Postlude to the Zurich Lecture Series 2025

Name: Postlude to the Zurich Lecture Series 2025
Start: 2025-10-17
End: 2025-10-17
Location: ISAP Zurich

9:30-9:55 | Andreas Schweizer | History of The Psychology Club Zürich

10:00-12:00| Murray Stein (moderator)

Panel: The Symbolic Attitude – What is it?

A panel of four analysts (Dariane Pictet, Deborah Egger, Paul Brutsche and Bernard Sartorius) speak to the question from their own perspective and from their experience and interests. This will be followed by a time for discussion among the panelists and with the audience. The discussion is moderated by Murray Stein.

13:00-14:45 | Andreas Schweizer

“Your prayer increases the light of the star,” Septem Sermones: The Dawn of a New Aion?
At the end of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, we find a beautiful hymn, a poignant prayer to the one single Star in the zenith, to the one guiding God. “To this one God man shall pray... To him all love and worship is due.” It is your God, the true origin of life. This lecture will explore various passages in the Black Books and The Red Book which actually herald the dawn of a new stellar consciousness. The sun is no longer the primary symbol of the Self; rather it is the star. The sun has entered the underworld, the nocturnal world of the unconscious. This is the place of renewal.

15:00-16:45 | Regine Schweizer-Vüllers

The Mystery of the Anthropos – An Approach to an Archetypal Image
The astrological sign of Aquarius represents a human figure pouring water from a jug into the mouth of a fish. C.G. Jung calls this figure Anthropos, an image of the greater human being in us, or, we might say, the collective unconscious or “everything human” in us. The Anthropos embraces the opposites of the human psyche and is the origin of the human capacity for empathy and relatedness as well as the emotional brutality and fanaticism of mass man in our time. For Jung the union of opposites was a lifelong concern.

Excursion: Tour through the Exhibition in the National Museum

Landscapes of the mind
C.G. Jung and the exploration of the human psyche in Switzerland
Switzerland has been home to a number of soul searchers over the years, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Gustav Jung. Developments in psychiatry and psychoanalysis have a close association with Switzerland, which is still in evidence today, for example the pioneering Rorschach test, Ludwig Binswanger’s Daseinsanalysis or Jung’s analytical psychology. To mark the 150th birthday of C.G. Jung, the National Museum Zurich is presenting its first comprehensive exhibition covering the history of the exploration of the human psyche in Switzerland. The main exhibit is the legendary Red Book in which C.G. Jung made his notes during an intense spell of self-reflection. Art also helps open doors to the mind with visionary works by Johann Heinrich Füssli, Emma Kunz, Rudolf Steiner, Meret Oppenheim and Thomas Hirschhorn. This provides a psychological panorama covering every region in Switzerland, in which the connection between mind and landscape is presented in impressive fashion.