Robin Chase, CEO of online carpooling service GoLoco and former CEO of ZipCar, joined Jungian expert Bruce Parent to work through her issues with environmental decay, urban planning, global culture, and where the web is taking us. This is a part of the Red Book Dialogue a lecture series at the Rubin Museum, which revolves around…
Actress Kathleen Chalfant has starred on Broadway, in plays including Wit and Angels in America. She was in a different role recently at the Rubin Museum of Art, discussing the theories of psychoanalyst Carl Jung as part of the Museum’s Red Book Dialogues. Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck joined Chalfant on stage, to discuss an image…
Without the playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth.The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. Carl Jung This is from one of the programs by the National Gallery of Art for “kids”. The options here are limited, of course, but one can only imagine what would…
Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Carl Jung’s Frightening Demons Was Jung’s visionary phase due to mental illness or an existential crisis? Christopher Lane, Ph.D. Published on May 13, 2010 One reason for the enigma surrounding Carl Jung’s Red Book is that he never got around to finishing it. The haunting book ends mid-sentence, just after its author…
Detail of an illustration of a solar barge on page 55 of Carl Jung’s The Red Book. Translated, the complete text on the page reads: One word that was never spoken. One light that was never lit up. An unparalleled confusion. And a road without end. According to translator Sonu Shamdasani, the solar barge “was…
Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions. — Carl Jung
From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…
Carl Jung experienced a severe heart attack in 1944, at the age of sixty-eight. After his heart attack, he wrote much more directly about what was important to him and what he believed. It was a year later that Psychology and Alchemy was published. Heart attacks have a way of focusing your attention and puttings…