This Saturday, the Sociedade Brasileira de Psicologia Analítica hosts “Jung e Nietzsche,” a symposium with Gustavo Pessoa and Isadora Petry, available both in person and online.
The symposium takes páthos as its starting point. It is a word that gestures toward suffering and passion, but also toward the notion of the event itself. Pessoa and Petry ask what it means to relocate illness from the pathological into the realm of the event, using Nietzsche as a guide back into the depths of contemporary suffering. Drawing on Jung’s psychopoetics, the symposium explores how giving space to the psyche’s creative activity means listening carefully to the “other” that speaks within us, treating suffering as an imaginal trace that can lead toward genuine transformation of the self. You can register here.
For those wanting to go deeper into the Jung-Nietzsche relationship we have a collection of books on the Directory, covering Jung’s own engagement with the philosopher, Nietzsche’s influence on Jung’s model of selfhood through the union of opposites, and more. Those looking for more of an introduction may enjoy Paul Bishop’s appearance on the Speaking of Jung podcast, discussing his own decades of scholarship on the topic, as well as his newest book Jung and the Epic of Transformation Volume 3, Nietzsche’s “Thus Spoke Zarathustra which was published earlier this year.