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