The Kristine Mann Library (KML) is hosting a two-day conference, Jung at 150: Hiding in Plain Sight, next weekend, exploring the enduring and unexpectedly contemporary relevance of Jungian ideas across biography, literature, history, and modern technology.
The conference program begins Friday evening with Ann Conrad Lammers’s talk, which will present Emma Jung’s personal journey to secure a world that supported her partnership with Carl Jung. Saturday features three illuminating sessions: Joel Crichton will explore the idea that Jungian concepts have been “hiding in plain sight” for centuries, embedded within Shakespeare’s plays; Farzad Mahootian will evaluate Jung’s unique psychological approach to alchemy against contemporary historiography, proposing a new computational method to add nuance; and finally, Martin Sexton will discuss how the advent of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) invites a re-examination of Jung’s understanding of UFO phenomena as a modern myth, linking back to Jung’s final reflections on alienation in Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
This in-person event will take place at the KLM, a venue steeped in history. The KML is the oldest Jungian library in North America, established in 1941 by the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. It was later named in honor of Dr. Kristine Mann (1873–1945), an American physician who was one of the first analysts trained by Jung and a founder of the APC. Dr. Mann’s efforts were central to establishing analytical psychology in the United States, and today, the library continues to serve as a vital intellectual hub, maintaining its expansive collection that includes Jungian and other schools of depth psychology, alongside related fields like alchemy, mythology, and symbolism.