Speaking of Jung: November 2026

Episodes

Episode 166: Laurence Hillman, Ph.D. ~ Oct. 14, 2026 ~ Dr. Hillman works as an archetypal astrologer and is the son of Jungian psychoanalyst James Hillman. Born in Zürich, he studied architecture at the ETH, received an MBA from Olin Business School, and a Ph.D. in Transformative Leadership. His dissertation was titled “Reading the Yin Function in Male CEOs: Exploring the Efficacy of Archetypal Astrology.”

Having been immersed in archetypes for nearly five decades, he specializes in archetypal coaching and consulting for leaders and organizations worldwide. He is the author of Planets in Play and co-creator of Archetypes at Work™.

In September, I attended Dr. Hillman’s presentation, “Astrology and AI: Embracing Uranus Without Losing Your Soul,” at the United Astrology Conference in Chicago. We discuss that and more in this rather unique episode!

Episode 167: Character – A Novel ~ Oct. 28, 2026 ~ Leslie Stein, J.D., is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a former lawyer and judge in Sydney, Australia. He has just completed the third and final novel of his trilogy which explores the journey toward individuation—becoming complete, whole, and one’s own person. Character: A Novel has been released by Chiron Publications in hardcover and paperback, and it’s also available on Kindle from Amazon.

His first novel, The Journey of Adam Kadmon, was discussed in Episode 113, and the second novel in the trilogy, The Psychoanalysis of Dr. Seele, was discussed in Episode 143. The rights to Dr. Seele were optioned by a media company in the U.S. for development as a television series.

Next Episode: Ruth Williams, M.A. ~ Nov. 11, 2026 ~ Ruth Williams is a Jungian psychoanalyst based in London. She is an honorary lecturer in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex in England and a guest professor at the Oriental Academy for Analytical Psychology in Guangzhou, China. She is the author of C.G. Jung: The Basics (Routledge, 2019) and Exploring Spirituality from a Post-Jungian Perspective: Clinical and Personal Reflections (Routledge, 2023), which won the award for Best Book (Clinical Category) of 2024 by the International Association for Jungian Studies. Her new book, Animal-Human Telepathic Connections: A Jungian Perspective, was published in July by Routledge.

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October 7: Marion Woodman, Part 2 – Excerpts from her books Conscious Femininity, The Pregnant Virgin, and The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter
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October 28: Early, ad-free access to Episode 167 with Leslie Stein on his new book, Character: A Novel
October 31: Excerpt from the chapter “Ghosts and Things That Go Bump in the Night” in Hauntings: Dispelling the Ghosts Who Run Our Lives by Jungian analyst James Hollis, Ph.D.

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The Problem of the Inner Self

Presented by The Helix Center

November 7, 2026 at 2:30 PM EST

Is there an “inner self”? This roundtable approaches human interiority as a problem—not an obstacle, but a complex of questions at the limits of religion, philosophy, literature, and technology.

Convened by R. John Williams and Beverley Zabriskie (Ep. 85)

Speakers: Branka Arsić, Marie Howe, Lawrence Kramer, Morgan Stebbins (Ep. 158 & 162), and R. John Williams

Live in person at the Helix Center for Interdisciplinary Investigation, The Marianne & Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, New York, NY 10028, and streaming live on YouTube.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

📸: Another Place, Stavanger, Norway, 1998. Another Place, 1997, cast iron, 189 × 53 × 29 cm (100 elements). Photograph by Dag Mirestrand.

BEYOND JUNG: Jung & Pauli – Psyche, Matter, Meaning

Presented by The Pari Center

Six sessions over three weekends: Saturdays & Sundays, November 14–29, 2026 from 12:00–2:00 PM EST

These live online sessions will explore the remarkable encounter between C.G. Jung and Wolfgang Pauli, and their shared search for a deeper understanding of psyche, matter and meaning. It brings together leading scholars to examine the radical vision of their joint work, their engagement with myth, alchemy and interpretation, Pauli’s dreams and personal correspondence, and the revolutionary physics that shaped his thought. In doing so, the series asks what their remarkable collaboration can still teach us about knowledge, meaning and our place within reality.

