Welcome to the weekend and to this week’s edition of the Jungian.Directory newsletter, where we bring you the latest events, books, courses, conferences and videos from around the Jungian world.
As we trudge towards the end of the year, our events calendar remains as full as ever. Our spotlight falls on Oregon Friends of C. G. Jung, who use the shadowy world of film noir on Friday 6 November to explore Jung’s ideas of fate, destiny and free will. Tonight, the Maine Jung Centre hosts its annual Mildred Harris Lecture on how we might stretch our consciousness beyond the everyday mind. On Saturday 24 October, the Assisi Institute continues its Jungian Child Psychology series, with a look at the archetypes taking shape in children’s inner lives in a digital age. And on Wednesday 28 October, Dream Tending offers a free webinar on the transformative potential of nightmares.
We feature two books. Jungian and Neumannian Perspectives on Upper Palaeolithic Cave Art and Figurines by Baraki and Perel will be published by Routledge next year. Now available is Lost in Transition: The Beatles at Their Final Crossroad: A Jungian Perspective by Faraone and Hague, which reads the Abbey Road crossing as a rite of passage.
Among the conferences happening this year still, the Russian Society of Jungian Analysts holds a two-day meeting on 31 October and 1 November, both in person and online, on what happens when Western psychotherapy meets Eastern culture. The London Arts-Based Research Centre has a call for papers for a conference on chaos as a creative and psychological force, with proposals due by 1 November.
We also feature two courses. The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies begins a six-week online course on 1 November, reading the Book of Job alongside Jung’s Answer to Job. On 5 November, Pacifica Graduate Institute starts an online course on the soul and the business of running a private practice for clinicians.
At the end of this email you will find three YouTube videos selected for your enjoyment. First, The Instituto Freedom looks back at the life and legacy of Nise da Silveira and her work in mental health care in Brazil. Next, Anne Baring takes us through a journey of loss and return of the Divine Feminine . And lastly, a story from Patrick Roth’s novel Starlite Terrace about a midlife former drummer who cannot sustain a relationship.
