Online
02/09/2025 - 21/10/2025
7:30PM - 9:30PM Eastern Time - Melbourne (GMT+10:00)
David Tacey says: “Throughout his life, Jung denied that he was a prophet or religious leader. But in my view, that is exactly what he was. He wanted to be seen as an empirical scientist, but as early as 1912, Freud sensed that the renewal of religious life was his major concern, and as a result expelled him from the psychoanalytic community.
Jung suffered terribly from this banishment, but it forced him to discover his calling as a prophet of a new dispensation. Jung was not interested in reviving traditional religious institutions, but in renewing the spiritual quest from its archetypal roots.”
‘We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos, the right moment, for a ‘metamorphosis of the gods’, of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing’.
Jung, ‘The Undiscovered Self: Present and Future’ (1957), CW 10, § 585.
This eight-week course will be shaped as follows: Weeks 1 to 3, and 5 to 7 will begin with a lecture and followed by group discussion. Weeks 4 and 8 will be live discussions in which all the issues will be open for general conversation (no lectures).
Participants are encouraged to read the book ahead of each session.
Diary Dates:
Tuesday 2nd September - The nature of spirituality
Tuesday 9th September - Jung, spirituality, religion
Tuesday 16th September - Jung as prophet of a new dispensation
Tuesday 23rd September - Open discussion of the issues (Part 1)
Tuesday 30th September - Individuation as a spiritual journey
Tuesday 7th October - Spirituality, wholeness and healing
Tuesday 14th October - Towards a future religion
Tuesday 21st October - Open discussion of the issues (Part 2)
C.G Jung Society of Melbourne
https://www.jungsocietymelbourne.com/jung-and-the-post-christian-vision
