It’s Friday once again, and with it comes another edition of the Jungian.Directory newsletter, where we bring you the latest events, books, courses, conferences and videos from around the Jungian world. It’s a slightly lighter edition as the summer lull sets in, but there’s still plenty worth your attention. We hope you enjoy what this week has on offer!
A handful of events stand out this week. Tonight, the Jung Center of Houston and the McMillan Institute for Jungian Studies present Jane Clapp on the somatic and numinous pull of parental complexes, drawing on Jung, von Franz, and Edinger to explore why we keep orbiting our parents long after reason tells us to let go. Tomorrow, the British Psychotherapy Foundation hosts Stefano Carpani for a meditation on war as psychological and spiritual reckoning, tracing parallels between interwar Berlin and Vienna and our own hyper-individualised age. And Thursday, the C.G. Jung Club London turns to George Bright’s exploration of Philemon, tracking the figure’s evolution from Liber Novus through the newly accessible Black Book 7.
Two pieces of news catch our eye this week. The latest issue of Quaderni di Cultura Junghiana explores L’analista e l’appartenenza — The Analyst and Belonging, and is free to download. And the IAJS has announced its 25th anniversary conference, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, taking place at the University of Essex in July 2027, with the call for papers now open.
Scroll to the end for this week’s YouTube selection. First, John Gillam speaks to the Canberra Jung Society on Jung, Hawking, and the widening gap between technological power and psychological maturity as we head toward 2050. Next, Glen Slater’s IAJS seminar on posthumanism argues that unprocessed dissociation is what secures our drift toward human-machine merger. Finally, Elizabeth Cotton joins Andrew Samuels and Linda Michaels to launch her book UberTherapy, opening up a discussion on the platformisation of therapeutic practice and what’s at stake for the profession.
