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The Undiscovered Self (Past and Present): A Course With Kenneth Kovacs

14 May 2026
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Among his most influential works, C.G. Jung’s 1957 essay, “The Undiscovered Self” (CW 10, par. 488-588) was an urgent plea to humanity in response to the Cold War and the rise of totalitarianism. Jung argued that continual self-awareness, of both conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche, as well as “authentic religious experience,” can provide an “unshakable center of gravity” required to resist and withstand the dehumanizing authoritarianism of the collective.

This three-session course will explore the ways Jung’s provocative essay, a political and passionately charged piece, still speaks to us nearly 70 years later.

 


Kenneth Kovacs, Ph.D., is an accredited analyst of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich, Switzerland, and a minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Kenneth studied at Rutgers University, Yale Divinity School, Princeton Theological Seminary, and received a Doctor of Philosophy in practical theology (psychology and theology) from the University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland (UK).  He is the author of Encounter and Conviction: The Relational Theology of James E. Loder (Peter Lang, 2009), Out of Depths: Sermons and Essays (Parson’s Porch, 2016), and writes and teaches at the intersection of analytical psychology and theology. Kenneth practices in Baltimore, MD.

 

 

 

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