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ESE2022-1
"Il Libro rosso di Jung per il nostro tempo: alla ricerca dell'anima nel XXI secolo"
28 aprile-1° maggio 2022, Eranos e Monte Verità, Ascona (Svizzera)
'Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul in the 21st Century'
April 28-May 1, 2022, Eranos and Monte Verità, Ascona (Switzerland)
« Le Livre rouge de Jung pour notre temps : à la recherche de l'âme au 21e siècle »
28 avril-1 mai 2022, Eranos et Monte Verità, Ascona (Suisse)
„Jungs Rotes Buch für unsere Zeit: Auf der Suche nach der Seele im 21. Jahrhundert“
28. April-1. Mai 2022, Eranos und Monte Verità, Ascona (Schweiz)
In memoria del Dr. Thomas G.W. Arzt (*14.5.1955 - †12.4.2020)
Introductory video by the Organizing Committee
Interactive video by the Congress' Speakers
Introductory remarks to the congress
Picture Gallery from the Symposium
Presentazione
Cosa possiamo recuperare e fare nostro del Libro rosso di C.G. Jung, individualmente e collettivamente, per la nostra epoca, così profondamente segnata dall’Umbra Mundi (“ombra del mondo”)? Questa è la domanda di base che sarà affrontata dai relatori di questo simposio, la cui ideazione è inevitabilmente attraversata dai pensieri e dalle preoccupazioni riguardanti sia l’attuale pandemia di Coronavirus sia la crisi politica internazionale e la minaccia bellica che siamo affrontando proprio in questo momento. In una prospettiva più generale, in ogni caso, in assenza della guida di una grande narrazione o di un mito collettivo, siamo consapevoli di vivere oggi in una fase storica di volatilità globale e di profonda incertezza rispetto al futuro. Una percezione simile era diffusa nel periodo in cui Carl Gustav Jung lavorò al suo Libro rosso. In risposta a tale incertezza, dal 1913, Jung intraprese un viaggio interiore e diede forma a un’opera che riflette il suo ritrovamento di significato in un mito personale, attraverso il processo d’individuazione. Il suo approccio ai problemi presentati dallo spirito del suo tempo ha però anche un risvolto per il nostro tempo. Il Libro rosso ha infatti il potenziale per diventare una guida per chi vive nella condizione del XXI secolo.
Presentation
Can we find value, individually and collectively, in Jung’s Red Book for a time like ours, which is so deeply overcast by the Umbra Mundi ("World Shadow)? Both the Coronavirus pandemic and the international political crisis and war threat that we are facing right now inevitably shadow all our thoughts as we prepare this Symposium on “Jung’s Red Book for Our Time”. On an even larger scale, we recognize that we are facing a world historical transition in human culture without the guidance traditionally offered by grand narratives or collective myths. A similar mood of deep anxiety about the future overshadowed the world when C. G. Jung began working on his Red Book in 1913. In response to his “Spirit of the Times,” Jung embarked on an inner journey with “the Spirit of the Depths” and created his Liber Novus, a work that reflects his discovery of a personal myth. His approach to the problems presented by the spirit of his times also has prescriptive significance for our times. The Red Book has the potential to offer guidance for people living under the disruptive conditions of the first half of the 21st century. This potential will be explored by the speakers and participants in this Symposium.
Présentation
Que pouvons-nous sauver et faire nôtre du Livre rouge, individuellement et collectivement, pour notre époque, si profondément marquée par « l'ombre du monde » (Umbra Mundi) ? C'est la question fondamentale qui sera abordée par les intervenants de ce symposium, dont la conception est inévitablement traversée par des réflexions et des préoccupations tant sur l'actuelle pandémie de Coronavirus que sur la crise politique internationale et la menace de guerre auxquelles nous sommes confrontés en ce moment même. Dans une perspective plus générale, en l’absence d’un grand récit ou d’un mythe collectif, nous vivons aujourd’hui une phase historique de volatilité mondiale et de profonde incertitude quant à l’avenir. Une perception similaire était répandue à l'époque où Carl Gustav Jung travaillait sur son Livre rouge. En réponse à cette incertitude, depuis 1913 Jung a entrepris un voyage intérieur et a façonné une œuvre qui reflète sa recherche de sens dans un mythe personnel par le biais du processus d’individuation. Cependant, son approche des problèmes présentés par « l'esprit du temps » a également une implication culturelle plus large. Le Livre rouge a le potentiel de devenir un guide pour ceux qui vivent dans la condition du 21e siècle.
