Jung began to give a unique and novel meaning to the term \u201cSelf\u201d from 1916 as a result of visionary experiences which had radically changed his understanding of human nature, of man\u2019s place in the becoming of the Cosmos, and of the practice of psychotherapy. \u201cThe Self\u201d has been a central concept in analytical psychology from its inception but has suffered considerable linguistic drift from Jung\u2019s formulations, leading to re-significations often mutually incompatible and far from Jung\u2019s original intentions.
\nIn these two seminars I will use Jung\u2019s own words and images in his Red Book, Liber Novus and Black Books material to help participants to grasp the highly original ideas for which Jung was striving to find apt expression in his new use of the term \u201cthe Self\u201d. My first seminar will aim to recover a sense of Jung\u2019s meaning.
\nFrom 1950 Jung returned to the primary insights of Liber Novus in a new attempt to convey them to the public without directly revealing their Liber Novus source. Aion, subtitled \u201cResearches into the Phenomenology of the Self\u201d was the first of these publications and is currently the best-selling volume of Jung\u2019s Collected Works. In the second seminar we will re-read key passages of Aion which were, at best, suggestive but opaque before publication of Liber Novus to establish a coherent, consistent and radical understanding of what Jung intended us to understand by \u201cthe Self\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Jung began to give a unique and novel meaning to the term \u201cSelf\u201d from 1916 as a result of visionary experiences which had radically changed his understanding of human nature, of man\u2019s place in the becoming of the Cosmos, and of the practice of psychotherapy. \u201cThe Self\u201d has been a central concept in analytical psychology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":110519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[184,542],"mec_speaker":[1197],"class_list":["post-110518","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-lecture","mec_category-webinar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n