12 Modules Illuminating the Life & Work of C.G. Jung

"My life has been permeated and held together by one idea: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this central point, and all my works relate to this one theme."

The Shadow is conceivably the most important concept that Jung’s psychology offers in our time.

Discover how the four terms in the title of this course are intimately connected in Jung's psychological model, and how they dynamically interact with one another in everyday life.

"Concepts are coinage; images are truth."

There is something in the psyche beyond the ego that is actively and intimately involved in our individuation process.

"Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world unto oneself." C.G. Jung

This lecture highlights Jung’s contribution to the re-enchantment of the universe by way of a concept that brings science and spirituality back into dialogue, following their hostile estrangement beginning in the 17th century.

The Persona complex contains archetypal energy coming from the depths of the psyche that moves the personality out into the everyday world, to interface with the who and the what that is "out there" in our environment.

Jung refers to Anima / Animus work as the masterpiece of the individuation process.

It is easy to dismiss the Ego as the villain in life or glorify it as the wonder of wonders. However, in Analytical Psychology, the Ego is neither sinner nor saint, or perhaps it is both.  The Ego, or ego complex, is the central structure in our conscious world.  It implicates issues of human growth and development, identity, agency, and will. Most commonly, it is the vehicle for how we experience both the inner and outer worlds and the locus of transformations for the personality through time. Most importantly, the Ego is linked to the archetypal Self, the God-image within, which increasingly is known to be both that source of transformation as well as the center and circumference of the psyche as a whole. This lecture puts a Jungian eye on the “I,” just one letter in the alphabet that nevertheless the alphabet cannot do without.