
The Jungian Mystery School presents: Memento Mori.
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.
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.
Registration
Registration will close Friday 18 July 2025.
Fee: US $350 single payment (save $30), or two installments of US $190 ($380)
Programme Faculty
MURRAY
STEIN
ANN
ULANOV
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
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
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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