On July 26, 2026, the Philemon Foundation hosts its next public webinar, a presentation by Beverley Zabriskie on Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2, 1934, the twenty-third volume in the Philemon Foundation Series, published by Princeton University Press with commentary by scholar Ernst Falzeder.
In May 1933, Jung applied for an appointment as a lecturer in modern psychology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, resuming public lecturing after many years away from it. What followed was a series of thirteen semesters of lectures that now stand as one of the most important records of Jung’s thinking in action. The ETH lectures are, as scholars have noted, at the very centre of his intellectual activity in this period, and provide the basis for much of his later work.
Painstakingly reconstructed and translated from detailed shorthand notes by attendees, Consciousness and the Unconscious makes a critical part of Jung’s work available to today’s readers for the first time in English. The 1934 lectures offer Jung’s own introduction to his core psychological theories and methods, delivered with candour and wit to a non-specialist audience, drawing on his clinical experience, his travels, literature, and everyday life. The volume also contains Jung’s chart of the psyche not published elsewhere in his writings, his 1934 understanding of psychological types, and a vivid portrait of a vigorous 59-year-old Jung engaging his audience as both clinician and theoretician.
Beverley Zabriskie is a Jungian analyst in New York, founding faculty member and past president of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association, former assistant editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology, and past vice president of the Philemon Foundation. Over sixty publications span synchronicity, emotion, countertransference, and the Pauli-Jung relationship — her preface to Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Letters 1932–1958 (Princeton University Press, 2001), titled A Meeting of Rare Minds, remains one of the most widely read introductions to that extraordinary correspondence. Those wanting to encounter her thinking before the webinar will find her 2021 Speaking of Jung podcast episode in which she discusses the Pauli-Jung letters and the nature of synchronicity
It is free for all who have donated $125 or more to the Philemon Foundation since 2025. For others, tickets are $40 via Zoom. Advance booking is strongly recommended, and for copyright reasons no recordings will be made. You can register attendance here.