Öffentliches Programm
Herbst 2026

In the quantum world, here or there becomes here and there ... and probably elsewhere. The lecture begins to explore how this experience feels familiar to the Jungian dreamer and the analysand on the path of individuation. Rather than say more, I would like participants to imagine what the content of the lecture might be.

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The ecological crisis has its roots and solutions in the way we think and act. As our time has lost the soul dimension, key psychological values appear projected concretely onto core themes of today, overcharging them, mostly with destructive ecological effects. The symbolic analysis of ecological problems unveils, in revealing images, the unlived soul of our time and helps to ground our lives again in soul and natural processes, honouring the basic unity between human beings and nature. Analytical Psychology offers crucial resources for the doubly needed ecological and personal-cultural turnaround.

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The heart of the moral and psychological problem we are facing is not intellectual. It requires a new form of humanism according to E. Neumann: human individuals who stop blaming and projecting on the ‘other,’ human individuals who begin to understand the ‘other’ is also within me; human individuals who can embrace shadow, darkness, even evil, as essential to vitality and life lived fully.

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Since medieval times, there have been stories about figures made of clay animated by the name of God inscribed on their forehead. Initially these Golems were only symbolic of the power of God, but gradually this power was used for domestic tasks. These Golems easily followed the instructions of their makers, but had the critical feature of permanent growth, thus endangering – with no ill intent – the house and its inhabitants. The last Golem stories show desperate attempts to stop this destructive growth. This myth will allow us to look at our present-day collective civilisational situation.

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The BodyDreaming approach places embodied regulation at the heart of analytical psychology. In times of war and global unrest it supports alignment with the Jungian Self – the archetype of orientation and meaning. By working directly with the nervous system, the body begins to respond, restoring safety and creating space for what was shut down. Soul is experienced intimately in the cellular resonance of the body. This participatory, ensouled relationship with body and world helps metabolise shock, reduce chronic states of reactivity, and sustain presence, meaning, and connection amid chaos.

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In the industrialised world, our attention spans, both individually and collectively, are becoming ever shorter. I will outline the factors contributing to this relatively recent phenomenon, especially the role of digital media, and link this to Jung’s critique of our “monotheism of consciousness.” I will then elaborate some of the resulting dangers due to our failure, again individually and collectively, to deal with long-term problems such as extreme wealth inequality, forced migration, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.

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This is a lecture with a question-and-answer session.

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The problem of subjectivism in the discernment of truth has lead to wholesale abandonment of truth as a desireable collective project.

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We will present different ontological interpretations of the Biblical story of Abraham and Isaac, but both focusing on the development of a form of consciousness which has evolutionary implications for how human beings relate in the world. Desteian’s focus is on the transition from mythic to religious consciousness. Strahm focuses on the evolutionary psychic implications of the transition from hunting wild living animals to breeding animals and then killing them, and on its effects on the development of Jewish and Christian religious perceptions as documented in the Bible.

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This is a panel with Murray Stein as moderator, and with panellists Yuriko Sato, Heike Weis Hyder and Brigitte Egger. A discussion with the audience will take place.

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We will be exploring epistemological aspects of the question: how do we know what we know, and what remains unknowable? Complementary insights from depth psychology, spirituality and science will be examined.

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This lecture explores the relationship between consciousness and psychic energy and considers how their integration supports the process of individuation and the development of embodied awareness.

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