Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D., is a theoretical physicist and mathematician, and a Jungian analyst-in-training, in Los Angeles, California.
A native of France, he studied at the University of Sciences in Montpellier where he earned a master’s degree in computer science and a Ph.D. in theoretical and mathematical physics with a dissertation on aspects of electroweak symmetry breaking in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. He spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow in high energy physics at the Aristotle University of Sciences in Greece where he researched features of new physics at very high energy levels, pointing to implications for astrophysics’ dark matter puzzle.
After returning to France, Dr. Le Mouël worked as a physics expert and engineer, consulting for the French National Center for Nuclear Energy. He then made his way to the United States where he became executive director of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 2007 and continues to serve in that role to this day.
Since 2010, he has served on the editorial board of Psychological Perspectives, the Los Angeles Jung Institute’s quarterly journal of Jungian thought. In 2015, he was named their science editor and became editor-in-chief in 2017.
He is currently an analyst candidate-in-training at the Research and Training Center for Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich, Switzerland. His particular area of interest is the connection between matter and psyche, and bringing ideas from physics to his work with dreams.
His correspondence with Marie-Louise von Franz two years before her death led to his work on the book, Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers: Insights and Amplifications, co-edited with Swiss psychotherapist Robin Mindell. The book chronicles a series of conversations with von Franz at the end of her life (1993-1998) and is scheduled to be published later this month by Inner City Books. Funding for the book was provided in part by the Marie-Louise von Franz Institute for Studies in Synchronicity and by Nancy Swift Furlotti’s Recollections, LLC.
I first encountered Dr. Le Mouël while watching his presentation, “Signs in the Sky in Jung’s Red Book and Dreams,” during the panel discussion on flying saucers presented by the Jung Institute of Los Angeles in January. His talk was part of a longer paper discussing the changes in our times using Jung’s images from the Red Book.
Dr. Le Mouël’s other publications include the articles “Jung’s Axioms: An Introduction to Jung’s ‘Note on Number,’” “Psyche in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,” and “Perspective: Transcendence and Wisdom.”
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Flying Saucers Panel Discussion The C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles’ panel discussion on Jung’s essay, “Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies,” took place on Jan. 25, 2025 in-person and on Zoom. The panelists consisted of Jungian analysts Michael Gellert, Marybeth Carter, Anson Levine, and Katharine Bainbridge, as well as the Institute’s executive director and Jungian analyst-in-training Christophe Le Mouël Ph.D.
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies by C.G. Jung; part of the Jung Extracts series from Princeton University Press
Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought
The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz Speaking of Jung’s special blog page on MLVF
In Memoriam – Marie-Louise von Franz, 1915-1998 Obituary by Daryl Sharp
Man and His Symbols Edited by C.G. Jung
Number & Time: Reflections Leading Toward a Unification of Depth Psychology & Physics by Marie-Louise von Franz
Conversation about Synchronicity with Marie-Louise von Franz Marie-Louise von Franz, Robin Mindell, and Roy Freeman (2023) Psychological Perspectives, 66:1, 9-18
On Dreams & Death by Marie-Louise von Franz
C.G. Jung Letters, Volume 2 (1951-1961) Includes Jung’s letter to John Raymond Smythies, 29 February 1952, pp. 43-47
Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz at 70 Ernest Lawrence Rossi (1986) Psychological Perspectives, 17:2 (1986), 151-160
J. Gary Sparks Speaking of Jung’s special blog page on Gary Sparks
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 2 Recorded in-person in Indianapolis with J. Gary Sparks on Sept. 4, 2015
At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity & Jung’s Spiritual Testament by J. Gary Sparks
Speaking of Jung, Ep 28 Number and Time with J. Gary Sparks
Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie-Louise von Franz by J. Gary Sparks
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 12 Recorded in-person in Zürich with Barbara Davies on Nov. 25, 2015
An “Enterview” with Christophe Le Mouël Robert S. Henderson (2024) Psychological Perspectives, 67:1-2, 79-86
ARTICLES
Perspective: Psyche in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Christophe Le Mouël (2024) Psychological Perspectives, 67:1-2, 1-10
Experiencing the Unus Mundus Christophe Le Mouël (2021) Psychological Perspectives, 64:4, 437-442
Jung’s Axioms: An Introduction to Jung’s “Note on Number” Christophe Le Mouël (2018) Psychological Perspectives, 61:4, 414-430
Perspective: Transcendence and Wisdom Christophe Le Mouël (2023) Psychological Perspectives, 66:4, 469-475
Additional articles by Christophe Le Mouël in Psychological Perspectives:
Spirit into Matter: Exploring the Myth of Science — Psychological Perspectives Vol 52, 54-79 · Jan 1, 2009
Four: A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature, Part I (2011) Psychological Perspectives, Vol. 54, 175-196
Four: A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature, Part II (2011) Psychological Perspectives, Vol. 54, 463-487
Four: A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature, Part III (2012) Psychological Perspectives, Vol. 55, 219-245
The Necklace of Numbers (2014) Psychological Perspectives Vol 57, 357-383
Self and the Paradox of Free Will (2014) Psychological Perspectives Vol 57, 25-49