The New York Center for Jungian Studies returns this July with its 35th annual Jung on the Hudson summer series — two programmes running back to back online, drawing together some of the most respected names in contemporary Jungian psychology for what promises to be a rich and varied week.
Channeling Our Complexes and Conflicts to Heal Ourselves — July 19–23
The weeklong seminar takes Jung’s concept of the complex as its central focus — not as pathology to be eliminated, but as a living unit of the unconscious carrying energy that can be harnessed for healing, creativity, and transformation. Jung believed that complexes reveal where the psyche is most urgently calling for conscious engagement; the aim of this programme is to help participants do exactly that.
James Hollis opens on Sunday evening with a characteristically wide-ranging keynote on what he calls the “splinter selves” — those autonomous inner figures who travel with us and have plans of their own, and whose discernment is, as Jung put it, our only path to salvation from the ego’s illusions. Janis Maxwell follows on Monday with a presentation on complexes as demons and spirits in modern life — addictions, ideologies, and unconscious impulses that overwhelm conscious intention and sabotage our lives. Tuesday brings Erik Goodwyn on archetypes and complexes from a clinical perspective, drawing on dreams, myths, and folktales to illuminate the path toward individuation. Wednesday, Ann Belford Ulanov takes up the relationship between madness and creativity, exploring how complexes — when engaged rather than suppressed — can act as wise ancestors offering the energy needed for psychological movement. Michael Conforti closes the week on Thursday with an exploration of the entangled natures of archetype and complex, illustrated through the tortured relationship between Rilke and Lou Andreas-Salomé.
The weeklong seminar runs July 19–23, online via Zoom. Tuition is $395, with CE credits available. All sessions will be recorded and available until August 10.
Metaphor, Mystery, and Symbol: Shaping the Embodied Self — July 24–25
The weekend workshop that follows offers a different but complementary register. Dennis Patrick Slattery — Distinguished Professor Emeritus in Mythological Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute and core faculty at Jung Platform — takes embodiment and mythic awareness as his focus. His starting premise is that we are fictional selves — not counterfeits or fabrications, but intrinsic weavings of myth, memory, story, ritual, and bodily experience. It is through these elements that we navigate both our interior lives and the ambiguities of the outer world.
The weekend runs across Friday evening and Saturday, July 24–25, online via Zoom. Tuition is $175, or $520 when combined with the weeklong seminar, saving $50. CE credits and certificates of attendance are available for both programmes.
Also from Jung on the Hudson: A Study Tour to Sofia and Thessaloniki — October 13–20
Later in the year, the New York Center for Jungian Studies offers something more unusual: a study tour to Sofia, Bulgaria and Thessaloniki, Greece, guided by Aryeh Maidenbaum and Diana Rubin with faculty including Ann Belford Ulanov, John Michael Hayes, and Margaret Klenck. The theme — The Healing Power of Myths, Icons, and Symbols — follows Jung’s own emphasis on the psychological significance of sacred imagery, with site visits to some of the most extraordinary icon collections and early Christian mosaics in the world, including the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Sofia and the UNESCO-listed Byzantine churches of Thessaloniki. The tour runs October 13–20, with an optional extension to Corfu from October 20–25. Full itinerary and registration details are available via the link below.
Save the Date: Jung in Ireland — Starting April 2027
Finally, a date worth putting in the diary well in advance: Jung in Ireland launches in April 2027. More details to follow as they become available.