Presentations by Speaking of Jung guests Paul Bishop (Ep. 131, 135, 141, 152, 160), Roderick Main (Ep, 117), and Beverley Zabriskie (Ep. 85), in addition to Jonathan Allday, Suzanne Gieser, and Arthur I. Miller.

Series Passes: General €75.00 / Member €67.50 / Solidarity €40.00

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New Books

Eranos Yearbook 76 (2022–2024)

The Disoriented Consciousness and the Thought of a New Habitability: Uncertainties of Time and Spaces of Freedom

Daimon Verlag, Jul. 10, 2026

This volume presents the work of the last three years of activities at the Eranos Foundation – Earth Symbols: The Inhospitable Planet and the Thought of a New Habitability (2022), What the Name ‘Freedom’ Stands for: The Story of Icarus and Other Contemporary Misfortunes (2023), and The Age of Disoriented Consciousness: Uncertainties of Time and Anxiety of the Future (2024).

Each essay is reproduced in the original language it was presented in.

Hardcover edition available from Daimon Verlag and Amazon US

Character: A Novel

by Leslie Stein, J.D. (Ep. 113, 143, 164)

Chiron Publications, Oct. 28, 2026

Is it even possible to have character? Can we overcome the dark soundings in our soul, give up clinging to greed, power, and position? Derek’s twisted New York soul is reborn into Arel in Axum, Ethiopia, a short walk to the church that contains the Ark of the Covenant, wherein lies the Ten Commandments. He is one who carries all good and evil, as we all do, and with his devout Hindu wife, Sanvi, who worships the divine feminine, learn what it takes to be what Carl Jung describes as the “four-square” person of character, that which is the true completion of a life.

This is Leslie Stein’s third and final novel in a trilogy exploring the journey of what is required to be individuated, finally complete, whole, one’s own person.

Collected Psychoanalytic Works of Sabina Spielrein, Volumes 1 & 2

Edited by Michael Gerard Plastow, Ph.D., and Christiane Weller, Ph.D.

Routledge, Nov. 12, 2026

Two volumes of totally new English translations of all the known published psychoanalytic works of Sabina Spielrein, an important early proponent of psychoanalysis—and in particular of child psychoanalysis—who anticipated much of its later development.

Volume One includes translations of Spielrein’s early work from Zürich, Vienna, and Berlin. Volume Two presents her later publications from Lausanne, Geneva, and Rostov-on-Don. Now available for preorder from Amazon US.

Autumnal Days: Courage, Integrity, and Ownership of the Soul

By James Hollis, Ph.D. (Ep. 25, 27, 32, )

St. Martin’s Press, Jan. 19, 2027

Essays, stories, and guidance for maintaining courage and integrity in the second half of life. Filled with myths, philosophies, and Jungian analysis, Autumnal Days reminds us that the world is a vast canvas and we fill it with energetic scenarios that drive our souls, paint it, enact it, and populate it.

Now available for preorder in paperback, Kindle, and Audiobook.

Dr. Hollis will return to Speaking of Jung to discuss the book in early 2027.

A Biographical Dictionary of Post-Jungian Psychoanalysis, Volume 1: The Early Post-Jungians

Palgrave Macmillan, January 2027

This first volume offers a wide-ranging, author-by-author guide to the thinkers who have shaped analytical psychology in the generations following Jung and his earliest followers. Focusing on the early post-Jungians, it maps how Jung’s ideas have been extended, revised and applied across clinical practice, theoretical debate, cultural analysis and psychosocial inquiry.

Co-editor Stefano Carpani, Ph.D. (Ep. 142) will return to Speaking of Jung in late January to discuss the series.

C.G. Jung: The Critical Edition, Vol. 1 (1896–1900)

Edited by Gaia Domenici; Translated by Caitlin Stephens with Astrid Freuler; General editor Sonu Shamdasani

Princeton University Press, Feb. 16, 2027

Student Years in Basel: Philosophy, Medicine, Science, and Spiritualism

An authoritative new translation of Jung’s writings from his student years. Featuring extensive original commentary as well as diary excerpts and other rare materials published here for the first time.

Now available for preorder from Amazon Worldwide.

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