On April 28, 2026, Professor Andrew Samuels returns to the University of Essex to deliver this year’s C.G. Jung Lecture. Thirty years after his landmark 1995 appointment to one of the UK’s first chairs in Jungian Studies, Samuels will take stock of what has (and hasn’t) changed in the field he helped establish. His lecture, What has changed in academic Jungian studies and clinical Jungian analysis since 1995? Has anything changed? Does anything need to change?, is as much an invitation to collective reflection as it is a personal milestone.

Central to the evening will be Samuels’ longstanding argument that the divide between clinical and academic work is a false one, and that the field is best served by those who refuse to choose between the two. Three decades on from his original appointment, he returns to ask whether that vision has been realised. The lecture is free and open to the public, running from 6pm to 7.30pm London time. You can register here.

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The Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex is the home of this lecture series and one of the UK’s last remaining dedicated centres for psychoanalytic scholarship. It is currently under threat from university restructuring. A petition has been launched to preserve its independent status. If you value what PPS represents for psychoanalytic education in the UK, please consider signing and writing to the Vice Chancellor at vc@essex.ac.uk