It’s Friday and welcome to this edition of the Jungian.Directory newsletter, bringing you the latest events, books, courses, conferences and videos from around the Jungian world. We hope you enjoy this week’s offerings!
This week’s events span a rich range of Jungian territory. Tonight, the C.G. Jung Society Seattle examines gun violence through a depth psychological lens. Tomorrow, the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles explores serpent imagery as a symbolic pattern in dreams and the analytic process. Tuesday Susan E. Schwartz joins the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts to explore the myth of Narcissus and Echo in contemporary culture. And Wednesday, Jung Archademy turns to the emergence of feminine sovereignty in the perimenopausal and menopausal years.
This week we feature two forthcoming titles: Andean Shamanism in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis will be published this week by Routledge. The Wisdom of Dreams is also newly available from Chiron Publications.
At the end of May, the London Arts-Based Research Centre brings together storytellers, artists, scholars, and psychologists at Oxford for a transdisciplinary exploration of archetypes and narrative. In June, the Society of Analytical Psychology marks the 80th anniversary of its founding with a tribute to Dr Michael Fordham.
Two courses are open for enrolment. Starting in May, the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology offers an introduction to Jungian work with children. From July, Jung Archademy traces the many archetypal lives of Mary Magdalene across scripture, legend, art, and modern spiritual imagination — with an early-bird sale now on.
Scroll to the bottom to see this week’s YouTube selection. First, current and past presidents of ISAPZURICH reflect on what it means to train Jungian analysts in a contemporary international context. Next, Erica Lorentz demonstrates how embodied active imagination allows us to retrieve the body from the shadow. Finally, a classic: James Hillman, recorded live in 1998, asks why Aphrodite drives us crazy- and whether we live in a pornographic culture.
