29Jan

Preview Volume 2 of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz

Written by John Baley. Posted in Uncategorized

THE COLLECTED WORKS OF 
MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ 
 
A look at Volumes 1 & 2
The Jung Society of Washington
Steven Buser, Editor
Join the Jung Society of Washington for a virtual program as Steven Buser, M.D., publisher of Chiron Publications, and one of two General Editors of The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, takes us through a history of the project, an overview of von Franz’s life and work, as well as a deep dive into the first two volumes of this foundational material. A panel presentation with three experts will follow, including Melanie Starr Costello, Gary Sparks, and Monika Wikman. The remaining time will be reserved for questions and answers. 
 
When:  Sunday, February 28, 2021
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location:  Zoom, Eastern Time
 
Von Franz, one of the most renowned authorities on fairytales, presents a systematic and wide-ranging approach. She amplifies a variety of fairytale motifs to show that the magical realm is alien to the profane and mundane realm of ordinary daily life. She was one of Analytical Psychology’s most original thinkers and here she presents a lucid, concise exploration of the archetypal symbols found in fairytales. 
 
Fairytales, like myths, provide a cultural and societal backdrop that helps the human imagination narrate the meaning of life’s events. The remarkable similarities in fairytale motifs across different lands and cultures inspired many scholars to search for the original homeland of fairytales. While peregrinations of fairytale motifs occur, the common root of fairytales is more archetypal than geographic. A striking feature of fairytales is that a sense of space, time, and causality is absent. This situates them in a magical realm, a land of the soul, where the most interesting things happen in the center of places like Heaven, mountains, lakes, and wells.

Marie-Louise von Franz

At the age of eighteen, Marie-Louise von Franz was invited to meet Carl Gustav Jung at Bolingen Tower. She immediately recognized that there exist two levels of reality, one outer and the other inner. Within months she had enrolled at the University of Zürich and began attending Jung’s lectures at the E.T.H. (Eidgenösiche Technische Hochshule or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology). Less than a decade after meeting Jung, von Franz had completed her doctorate in classical philology and begun seeing her first analysands. She was a prolific writer, a dedicated teacher and lecturer, and was possessed of a “far-reaching and often non discriminating Eros that accepted everyone seeking help.” (Alfred Ribi, MD in Fountain of the Love of Wisdom, Chiron, 2006)
 
19Jan

Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life

Written by John Baley. Posted in Uncategorized

Chiron Publications is honored to announce the February 1 new release from James Hollis, Ph.D., Prisms: Reflections on This Journey We Call Life.  


Prisms: Reflections on the Journey We Call Life summarizes a lifetime of observing, engaging, and exploring why we are here, in service to what, and what life asks of us. These eleven essays, all written recently, examine how we understand ourselves, and often we have to reframe that understanding, the nature and gift of comedy, the imagination, desire, as well as our encounters with narcissism, and aging. 


Hollis, a Jungian Analyst in Washington, D.C., explores the roadblocks we encounter and our on-going challenge to live our brief journey with as much courage, insight, and resolve as we can bring to the table.

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