Vorbemerkung
Was kann uns C. G. Jungs Rotes Buch heute geben, für den Einzelnen wie für die Gemeinschaft, für unser Zeitalter, das so tief vom „Schatten der Welt“ (Umbra Mundi) geprägt ist? Dies ist die grundlegende Frage, mit der sich die Referenten dieses Symposiums befassen werden, dessen Konzeption unweigerlich von Gedanken und Sorgen sowohl über die aktuelle Coronavirus-Pandemie als auch über die internationale politische Krise und die Kriegsgefahr, mit der wir gerade konfrontiert sind, durchsetzt ist. Die Perspektive dieses Symposions trägt dabei der Tatsache Rechnung, dass in Teilen der Gesellschaft in einer Zeit enormer globaler Veränderungen große Unsicherheiten vorherrschen und vielen Menschen die Bindung an eine „Große Erzählung“ oder einen kollektiven Mythos fehlt. Eine ähnliche Wahrnehmung war auch zu der Zeit weit verbreitet, als Jung an seinem Roten Buch arbeitete. Seit 1913, als Antwort auf diese Unsicherheit, unternahm Jung eine innere Reise und formte ein Werk, das seine Sinnfindung in einem persönlichen Mythos durch den Prozess der Individuation widerspiegelt. Seine Herangehensweise an die Probleme, die der „Zeitgeist“ aufwirft, hat jedoch auch eine umfassendere kulturelle Implikation. Das Rote Buch hat daher das Potenzial, ein Leitfaden für uns zu werden, die wir in der Situation des 21. Jahrhunderts leben.
Comitato organizzativo / Program Committee
Joseph Cambray · Murray Stein · Riccardo Bernardini
Relatori e moderatori / Lecturers and Chairpersons
Promotori / Promoters
Con il sostegno di / With the Support of
In collaborazione con / In collaboration with
Iscrizione
· Iscrizione A - Comprende le conferenze, trasferimenti locali in pullman privato, aperitivo di benvenuto e cena di benvenuto al Monte Verità giovedì 28 aprile; 6 coffee break da giovedì 28 aprile a domenica 1° maggio; 2 pranzi vegetariani al Monte Verità venerdì 29 aprile e sabato 30 aprile: CHF 350.-
· Iscrizione B - Comprende le conferenze, trasferimenti locali in pullman privato, aperitivo di benvenuto e cena di benvenuto al Monte Verità giovedì 28 aprile; 6 coffee break da giovedì 28 aprile a domenica 1° maggio; 2 pranzi vegetariani e 2 cene al Monte Verità venerdì 29 aprile e sabato 30 aprile: CHF 450.-
· Iscrizione C - Comprende le conferenze, trasferimenti locali in pullman privato, aperitivo di benvenuto e cena di benvenuto al Monte Verità giovedì 28 aprile; 6 coffee break da giovedì 28 aprile a domenica 1° maggio; 2 pranzi vegetariani e 2 cene al Monte Verità venerdì 29 aprile e sabato 30 aprile; 1 pranzo all'Hotel Ascona e 3 visite guidate domenica 1° maggio: CHF 550.-
· Iscrizione D – Comprende lo streaming in diretta delle conferenze, via Zoom, da giovedì 28 aprile a sabato 30 aprile (l'iscrizione è individuale): CHF 200.-
Per la registrazione, vi preghiamo di inviare una e-mail a info@eranosfoundation.org. Vi trasmetteremo ulteriori informazioni per il pagamento e saremo lieti di aiutarvi per qualsiasi necessità organizzativa e logistica.
Registration
· Registration A – Includes lectures, local transfers by private bus, welcome aperitif, and welcome dinner at Monte Verità on Thursday, April 28; 6 coffee breaks from Thursday, April 28, to Sunday, May 1; 2 vegetarian lunches at Monte Verità on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30: CHF 350.-
· Registration B – Includes lectures, local transfers by private bus, welcome aperitif, and welcome dinner at Monte Verità on Thursday, April 28; 6 coffee breaks from Thursday, April 28, to Sunday, May 1; 2 vegetarian lunches and 2 dinners at Monte Verità on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30: CHF 450.-
· Registration C – Includes lectures, local transfers by private bus, welcome aperitif, and welcome dinner at Monte Verità on Thursday, April 28; 6 coffee breaks from Thursday, April 28, to Sunday, May 1; 2 vegetarian lunches and 2 dinners at Monte Verità on Friday, April 29, and Saturday, April 30; 1 lunch at Hotel Ascona and 3 guided visits on Sunday, May 1: CHF 550.-
· Registration D – Includes real-time streaming of conferences via Zoom from Thursday, April 28, to Saturday, April 30 (registration is on an individual basis): CHF 200.-
For registering, please, send an email to info@eranosfoundation.org. We will send you further information for the payment and we would be delighted to be of any help for any organizational and logistic issues.
Politica di rimborso
In caso di cancellazione da parte del partecipante, l'organizzazione prevede un rimborso integrale della quota di partecipazione versata nel caso in cui la richiesta di cancellazione arrivi entro 180 giorni di anticipo rispetto alla data di inizio del congresso (al netto delle spese amministrative o bancarie previste per il rimborso); un rimborso del 50% della quota di partecipazione versata nel caso in cui la richiesta di cancellazione arrivi entro 120 giorni di anticipo rispetto alla data di inizio del congresso (al netto delle spese amministrative o bancarie previste per il rimborso); non è previsto alcun rimborso della quota di partecipazione versata nel caso in cui la richiesta di cancellazione arrivi con meno di 120 giorni di anticipo rispetto alla data di inizio del congresso. In caso di annullamento del simposio da parte dell'organizzazione per ragioni sanitarie od organizzative, il rimborso della quota è integrale (al netto delle spese amministrative o bancarie previste per il rimborso)
Refund Policy
In case of cancellation by the attendee, the organization provides a full refund of the participation fee paid if the cancellation request arrives within 180 days before the start of the congress (net of administrative or bank charges provided for the refund); a refund of 50% of the participation fee paid if the cancellation request arrives within 120 days before the start of the congress (net of administrative or bank charges provided for the refund); there is no refund of the participation fee paid if the cancellation request arrives less than 120 days before the start of the congress. In case of cancellation of the symposium by the organization for health or organizational reasons, the fee will be refunded in full, net of administrative or bank charges provided for the refund.
