Date

Mar 20 2025

Time

UTC
7:30 pm

Local Time

  • Timezone: America/New_York
  • Date: Mar 20 2025
  • Time: 3:30 pm

Cost

£20.00

Location

Online-Zoom

Other Locations

Essex Church
Essex Church (Kensington Unitarians), 112 Palace Gardens Terrace, London W8 4RT, UK

Organiser

C.G. Jung Club London
C.G. Jung Club London
Phone
020 8343 3387
Email
admin@jungclub-london.org
Website
https://jungian.directory/related_organisation/c-g-jung-club-london/

The Club was founded in 1922 by close associates of Carl Gustav Jung and continues today, building a community that explores Jung's ideas and concepts.Thursday Lectures offer a relaxed and informal way to listen to a variety of speakers covering a broad spectrum of subjects that intersect through Jungian Psychology.Saturday & Weekend Seminars offer an opportunity to delve deeper into particular themes and subjects.Reading Groups are seen to be the heart of the Club and provide an opportunity to experience close reading and analysis of Jungian texts, fairy tales, and the Red Book.Various other Jung Club Small Groups (Reading Groups, Art Making Group, Film Viewing Group, and Embodied Jung) provide opportunities to get involved in a number of diverse activities.Faye Pye Grass Root Seminars are a series of seminars that introduce the basic concepts of Jungian Analytical Psychology. They are invaluable to those encountering Jung for the first time, as well as to those who have experienced years of analysis.The Harvest journal is published annually by the Club and can be received as part of Club membership or by subscription.The Club Library contains a diverse collection of around 2000 books, journals, notes, and articles. It also has a collection of compact-cassettes with recordings of lectures given at the club dating back to the late 1960s.The Club hosts an exciting number of lectures and events throughout the year and full details can be found in the links above.Through various associations with other well known Jungian organisations, we are happy to advertise other interesting events that are taking place outside of the Jung Club. Details for those events can be found here.

Medieval Arabic Demon Magic and Shadow Work

Siraj al-Din al-Sakkaki was a court magician in 13th-century Central Asia—a time and place of notorious unrest. I will read his Arabic book of magic in dialogue with Jung’s “Concerning Rebirth,” and its treatment of Faust’s bargain with the devil. Like Sakkaki, Marlowe’s Faust struck a deal with the devil in a magic circle, mastering his fear, and binding the demon with sacred oaths before signing a contract. But like Faust, Sakkaki’s shadow-work did not end well; he died in jail after losing a battle of magic in the court of a paranoid khan. Though we may read his magic as a work of failed nigredo—an alchemical experiment gone fatally awry-Sakkaki’s hands-on approach to the problem of evil provides an instructive example to our own troubled age.

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