Arlene Landau, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Pacific Palisades, California.
Raised in Beverly Hills, she worked in the film and television industry before embarking on her career in psychotherapy. She earned a master’s degree in educational psychology from California State University at Northridge and worked as a licensed marriage, family and child counselor and practiced as a psychotherapist before receiving her Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles. She later went on to receive a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in mythological studies in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute where her dissertation was an archetypal analysis of the novels of Thomas Hardy.
Dr. Landau was a student of the world-renowned psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Dr. Edward F. Edinger for over ten years. She also studied at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich for two summers, and was an instructor at the Institute in 2003. She has lectured in Berlin, Bucharest, Cape Town, London, and in the United States, and is a board member of the Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism.
She has been active in the teaching, analysis, and evaluation of candidates in training to become Jungian analysts. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and is the film critic at Psychological Perspectives journal. Recently she has been named to the committee of the Mercurius Prize Foundation.
Her essay, “The Impulse to Destroy in Thomas Hardy’s Jude The Obscure” is featured in the book, Terror, Violence & the Impulse to Destroy: Perspectives from Analytical Psychology, edited by Jungian analyst Dr. John Beebe. And her book, Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite & the Loss & Regeneration of Soul, previously published by Spring Journal Books, was re-released in 2019 by Chiron, and it is the subject of our talk today.
This interview was recorded on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. It’s 54:43 long and 49.2 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, iHeartRadio, and now on Amazon Music. And it’s now available on our YouTube channel (All ads have been removed.).
SHOW NOTES
Tragic Beauty: The Dark Side of Venus Aphrodite & the Loss & Regeneration of Soul by Arlene Landau, Ph.D.
Jungian Analysis in Los Angeles Dr. Landau’s joint website with her husband, Jungian analyst Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 72 with Bradley TePaske, Ph.D.
The HALO Trust Princess Diana and the Mine Ban Treaty
Pacifica Graduate Institute Masters and doctoral programs in depth psychology, counseling, clinical psychology, mythological studies, and the humanities
‘There is no spoon’ Movie clip from The Matrix
Little Bird of Heaven: A Novel by Joyce Carol Oates
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth