Library Talks: The Anima
McGowan House Center 381 High St, Monterey, CA, United StatesWe invite you to participate in a new series of events taking place in the Monterey Friends of CG Jung library. This evening in the library, we will host a forum of ideas centered around the concept of Anima in Jungian psychology. The participants will share their thoughts and insights on the topic while referencing […]
Oppenheimer—with John Dotson
Tonight, we will discuss at-large the current film based on the biography American Prometheus.These quotes offer two points of departure: We knew the world would not be the same. Few people laughed. Few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade […]
The Earth Has a Soul: Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life
Our planetary environmental crisis accelerates. We are reading and discussing these selected writings of Jung for his insights, such as: “Nature, psyche, and life appear to me like divinity unfolded—what more could I ask for?”
Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul by Marie-Louise von Franz
Projection is flagrant in American culture. What is projection? What happens when we become aware of our projections, individual and collective? This trimester, we will finish the last sections of Chapter 3 (“Energy and Field of Force,” “Psyche and Matter”) and take up Chapter 4: “The Hypothesis of the Collective Unconscious.”