Normativa sanitaria
Per l’entrata in Svizzera continuano a valere le condizioni stabilite dalla Segreteria di Stato per la migrazione (SEM). Inoltre le persone provenienti da uno Stato o una regione con una variante preoccupante del virus devono osservare provvedimenti sanitari di confine. Il Travelcheck interattivo vi fornisce informazioni sulla vostra situazione individuale per l’entrata in Svizzera.
A partire dal 17 febbraio 2022, sono state annullate le restrizioni di accesso per le manifestazioni culturali. Ciononostante, per l'accesso a questo evento, potrebbero eventualmente fare stato nuove misure di sicurezza emanate nel frattempo dalle autorità sanitarie, come ulteriori misure di contenimento della pandemia da COVID-19. Indipendentemente da ciò, considerato il numero considerevole di iscritti, l'organizzazione ritiene comunque di richiedere, durante ogni sessione del convegno al chiuso, di indossare una mascherina con standard minimo di protezione FFP2 (oppure KN95), a protezione propria e degli altri partecipanti.
Health Regulations
Entry to Switzerland is still subject to the entry requirements stipulated by the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). In addition, people entering Switzerland from a state or area with a variant of concern must observe the health-related measures at the border. The interactive Travelcheck tool will provide you with information on your individual situation when entering Switzerland.
As of February 17, 2022, access restrictions for cultural events have been lifted. Nevertheless, new security measures issued in the meantime by the health authorities, such as further measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, may possibly apply to access to this event. Regardless of this, given the considerable number of participants, the organization considers it necessary to require, during each session of the indoor conference, to wear a mask with a minimum standard of protection FFP2 (or KN95), to protect themselves and other participants.
Assicurazione sanitaria e di viaggio
I turisti di uno Stato dell’UE/AELS hanno il diritto di farsi curare in Svizzera durante un soggiorno temporaneo (vacanze, viaggio d’affari). I cittadini di altri Paesi devono possedere invece una copertura assicurativa sufficiente per le cure in Svizzera; per maggiori informazioni, si prega di visionare la pagina dedicata dell'Ufficio federale della sanità pubblica (UFSP). Per la perdurante instabilità della situazione sanitaria e, recentemente, politica a livello internazionale, è anche raccomandata una assicurazione di viaggio. Le organizzazioni proponenti declinano ogni responsabilità per eventuali imprevisti e incidenti che dovessero verificarsi durante il congresso.
Health and Travel Insurance
Tourists from EU/EFTA countries are entitled to receive medical treatment during visits to Switzerland (holidays, business trips). Nationals of other countries must instead have sufficient insurance to cover the costs of treatment in Switzerland. For more information, please see the dedicated webpage of the Federal Office of Publich Health (FOPH). Due to the continuing instability of the health and, recently, political situation at the international level, travel insurance is recommended. The proposing organizations decline all responsibility for any unforeseen events and accidents that may occur during the congress.
Alloggiamento
La sistemazione in hotel non è inclusa nella quota di iscrizione. Vi suggeriamo di pianificare il vostro soggiorno ad Ascona in prossimità del Centro congressuale Monte Verità, dove si svolgerà la maggior parte delle attività. Prima della prenotazione, in ogni caso, vi invitiamo a iscrivervi al congresso contattando la Fondazione Eranos via e-mail all'indirizzo info@eranosfoundation.org: vi confermeremo l'iscrizione (il numero di posti disponibili è limitato), vi forniremo i riferimenti bancari o l'indirizzo PayPal da utilizzare per la registrazione e vi permetteremo di scegliere l'albergo più adatto alle vostre esigenze, attraverso un apposito modulo online messo a disposizione dall'Organizzazione Turistica Lago Maggiore e Valli. Vi preghiamo di non prenotare alcun albergo prima di aver ricevuto la conferma dell'iscrizione al congresso da parte della Fondazione Eranos.
Accommodation
Hotel accommodation is not included in the registration fee. We suggest you plan your stay in Ascona near the Monte Verità Congress Centre, where most of the activities will take place (www.monteverita.org). Before booking, in any case, we invite you to confirm your registration to the congress by contacting the Eranos Foundation by email at info@eranosfoundation.org: we will confirm your registration (the number of available places is limited), provide you with bank references or PayPal address to use for registration, and allow you to choose the most suitable hotel for your needs, through a specific online form made available by the Lake Maggiore Tourist Office (www.ascona-locarno.com). Please do not book any hotel before you have received confirmation of your congress registration from the Eranos Foundation.
Lingua
Le conferenze sono in lingua inglese, senza traduzione.
Language
The lectures will be in English, without translation.
