Taking up C.G. Jung’s reflections, and in dialogue with them, intertwining law and literature, we will try to argue the inescapability of the “question of guilt” for the purposes of justice, through the path of expiation. A repressed issue of modern criminal law, which nevertheless remains an unavoidable point to reckon with.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of C.G. Jung (1875-1961), the Eranos Foundation dedicates its Eranos-Jung Lectures – the public conferences held at the Monte Verità Conference Center in Ascona – to the exploration of a Jungian micro-lexicon, with which we wish to map some problematic nodes of our present. These are six words – Guilt, Soul, Conflict, Time, Care, Knowledge – to which Jung, during his intellectual and human journey, dedicated pages of great clarity and depth. For us today, they are precious notions through which we can shed light on ourselves, on our relationship with others and with the surrounding world. In this way, Jung will accompany us on a journey of discovery inside and outside ourselves, to help us better understand what went wrong in the process of civilization to which we owe both our power and our fragility, in the face of a reality that no longer seems to respond as we would like to our hegemonic designs