Friday, July 09, 2010; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

Michael Jackson:
Puer in the Mirror

Presented by Chris Miller, M.A.

At a public memorial for Michael Jackson, actress Brooke Shields paid homage to her friend by quoting from Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s The Little Prince. Perhaps unbeknownst to Shields, this text provided the model of the boy who never matures into manhood in Marie-Louise von Franz’s classic work on the subject, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus. This talk will blend song and spoken word to show how, as the boy-man musician from Neverland Ranch, Jackson embodied both positive and negative aspects of the puer aeternus as well as healthy and unhealthy energies found in the puer’s eternal counterpart, the senex.

Chris Miller, M.A., is currently working on his doctoral dissertation at Pacifica Graduate Institute where he is a student in the Mythological Studies program. His lecture at the C.G. Jung Institute last summer was entitled "The Synchronistic Case of Benjamin Button.”

Pre-registered: $25.00 | At Door: $30.00
Location: C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, Lecture Room, see Contact Us page

Pre-registration (recommended) until 5:00pm of the lecture day for evening lectures; or Friday, 5:00pm for week-end workshops. At Door fee applies after.