The Jungian Mystery School presents: Memento Mori.

This 6-week course explores the confrontation with death and ars moriendi  (the art of dying). With reflections on how one might make sense of and find meaning in the face of death. What it means to live life in the face of death, and the Jungian  idea of earning one’s death..


Lecture
   Series



01 Light in the Shadow of Death

Presented by Murray Stein

02 Living and Dying

Presented by Ann Ulavov

03 Confronting Death

presented by Luis Morris

04 The Ever-Moving Caravan: Reflections on Aging, Dying, and Death

Presented by Susan Olson

05 Taking the Anima Along

Presented by John Beebe

06 Living More Fully in the Shadow of Mortality

Presented by James Hollis

07 The Heart of Darkness

Presented by Stephen Farah

08 Barbie's Question

Presented by Stephani Stephens


09 I don't permit the Winter: Life and Death in Goethe and Jung

Presented by Paul Bishop




“It would seem to be more in accord with the collective psyche of humanity to regard death as the fulfillment of life's meaning and as its goal in the truest sense, instead of a mere meaningless cessation.”

C. G. Jung

Description

Carl Gustav Jung wrestled with the question of whether or not there is life after death throughout his entire life. This is clearly appreciated across his writings: from the Zofingia lectures, written at the end of the 1890s, to Mysterium Coniunctionis, published in 1955/1956.

Jung confronts the mystery of death from multiple angles. Jung understood death as an integral part of the totality of existence, but also that Jung came to understand his therapeutic approach, namely the individuation process, as a process that brings death to life.

The four pillars of Jungian psychology can be seen, from this perspective, as an ars moriendi ("The Art of Dying"). The mystery of death, that final and daunting threshold that we are all called on to cross is the subject of this year’s Jungian Mystery School. 

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Overview

Course Duration:     6 Weeks

Course Start Date:   Saturday July 19, 2025


Course delivery:        Live Zoom Sessions

Live presentations happen every Saturday for the duration of the course and start at 3 PM Zurich/2 PM London/ 9 AM NYC.

All live sessions are recorded for later viewing.

Course includes: 6 live presentations, 3 pre-recorded presentations, a facilitated student forum for the duration of the course, and a closing student seminar. 

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Registration

Registration will close Friday 18 July 2025.

Fee:
US $350 single payment (save $30), or two installments of US $190 ($380)

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Programme Faculty

MURRAY
STEIN

Murray Stein, PhD is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich (ISAP-ZURICH). He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012. He has lectured internationally and is the editor of Jungian Psychoanalysis and the author of Jung’s Treatment of Christianity, In MidLife, Jung’s Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Outside Inside and All Around and The Bible as Dream, Men Under Construction. The second volume of his Collected Writings, titled Myth and Psychology, has recently been published. He lives in Switzerland and has a private practice in Zurich.

ANN
ULANOV

Ann Belford Ulanov M.Div, Ph.D, L.H.D. is an internationally known and practicing Jungian analyst in New York City; Professor Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary; lecturer in the U.S. and abroad. She is author of many books with her late husband, Barry Ulanov, among which are, Cinderella and Her Sisters: The Envied and the Envying; The Healing Imagination; Transforming Sexuality: The Archetypal World of Anima and Animus. She is author of many books of her own including Spiritual Aspects of Clinical Work; Madness and Creativity; The Psychoid, Soul, and Psyche: Piercing Space/Time Barriers; Back to Basics.

LUIS
MORRIS

Luis Moris, PhD., is a Jungian analyst and lecturer at the International School of Analytical Psychology (ISAP-Zurich). He is the editor of Confronting Death (Chiron Publications, 2024) and A Jungian Legacy: Tom Kirsch (Chiron Publications, 2019). Dr. Moris is the founder of Blue Salamandra, a film production company dedicated to creating artistic works related to Jungian psychology. He holds a PhD in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex and maintains a private practice in Zurich, Switzerland. Email: luismorisc@gmail.com