Programma / Program
Giovedì, 28 aprile / Thursday, April 28
o 13:00: Bus transfer from Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) to Monte Verità (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 13:00-14:00: Participants accreditation at Monte Verità Congress Center
o 14:00-14:30: Joseph Cambray, Murray Stein, and Riccardo Bernardini: Welcome and Introductory Remarks
o 14:30-15:15: Murray Stein (ISAP, Switzerland): “Acts of Imagination: The Creation of the (Inner) World” – Chairperson: Mari Yoshikawa
o 15:15-15:30: Discussion
o 15:30-16:15: Thomas Fischer (Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung, Switzerland): “Jung after the Publication of The Red Book (A View from The Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung)” – Chairperson: Carl Christian Jung
o 16:15-16:30: Discussion
o 16:30-17:15 Coffee Break
o 17:15-18.00: Romano Màdera (University of Milano-Bicocca/AIPA, Italy): “The Future of the Spirit in The Red Book and in our Time” – Chairperson: Riccardo Bernardini
o 18:00-18:15: Discussion
o 18:15-19:00: Stephen Aizenstat (Pacifica Graduate Institute/Dream Tending, USA): “My ‘Red Book’: A Personal Journey in the Emergent Imagination” – Chairperson: Joseph Cambray
o 19:00-19:15: Discussion
o 19:30-21:30: Welcome Dinner at Monte Verità Restaurant (For Registrations A, B, and C)
o 22:00: Bus Transfer from Monte Verità to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
Venerdì, 29 aprile / Friday, April 29
o 08:00: Bus Transfer from Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) to Monte Verità (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 08:45-09:00: Organizational communications
o 09:00-09:45: Nancy Swift Furlotti (Pacifica Graduate Institute/C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, USA): “Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis: Responding to the Cries of Nature” – Chairperson: Maren Hansen
o 09:45-10:00: Discussion
o 10:00-10:45: Toshio Kawai (Kyoto University/AJAJ/IAAP, Japan): “Jung as Modern and Postmodern in his Red Book” – Chairpersons: Murray Stein and Joseph Cambray
o 10:45-11:00: Discussion
o 11:00-11:45: Coffee Break
o 11:45-12:30: Leslie Stein (NYAAP/ANZSJA, Australia): “Collective Individuation in The Red Book: The Self in the Troubled World” – Chairperson: Murray Stein
o 12:30-12:45: Discussion
o 13:00-14:30: Lunch at Monte Verità Restaurant (For Registrations A, B, and C)
o 14:30-15:15: Len Cruz (Asheville Jung Center, USA): “Ecstasy and Subjection: Re-membering Dionysus and Addiction Treatment” – Chairperson: Steve Buser
o 15:15-15:30: Discussion
o 15:30-16:15: Frank N. McMillan III (The Jung Center, Houston/Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA): “Whom Shall I Send?: Postmodern Revelation and the New Reality in Jung’s Red Book” – Chairperson: Joseph Cambray (Online Lecture)
o 16:15-16:30: Discussion
o 16:30-17:15: Coffee Break
o 17:15-18:00: Robert Michael Mercurio (ARPA, Italy): “The Red Book and Our Contemporary Crises: Active Imagination, Mass Migration, and Climate Change” – Chairperson: Nicole Janigro (Online Lecture)
o 18:00-18:15: Discussion
o 18:15-19:00: Al Collins (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA) and Elaine Molchanov (C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, USA): “On Seeing, and Not Seeing the Symbol: Greta Thunberg, the Demon Devotee, and Jung's Virgin/Sophia” – Chairperson: Murray Stein (Online Lecture)
o 19:00-19:15: Discussion
o 19:30: 1st Bus Transfer from Monte Verità to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 19:30-20:45: Dinner at Monte Verità Restaurant (For Registrations B and C)
o 20:45-21:15: Screening of the Movie Eranos 1951, directed by Ximena de Angulo-Roelli and Willy Roelli (C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, 1951), narrated by Riccardo Bernardini (Eranos Foundation) (For Registrations B and C)
o 21:30: 2nd Bus Transfer from Monte Verità to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
Sabato, 30 aprile / Saturday, April 30
o 08:00: Bus Transfer from Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) to Monte Verità (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 08:45-09:00: Organizational communications
o 09:00-09:45: Christine Maillard (University of Strasbourg, France): “Death and the Dead: Ideas on a Figure of Thought in Jung’s Red Book” – Chairperson: Toshio Kawai
o 09:45-10:00: Discussion
o 10:00-10:45: Heyong Shen (City University of Macau/CFAP, China): “C. G. Jung’s Red Book: The Spirit of the Depths and Knowledge of the Heart” – Chairperson: Marianne Müller (Online Lecture)
o 10:45-11:00: Discussion
o 11:00-11:45: Coffee Break
o 11:45-12:30: Linda Carter (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA): “Imitating Jung, Going the Full Circle: Pattern Resonance from Microcosmic Interactions to Macrocosmic Amplifications” – Chairperson: Nancy Furlotti
o 12:30-12:45: Discussion
o 13:00-14:30: Lunch at Monte Verità Restaurant (For Registrations A, B, and C)
o 14:30-15:15: Paul Bishop (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom): “The Red Book and Other Searchers for Soul: Jung, Klages, and T. W. Adorno” – Chairperson: Christine Maillard (Online Lecture)
o 15:15-15:30: Discussion
