In this four-part lecture series we will revisit and reconsider the work of four seminal figures in the history of Jungian scholarship and research: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, Michael Fordham, and James Hillman. Four visionary scholars and clinicians who “dreamed the dream on” and who each made an invaluable contribution to depth psychology and our understanding of the psyche.
April 2023: Erich Neumann
July 2023: Marie-Louise von Franz
September 2023: Michael Fordham
November 2023: James Hillman
Each module includes three lectures, reading material, and a live student seminar.
In this four-part lecture series we will revisit and reconsider the work of four seminal figures in the history of Jungian scholarship and research: Erich Neumann, Marie-Louise von Franz, Michael Fordham, and James Hillman. Four visionary scholars and clinicians who “dreamed the dream on” and who each made an invaluable contribution to depth psychology and our understanding of the psyche.
April 2023: Erich Neumann
June 2023: Marie-Louise von Franz
August 2023: Michael Fordham
October 2023: James Hillman
Each module includes three lectures, reading material, and a live student seminar.
Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998). At the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bollingen Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers. She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly sought-after teacher. “Listening to von Franz lecture was a numinous experience. I thought God was speaking. She seemed to know everything. In an amazing fashion and without a text, she ranged over history West and East, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and a host of other specialized areas. Never in my training had I heard such far-reaching and profound reflections.” ~ (Murray Stein, PhD)
Course details: 3 pre-recorded lectures available on registration with all relevant reading materials. One live student seminar on Saturday, August 5, 2023 at 5 pm Johannesburg, 4 pm London, 11:00 am New York. The live seminar will be recorded for students who are unable to attend.
Fees: Each course is US150, or buy all 4 Masters Series at US 450 (save US150)
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3 Presentations and 1 Student Seminar:
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All recorded lectures remain available for 12-months after the programme.
Certificate of Completion
Marie-Louise Von Franz (1915 – 1998) At the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bolingen Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers. She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly sought-after teacher. Listening to von Franz lecture was a numinous experience. I thought God was speaking. She seemed to know everything. In an amazing fashion and without a text, she ranged over history West and East, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and a host of other specialized areas. Never in my training had I heard such far-reaching and profound reflections. (Murray Stein, PhD)/p>
Course details: 3 pre-recorded lectures available on registration with all relevant reading materials. One live student seminar on Saturday 5th August 2023 at 5 pm Johannesburg, 4 pm London, 11:00 am New York. Live seminar will be recorded for students who cannot attend.
Fees: Each course is US150, or buy all 4 Masters Series at US 450 (save US150)
Faculty:
(Read more)
3 presentations and 1 Student Seminar:
(Read more)
All recorded lectures remain available for 12-months after the programme.
Certificate of Completion
Introducing The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz:
Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales
by Steven Buser, MD
The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. The first volume, Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Profane and Magical Worlds, released on her 106th birthday, January 4th, 2021 and is to be followed by 28 more volumes over the next 10 years. Volume 2 looks at the hero’s journey, while Volume 3 explores the maiden’s quest. Steven Buser is one of two General Editor’s in The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz. Dr. Buser will take us through a history of the project, an overview of von Franz’s life and work, as well as a deep dive into the first 2 volumes of this foundational material.
Von Franz, one of the most renowned authorities on fairytales, presents a systematic and wide-ranging approach. She amplifies a variety of fairytale motifs to show that the magical realm is alien to the profane realm of ordinary daily life. She was one of analytical psychology’s most original thinkers and here she presents a lucid, concise exploration of the archetypal symbols found in fairytales. Fairytales, like myths, provide a cultural and societal backdrop that helps the human imagination narrate the meaning of life’s events. The remarkable similarities in fairytale motifs across different lands and cultures inspired many scholars to search for the original homeland of fairytales. While peregrinations of fairytale motifs occur, the common root of fairytales is more archetypal than geographic. A striking feature of fairytales is that a sense of space, time, and causality is absent. This situates them in a magical realm, a land of the soul, where profound transformations occur.
Marie-Louise von Franz: Dedication to the Religious Dimension of the Psyche
by Robert Mercurio
Even though her rapport with religious sentiment was completely non-confessional, Marie-Louise von Franz was totally dedicated to following the lead of the unconscious with a serious and ethical commitment that was of a rare and deeply authentic nature. She sought and found contact with the divine through dreams, active imagination and contact with nature. Her reflections on death led her to develop a firm conviction regarding life after death and the reciprocal process of the humanization of divinity and the divinization of humanity.
Symbolic Alchemy in The Book of Pictures by Zosimos of Panopolis:
An Introduction to the Psychological Meaning of the Pictures
by Holly J. Fincher, Ph.d
In 1988 an Arabic copy of an ancient Greek alchemical text by the first alchemist, Zosimos of Panopolis (3rd/4th century, CE), entitled, Mushaf as-suwar, The Book of Pictures, was discovered languishing in an Istanbul library. The subsequent translation of this important document into English language has resulted in the discovery of a kind of bridge between the ancient roots of alchemy and the later and more abstract texts of Latin alchemy. From this, a more resolute understanding of the psychological meaning behind symbolic alchemy can be ascertained. Marie-Louise von Franz is said to have commented that The Book of Pictures is an essential document for western civilization for the way it illustrates how to deal with the objective psyche, that is, the collective unconscious. This lecture will introduce the material and explore the psychological insights hidden within a selection of pictures.
Student Seminar
Saturday, 5 August 2023
5 pm Johannesburg, 4 pm London, 11:00 am New York
hosted by Steven Buser, MD
Please note this session will be recorded for anyone unable to attend live and for later viewing.
