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| 3 Oct 2025 | |
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Compulsion is the great mystery of human life …
--C.G. Jung
Great mysteries of human life can be really scary. Great mysteries of human life never get fully solved. Great mysteries can be dangerous and baffling. For Jung to claim that compulsion is THE great mystery of human life is daunting, not least because compulsions can be forces of creativity or of destruction. Compulsions arise and engulf, with sweetness or suffering, love or hate — or both at the same time.
In this lecture, we will explore the individuating possibilities that undergird all compulsions, and we will wonder together what can help us out of entrapping compulsions and addictions.
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Margaret Klenck MDiv, LP, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in New York City. Margaret has lectured and taught nationally and internationally. She is previous past President of the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, where she also teaches and supervises. She served as the JPA representative to the Executive Council of the IAAP from 2014-2019. She holds a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary. Her most recent publications include Jung and the Academy and Beyond: the Fordham Lectures 100 Years Later, for which she served as co-editor, and two books in which she is a featured interviewee: Visible Mind: Movies, Modernity and the Unconscious by Christopher Hauke, and There’s a Mystery There, the Primal Vision of Maurice Sendak by Jonathan Cott. PBS viewers may remember her as a panelist in the popular series, The Question of God, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud. |
