Returning to the podcast is Jungian analyst and professor Dr. Kenneth James.
He holds a Ph.D. in Communicative Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago.
Along with a background in mathematics, he trained as a music therapist and completed 4 years of post-doctoral study in theology and scripture at the Catholic Theological Union. He has also taken lay ordination as a Zen Buddhist under Roshi Richard Langlois and studied the Kabbalah with the Lubavitcher Rabbi Meir Chai Benhiyoun.
Dr. James holds the rank of professor emeritus after a 33 year career as a university professor and now devotes his time as founder and director of The Soulwork Center in downtown Chicago where he practices as a Jungian analyst.
In addition to his appearance in Episode 45, he has been a guest on Richard C. Hoagland’s The Other Side of Midnight, Fade to Black with Jimmy Church, and the late-night radio show, Coast to Coast AM.
Dr. James is a frequent speaker at the C.G. Jung Center in Evanston, Illinois, where I recently attended one of his “Ask an Analyst” sessions. That lively discussion in front of a packed house gave me the idea to have Dr. James back to the podcast for a deep dive into Jung’s terminology, concepts, and ideas.
Later, I ask Dr. James to share his thoughts with us about the esoteric symbolism of the number 7 as it relates to the new BTS album, Map of the Soul: 7, which was discussed in Episode 55 with Dr. Murray Stein.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, March 4, 2020. The episode is 01:38:33 long and 91.2 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Play, TuneIn, Spotify, and iHeartRadio. And you can listen on your Amazon Echo device. Simply say, “Alexa, play Speaking of Jung on Apple Podcasts (or on TuneIn).” Just be sure to pronounce Jung with a hard J.
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TERMS & CONCEPTS
In order of appearance: Analytical Psychology, Jungian Psychology, Jungian analyst, analysand, Jungian analysis, unconscious, collective unconscious, ego, persona, shadow, anima, animus, projection, transference, countertransference, the Self, soul, ego-Self axis, complex, archetype, individuation, typology, the inferior function, the transcendent function, synchronicity, and active imagination
BONUS CONTENT
Afterward, Dr. James discussed the number seven, the number three, Freud’s pleasure and death principles, the Axiom of Maria, alchemy, holding the tension of the opposites, the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, and BTS’s music videos
SHOW NOTES
International Association for Analytical Psychology
Ego & Archetype by Edward F. Edinger, M.D., Jungian analyst
Psychological Types by C.G. Jung {Collected Works Vol. 6}
C.G. Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts by Daryl Sharp, Jungian analyst
Episode 5 Jung’s model of typology with Jungian analyst Daryl Sharp
Personality Types: Jung’s Model of Typology by Daryl Sharp, Jungian analyst
Free ebook downloads from Inner City Books, including Personality Types
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self by C.G. Jung {Collected Works Vol. 9ii}
Map of the Soul: 7 by BTS
BTS Music Videos Their official music videos on YouTube
Photo credit: Kairos Film Foundation
This episode is dedicated to the city of Chicago on this day, its 183rd birthday.