Reminiscences of C.G. Jung and His Influences
A single talk by Laurens van der Post recalling his friendship with Jung and Jung's influence today, including an early recording of Jung's own voice from Eranos in the 1950s.
1 part · 56 min
Talks and seminars recorded across decades, ready to hear.
A single talk by Laurens van der Post recalling his friendship with Jung and Jung's influence today, including an early recording of Jung's own voice from Eranos in the 1950s.
1 part · 56 min
A two-part lecture by Gershom Scholem, the great historian of Jewish mysticism, on the Kabbalistic doctrine of the tselem: the 'image' of God in each person, imagined as an astral body or double that carries the individual's essence.
2 parts · 1 hr 32 min
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.
2 parts · 1 hr 41 min
Marie-Louise von Franz's unpublished 1978 Panarion Conference lecture on the archetypal roots of time: time in creation myths, Aztec mythology and the I Ching, cyclical time in astrology, and the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.
2 parts · 1 hr 25 min
A single 1986 lecture on the ego's encounter with the Self (the Greater Personality), later published in Science of the Soul (2002).
1 part · 1 hr 16 min
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…
30 parts · 30 hr 47 min
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).
10 parts · 11 hr 45 min
A two-part lecture on depth psychotherapy as a modern vocation and the three archetypal figures behind it: physician-healer, philosopher-scientist and priest-hierophant.
2 parts · 1 hr 23 min
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…
27 parts · 26 hr 59 min
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).
2 parts · 1 hr 24 min