The Call of Destiny—and Beyond

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Date: Saturday 13th January 2024 Location:
Start time: 5:30pm End time: 7:30pm Type: Webinar

Saturday’s presentation will explore the evolution of Jung’s opus into a coherent world view throughout his lifetime. The focus will be on his understanding of psychological transformation as it began with his confronting the unconscious (1913 – 1928) through his last mature writings (1951 – 1954). I would like to give participants a feel for Jung’s completed writing as one cogent piece. We will recognize significant ways Jungian psychology facilitates healing on the individual, as well as collective, level. With this overview of Jung’s work, we will discuss one of Marie-Louise von Franz’s last conversations with Jung in which he offers a critique of his own efforts and details his hopes for future generations of research, extending his founding efforts to yet wider and deeper horizons.

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Speaker: Gary Sparks

J. Gary Sparks is a 1982 graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich. He is the author of At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament (2007), Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz (2009), Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work (2017), The Call of Destiny: An Introduction to C.G. Jung’s Major Works (2023). He is also editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (2000) and co-editor with Daryl Sharp of Edinger’s Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective (2002). He lives and practices in Indianapolis, USA.