Talks and seminars recorded across decades, ready to hear.
Twenty-four lectures (C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, 1988–89) working through Jung's Aion paragraph by paragraph. Edinger makes this difficult book accessible, moving from ego, shadow, anima/animus and the Self to Christ as a symbol of the Self, the astrological symbolism of the Piscean aeon, the fish in Christianity and alchemy, Gnostic images of the…
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24 parts · 17 hr 31 min
Twelve lectures (fall 1989) giving a commentary on Jung's Answer to Job. Edinger follows the text section by section, showing how Job's encounter with Yahweh begins a transformation of the God-image that runs through Sophia, the Incarnation, Revelation and the dogma of the Assumption of Mary, and how that transformation continues in the individual psyche.…
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12 parts · 8 hr 55 min
Ten lectures (1994) on the Book of Revelation, read chapter by chapter as an expression of the apocalypse archetype: the coming of the Self into consciousness, with its terror, destruction and renewal. Edinger links the images to individual analysis and to collective upheavals. Published as Archetype of the Apocalypse (1999).
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10 parts · 11 hr 15 min
Twelve lectures (1993) on the early Greek philosophers, from Thales to Plotinus, as expressions of archetypal ideas that still shape the Western psyche. Each philosopher's central image (water, number, fire, the One, the Forms, the Logos) is linked to Jungian psychology. Published as The Psyche in Antiquity, Book One (1999).
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12 parts · 13 hr 24 min
Twelve-week seminar (1994) on the first centuries of Christianity as two competing streams: the Church, from Paul to Augustine, and Gnosticism, from Simon Magus to Mani. Edinger treats both as expressions of the emerging Christian God-image and argues that their reconciliation is a task for the modern psyche. Published as The Psyche in Antiquity, Book…
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12 parts · 14 hr 10 min
A two-part lecture from the 1976 Panarion Conference on solutio, the alchemical operation of dissolution in water, with its symbolism, dream examples and meaning for the ego's relation to the Self.
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2 parts · 1 hr 29 min
A single unpublished lecture reading the Emerald Tablet of Hermes as a symbolic summary of the alchemical opus and of individuation.
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1 part · 1 hr 2 min
A single lecture presenting Goethe's Faust as the prototype of modern man. Related book: Goethe's Faust: Notes for a Jungian Commentary (1990).
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1 part · 1 hr 11 min
A single lecture by the Dutch scholar Gilles Quispel on the Jung Codex from Nag Hammadi and on Gnosticism read through Jung's psychology as an experience of the Self.
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1 part · 1 hr 15 min
Robert Johnson's 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on the Tristan and Isolde myth as the root of Western romantic love, and on how love can be both divine and human. Developed in his book We (1983).
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1 part · 1 hr 20 min
