Award-winning biographer Deirdre Bair will give a free public lecture on "Encountering Jung" at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 22, in Muller Chapel.
Signed copies of Bair's recently published Jung: A Biography will be available for purchase.
Pioneering psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung touched many aspects of western culture. An early protégé of Sigmund Freud, Jung later abandoned Freud's theories to found his own system of analytical psychology. His ideas about dream interpretation, the integration of the psyche as the goal of personal development, and the common roots of all human mythologies achieved great acclaim and gave rise to now-familiar terms such as "animus," "introvert," "extravert," "collective unconscious," and "age of Aquarius."
Jung has also been the subject of much dispute and conjecture. Was he a Nazi sympathizer and collaborator? Was he a misogynist who conducted polygamous relationships throughout his life? Bair's unprecedented access to private archives, interviews, and diaries has resulted in an authoritative and readable work that promises to be a source for future discussion about Jung and his impact on the way we think about ourselves and about the world.
A literary scholar, Bair received the National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett and her biographies of Simone de Beauvoir and Anais Nin were both award finalists. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and was the keynote speaker at the Millennium Conference sponsored by the Society for Analytic Psychology.
Bair's talk is being cosponsored by the Ithaca College Interfaith Council, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Department of Psychology, Office of the Chaplains, and the Jung Society of Ithaca.
Contributed by Melinda Butler
https://www.ithaca.edu/intercom/article.php/20040317130542159