Carl Gustav Jung (1875 -1961) recognised in mythology the leitmotifs, imaginal landscapes, and narrative structures ubiquitously present in the human unconscious. This discovery directly inspired and informed his keystone contribution to depth psychology of the Collective Unconscious. Mythos will be a study of and engagement with the symbols, archetypes, and metaphorical character of myth in structuring the unconscious, and a consideration of its significance for individuation.


Lecture Series


Jung and Myth
by Prof. Roderick Main

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Myth and Science
by Prof. Dylan Futter

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The Faustian Myth and its Significance for Jung
by Prof. Paul Bishop

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Prometheus, and Pandora
by Nadia Sels, PhD

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The Myth of Adonis
by Prof. Robert Segal

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‘Dreaming the Myth Onward’: The Re-invention of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s Sandman
by Kevin Lu, PhD

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The Yanomami Mythology
by Hannah Hennebert, PhD

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The Lotus Gaze: Love and Longing in the Ramayana
by Sulagna Sengupta, MA

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Reimagining My Own Story
by Dr Gcina Mhlophe

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Franz Kafka: Connoisseur of Mythical Thinking
by Prof. Stanley Corngold

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Time Requirements

You will need a total of 22 hours for the lecture content and readings,
and additional time if you would like to complete the applications in this course. 

Faculty

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Paul Bishop

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. He studied French and German at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has published various books and articles on German intellectual history, particularly Jung and the tradition of analytical psychology.
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Dr. Gcina Mhlophe

Dr. Gcina Mhlophe is an author, poet, playwright, director, performer and storyteller. Influenced by her grandmother’s tales when she was a child, Mhlophe’s written and performance talent has transported her from South Africa to South and North America to Europe, Greenland and Japan. She has performed her stories in theatres like Royal Albert Hall, the Kennedy Centre in the US and collaborated with Ladysmith Black Mambazo on a children’s CD. She again worked with Ladysmith Black Mamabazo and Francis Bebey quartet in a unique production, Africa at the Opera, which toured Opera houses in Germany.

Dr. Kevin Lu

Dr. Kevin Lu is the Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA Jungian and Post- Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and a member of Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kevin’s publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history, Arnold J. Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, racial hybridity, and Jungian perspectives on graphic novels and their adaptation to film.

Sulagna Sengupta

Sulagna Sengupta, MA is a Jungian scholar based in Bangalore, India. She is the author of ‘Jung in India’ (2013), originally published by Spring Journal Books, USA, and several other recent papers. Sulagna is currently doing her PhD in Jungian Studies, working on the Indian epic The Ramayana at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, U.K.

Nadia Sels

Nadia Sels teaches art history at PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt) and mythology at Ghent University. Her research explores the common denominator between art and mythology, as two fields that are part of a continuum: she approaches both as expressions of the way in which humans use analogous thinking and metaphor to find meaning and orientation in an inherently meaningless and overwhelming reality. This historical process does not only run through concepts, but starts out from a bodily, sensory involvement with the world.

Robert Segal

Robert Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He teaches and writes on theories of myth and theories of religion. He was introduced to Jung by a philosopher of religion at Princeton University, where he received his PhD in religious studies. Among the books he has written or edited are The Poimandres as Myth, Joseph Campbell in Quest of the Hero, Jung on Mythology, The Gnostic Jung and Theorizing about Myth (among others). He has recently been honoured with a Festschrift: Explaining, interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A Segal.

Prof. Stanley Corngold

Stanley Corngold is Professor (emeritus) of German and Comparative Literature and Princeton University, where he taught for 45 years. On his retirement, he received the Howard Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton and was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Corngold, a former President of the Kafka Society of America, is the author of ten books (two in press on the work of Thomas Mann) and ten editions, mainly on the work of Franz Kafka, although he has also published essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Rilke, Musil, Benjamin, Adorno, and modern French and English writers.

Dr. Hannah Hennebert

Dr. Hannah Hennebert is a Brazilian-American independent scholar. She holds a Ph. D. in Psychology with concentration in Jungian Studies from Saybrook University, an M.A. in Counseling from EMU. Hannah has presented at various international conferences. Her integrative therapeutic approach includes neuroscience and depth psychology. Dr. Hennebert currently works as a clinician in a private practice in Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoys going for a walk in the nearby forest, dancing, drawing mandalas, and drumming.

Prof. Dylan Futter

Dylan Futter is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he is coordinator of the Applied Ethics for Professionals Programme. His research is primarily in ethics and ancient Greek philosophy. He has published widely on these topics; his book manuscript, Socrates’ Search for Wisdom, is contracted by Routledge and currently under review.

Prof. Roderick Main

Professor Roderick Main works at the University of Essex, UK, where he is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. He has a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Religious Studies from Lancaster University. He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture (Brunner-Routledge, 2004) and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (SUNY, 2007), editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (Princeton/Routledge, 1997), and co-editor of Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (Karnac, 2013), Holism: Possibilities and Problems (Routledge, 2020), and Jung, Deleuze, and the Problematic Whole (Routledge, 2021).

