After The Red Book:
Jung’s 1925 Seminar
Fridays, December 1 - 15, 2023
9 - 11am PST | 12 - 2pm EST
a three-session seminar with Satya Doyle Byock
All seminars are hosted online. Recordings are provided to all registrants.
“These seminars were in many respects the most important that Jung ever delivered, as they are the only reliable firsthand source in which Jung speaks of the development of his ideas and his self-experimentation.”
Jungian psychology was born from Jung’s dive into the unconscious, as captured in the Red Book. The poetic, novelesque, complex writings of that journey—unpublished until 2009—provide a great deal of insight into his thinking, but far more elucidation is required to understand the foundations of his psychology and how it came to be.
“I started with the primitive idea of the flowing out and the flowing in of energy, and from this I constructed the theory of the introverted and extroverted types. ”
In 1925, Jung delivered a series of lectures that were his first public presentation about his Red Book. Captured in an accessible book entitled, “Introduction to Jungian Psychology,” his words provide rich entryways into his thinking and the origination of his ideas.
“The serpent is the personification of the tendency to go into the depths and to deliver oneself over to the alluring world of shadows.”
Each week in this three-part seminar, we’ll read and discuss “Introduction to Jungian Psychology.” It is this work that Red Book editor, Sonu Shamdasani, believes all readers should go to following an exploration of the Red Book, as it's where Jung began to thoroughly explicate his system of psychology. It is not at all necessary, however, that participants in this course have read The Red Book. No matter where you’re beginning, his 1925 seminar provides an elucidating exploration of his ideas. Some themes include Jung's typological system, the collective unconscious, archetypes, his notion of the anima and animus, and some on alchemy.
Register:
Cost: $95
Scholarships & Discounts: It is important to us that this material be accessible. If finances would prevent you from joining us, please send an email with a short note. We would love for you to be able to join.
Readings: You’ll want access to “Introduction to Jungian Psychology,” for this seminar, available on Kindle and in paperback. We will read approximately 50 pages each week in order to complete the whole book.
Recordings: All sessions will be recorded and provided to registrants within 24 hours of the live gathering. It is not necessary to attend live.
CEU: Participants can earn 6 CEs (Continued Education Credit hours) for this seminar. Please review this page on Continued Education Credits.
About Satya Doyle Byock, MA, LPC
Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), and the founding director of The Salome Institute. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, and The Times of London, and her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, Goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. Satya has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on a number of podcasts. She has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.