In this lecture, built on the new book C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity – Conversations on Dreaming the Myth Onward, it’s author Jungian analyst Jakob Lusensky, examines Jung’s wrestle with Christianity. A wrestle that forms the experiential matrix of Jung’s psychology, offers a key to a richer understanding of his ideas and concepts and stimulate questions of Christianity’s role in today’s world. This lecture will cover:
An introduction to Jung’s personal experience of religion in childhood and adolescence and how it formed his attitude to the Christian tradition.
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Jung’s turn from east to west and his own spiritual tradition in midlife.
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The repressive elements of ecclesiastical Christianity on the human psyche
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The concept of Imitatio Christi and how it relates to individuation
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Dreaming the myth onward, Jung’s late dream of a reformed Christianity for healing the relationship between the individual and the collective