SUSAN

OLSON

Susan Olson, MA, MSW, obtained her MSW from the University of Georgia (USA) in 1975 and graduated from the C. G. Jung Institute (Zurich) in 1992. She is a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, the Association of Graduates in Analytical Psychology, and the Memphis/Atlanta Jungian Seminar, an affiliate of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts. After practicing for over 30 years in Atlanta, she now lives and works in Brevard, NC. Her publications include: By Grief Transformed: Dreams and the Mourning Process (Spring Journal Books, 2010); “Planting the Golden Flower: A Dream of Hope in the Age of Trump,” Psychological Perspectives (Vol. 62, Issue 1, 2019); Images of the Dead in Grief Dreams: A Jungian View of Mourning  (Routledge, 2021); and “The Ever-Moving Caravan: Reflections on Aging, Dying, and Death” in Confronting Death (Chiron Publications, 2024). 

JOHN 

BEEBE



Dr John Beebe, a past president of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, is co-author, with Virginia Apperson, of The Presence of the Feminine in Film. His eight-function, eight-archetype model of psychological type is widely studied and applied. John has spearheaded a Jungian typological approach to the analysis of film and has often used type and archetype to explore developments in the cultural and political unconscious. He was founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, antecedent publication of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, and the first American co-editor of The Journal of Analytical Psychology.


JAMES

HOLLIS


James Hollis, Ph. D., is a Zurich trained Jungian Analyst with a practice in Washington, D. C. and author of twenty books. He was Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas for many years and Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington (JSW) until 2019. He also worked as a Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, as a Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, and is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation.


STEPHEN

FARAH



Stephen Anthony Farah, MA is the co-founder and Head of Learning and Research at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies South Africa. He is the current co-Chair of the International Association of Jungian Studies. Stephen holds an honours degree in analytical philosophy from the University of the Witwatersrand and a master’s degree in Jungian and Post Jungian Studies from the University of Essex. Stephen’s areas of interest include psychoanalysis, film, psychoeducation, consciousness, individuation, and Future Studies. His published papers include ‘True Detective and Jung’s Four Steps of Transformation’ published in ‘The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies’ (2018) and ‘The Freak: in Search of Jung’s second Personality’, in the anthology ‘The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives’, (Routledge 2022) which Stephen co-edited.


STEPHENIE

STEPHENS



Dr. Stephani Stephens is a Jungian oriented psychotherapist and a lecturer in Counselling at the University of Canberra. She holds a PhD from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK in Jungian psychology and a Masters in Counselling. She is the author of C.G. Jung and the Dead; Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain by Routledge. Her areas of research include the unconscious, transgenerational inheritance, cultural broaching, and the self in therapeutic practice. She teaches counselling skills and theory, diversity as well as Ethics to both graduates and undergraduates and maintains a small therapy practice.


PAUL

BISHOP



Paul Bishop is Honorary Professorial Research Fellow and former William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow, UK. After studying at Oxford and (for a year) at Harvard, Paul has lived and worked in the great Scottish city of Glasgow for over three decades. He is interested in all aspects of German culture and thought, in tracing the progression of ideas through time, and in uncovering links between German culture and the concepts of psychoanalysis, with particular emphasis on analytical psychology. His doctoral dissertation, subsequently published with de Gruyter as The Dionysian Self, examined Jung’s reception of the throught of Friedrich Nietzsche. Although he is currently researching the philosophy of Ludwig Klages, the publication of the Red Book and subsequently the Black Books means he keeps returning to Jung’s remarkably rich and fertile thought. He is the author of Reading Goethe At Midlife: Ancient Wisdom, German Classicism, and Jung (2011; republished in 2020 by Chiron); Carl Jung [Critical Lives series] (Reaktion 2014); and other studies on aspects of Jung’s thought in an intellectual-historical perspective (published by Routledge). 
"The majority of religions are complicated systems of preparation for death, so much so that life, actually has no significance except as a preparation for the ultimate goal of death."
C. G. Jung 

Images: cover image used, with permission, is from the cover of Confronting Death, Chiron Publications, edited by Luis Morris and Murray Stein. https://www.chironpublications.com/shop/confronting-death/


Inserted image: Memento Mori, "To This Favour", 1879, William Michael Harnett
 
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