Introducing The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz:
Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales
by Steven Buser, MD
The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28 volume Magnum Opus from one of the leading minds in Jungian Psychology. The first volume, Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Profane and Magical Worlds, released on her 106th birthday, January 4th, 2021 and is to be followed by 28 more volumes over the next 10 years. Volume 2 looks at the hero’s journey, while Volume 3 explores the maiden’s quest. Steven Buser is one of two General Editor’s in The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz. Dr. Buser will take us through a history of the project, an overview of von Franz’s life and work, as well as a deep dive into the first 2 volumes of this foundational material.
Von Franz, one of the most renowned authorities on fairytales, presents a systematic and wide-ranging approach. She amplifies a variety of fairytale motifs to show that the magical realm is alien to the profane realm of ordinary daily life. She was one of analytical psychology’s most original thinkers and here she presents a lucid, concise exploration of the archetypal symbols found in fairytales. Fairytales, like myths, provide a cultural and societal backdrop that helps the human imagination narrate the meaning of life’s events. The remarkable similarities in fairytale motifs across different lands and cultures inspired many scholars to search for the original homeland of fairytales. While peregrinations of fairytale motifs occur, the common root of fairytales is more archetypal than geographic. A striking feature of fairytales is that a sense of space, time, and causality is absent. This situates them in a magical realm, a land of the soul, where profound transformations occur.
Marie-Louise von Franz: Dedication to the Religious Dimension of the Psyche
by Robert Mercurio
Even though her rapport with religious sentiment was completely non-confessional, Marie-Louise von Franz was totally dedicated to following the lead of the unconscious with a serious and ethical commitment that was of a rare and deeply authentic nature. She sought and found contact with the divine through dreams, active imagination and contact with nature. Her reflections on death led her to develop a firm conviction regarding life after death and the reciprocal process of the humanization of divinity and the divinization of humanity.
Symbolic Alchemy in The Book of Pictures by Zosimos of Panopolis:
An Introduction to the Psychological Meaning of the Pictures
by Holly J. Fincher, Ph.d
In 1988 an Arabic copy of an ancient Greek alchemical text by the first alchemist, Zosimos of Panopolis (3rd/4th century, CE), entitled, Mushaf as-suwar, The Book of Pictures, was discovered languishing in an Istanbul library. The subsequent translation of this important document into English language has resulted in the discovery of a kind of bridge between the ancient roots of alchemy and the later and more abstract texts of Latin alchemy. From this, a more resolute understanding of the psychological meaning behind symbolic alchemy can be ascertained. Marie-Louise von Franz is said to have commented that The Book of Pictures is an essential document for western civilization for the way it illustrates how to deal with the objective psyche, that is, the collective unconscious. This lecture will introduce the material and explore the psychological insights hidden within a selection of pictures.
Student Seminar
Saturday, 5 August 2023
5 pm Johannesburg, 4 pm London, 11:00 am New York
hosted by Steven Buser, MD
Please note this session will be recorded for anyone unable to attend live and for later viewing.
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For more information email anja@appliedjung.com.
Registration now closed.
For more information email anja@appliedjung.com.
Steven Buser, MD trained in medicine at Duke University and served 12 years as a physician in the U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of the two-year Clinical Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is the co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He has worked for over 30 years in psychiatry with a focus on Jungian oriented psychotherapy. He currently works in the field of addiction medicine and serves as Publisher of Chiron Publications. He along withfellow publisher Leonard Cruz are the General Editors of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, a 28 volume series.
Robert Mercurio holds university degrees in Philosophy and in Management as well as having done post graduate studies in theology and philosophy. He completed his Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C G Jung Institute of Zurich with a thesis on the psychological symbolism of religious images in Etruscan religion. He has written various articles on themes that go from Fairy Tale interpretation to the interface between Jungian psychology and religious sentiment. He oversaw the Italian publication of various books by M.-L. von Franz . He works as an analyst in Rome where he also teaches in various post graduate schools of psychotherapy.
Holly J. Fincher, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist whose research, writing and practice is focused on the reality of the living objective psyche and its manifestations in everyday life.Areas of special interest include symbolic alchemy and picture interpretation. She completed her analytic training at both the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California and the Center for Research and Training in Depth Psychology According to C. G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Switzerland. A California native, she currently lives in rural New Hampshire where an old farmhouse, a small flock of sheep, and three border collies keep her busy.
Steven Buser, MD trained in medicine at Duke University and served 12 years as a physician in the U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of the two-year Clinical Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is the co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He has worked for over 30 years in psychiatry with a focus on Jungian oriented psychotherapy. He currently works in the field of addiction medicine and serves as Publisher of Chiron Publications. He along withfellow publisher Leonard Cruz are the General Editors of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, a 28 volume series.
Robert Mercurio holds university degrees in Philosophy and in Management as well as having done post graduate studies in theology and philosophy. He completed his Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C G Jung Institute of Zurich with a thesis on the psychological symbolism of religious images in Etruscan religion. He has written various articles on themes that go from Fairy Tale interpretation to the interface between Jungian psychology and religious sentiment. He oversaw the Italian publication of various books by M.-L. von Franz . He works as an analyst in Rome where he also teaches in various post graduate schools of psychotherapy.
Holly J. Fincher, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist whose research, writing and practice is focused on the reality of the living objective psyche and its manifestations in everyday life.Areas of special interest include symbolic alchemy and picture interpretation. She completed her analytic training at both the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California and the Center for Research and Training in Depth Psychology According to C. G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Switzerland. A California native, she currently lives in rural New Hampshire where an old farmhouse, a small flock of sheep, and three border collies keep her busy.