o 15:30-16:15: Riccardo Bernardini (Eranos Foundation, Switzerland/IPAP-ARPA, Italy): “Rebirth Symbols in the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte in Florence (XI-XIII c.): Millenarian Anguishes and Eschatological Hopes in a Romanesque Architecture – From Joachim of Fiore to Jung’s Liber Novus” – Chairperson: Romano Màdera
o 16:15-16:30: Discussion
o 16:30-17:15: Coffee Break
o 17:15-18:00: Lance Owens (The Gnosis Archive, USA): “The Alchemists’ Apprentice: Vision, Imagination, and Mysterium Coniunctionis” – Chairperson: Romano Màdera (Online Lecture)
o 18:00:18:15: Discussion
o 18:15-19:00: Joseph Cambray (Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA): “Trailblazing, a Red Book Pathway: From Synchronicity to the Oracular Field” – Chairperson: Murray Stein
o 19:00-19:15: Discussion
o 19:30: 1st Bus Transfer from Monte Verità to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 19:30-20:45: Dinner at Monte Verità Restaurant (For Registrations B and C)
o 20:45-21:30: Guided Night Tour to the Elisarion pavilion or “Clear World of the Blessed”, held by Nicoletta Mongini (Fondazione Monte Verità) (For Registrations B and C)
o 21:30: 2nd Bus Transfer from Monte Verità to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) (For max 30 participants, upon reservation)
Domenica, 1 maggio / Sunday, May 1 (Solo in modalità in presenza, non a distanza / In-person mode only, not remote)
o 08:00: Bus Transfer from Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) to Monte Verità (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 08:45-09:30: Joseph Cambray, Murray Stein, and Riccardo Bernardini: Closing Remarks and Goodbye
o 09:30-10:00: Coffee Break
o 10:00-11:30: Guided Visit to Monte Verità, held by Nicoletta Mongini (Fondazione Monte Verità) (For Registrations C)
o 11:30-12:00: Panoramic Walk to Hotel Ascona and to Archivio Luigi Pericle
o 12:00-13:00: Guided Visit to Luigi Pericle Archive at Hotel Ascona, held by Greta and Andrea Biasca-Caroni (Archivio Luigi Pericle) (For Registrations C)
o 13:00-14:30: Lunch at Hotel Ascona (For Registrations C)
o 14:30-15:00: Bus Transfer from Hotel Ascona to Eranos (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
o 15:00-16:30: Guided Visit to to Eranos, held by Fabio Merlini and Riccardo Bernardini (Eranos Foundation) (For Registrations C)
o 16:00-17:00: Aperitif at Eranos (For Registrations C)
o 17:00: Bus Transfer from Eranos to Ascona (Autosilo Comunale/ Municipal Car Park, Piazza Caglioni) and Departures (For max 50 participants, upon reservation)
Luoghi / Places
Eranos
The word “Eranos,” in Greek language, applies to a banquet, which comes to life thanks to the contributions of each participant. The cultural center Eranos was created in Ascona-Moscia in 1933, thanks to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (1881-1962), as a “meeting place between East and West.” The model, which refers to some circles of the Italian Renaissance, but also to circles of German Romanticism, took the form of a series of annual Conferences (Tagungen) of interdisciplinary and international nature. It was mainly thanks to the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) that the Eranos meetings were directed towards the study of the “archetypes,” namely those fundamental aspects of psychic life that, despite the processes of civilization, seem to maintain constant their basic features. At Eranos many of the most influential scholars in the culture of the twentieth century met and debated. Lively interested for dialogue around the major themes that cross cultures, as well as the problematic issues of our times, the Eranos Foundation today continues its activities in collaboration with universities and cultural institutions. The lecture hall of Casa Eranos, built in 1928, is still a privileged place for meetings and scientific seminars. The historical library of Casa Gabriella, whose extensive catalogue goes through the fields of psychology, history of religions, philosophy, Oriental studies, literature, and art history, is now being expanded as part of a restoration and enhancement program of the cultural heritage of the Foundation.
Monte Verità
In 1900, a group of young people from Northern Europe founded the colony Monte Verità (“Mountain of Truth”). They were inspired by the Lebensreform (“life reform”), looked for a third alternative way to communism and capitalism, and created a vegetarian cooperative, which later became a sanatorium. Since the early years, the place has been a crossroads of theosophists, psychologists, writers and, in 1913, Rudolf von Laban, choreographer and dancer, founded his School of Art there. If in these years the community and the sanatorium begin their decline, due in particular to financial difficulties, with the Monte Verità School of Art it becomes a destination for artists who between the 20s and 30s elect Ascona as a privileged destination. In 1926, Monte Verità was bought by the art collector and banker, Baron Edward von der Heydt, who transformed the sanatorium into a prestigious hotel, while maintaining the role of Monte Verità as an ideal place for scientific and philosophical meetings and a destination for artists. On the death of the Baron, Monte Verità was donated to the Canton of Ticino.
