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The Wisdom of Erich Neumann for our Troubled World
October 24, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm PDT
Who was Erich Neumann, one of Jung’s closest friends, though 30 years younger than Jung? How do Neumann’s life experiences spanning the Holocaust and World War II echo much of the chaos and evil we are experiencing today? Neumann escaped Berlin in 1933 for Palestine, where he produced a large body of work focused on Judaism, consciousness, creativity, and evil. After we are introduced to this brilliant Jungian, we will explore his own inner process of transformation as seen through his active imagination watercolor paintings.
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Nancy Swift Furlotti, Ph.D. is a Jungian Analyst living in Aspen, Colorado. She is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a founding member and past president of the Philemon Foundation. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Interregional Association of Jungian Analysts. She is on the boards of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA, The Smithsonian National Asian Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Mercurius Prize Committee in Zurich. She has written numerous articles, edited a number of books, including with the late Erel Shalit, The Dream and Its Amplification. Her second book is Eternal Echoes: Erich Neumann’s Timeless Relevance to Consciousness, Creativity, and Evil, and her recent book, The Splendor of the Maya: A Journey into the Shadows at the Dawn of Creation, will be published this fall as part of the Fay Lecture Series. Dr. Furlotti lectures internationally on Jungian topics such as dreams, mythology, consciousness, the feminine, and psychedelics. Her company, Recollections, LLC, edits and publishes first generation Jungian’s unpublished writings, for example, Erich Neumann’s two volume manuscript, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, published in English, Hebrew and German. She participated in the recent publications, Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung; and Jung’s Last Lectures. She has a long history of interest in Erich Neumann’s works beginning in 2004 when at Philemon she and the then president, Steve Martin, succeeded in publishing the correspondence between C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann.
