Martin Liebscher, Ph.D. is an associate professor at University College London and works for the Philemon Foundation as an editor and translator of the works of C.G. Jung.
He is a graduate of the University of Vienna where he earned a master's degree in philosophy and German studies with a thesis on the influence of Schopenhauer's epistemology on a young Friedrich Nietzsche, and a doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on Jung's seminar on Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
In 2002, he joined the staff of University College London where he worked as a lecturer in the German Department and taught at the Center for European Studies and in the Psychoanalytic Unit of the Department of Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology. In 2009, he became an Associate Professor in the German Department & Health Humanities Center, and in 2017 became the Principal Research Associate in the German Department at the university’s School of European Languages, Culture & Society.
Professor Liebscher has also taught in the German Department at the University of London. He co-founded the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature at the university’s Institute of Modern Language Research and served as their director from 2002-2011 when he became a member of their Advisory Board. From 2006-2011 he served as Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies in the university’s School of Advanced Study and now serves as an Affiliated Fellow.
Since 2018, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Phanês: Journal & Network for Jung History, and since 2022, has been working as a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute for Depth Psychology & Psychotherapy at the Technische Universität Dresden.
In 2011, Professor Liebscher began working as an editor and translator for the Philemon Foundation – the successor to the Bollingen Foundation – completing the works of C.G. Jung. He is one of the translators of Jung’s Black Books, and is the editor of Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence between C.G. Jung & Erich Neumann [2015], as well as two volumes of Jung’s lectures at the ETH Zürich: Volume 6 on Psychology of Yoga & Meditation [2023], and Volume 7 on Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises [2023]. He is also the co-editor [with Christopher Wagner] of the forthcoming Volume 5 on the Psychology of the Unconscious, and Volume 8 on The Psychology of Alchemy. His edition of Jung’s 1937 volume on alchemy and individuation is due to be published in 2024.
He is the author of Libido und Wille zur Macht: C.G. Jungs Auseinandersetzung mit Nietzsche [Libido & Will to Power: C.G. Jung’s Engagement with Nietzsche], and co-editor of Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth Century German Thought [with Angus Nicholls].
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SHOW NOTES
Professor Sonu Shamdasani, Ph.D. Our guest in Episode 75
The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung [30% off at Amazon US]
The Black Books of C.G. Jung [25% off at Amazon US]
The Philemon Foundation Completing the works of C.G. Jung
Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence between C.G. Jung & Erich Neumann Edited by Martin Liebscher
Nietzsche’s Zarathustra Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939 [Option: abridged edition]
Dr. John Peck Bio at Kyburz & Peck English Language Projects
The Challenges of Editorship: A Reflection on editing the Jung-Neumann Correspondence by Martin Liebscher, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 61: Issue 2, April 2016
Psychology of Yoga & Meditation Vol. 6 of Jung’s ETH Lectures; edited by Martin Liebscher, translated by Heather McCartney
Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises Vol. 7 of Jung’s ETH Lectures; edited by Martin Liebscher, translated by Caitlin Stephens
Erich Przywara: In Memoriam by John Betz, Church Life Journal, University of Notre Dame, Feb. 7, 2023
Of Books & Fire: Approaching the Alchemy of Carl Gustav Jung A thesis by Christopher Wagner, Jul. 18, 2018 [full text]
C.G. Jung’s Lectures at the ETH Zürich Project of the Philemon Foundation
Jung’s Unpublished Book on Alchemy Forthcoming from the Philemon Foundation; edited by Martin Liebscher
Alchemical Studies Volume 13 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung; includes the Eranos Lecture, “The Visions of Zosimos”
C.G. Jung: A Biography in Books by Sonu Shamdasani
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Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology University College London
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