Creative Mythology and Individuation

Dr. Evans Lansing Smith
Start Date: 13/05/2025
End Date:17/06/2025
Scheduled course
Online

Overview

This series focuses on a series of three archetypal dreams richly amplified by motifs from Alchemical, Arthurian, Egyptian, Classical, Celtic, and Nordic mythologies. An illustrated memoir of my travels with Joseph Campbell in France, Egypt, and Kenya introduces the sessions.

Session 1 • May 13

Dream #1: The Night-Sea Journey and Individuation: Greek, Irish, and Nordic Mythologies

Travels with Joseph: Megalithic Mysteries and the Grail Romances in Normandy and Brittany

Session 2 • May 20

Creative Mythology 1: Mystery Bowls and the Grail

Session 3 • May 27

Dream #2: Shipwreck and Cannibal Cave: Alchemical, Greek, and Oriental Mythologies

Travels with Joseph: Egyptian Underworlds and African Encounters

Session 4 • June 3

Creative Mythology 2: Troubadours, Minnesänger, Tristan and Isolde

Session 5 • June 10

Dream #3: Joseph Campbell and the Open Eye Foundation

Alchemical motifs from the Rosarium Philosophorum, The Splendor Solis, and Atalanta Fugiens

Session 6 • June 17

Creative Mythology 3: The Secularization of Myth in Modernism

  • Interpret the archetypal symbolism of the myths and rituals of a variety of cultural traditions

  • Explore Campbell’s approaches to myth, with an emphasis on Jungian depth psychology

  • Develop an understanding of the trajectory and influence of Campbell’s career

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