In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with Dr Julie Reshe about Negative psychoanalysis. While conventional psychotherapy implies the promise of deliverance from the tragedy of existence and therefore inherently pathologizes human suffering, negative psychoanalysis conceptually and practically engages with the negative aspects of existence. Drawing from the theoretical premises of depressive realism and philosophical pessimism, it acknowledges negative aspects of human existence as essential and innate. It genuinely delves into realms such as death, suicide, trauma, anxiety, depression ..read more

I am speaking with Laurence Hillman. Amongst other things we talk about how he became immersed in archetypes at the age of sixteen, how he was marinated in the archetypal psychology/world of his Father James Hillman,, the influence of Manly P Hall, the archetypal eye, how he has developed his view of the archetypal world, Left and Right Brain Hemisphere’s, Iain McGilchrist, Leadership Development, full brain/whole brain thinking, introvert and extrovert and going beyond typologies, Archetypal thinking, three ways of seeing the world, and for the last part of this conversation we talk about thi ..read more

I am speaking with Laurence Hillman. Amongst other things we talk about how he became immersed in archetypes at the age of sixteen, how he was marinated in the archetypal psychology/world of his Father James Hillman,, the influence of Manly P Hall, the archetypal eye, how he has developed his view of the archetypal world, Left and Right Brain Hemisphere’s, Iain McGilchrist, Leadership Development, full brain/whole brain thinking, introvert and extrovert and going beyond typologies, Archetypal thinking, three ways of seeing the world, and for the last part of this conversation we talk about thi ..read more

I am speaking with renowned Jungian analyst and author Robert Bosnak. Amongst other things we talk about how a serious illness when he was young turned his life upside down and led him to Eranos and into a Jungian analysis Aniela Jaffe when he was twenty-three, studying in Zurich, joining the Rat Pack in Zurich as we are calling them Hillman, Pat Berry, Rafael López-Pedraza and others at the beginning of the Spring Journal. How his symptoms disappeared as he undertook therapy and became interested in dreaming, the influence of Henry Corbin and the Mundus Imaginalis and Dreaming and Embodied im ..read more

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with renowned Jungian analyst and author Robert Bosnak. Amongst other things we talk about how a serious illness when he was young turned his life upside down and led him to Eranos and into a Jungian analysis Aniela Jaffe when he was twenty-three, studying in Zurich, joining the Rat Pack in Zurich as we are calling them Hillman, Pat Berry, Rafael López-Pedraza and others at the beginning of the Spring Journal. How his symptoms disappeared as he undertook therapy and became interested in dreaming, the influence of Henry Corbin and the Mundus Imaginal ..read more

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with renowned Jungian analyst and author Robert Bosnak. Amongst other things we talk about how a serious illness when he was young turned his life upside down and led him to Eranos and into a Jungian analysis Aniela Jaffe when he was twenty-three, studying in Zurich, joining the Rat Pack in Zurich as we are calling them Hillman, Pat Berry, Rafael López-Pedraza and others at the beginning of the Spring Journal. How his symptoms disappeared as he undertook therapy and became interested in dreaming, the influence of Henry Corbin and the Mundus Imaginal ..read more

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with author Randy Fertel about Improvisation. Amongst other things we talk about his family, growing up in New Orleans, Louis Armstrong/ jazz improvisation, his dissertation and then writing A Taste for Chaos. There is a back story to improvisation in Hermes, Metis, Athena and a different kind of intelligence. And in the Trickster, who is a great disruptor and improvisor. We also explore creativity, innovation, chaos and culture change through this theme and also some of the dark side of Hermes and the Trickster. Randy Fertel is the author of Wingin ..read more

Here is some of my story - Jon Wilson Jung and the World Podcast If you would like to support Jung and the World and become a free or paid subscriber and gain full access to the archives, please find us at https://jonwilson9.substack.com/publi ..read more

In this episode of the podcast I am speaking with therapist Vive Oldham about the Dreaming Body. Amongst other things we talk about some of the main influences and turning points for her along the way, studying law, the corporate world, Marion Woodman, Addiction to Perfection, embodiment, the feminine as the earth, the body and nature, Innana, descent into the body, getting hung on the meathook, holding opposites and letting things emerge, trauma, deep instincts, working with images the animal, pleasure and beauty. Vive is a therapist working in Western Australia and a colleague/writer on Subs ..read more

In Part 2 of the podcast with Ronnie Pontiac we go further into the spread of Neoplatonic and Orphic ideas in the West since the Renaissance. We talk about Thomas Taylor in the UK and how that influenced William Blake and Shelley and Keats and others, and then what was happening in the US. We also talk about some of the history of the Western esoteric tradition and what we might be able to learn from the Renaissance for this time. Ronnie Pontiac was the personal research assistant for Manly P. Hall at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. He is author of American Metaphysical Reli ..read more