Jungian Music School 2020

Music, of all the arts, has the most immediate direct and visceral impact on the soul. It is the intersection of mathematical harmony with the ineffable, and otherwise inexpressible, movements of the spirit. In the creation or appreciation of music the aesthetic ideal is realised. Music, great music, archetypal music transforms the prosaic into the sublime and elevates meaningless suffering into majestic pathos. The flight of the soul from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained has no more agile steed. Sections of Art and Pop music selected and presented by five virtuosos of the psyche and heard through the amplifier of depth psychology, promises to take the student on an unparalleled, felicitous, and polyphonic tour of the psyche.

Eight Pre-recorded lectures and interviews
Applications for personal exploration

I feel that from now on music should be an essential part of every analysis. Musical interaction reaches deep archetypal material that we can only sometimes reach in our analytical work with patients.

(C.G. Jung, 1956, as quoted by Margaret Tilly)

This class explores how we relate with music personally, clinically and collectively by gazing through the clarifying lens of depth psychology and the wider work of contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives. Within this experiential investigation we will explore together various musical approaches to finding meaning within our human experience including aspects of grief, loss, anxiety, transitions, pain, and the depressions of life. By distilling music into its basic archetypal elements, the author will illustrate how to rediscover our place in the confrontation with deep shadow and highlight the role of the enigmatic musical psyche for guiding us through our life journey.

Picking up the Boethius idea of Musica Humana, I explore the musical dynamic structure of human experience. The rhythms and tempos of emotions and moods and meaningful events. How to be a musician of your life or a musician of the soul, appreciating how musical forms exist in the psyche in ways parallel to their appearance in the music of sound. This musical approach allows for a kind of psychotherapy that allows the natural movements of the soul but also offers techniques for shaping those experiences and dealing with them in ways that are graceful and satisfying.

Sung theater – operas, musicals, music videos – is more heightened than spoken theater: louder, more physical, more emotionally charged. Because of this it tends to amplify the archetypal, the elemental, the transformative. If our everyday experiences of ourselves, and of those around us, are blurred by trivial realities and incongruous details, the sung stage gives us essentialized versions – and when we watch them, we learn the larger possibilities of what we are (and are not) becoming. Joy, rage, passion, grief, anxiety, narcissism – all are seen whole, and can inspire us towards understanding and, perhaps, individuation.

In the 1920s, when radio and the phonograph converged to create a private, personal stage for the human voice, a new, more intimate kind of singing emerged. Great pioneers like Ethel Waters and Ruth Etting inspired in the 1930s a new breed of jazz singer, including Billie Holiday and Lee Wiley, while, in the movies, Judy Garland synthesized their techniques, along with those of Kate Smith, to create a vulnerable sound that though psychologically robust, was unmistakably linked to the anima archetype. Join John Beebe in listening to and analyzing what he calls “anima singing.”

The presentation will explore the archetypal journey of the human psyche through an examination of the blues as a musical genre. The genesis, history, and thematic patterns of the blues are examined from an archetypal perspective and various analytic theories – especially the interaction between Erich Neumann’s concept of unitary reality and the blues experience. Mythological and shamanistic parallels are used to provide a deeper understanding of the role of the bluesman, the blues performance, and the innate healing potential of the music. Universal aspects of human experience and transcendence are revealed through the creative medium of the blues. Often it is by moving into and through sadness that we can be released into an experience of joy.

This approach to music and the psyche is based in the imaginative work of Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), who was a musician, philosopher, translator and magus. He sorted music astrologically accoding to the classical Greek gods and goddesses, recommended diagnosing the particular needs of the soul, and playing and listening to music that would either temper the mood or deepen it. It is possible to adapt Ficino’s methods today, becoming more conscious, artful and therapeutic in the way we use music for the soul.

Music is everywhere in our lives, both waking and sleeping, inside and out, but much of our musical ecosystem remains unheard. Join us as the author offers a rare experiential glimpse into the enigmatic process of Jungian psychoanalysis through the lens of musical expression. Learn how you unconsciously make meaning from sound by metabolizing your soundscape through your auditory digestive system, explore the relativity of your acoustic perception within our collective soundtime continuum, and experience the value of taking a symbolic approach to your own musical ecology to help you hear what cannot yet be seen.

Though we often talk about musical meaning in terms of feeling and emotion, it can go far beyond that – it is possible to build large and subtle structures of meaning in sound. There are points where music seems to change the texture of time, the sense of what is possible – how we exist, and how we understand existence. We will begin with traditional aspects of musical transcendence – musical models of eternity and perfection – but will then go beyond them to musics that point towards the stranger aspects of awareness, dream, and imagination

Music, of all the arts, has the most immediate direct and visceral impact on the soul. It is the intersection of mathematical harmony with the ineffable, and otherwise inexpressible, movements of the spirit. In the creation or appreciation of music the aesthetic ideal is realised. Music, great music, archetypal music transforms the prosaic into the sublime and elevates meaningless suffering into majestic pathos. The flight of the soul from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained has no more agile steed. Sections of Art and Pop music selected and presented by five virtuosos of the psyche and heard through the amplifier of depth psychology, promises to take the student on an unparalleled, felicitous, and polyphonic tour of the psyche.

