June 6 marks the anniversary of Carl Gustav Jung’s death in 1961 and this year, three events on the same day offer very different but complementary ways of engaging with the legacy of depth psychology. From Washington to London to Zurich, the day invites reflection on where analytical psychology has come from, where it stands, and where it might yet go.

ISAPZURICH: Jung’s 65th Memorial Day with Ursula Brasch

The most directly commemorative of the three takes place at ISAPZURICH itself, where Jung trained and where the tradition he founded continues to be passed on. The 65th Memorial Day lecture is titled Jung’s Ego Concept and the Confucian Concept of “the Superior Person”: a Cross-Cultural Reflection, and will be delivered by Ursula Brasch. The event takes place on-site at ISAPZURICH and will be broadcast live on Zoom. The lecture will be given in English with a written summary available in German. As the world grows simultaneously more connected and more fractured along cultural lines, the question of what Jungian psychology and Confucian thought might share and where they might diverge feels both scholarly and urgent.

The Jung Society of Washington: C.G. Jung Memorial Lecture with James Hollis

Across the Atlantic, the Jung Society of Washington marks the anniversary with its annual C.G. Jung Memorial Lecture, this year delivered online by James Hollis. His lecture, Home: Why We Must Leave It, and Why We Forever Look For It, takes as its epigraph Goethe’s Faust: “Two souls dwell, alas, in my breast.” Hollis will explore the contending drives within each of us. The desire for safety and satiety on one hand, and the drive toward exploration and individuation on the other. When the former prevails, he argues, the individual is diminished and the world impoverished. Yet the need to leave home, psychologically speaking, is also an open wound that one carries into all one does. It is a theme that sits at the heart of the Jungian project, and Hollis brings to it a characteristic warmth, rigour, and depth. The event is online via Zoom.

British Psychotherapy Foundation: Annual Lecture with Juliet Rosenfeld

The third event of the day is not a Jung memorial lecture, but it belongs in this company. The British Psychotherapy Foundation‘s Annual Lecture, delivered in person at The Building Centre in London and online via Zoom, takes as its subject one of the founding stories of psychoanalysis and asks what it still has to teach us. Juliet Rosenfeld’s lecture, Who Are the Anna O’s of Today?, begins with Bertha Pappenheim — the real woman behind the pseudonym Anna O, Josef Breuer’s patient whose case became, at Freud’s request, part of the origin story of psychoanalysis. Pappenheim went on to become Germany’s first social worker and a pioneering feminist campaigner against the sexual trafficking of women — a vastly richer story than the label of “hysteric” that psychoanalytic literature long attached to her.

Rosenfeld uses Pappenheim’s story as a lens through which to ask harder contemporary questions. In a Britain where young women are better educated than men from primary school through to degree level, where birth rates are at historic lows, marriage is declining, and heteronormative reproductive expectations are being radically rethought, does psychoanalysis make room for women’s diverse subjectivities, identifications, embodiments, and relational choices?

All three events take place on June 6. Registration details for each are available via the links above.