The President’s Lecture Series

As part of the C. G. Jung Foundation's initiative to reach out to the many Jungian communities worldwide to share information and build community, we are presenting a new program, entitled The President's Lecture Series.

By sharing information among the various Jungian communities, we can draw together in our work to enlarge analytical psychology to its fullest capacity, benefiting a new audience of people in their quest for greater consciousness.

Date: Tuesday, October 18, 2011, 7:00 – 8:30 pm

Location: Jung Center, 28 East 39th Street, New York City

Speaker: Suzanne Gieser, PhD

Jung Lectures on Pauli's Dreams:
The Bailey Island and New York Seminars of 1936 and 1937

This lecture will explore not only the relationship between C.G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, but also the circumstances surrounding Jung giving the seminars at Bailey Island and New York in 1936 and 1937. In 1935, Jung had already given the first major presentation on Pauli's dreams at the Eranos conference in Ascona. The next year, he came to Bailey Island to give an extended consecutive seminar during five days in September in front of an audience of approximately 100, largely American, analysts and analysands on the same topic. He was invited by Esther Harding, Eleanor Bertine, and Kristine Mann, three women analysts who also, in the same year, founded the first Jungian organization in the United States, the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. The following year, Jung continued this seminar during three days in October while visiting New York. This material was finally reworked and published under the title Psychology and Alchemy in 1944. It is interesting to see how Jung includes more and more references to alchemy when presenting this material over time, as alchemy grows in importance to Jung. The ideas of alchemy also became to Pauli an important forerunner and key to his own modern trial to find a common ground or meeting point between physics and psychology (or matter and mind).

Suzanne Gieser PhD, is an historian of science and ideas whose research focuses on the history of depth psychology as well as on the history of modern physics. Her book, The Innermost Kernel: Depth Psychology and Quantum Physics. Wolfgang Pauli’s Dialogue with C.G. Jung, was published in English in 2005. She was a senior lecturer and associate professor for ten years at The Institute of Analytical Psychology (IAP), a private institute of Jungian scholarly studies in Stockholm, and has authored several articles and prefaces related to C.G. Jung in Swedish, including the article on Jung in the Swedish National Encyclopedia. She is also a certified Imago therapist and is training to become licensed as a relational psychotherapist.  She has a private practice in Stockholm, Sweden. She is a member of the board at the Swedish C.G. Jung Foundation and is co-founder of the Swedish Association of Imago Therapy. She lives and works in Stockholm.

$25.00 - Jung & Pauli - General Public $20.00 - Jung & Pauli - Member

Tickets: $25.00 General Public; $20.00 C.G. Jung Foundation Members .
Tickets should be purchased in advance online (above), by mail, by phone or fax with credit card (Visa or MasterCard), or in person Monday — Thursday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. For further information, please call the C. G. Jung Foundation at 212-697-6430, or FAX 212-953-3989. You can also email your questions to info@cgjungny.org.

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