This program meets on Saturdays, January 17, 24 and 31, 2026

This program WILL BE RECORDED.

In the middle of his life, Carl Jung famously asked himself the question, “What myth do you live by?” He had no answer. Myth offers a person a transcendent orientation for living a meaningful life, and Jung found that traditional religion had failed him in this regard. Religions have historically provided such myths for the orientation of people, but modern rationality and materialistic scientific assumptions about reality have largely cancelled this option. This has left many people in Jung’s predicament. Jung found a way to the recovery of myth. In these lectures, I will address the question: Can Jungian psychology suggest a way for individuals and communities today to find a myth to live by?

Lecture 1: The Self – Transcendent Center and Circumference
Lecture 2: Individuation – The Process of the Self’s Realization in Time
Lecture 3: Communitas – The Presence of the Self in a Collective Setting

Here is Murray Stein's blog to read:

Toward a New Imagination by Murray Stein

Suggested reading: Stein, M. and Kiehl, E. (eds.). The Self, Individuation, Communitas: Reflection on Fundamental Values in Analytical Psychology. Asheville, NC: Chiron Publications, 2025.

Prices
Non-Members:  $100.00/ticket

Individual Member:  $75.00/ticket

Senior 65+/Student Members:  $65.00/ticket

Murray Stein Ph.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. He was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of ISAP-ZURICH from 2008 to 2012. He has lectured internationally and is the editor of Jungian Psychoanalysis and the author of many books and articles. The first and second volumes of his Collected Writings, titled Individuation and Myth and Psychology, have been published, and a third, Transformations, is in press. He lives in Switzerland and has a private practice in Zurich.

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