Eight Pre-recorded lectures and interviews
Applications for personal exploration

Mark Winborn, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the C.G. Jung Institute – Küsnacht, and the Romanian Society for Analytical Psychology. He is also on the adjunct faculty of the Russian Society for Analytical Psychology and the Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology. His primary areas of interest are analytic technique and the integration of psychoanalytic theories. He has published or edited five books: Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey, Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond, Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique, Beyond Persona: On Individuation and Beginnings with Jungian Analysts (with Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa), and Jungian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction (part of the Routledge series - Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis), as well as more than 50 articles, book chapters, and reviews. His work has also been published in Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Romanian. He received the Gradiva prize from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for the best article published in 2022 and was a finalist in 2014 for the best edited book in psychoanalysis.

Dr. Brewster is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Philadelphia. She holds a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, is a graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of New York and is a New York State Licensed Psychoanalyst and Certified School Psychologist.

While a Board Member with the New York Analytical Psychology Club, Dr. Brewster developed and led experiential workshops on Dreams, Creative Writing and Mythology. She has given national and international workshops and lectures on Culture, Diversity and Creativity—the Depth Writing Workshop. She has received two Gradiva Award nominations for her writing from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis.

She is the author of several books, including: "The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race," 2019; "Archetypal Grief: Slavery's Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss," 2018; and "African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows," 2017.

Grammy-recognized pianist, composer, arranger, lecturer and musical director Tammy L. Hall began playing the piano at age four and is still devoted to that instrument, music, and its calling. After attending Mills College (Oakland, CA), Hall’s career now spans more than four decades, with no end in sight.

She has traveled and performed extensively in Japan, Europe and Mexico, including a 30-city tour with Queen Esther Marrow and the Harlem Gospel Singers throughout Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Other venues and festivals of note include Kennedy Center (Mary Lou Williams Jazz Festival), Dizzy’s and the Rose Room at Jazz At Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Sala Filharmonica (Trento, ITALY), Herbst Theatre, The Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, SFJazz Center, Yoshi’s Oakland and San Francisco and Kuumbwa Jazz in Santa Cruz, CA, Mr. Tipple’s SF and Keys Jazz Bistro, also in San Francisco.

In early August of 2020, Tammy worked with the late Maestro Michael Morgan on his collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on the podcast San Francisco Symphony Currents: “Bay Area Blue Notes: Jazz As A State Of Mind.”

Justin L. McLendon (PhD, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary) is assistant professor of theology at Grand Canyon University and Grand Canyon Theological Seminary in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as the department chair for the seminary's master of arts programs. He is a managing editor of the Journal of Biblical and Theological Studies. Justin McLendon is Professor of Theology at Grand Canyon University in Phoenix, Arizona, and he serves as an Associate Fellow for the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology in Cambridge.

Alex Sosler is an Associate Professor of Bible and Ministry at Montreat College and an Assisting Priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville. He is the author of A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation and Learning to Love, as well as co-author of The Artistic Vision and editor of Theology and the Avett Brothers. He’s coming out with two books in the next year. The first is a volume on Theology and Hip edited with Claude Atcho and the second is a book on the spirituality of food and beverage focused on Southern Appalachia.

Jonathan Lower received his PhD from the University of New York at Buffalo in American History. His research focuses on race and disability representations in US popular culture in the 20th century, merging multiple academic disciplines for a comparative approach to history and popular culture seen in his recent publications. Jonathan is currently investigating the intersections of Race, Music and Disability in the early 20th century US History at Kent StateUniversity, while teaching various US and World History courses.

Earl Thomas is a commanding voice in modern blues, captivating audiences worldwide with his soulful sound and powerful storytelling. A prolific songwriter and powerhouse singer, he has blurred the lines between gospel and blues across 21 acclaimed recordings, two Grammy nominations, and songs embraced by icons such as Etta James, Solomon Burke, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, and Sir Tom Jones.In 2024, Thomas won First Place in the prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC) with Kumbaya (Come By Here), recorded in São Paulo, Brazil with guitarist Igor Prado and producer Ozwaldo Sperandio.

His haunting single Goodbye, recorded in Geneva, Switzerland by producer Thomas Molinas, and his fiery US recording of Funky Street with guitar phenom Anthony Cullins, showcase his versatility and global reach.With his recent gospel album Live in London, recorded live at the renowned Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Earl Thomas continues to shape the future of roots music while honoring its deep traditions.