Archivio Luigi Pericle
The Archivio Luigi Pericle [Luigi Pericle Archive], set up in 2018, is a Non-Profit Association that preserves, maintains, and enhances the works, the library and the entire archival material relating to and connected with the life, studies and art of Luigi Pericle (1916–2001). Besides the artist’s extensive collection of works on canvas, masonite, and paper, which is the focus of an ongoing research and promotion activity, the Association is the guardian of the artist’s library, which has been recently catalogued and systematized. This library testifies to the maestro’s manifold interests and versatile knowledge, leading him to in-depth studies in the fields of theosophy, anthroposophy, astronomy, astrology, cosmology, Egyptology, Oriental philosophies, homeopathy, esotericism, Zen, Buddhism, and spirituality; it also encompasses magazines and literature on Oriental and Indian religions and medicines, totaling to over 1500 volumes.
Relatori / Lecturers
Stephen Aizenstat, Ph.D., is Chancellor, Founding President of Pacifica Graduate Institute, and Ex-Officio Board of Trustees member. He is a professor of Depth Psychology with a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, a licensed marriage and family therapist, and a credentialed public school teacher and counselor. He has served as an organizational consultant to companies and agencies worldwide, and teaches extensively. He has explored the potential of dreams through depth psychology and his own research for more than 35 years. His Dream Tending methodologies extend traditional dreamwork to the vision of an animated world, where the living images in dream are experienced as embodied and originating in both the psyche of nature and the psyche of persons. His main book, Dream Tending, describes multiple applications of dreamwork in relation to health and healing, nightmares, the world’s dream, relationships, and the creative process. He is the Founding President of the Academy of Imaginal Arts and Sciences (Carpinteria, USA).
Riccardo Bernardini, Ph.D., Psy.D., serves as Scientific Secretary of the Eranos Foundation (Ascona, Switzerland). He is the Founding President of the Institute of Analytical Psychology and Psychotherapy (IPAP) at the “Olivetti” University District (Ivrea, Italy) and, since 2019, Secretary of the Professional Order of Psychologists of Piedmont (Italy). He teaches Psychology of Evil and Radicalization Processes at Turin University (Italy) and is a fellow of the Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Analitica (ARPA/IAAP, Italy). His writings include Jung a Eranos. Il progetto della psicologia complessa (2011), Eranos. Its Magical Past and Alluring Future: The Spirit of a Wondrous Place (edited with N. Cater, 2015), Jung e Ivrea (2018), Eranos in the Mirror: Views on a Moving Legacy (with F. Merlini, 2019), Rebirth Symbols in the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte in Florence. Millenarian Anguishes and Eschatological Hopes in a Romanic Architecture (2022), and the critical edition of C. G. Jung’s The Solar Myths and Opicinus de Canistris. Notes of the Seminar given at Eranos in 1943 (with G. P. Quaglino and A. Romano, 2014–2015) and Rebirth. Text and Notes of the Lecture held at Eranos in 1939 (with F. Merlini, 2020).
Paul Bishop, Dr.Phil., studied at Magdalen College, Oxford and spent a year as Lady Julia Henry Fellow at Harvard (1992-1993). He has published widely on Analytical Psychology and its relation to German culture, including Analytical Psychology and German Classical Aesthetics: Goethe, Schiller, and Jung (2 vols., 2007-2008), Reading Goethe at Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung (2011), Carl Jung (2014), On the Blissful Islands: With Nietzsche & Jung in the Shadow of the Superman (2017), and most recently Ludwig Klages and the Philosophy of Life: A Vitalist Toolkit (2018). He holds the William Jacks Chair in Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow.
Joseph Cambray, Ph.D., is the President/CEO of Pacifica Graduate Institute. He is Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) and has served as the U.S. Editor for The Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP). He was a faculty member at Harvard Medical School in the Department of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Psychoanalytic Studies, and former President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Boston. He is a Jungian analyst now living in the Santa Barbara area of California. His numerous publications include the book based on his Fay Lectures: Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe and several edited volumes: one with Leslie Sawin, Research in Analytical Psychology - Volume 1: Applications from Scientific, Historical, and (Cross)-Cultural Research, and an earlier one with Linda Carter, Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology.
Linda Carter, MSN, CS, is a Jungian analyst in private practice, Santa Barbara, California. She holds the Chair of the “Art and Psyche” Working Group and was the US Editor-in Chief of The Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP), past Book Review Editor and present Film and Culture Editor of the JAP. She is Co-editor of Analytical Psychology: Contemporary Perspectives in Jungian Psychology, along with numerous articles and book chapters, and a member of the Faculty of Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, California.
Al Collins, Ph.D., is a graduate of the University of Chicago with two doctorates from the University of Texas at Austin (Indian Studies and Clinical Psychology). He has taught at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Alaska Pacific University, Northwestern University, and the Union Institute. He was formerly a Core Faculty member in East/West Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). With Elaine Molchanov, he edited an issue of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture on Jung and India. His work on cross-cultural depth psychology has been presented in conference papers and published in journals and book chapters. He has lectured on the archetype of the guru – including Jung’s guru, Philemon – and is developing a critical theory of culture as symbol and story.
