It’s the weekend and welcome to the newest edition of the Jungian.Directory newsletter, where we bring you the latest events, books, courses, conferences and videos from around the Jungian world.
This week’s spotlight event comes from Psychosocial Wednesdays, which turns to Shakespeare, long described as the original inventor of depth psychology. The rest of this week’s events range from the collective psyche to the nature of healing. Today, Oregon Friends of C.G. Jung looks at American cultural complexes and the splintered American psyche. Wednesday, Jung Platform follows last week’s conversation about a new book on transformation with a further session on its themes: nature, the human psyche and the roots of imagination. Thursday BPF’s Jung Forum presents a paper first given at the 2025 IAAP Congress in Zurich, drawing on 45 years of clinical practice to ask how we understand healing itself.
We feature two books, both of which will be published by Routledge next year. Ann Addison’s Reading Carl Jung and Wilfred Bion examines the possible resonances between the two thinkers. And Alexander von Gontard’s Sandplay Therapy and Buddhism explores the Buddhist roots of Sandplay Therapy and their influence on its founder, Dora Kalff.
We remind you of two conferences on the calendar for 2027. The JAP’s international conference takes place in person in Split, Croatia, from 14 to 17 October 2027, on the space between analyst and analysand and the limits and possibilities of the analytic vessel. And the XXIV International Congress for Analytical Psychology will be held in Rome, Italy, from 27 August to 1 September 2027, with its call for papers deadline on 16 November 2026.
We also feature two online courses. The Assisi Institute’s four-week international seminar on the archetypal meaning of fairy tales begins on 30 October 2026. And the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology’s five-week course on archetypes of descent and ascent in the second half of life begins on 9 November 2026.
Scroll down for this week’s selection of YouTube videos. The first is Michael Vannoy Adams on the Odyssey and the mythological unconscious, marking the 25th anniversary of his book. Next, Magaly Villalobos in conversation in Spanish about her years alongside Rafael López-Pedraza, the co-founder of archetypal psychology. Last, Peggy Vermeesch in French, using Star Trek’s holograms as a modern myth for thinking about our relationships with AI.