Begin At The Beginning: A Pilot Project To Read Jung’s Red Book
The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is hosting an exciting four-part seminar series, Begin At The Beginning: A Pilot Project To Read Jung’s Red Book: Liber Novus, offering an immersive exploration of Carl Jung’s transformative The Red Book: Liber Novus. Led by George Bright, this program explores the first half of Book One through four engaging sessions. Kicking […]
Eranos – a podcast play
Eranos written by Henry Abramovitch and Murray Stein, is a play about history, ideas, and brilliant personalities. The action In this hour-long audio play, takes place around the great round table under the trees at Eranos. Eranos just outside Ascona on the northern shores of Lago Maggiore has, since 1933, been the location of the annual gatherings called Eranos Tagungen. In the almost […]
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature – Bear
Strong and powerful, the bear takes its prominent place in cultural and mythological symbolism around the world. Emerging out of the cave (womb) from hibernation with their young, bears carries forth the image of rebirth and resurrection. The female bear raises her offspring alone. Hence, she has come to represent the kind of maternity that […]
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature Tattoo
Human beings throughout the world mark their skin. The marks can be of a temporary sort, as in body painting, or of a more permanent sort, as in scarification and tattooing. The procedure for tattooing is fairly simple and thus similar worldwide: it consists of pricking the skin beneath the layer that sloughs with a […]
Wrestling with the Unbearable
Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Volume 34, Issue 1 (2024) Psychoanalytical Dialogues is a journal that emphasises dialogue on complex and sometimes thorny topics in psychoanalysis. Each article in the journal has two written responses. This explicit effort to create dialogue is especially relevant to the theme of this issue. This journal was being put together in November 2023, the […]
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature Menorah
The menorah combines two primordial images that are normally antagonistic to each other: a growing thing (tree or bush) and a burning thing (fire, sun, etc.). With the fusion of these two, a symbol expressive of the spiritual as coming both from above (heaven) and below (earth) is formed. Similar to the menorah is the […]
Salmon
The salmon is an initiate of the mysteries of transformation and self-sacrifice. As the folk who live near the coasts of Europe and America watch these glittering fish wrestle and leap their way upstream to the spawning ground each spring, they may puzzle as to why the creatures are so feverishly eager to perform this […]
Archetype in Focus: Ear
A Monthly ARAS Feature As a sense organ, the ear allows us to communicate, to sense approaching danger and to take in the wonders of music. It is second in importance only to the eye in the history of religious symbolism. Yet in those traditions that emphasize the deity’s capacity to speak, the ear rises […]
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature – Dog
Dog symbolism comes at us from both sides. Experienced by man as both a treasured domestic friend and as a wild, ever-hungry wolf-like animal, the dog threads us between the opposites of internal darkness and light, life and death. As companion of herders and hunters, the dog became a symbol of vigilance and fidelity. As […]
Hermes – Excerpts Ginette Paris
I long felt that I was wearing Hermes’ hat—a hat that made me invisible. Invisibility allowed me to see without being seen. No one paid attention to me because, consciously or not, I was taking pains to be ordinary, to be as unremarkable as possible. Neither very beautiful nor very ugly, neither a queen nor […]
How Freud’s Only Visit to America Made Him Hate the U.S. for the Rest of His Life
Poo problems, prostate pain, and lustful longings: The story behind Freud’s first (and only) trip to the U.S.
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature
Rabbit
We are excited to ring in 2023, the Chinese zodiac’s year of the Rabbit! The rabbit brings with it new beginnings, fertility and good luck. As a symbol of renewal, the rabbit is reflected in the Japanese tradition of preparing pounded rice cakes called mochi (full moon) for the celebration of the New Year. All […]
Psychosocial Wednesdays 2023 Season
Since 2020, in the form of a digital salon, Psychosocial Wednesdays provides a space where colleagues from all over the world and different disciplines can exchange their creative works and thoughts among themselves and with a wider audience. In 2023 the series takes its name by heart and explores the process of individuation and freedom after freedom in […]
Archetype in Focus: A Monthly ARAS Feature Sun
Solar rays have seemed to have the magical properties of fertility, creativity, prophecy and healing. No wonder then that the sun has evoked the worldly prestige and authority of rulers and royalty who wear the sunlike crown, the world-transcending intelligence of the “enlightened one,” and the vision of the haloed saint. As the heavenly warrior, […]
Exploration de l’inconscient et chevalerie spirituelle par Françoise Bonardel
Dans ce podcast, Françoise Bonardel, philosophe et essayiste spécialiste des religions, des traditions anciennes et de l’œuvre jungienne, nous entraine à la découverte du monde des chevaliers du Graal. Monde avec lequel Carl Gustav Jung a entretenu une relation très intime tout au long de sa vie avant de finir par considérer cette célèbre légende occidentale comme son « mythe personnel ». Toute l’équipe du Bureau et du Conseil d’administration se joint […]