Len Cruz, M.D.., is the Editor-in-Chief of Chiron Publications and co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He holds graduate degrees in medicine and business. After 33 years of practicing psychiatry and psychotherapy, he now focuses on treating substance use disorders and explores how post-modern man’s search for transcendent experiences can easily descend into addiction and how utilizing myth, rites, and rituals can help support patients seeking sobriety. He co-authored or co-edited several books, including DSM-5 Insanely Simplified and A Clear and Present Danger: Narcissism in the Era of Donald Trump. He currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of a 68-bed substance abuse hospital.
Thomas Fischer, Ph.D., studied history, political sciences, public and international law in Zurich and Brussels, specializing in Cold War diplomatic history. He was a university lecturer and researcher at academic institutes in Zurich, Beirut, Vienna, Helsinki, and Geneva, before becoming director of the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung, Zurich, in 2013. Great-grandson of C. G. Jung and Emma Jung, he is a co-editor of The Art of C. G. Jung.
Nancy Swift Furlotti, Ph.D., is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in Aspen, CO and Santa Barbara, CA. She is a past president of both the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, where she trained, and the Philemon Foundation, which published C.G. Jung’s Red Book. She is also a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Interregional Association of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). She is on the board of Pacifica Graduate Institute and the Smithsonian Asian Museum in Washington D.C. Dr. Furlotti established and is involved with the Carl Jung Professorial Endowment in Analytical Psychology at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, and the Erel Shalit Carlsberg Foundation Research Fellowship in Behavioral Neuroscience at Oxford University. She has written numerous articles, co-edited a number of books, and lectures internationally on Jungian topics such as dreams, mythology, trauma, the feminine, and the environment. Her company, Recollections, LLC, edits and publishes first generation Jungian's unpublished writings, including Erich Neumann’s two volume manuscript, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness: Revelation and Apocalypse, Vol. 1, and Hasidism, Vol 2. She recently edited and published Dr. Erel Shalit’s two final books, The Human Soul (Lost) in Transition at the Dawn of a New Era and A Story of Dreams, Fate and Destiny. She is now writing a book on a lifelong interest, a Jungian amplification of the K’iche’ Maya Creation myth, the Popol Vuh.
Toshio Kawai, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto University for Clinical Psychology. He is President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). He was educated in clinical psychology at Kyoto University and in philosophical psychology at Zurich University, where he received a Ph.D. in 1987. He obtained his diploma from the C.G. Jung-Institut in Zurich in 1990. He has published articles and books and book chapters in English, German, and Japanese. He has also been involved with psychological relief work after the 2011 earthquake. His publications include “The 2011 Earthquake in Japan: Psychotherapeutic Interventions and Change of Worldview”, “Big stories and small stories in the psychological relief work after the earthquake disaster”, “Psychological Relief Work after the 11 March 2011 Earthquake in Japan: Jungian Perspectives and the Shadow of Activism”, “Jung in the Japanese Academy”, and “Jungian Psychology in Japan: Between mythological world and contemporary consciousness”.
Romano Màdera, Ph.D., studied philosophy and graduated at the University of Milan and specialized in sociology at the School for Sociology in Milan. He was professor of Moral Philosophy and Philosophical Practices at the University of Milano-Bicocca since 2001. He is a member of the Italian Association for Analytical Psychology (AIPA) and the Analytical Laboratory of Images (LAI), a professional association of sandplay analysts. He is the founder of the Open Seminars of Philosophical Practices (University of Venice, University of Milano-Bicocca, and other cities) and of the School of Philosophical Practices “Philo” in Milan. He also founded the Society for Biographic Analysis Philosophically Oriented (SABOF). His writings include Identità e feticismo (1977), Dio il mondo (1989), L’alchimia ribelle (1997), C.G. Jung. Biografia e teoria (1998), L’animale visionario (1999), and La filosofia come stile di vita (with L. V. Tarca, 2003), translated into english as Philosophy as Life Path. Introduction to Philosophical Practices (2007).
Christine Maillard, Docteur ès Lettres, is professor of German Studies and History of Ideas at Strasbourg University and was director of the interdisciplinary institution “Maison interuniversitaire des Sciences de l’Homme – Alsace” from 2005 to 2017. Her main research fields include C. G. Jung’s work, the history of psychological theories, and the reception of oriental cultures and religions (India, Persia, Japan) in German literature and culture from the 18th to the 20th Century. She translated Jung’s Red Book into French (2011) and published or co-published several books and numerous papers on Jung in French, German, and English. Her works include Arts, sciences et psychologie: Autour du Livre Rouge de Carl Gustav Jung (2010), Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). Pour une réévaluation de l’œuvre (2011), and Au coeur du Livre Rouge: Les Sept Sermons aux Morts. Aux sources de la pensée de C.G. Jung (2017). She is a Honorary Member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).
Robert Michael Mercurio completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy and then moved to Rome for graduate studies in theology at the Gregorian University. He later completed a Master’s degree in Management with a thesis project on the application of Jung’s typology to teaching methods adopted in language schools. He subsequently enrolled in the C.G. Jung-Institut in Küsnacht, where he took his diploma in Analytical Psychology. Previously a member of the Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica (CIPA), he is presently member, training analyst, and President of the Associazione per la Ricerca in Psicologia Analitica (ARPA). His interests include the practice of active imagination, the interface between spirituality and psychology, and myth and fairy tale interpretation.
