the World with the following words: “We are on a freeway to climate hell with our foot on…
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Makeda, The Black Queen of Sheba
“I fell because of wisdom but was not destroyed: through her I dived into the great sea, and in those depths I seized a wealth bestowing pearl … I marvelled at that light and grasped it, and brought it up to the sun. I laid hold upon it and will…
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2024 Summer Conference – Re-enchanting the World: Necessity, Theory and Experience
Preliminary Details of the Conference (to be updated) Our civilisation is demonstrably heading for disaster, driven by our “disenchantment of the world” (Max Weber), “monotheism of consciousness” (C.G. Jung) and “left hemisphere dominance” (Iain McGilchrist). Re-enchanting the world offers a psychological approach to healing our broken relationship with nature…
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Encounters with the Wolf in Nature, Culture, Mythology, and Fairytales
The wolf is first of all a natural wild animal. It is associated with diverse mythologies as it was mankind’s earliest companion. The wolf has many positive manifestations, such as the ancestor of some human groups, a companion to Apollo, a fellow hunter to the Inuit people, a Guardian of…
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Active Imagination and the Mystical Life: Jung and Ignatius Loyola
Jung, a Swiss Liberal Protestant, and Ignatius Loyola, a Counter-Reformation Catholic Saint, might seem like odd bedfellows but as Jung saw, there are important connections between their visions of God and religious life. Jung lectured on Ignatius’s 'Spiritual Exercises' between 1933 and 1941, after recent engagement with Eastern forms of…