The C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco

“What is this wild prayer of longing that issues from the heart?” Nathan Scott Jr. writes. In a secular age, modern and contemporary poetry has been concerned with where the sense of the sacred and the numinous can be found outside the parameters of traditional religious doctrine. One might look at the moments when we can suddenly “rejoice with things”; we might consider religious hope and despair as permanent conditions in the depths of the mind. Two poets from the…

The field of depth psychology emerged in Vienna at the very same time that Gustav Klimt was transitioning from a sentimental portrait style to a radical exploration of sex and death in his painting. In this rich multimedia presentation, we will explore the parallels between Sigmund Freud’s theory of the unconscious drives and the Interpretation of Dreams with the Secessionist work that made Klimt famous, and then turn to how in his later years, Klimt’s work forged a new style…

The creative process remains hidden and mysterious, even for the artist. All we can do is dance around its source, look at it from different angles, nurture its growth and appreciate its expressive flowering. It is equally mysterious to ask how an artist finds her specific inspiration. Why be drawn to this? For painter Johanna Baruch, it’s almost as if the inspiration chose her. In this image-rich presentation, Johanna will explore the many facets of the creative process through her…

“ One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” — C. G. Jung In these challenging, polarizing times we are called to draw from creative, healing energies from deeper parts of the Self. Dreams, imagination, and embodied knowing offer profound resources — personally, culturally, and from the timeless collective unconscious that connects us to one another, to all of life, and to the creative intelligence that informs us all. Transformation is an…