On Depth Psychology and a New Ethic by Erich Neumann: A Course With John Michael Hayes

Erich Neumann’s seminal work on analytic psychology and its implications for ethics was forged in the authoritarian abattoir that was twentieth-century Europe.  Like his mentor C.G. Jung, Neumann lamented the failure of conventional morality to check the terrible impulses of mass man.  Nothing less than a new level of psychological maturity and deepened consciousness is needed if future catastrophes are to be averted.  Neumann saw clearly that traditional morality’s splitting the psyche into good and bad selves facilitated destructive scapegoating and projection. A new way forward, a new ethic, must be grounded in the confrontation and integration of those unconscious shadow parts of our psyche. 

Neumann’s work takes on new and urgent significance as we face the present cultural and historical moment: the looming ecological crisis, wars and the rumors of wars, toxic political strife and abuse, and the obscene economic inequalities of late capitalism. 

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John Michael Hayes is a Jungian analyst who has had a long and varied career as a psychologist/psychoanalyst in the Baltimore-Washington area. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and Faculty and Training and Supervising Analyst at Washington Baltimore Psychoanalytic Institute. He also serves on the faculty and is Dean of Candidates at the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (NY). John also holds degrees in theology and is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland. His private analytic practice is in Baltimore.