Audio Archive

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Marie-Louise von Franz

Archetypal Experiences Surrounding Death

Marie-Louise von Franz's 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on what dreams reveal about death: the unconscious treats death as part of individuation, and dreams of the dying point to a continuity between psyche and matter. Later expanded in her book On Dreams and Death.

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2 parts · 1 hr 41 min

Marie-Louise von Franz

Some Archetypal Foundations of the Notion of Time

Marie-Louise von Franz's unpublished 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on the archetypal roots of time: time in creation myths, Aztec mythology and the I Ching, cyclical time in astrology, and the link to Jung's dynamic Self and synchronicity.

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2 parts · 1 hr 25 min

Edward F. Edinger

A Psychological Approach to the Old Testament

Thirty lectures in two semesters (16 + 14 classes), given in Los Angeles around 1985–86 (Lecture 19 opens with the February 1986 release of Natan Sharansky). Edinger reads the Old Testament book by book, from Genesis to Malachi, as primordial images of the developing ego and its encounter with Yahweh as the Self. Each session…

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30 parts · 30 hr 47 min

Edward F. Edinger

The New God-Image

A ten-week seminar (1991) on fourteen letters Jung wrote in 1951–61 about a new God-image emerging from depth psychology, grouped as epistemological premises, the paradoxical God and continuing incarnation. Published as The New God-Image (1996).

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10 parts · 11 hr 45 min

Edward F. Edinger

The Mysterium Lectures

Twenty-seven classes over two semesters (12 + 15), originally given to the C.G. Jung community in Los Angeles, working through Jung's Mysterium Coniunctionis (CW 14) paragraph by paragraph, from ¶1 to ¶792. Edinger calls it 'the summa of Jungian psychology' and opens each class by listing the 'major images' of the week's assignment. Remastered and…

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27 parts · 26 hr 59 min

Edward F. Edinger

Alchemical Sublimatio

A lecture by Edinger on sublimatio, the alchemical operation by which matter is volatilised by heat and rises as vapour, recorded in two parts (1:23:43 in total). It corresponds to the Sublimatio chapter of his Anatomy of the Psyche (1985).

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2 parts · 1 hr 24 min