Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998). At the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bollingen Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers. She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly sought-after teacher.
“Listening to von Franz lecture was a numinous experience. I thought God was speaking. She seemed to know everything. In an amazing fashion and without a text, she ranged over history West and East, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, and a host of other specialized areas. Never in my training had I heard such far-reaching and profound reflections.” ~ (Murray Stein, PhD)
"Every dark thing one falls into can be called an initiation. To be initiated into a thing means to go into it."
Lecture Series
Introducing The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz:
Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales
by Steven Buser
Marie-Louise von Franz: Dedication to the Religious Dimension of the Psyche
by Robert Mercurio
Symbolic Alchemy in The Book of Pictures by Zosimos of Panopolis:
An Introduction to the Psychological Meaning of the Pictures
by Holly J. Fincher
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Time Requirements
Faculty
Steven Buser
Steven Buser, MD trained in medicine at Duke University and served 12 years as a physician in the U.S. Air Force. He is a graduate of the two-year Clinical Training Program at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago and is the co-founder of the Asheville Jung Center. He has worked for over 30 years in psychiatry with a focus on Jungian oriented psychotherapy. He currently works in the field of addiction medicine and serves as Publisher of Chiron Publications. He along withfellow publisher Leonard Cruz are the General Editors of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, a 28 volume series.
Robert Mercurio
Robert Mercurio holds university degrees in Philosophy and in Management as well as having done post graduate studies in theology and philosophy. He completed his Diploma in Analytical Psychology at the C G Jung Institute of Zurich with a thesis on the psychological symbolism of religious images in Etruscan religion. He has written various articles on themes that go from Fairy Tale interpretation to the interface between Jungian psychology and religious sentiment. He oversaw the Italian publication of various books by M.-L. von Franz . He works as an analyst in Rome where he also teaches in various post graduate schools of psychotherapy.
Holly J. Fincher
Holly J. Fincher, PhD, is a Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist whose research, writing and practice is focused on the reality of the living objective psyche and its manifestations in everyday life. Areas of special interest include symbolic alchemy and picture interpretation. She completed her analytic training at both the C. G. Jung Study Center of Southern California and the Center for Research and Training in Depth Psychology According to C. G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Switzerland. A California native, she currently lives in rural New Hampshire where an old farmhouse, a small flock of sheep, and three border collies keep her busy.
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Marie-Louise von Franz (1915-1998). At the age of eighteen, while still in high school, Marie-Louise von Franz met Carl Jung at his Bollingen Tower. She later described this as the most decisive encounter of her life. She entered analysis with him months later, completed her doctorate in classical philology and began seeing her first analysands soon after. She was wholeheartedly dedicated to the unconscious, both in her own life and that of her analysands. She developed a far-reaching expertise in fairytales, alchemy, synchronicity and numbers. She is estimated to have personally analyzed over 65,000 dreams. She was a prolific writer and a highly sought-after teacher.