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Freud and Jung
May 10, 1997 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Jung and Freud were among the most seminal thinkers of the twentieth century. Their influence has been felt in nearly every field of knowledge. In this workshop Dr. Kirsch will discuss the controversial relationship between Jung and Freud, focusing on the following themes: What was the impact of their relationship on Jung, and how did it influence his work? What did the conflicts and resulting split between the two mean to the development of Jungian thoughts, and to what extent has this legacy of conflict shaped the growth and development of the Jungian community internationally? Included in the workshop will be a video of part of an extensive interview of Jung made in 1957 by the University of Houston, and seldom seen.
Dr. Kirsch, who knew Jung as a young man and whose family was intimately involved in the earliest development of Jungian training in this country, brings a personal and unique perspective to this topic.
Related Lecture: Jungian Psychology: Past, Present, Future
Thomas B. Kirsch, M.D., born in London, raised in Los Angeles, is a graduate of Reed College, Yale Medical School with Psychiatric Residency at Stanford, and graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He is past president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He is a member of the Academy of Psychoanalysis. He has been in private practice since 1967 and is the author of numerous papers on the biology and psychology of dreams. He is the author of The Jungians: A Social and Historical Perspectivepublished by Routledge in 2000.