This course is presented by Stephen Anthony Farah, The Head of Learning for Applied Jungian Studies.

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875 -1961) recognised in mythology the leitmotifs, imaginal landscapes, and narrative structures ubiquitously present in the human unconscious. This discovery directly inspired and informed his keystone contribution to depth psychology of the Collective Unconscious. Mythos will be a study of and engagement with the symbols, archetypes, and metaphorical character of myth in structuring the unconscious, and a consideration of its significance for individuation.

Faculty

Paul Bishop

Paul Bishop is William Jacks Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Glasgow. He studied French and German at Magdalen College, Oxford, and has published various books and articles on German intellectual history, particularly Jung and the tradition of analytical psychology.
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Dr. Gcina Mhlophe

Dr. Gcina Mhlophe is an author, poet, playwright, director, performer and storyteller. Influenced by her grandmother’s tales when she was a child, Mhlophe’s written and performance talent has transported her from South Africa to South and North America to Europe, Greenland and Japan. She has performed her stories in theatres like Royal Albert Hall, the Kennedy Centre in the US and collaborated with Ladysmith Black Mambazo on a children’s CD. She again worked with Ladysmith Black Mamabazo and Francis Bebey quartet in a unique production, Africa at the Opera, which toured Opera houses in Germany.

Dr. Kevin Lu

Dr. Kevin Lu is the Senior Lecturer and Director of the MA Jungian and Post- Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He is a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Jungian Studies and a member of Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. Kevin’s publications include articles and chapters on Jung’s relationship to the discipline of history, Arnold J. Toynbee’s use of analytical psychology, critical assessments of the theory of cultural complexes, sibling relationships in the Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora, racial hybridity, and Jungian perspectives on graphic novels and their adaptation to film.

Sulagna Sengupta

Sulagna Sengupta, MA is a Jungian scholar based in Bangalore, India. She is the author of ‘Jung in India’ (2013), originally published by Spring Journal Books, USA, and several other recent papers. Sulagna is currently doing her PhD in Jungian Studies, working on the Indian epic The Ramayana at the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, U.K.

Nadia Sels

Nadia Sels teaches art history at PXL-MAD School of Arts (Hasselt) and mythology at Ghent University. Her research explores the common denominator between art and mythology, as two fields that are part of a continuum: she approaches both as expressions of the way in which humans use analogous thinking and metaphor to find meaning and orientation in an inherently meaningless and overwhelming reality. This historical process does not only run through concepts, but starts out from a bodily, sensory involvement with the world.

Robert Segal

Robert Segal is Sixth Century Chair in Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen. He teaches and writes on theories of myth and theories of religion. He was introduced to Jung by a philosopher of religion at Princeton University, where he received his PhD in religious studies. Among the books he has written or edited are The Poimandres as Myth, Joseph Campbell in Quest of the Hero, Jung on Mythology, The Gnostic Jung and Theorizing about Myth (among others). He has recently been honoured with a Festschrift: Explaining, interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A Segal.

Prof. Stanley Corngold

Stanley Corngold is Professor (emeritus) of German and Comparative Literature and Princeton University, where he taught for 45 years. On his retirement, he received the Howard Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton and was elected Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Corngold, a former President of the Kafka Society of America, is the author of ten books (two in press on the work of Thomas Mann) and ten editions, mainly on the work of Franz Kafka, although he has also published essays on Goethe, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Rilke, Musil, Benjamin, Adorno, and modern French and English writers.

Dr. Hannah Hennebert

Dr. Hannah Hennebert is a Brazilian-American independent scholar. She holds a Ph. D. in Psychology with concentration in Jungian Studies from Saybrook University, an M.A. in Counseling from EMU. Hannah has presented at various international conferences. Her integrative therapeutic approach includes neuroscience and depth psychology. Dr. Hennebert currently works as a clinician in a private practice in Bloomington, Indiana. She enjoys going for a walk in the nearby forest, dancing, drawing mandalas, and drumming.

Prof. Dylan Futter

Dylan Futter is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he is coordinator of the Applied Ethics for Professionals Programme. His research is primarily in ethics and ancient Greek philosophy. He has published widely on these topics; his book manuscript, Socrates’ Search for Wisdom, is contracted by Routledge and currently under review.

Prof. Roderick Main

Professor Roderick Main works at the University of Essex, UK, where he is Professor in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies and Director of the Centre for Myth Studies. He has a BA and MA in Classics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Religious Studies from Lancaster University. He is the author of The Rupture of Time: Synchronicity and Jung’s Critique of Modern Western Culture (Brunner-Routledge, 2004) and Revelations of Chance: Synchronicity as Spiritual Experience (SUNY, 2007), editor of Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal (Princeton/Routledge, 1997), and co-editor of Myth, Literature, and the Unconscious (Karnac, 2013), Holism: Possibilities and Problems (Routledge, 2020), and Jung, Deleuze, and the Problematic Whole (Routledge, 2021).

TIME REQUIREMENTS

You will need approximately 22 hours for the video lectures and readings,
and additional time if you would like to complete the 4 Stage Application in this course.
 


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