The APT-Birmingham Public Lecture

Saturday 15 January 2022

DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY: AN INDIVIDUATION JOURNEY THROUGH REALMS OF SHADOW TO THE MYSTERY OF TRANSFORMATION

Murray Stein

Times: 10:15 – 12:45

What we witness in The Divine Comedy is a visionary account of a journey through the land of the dead that displays clear stages of psychological and spiritual development. This journey was experienced and turned into a magnificent work of art by Dante in the second half of his life. Like Jung crafting his Red Book for more than a decade, Dante meticulously composed The Divine Comedy over a similar period of time, from 1308 until 1321 as scholars have estimated, although the experience he writes about took place, he says, in only a few days, while he was in Rome during Holy Week in 1300. Dante tells the story as a recollection, as memory that he is now recounting in the elevated form of literary art. As a Jungian psychoanalyst, I am looking at the Commedia not as art or literature but as a depiction of psychological transformation achieved through what Jung called active imagination.

Murray Stein, Ph.D. is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his diploma as a Jungian Psychoanalyst from the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich in 1973. 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 articles and books, including Jung’s Map of the Soul and Jung’s Treatment of Christianity. 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.

APPLICATION DETAILS

This event will be held via Zoom Video Conferencing between 10:15 and 12:45.

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