During this lecture and the discussion, Steven Herrmann will present portions of his 2024 book Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: On the Vocation of the Self. Eckhart was the only theologian who Jung consistently quoted and who had a significant impact on his psychological ideas from 1921 onwards, until his death. Jung cited Eckhart over 80 times in his oeuvre and he began reading him at the age of 15. It was from Eckhart that Jung learned the art of letting things happen in the psyche, the method of detachment that led him to develop his method of active imagination and the discovery of the way to the transcendent function. The author will discuss the complexities of Jung’s and Eckhart’s views on the soul or anima, pantheism and panentheism, the Self and Gnosticism, dualism and trans-dualism, God and the God-image, good and evil, the meaning of the cross, empiricism and metaphysics, relativity and the absolute, speaking the Word, Christ and Antichrist, emptiness and Nothingness, being mothers of God, birth-giving, bliss and the primal Ground.
Meister Eckhart and C.G. Jung: On the Vocation of the Self
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Steven Herrmann
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