The ‘discovery’ of the unconscious in psychology was anticipated, and its way paved, by philosophical speculations about hidden mental life. With roots in German Romanticism, philosophers, artists and literary figures of the earlier 19th century explored dreams, parapsychology, mental illness, myths and folklore as expressions of unconscious mind. Half a century before Breuer and Freud’s pioneering Studies in Hysteria (1895), for example, the physician and painter Carl Gustav Carus asserted that the “key to the knowledge of the nature of the soul’s conscious life lies in the realm of the unconscious.” Join cultural historian Mark Ryan as he examines the seminal notions that shaped core ideas of Carl Jung and other figures of depth psychology.
This program will be offered both in-person and via livestreaming
