The search for the Holy Grail has captured our imagination since Chretien de Troyes wrote Perceval: The Story of the Grail in the 12th century. The story’s pull lies, in part, in its archetypal meaning, its meeting of opposites, and its capacity to heal. In this course, we’ll read five works, including Chretien’s masterpiece, hoping to shed light on that which makes life most meaningful.

Perceval: The Story of the Grail by Chretien de Troyes

Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis

The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner

The Chymical Wedding by Lindsay Clarke

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

I’m looking forward to seeing you. 

Julie Bondanza, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and a diplomate Jungian analyst who trained at the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, where she was Director of Training, a job she also held with the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She has taught extensively in New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Washington, as well as for various Jung societies across the country. Presently she serves the board of the C.G. Jung Foundation of New York and continues to serve as its program chair, a post she has held for many years. Dr. Bondanza practices in Takoma Park and lives in Washington, D.C.