Jung’s Collected Works are littered with references to mystics, the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius were the subject of one of his seminars, and today most programs that train spiritual directors are grounded in Jung’s map of the human psyche. Indeed, the thought of C. G. Jung has been durably attractive to many Christians, beginning especially with the Roman Catholic theologian Victor White. Yet the relationship of Jung to Christianity is in many respects uneasy. White’s break with Jung reminds us that Jung goes where the orthodox fear to tread, while the analyst Murray Stein characterizes Jung’s relationship to Christianity as one of doctor to patient. While he discussed elsewhere some aspects of his inner experience during the “confrontation with the unconscious” he underwent in the years after his break with Freud, the recent publication of The Red Book allows us unmediated access to Jung’s direct experience of the soul. The result is a remarkable spiritual document, which will be the subject of this seminar.
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