JP24 | Walking the Way of Individuation, with Ken James

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Jungianthology is a project of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago: jungchicago.org/ This episode is the first session of the four-part series The Path is the Goal: Walking the Way of Individuation (jungchicago.org/store/index.p...)
Jung called individuation the method by which a person becomes a separate unity or whole. In Jungian psychology, individuation has sometimes been called the goal of the analytic process. This terminology can be misleading since individuation is not a product, but a process in which we are engaged throughout our lives. The mysterious process of individuation is the focus of this course. Engaging lecture and reflection on Jung’s Collected Works (www.amazon.com/Collected-Work...) provide an understanding of the nature of individuation as well as ways to enhance and foster that process. It was recorded in 1997.
A diagram is referenced is the talk which is probably this one (i2.wp.com/frithluton.com/wp-c.... Though not explicitly described as being between analyst and analysand, the structure is essentially the same.
Ken James, PhD (jungchicago.org/store/index.p...) is director of Student Services at the Laboratory School, University of Chicago. His areas of expertise include dream work and psychoanalysis, archetypal dimensions of analytic practice, divination and synchronicity, hypnosis as a therapeutic medium, and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. He has done post-doctoral work in music therapy and theology, and uses these disciplines to inform his work as a Jungian analyst. For more information visit www.soulworkcenter.org/.
© 1997 Ken James. This podcast is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. You may share it, but please do not change it, sell it, or transcribe it.
Music by Michael Chapman
Edited and produced by Benjamin Law

[@entropy2644]

Ken James explains Jungian concepts in ways that are really clear and helpful. I would like to hear more of his lectures.

[@ghazanhussain2070]

Superb lecture. Ken's delivery was cleary and insightful.

[@Andruiu]

It would be great if we could also see the drawings he refers to.

[@lizafield9002]

Totally! Rare one copy books or scrolls, burned by Roman soldiers to heat their bathwater. Like we burn up ancient, rare, once in a universe ecosystems, ocelots, owls, forests today, to truck stuff faster & use clothes driers.
But everyone can help in their own time slot of history. Anyone can restore some habitat, put out wildlife water, use a clothesline & plant trees, somewhere.

[@rezzer7918]

LOL

[@DowntoEarthThinkingcom]

Just imagine how different things might be today if we had follwed Jung and not followed Freud ? This world would be a much better and very different place !
Just imagine how much different this world would be if the Libraries at Alexandria had not been deliberately destroyed !
Just imagine how different this world woud be if we all spent much more effort looking inside for all the answers to our most profound questions !

[@Andruiu]

No need to imagine, we can start doing. We have the tools.

[@NenadRadibratovic]

Freud and Jung were unconscious men and that is why Osho mocked them both.