
CG Jung wrote several suggestive papers on politics and world affairs using a symbolic approach to understand contemporary events and political issues at a deeper level. Some of these were collected and published after the Second World War in a volume entitled Essays on Contemporary Events. This volume included the famous paper of 1936, "Wotan," the 1945 paper "After the Catastrophe," the 1946 BBC talk "The Fight with the Shadow," and the extensive "Epilogue to 'Essays on Contemporary Events'" of 1946. Ten years later he published a paper on the then new phenomena of many sightings of Flying Saucers, which he took to auger the beginnings of a new myth for modern people. Many Jungian analysts following him have written on the psychology of culture and its development through several stages of consciousness from ancient times to present day attitudes, and they have linked this discussion to a psychological interpretation of critical issues on the stage of national and international politics. In recent years, the theme of cultural complexes has been introduced into the literature of Analytical Psychology as a supplement to Jung's earlier formulations. Following these lines of thought and taking the global phenomenon of "Barack Obama" as a symbolic as well as a political figure as a point of focus, this seminar builds on the work of CG Jung, Erich Neumann, M.-L. von Franz, Thomas Singer, Samuel Kimbles, Andrew Samuels and others. The seminar also addresses the practical <b>...</b>
Barack Obama
Global International Politics
Carl CG Jung
Jungian analytical psychology
projection of shadow
President George Bush
world growth and individuation
Asheville
Jung