Fabio Merlini, Regional Director of the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training (SFUVET) in Lugano, Switzerland, serves since 2010 as the President of the Eranos Foundation. From 2012 to 2019, he has served as President of the Cultural Commission of the Canton of Ticino. He taught at Université de Lausanne (1998-2003) and at Università dell’Insubria in Varese (2003-2011). His publications include L’efficienza insignificante. Saggio sul disorientamento (2009, translated into French in 2011), Schizotopies : Essai sur l’espace de la mobilisation (2013, translated into Italian in 2015), L’architettura inefficiente (with L. Snozzi, 2014, translated into French in 2016), Catastrofi dell’immediatezza (with S. Tagliagambe, 2016), Triste esthétique. Essais sur les catastrophes de l’immédiateté (2018, published also in Italian in 2019), and Ritornare in sé. L'interiorità smarrita e l'infinita distrazione (2022). For the “Eranos Classics” series, he co-edited Carl Gustav Jung’s Rebirth. Text and Notes of the Lecture held at Eranos in 1939 (with R. Bernardini, 2020).
Frank N. McMillan III is an award-winning author, educator, and speaker and has taught Geography at Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi, and Del Mar College over the last thirty years. He trained at Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem and in 2013 he was inducted into the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) as an honorary member at the occasion of the XIX International Congress held in Copenhagen. His novel, Cezanne Is Missing, has been taught in schools across America and his book, The Young Healer, won the NAESP Foundation Book of the Year Award and was a Mark Twain Readers’ Award finalist. In 2012, Texas A&M University Press released his non-fiction work, Finding Jung, an exploration of one man's personal experience of the objective psyche. Recently, he founded the Frank N. McMillan Jr. Institute for Jungian Studies at the Jung Center in Houston, Texas. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and lives in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Elaine Molchanov, MSW, is a Jungian analyst and Siddha yogi. For forty years, she has practiced both disciplines, and is working on a book of memoir and theory that attempts to integrate the two. Her preliminary work in this direction is published in the issue of Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture on Jung and India that she guest edited with Al Collins (2013). Elaine is also a sandplay therapist and has published on the symbolism of the serpent in Sandplay Studies. With Al Collins, she has lectured on Jung’s inner guru, Philemon, and on the Indian idea of darshan, “seeing”, that names an analogue to Jung’s “transcendent function” connecting the deep psyche to lived experience in the world.
Lance S. Owens, M.D., is a physician in clinical practice and an historian with focused interest in C. G. Jung and Gnostic traditions. Since release of The Red Book: Liber Novus in 2009, he has published several historical studies focused on the intimate relationship between Jung’s collected writings and the visionary experiences recorded in the Red Book and the Black Book journals. Among his major publications, “The Hermeneutics of Vision: C. G. Jung and Liber Novus” (2010), “Jung and Aion: Time, Vision and a Wayfaring Man” (2011), and Jung in Love: The Mysterium in Liber Novus (2015). He is the creator and managing editor of The Gnosis Archive, the primary Internet archive of classical Gnostic sources, including the Nag Hammadi texts.
Heyong Shen, Ph.D., is a professor of Psychology at South China Normal University and the City University of Macau. A Jungian analyst and sandplay therapist, he also is the founding president of the Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology and Sandplay Therapy, the main organizer of the International Conference of Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture (1998–2015), a speaker of Eranos Conferences (1997/2007) for the Psychology of the Heart, and a Fulbright scholar in Residence. He has published 60 papers and 12 books. He is the chief editor for the Chinese translation of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung and The Chinese Journal of Analytical Psychology. He and his group set up 70 workstations for psychological aids for orphans and in earthquake zones in the mainland of China, through the project named, “The Garden of the Heart & Soul”.
Leslie Stein is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Sydney, Australia. As a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, he is a member of the New York Association of Analytical Psychology NYAAP, and now also of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts (ANZSJA). His books include: Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God, the Jungian allegory The Journey of Adam Kadmon: A Novel, and, most recently, Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis. He also lectures in the Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney, and has advised the UN and many governments on the impact of the built environment and climate change on community well-being. His has written four books on the impacts of urban development on the collective, including most recently Comparative Urban Land Use Planning: Best Practice, uncovering the best options, drawn from examples in 80 countries, that promote individuation through city planning.
Murray Stein, Ph.D., studied as an undergraduate at Yale University (B.A. in English) and attended graduate student at Yale Divinity School (M.Div.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in Religion and Psychological Studies). He trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung-Institut of Zurich. From 1976 to 2003, he was a training analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, of which he was a founding member and President from 1980 to 1985. In 1989, he joined the Executive Committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) as Honorary Secretary for Dr. Thomas Kirsch as President (1989–1995) and served as President of the IAAP from 2001 to 2004. He was president of the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP) in Zurich in 2008–2012 and is presently a training and supervising analyst there. Among his major publications, In Midlife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Soul: Retrieval and Treatment, Transformation: Emergence of the Self, and Outside, Inside and All Around.
