Friday November 21st & Saturday November 22nd, 2025.

A symposium celebrating 150 years of Carl Jung.

Friday 21st November, Evening 7pm.

Ann Conrad Lammers: “Dedicated to the Soul, Emma Jung’s Years of Self-Liberation”
This talk presents the myriad avenues explored by Emma Jung in her effort to construct a secure world that enabled her to support her ongoing partnership with Carl Jung.

Saturday 22nd November, All day

Joel Crichton: “Jungian Shakespeare.” This talk will explore the anachronistic idea that Shakespeare was, in certain key ways, a Jungian, and that Jungian ideas have been ‘hiding in plain sight” for centuries, embedded in the ever-present plays of the greatest writer in the English language.

Farzad Mahootian: “Jung’s Status in Contemporary Scholarship on the History of Alchemy”
Jung’s extensive study of alchemical texts makes him a unique figure in the historiography of alchemy.  Leaders in the field argue against his approach, conducting experiments to prove they were only proto-chemists who cloaked their work in mythological jargon.  This presentation will evaluate Jung’s status and propose a computational method that adds nuance to the story.

Martin Sexton:“The Future is not what it used to be.” The advent of A.I. invites us to revisit Jung’s understanding of UFO phenomena as a modern myth reflecting Cold War anxieties about humanity’s future.  In the final frontier of his last years, he reflected on his own place in the world concluding Memories, Dreams, Reflections with the statement that alienation had “revealed to me an unexpected unfamiliarity with myself.”