Julia Simon is Distinguished Professor of French and associated faculty in Cultural Studies and Music at the University of California, Davis. A cultural historian who works on both the blues and eighteenth-century France, in addition to numerous articles, she is the author of three books on the blues: Time in the Blues (Oxford University Press 2017), The Inconvenient Lonnie Johnson: Blues, Race, Identity (Penn State University Press, 2023), and Debt and Redemption in the Blues: The Call for Justice (Penn State University Press, 2024). She is currently completing a project on mobility in the blues. She is also a bassist and singer in a blues duo and 4-piece band with 27 years of experience as a performer.

Dr. William L. Ellis is Professor of Music and Director of Performing Arts at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. The son of banjo/fiddle composer Tony Ellis, William holds a PhD in ethnomusicology and is a guitar instructing alum of Jorma Kaukonen’s Fur Peace Ranch and Augusta Blues Week. His latest album, the Yellow Dog release Ghost Hymns, was nominated for Acoustic Blues Album of the Year at the 2024 Blues Music Awards and was hailed as one of 2023’s best recordings byDownBeat and Blues Music magazine. Ellis has co-authored several instructional books on the music of Rev. Gary Davis, contributed “Mississippi Moan: The Blues Music Legacy of the Delta,” to the interdisciplinary book, Defining the Delta, and most recently wrote the chapter, “‘Worthwhile to Be Heard’: Spiritual Angst and Lamentation in the Blues,” for the 2025 book, Theology and Blues.Alex Sosler is an Associate Professor of Bible and Ministry at Montreat College and an Assisting Priest at Redeemer Anglican Church in Asheville. He is the author of A Short Guide to Spiritual Formation and Learning to Love, as well as co-author of The Artistic Vision and editor of Theology and the Avett Brothers. He’s coming out with two books in the next year. The first is a volume on Theology and Hip edited with Claude Atcho and the second is a book on the spirituality of food and beverage focused on Southern Appalachia.

Mark Winborn, Ph.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. He is a training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, the C.G. Jung Institute – Küsnacht, and the Romanian Society for Analytical Psychology. He is also on the adjunct faculty of the Russian Society for Analytical Psychology and the Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology. His primary areas of interest are analytic technique and the integration of psychoanalytic theories. He has published/edited five books: Deep Blues: Human Soundscapes for the Archetypal Journey, Shared Realities: Participation Mystique and Beyond, Interpretation in Jungian Analysis: Art and Technique, Beyond Persona: On Individuation and Beginnings with Jungian Analysts (with Lavinia Țânculescu-Popa), and Jungian Psychoanalysis: A Contemporary Introduction (part of the Routledge series - Introductions to Contemporary Psychoanalysis), as well as more than 50 articles, book chapters, and reviews. His work has been published in Russian, German, French, Portuguese, Hungarian, and Romanian. He received the Gradiva prize from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis for the best article published in 2022 and was a finalist in 2014 for the best edited book in psychoanalysis.

Thomas Moore studied music composition at DePaul University and the University of Michigan, and in his later work transforms psychotherapy into care of the soul. He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. He has taught religion and psychology at several universities and has been a psychotherapist in his own definition of the word for forty years. He has written thirty books, including some fiction. In the spring of 2021 his new book Secrets of Psychotherapy will be published by HarperOne.

Paul Attinello is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private

practice and a senior lecturer in music at Newcastle

University, who has also taught at the University of

Hong Kong and as a guest professor at UCLA. He

received his PhD from UCLA and analytic diploma

from the C. G. Jung-Institut in Zürich. He is

published in numerous essay collections, journals,

and reference works, writing on contemporary

musics, the culture of AIDS, and philosophical and

psychological topics. He is co-editor of collections

on the Darmstadt avant- garde and on music in

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

John Beebe is a psychiatrist and past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is the creator of the Eight-Function-Attitude, Eight-Archetype Model of types. He has written Integrity in Depth; and most recently, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness as well as the preface to the Routledge Classics edition of Jung’s Psychological Types. He is co-author of The Presence of the Feminine in Film and authored the chapter ‘The voice of the anima in popular singing’ in Music and psyche: contemporary psychoanalytic explorations.

Joel Kroeker, DAPsych, is a Swiss-trained Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor, authorized meditation instructor and a registered Music-Centred Psychotherapist with a private practice based in Victoria, BC. He is the founding international workshop facilitator of Archetypal Music Psychotherapy (AMP) and an international recording and touring artist on True North Records. He divides his time between his clinical practice and teaching Jungian-oriented courses at universities across Brazil, Europe and North America. His new book, “Jungian Music Psychotherapy: When Psyche Sings” is a finalist for the IAJS (International Association for Jungian Studies) book award.

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Course Overview

Lectures:

Welcome to the Jungian Music School 2020

Course Overview

Meet your faculty

Mark Winborn

Fanny Brewster

Tammy L. Hall

Justin L. McLendon

Alexander Sosler

Jonathan S. Lower

Earl Thomas

Julia Simon

William L. Ellis

Meet your faculty

Mark Winborn

Thomas Moore

Paul Attinello

John Beebe

Joel Kroeker