Robert H. Langan, Ph.D, is a Jungian scholar and author living and working in the Pine Barrens of New Jersey.
He holds a Master of Arts with Distinction in Jung and Post-Jungian Studies from the University of Essex in England, earning the David Holt Award for best academic performance in course. He studied the history of psychology, key concepts of Jung, philosophy and psychology, and graduated with a dissertation entitled “Jung and Spinoza: Archetypes Relocated.”
Under the supervision of Professor Roderick Main, Ph.D. (Episode 117), he continued at the University of Essex and earned a doctorate in Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies. His thesis, “Jung and Spinoza: Passage Through the Blessed Self,” which presents the first major study of Jung’s rather curious relationship with the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, was published last year by Routledge.
Dr. Langan specializes in speculative metaphysics and psychological types, and posts on Substack under the name Wrath Mania along with Cassie Fielding and Gabriela Sova Spulirova. Their blog, Univocity Drift: Complex Psychology After Jung, includes Dr. Langan’s posts “Kill the Archetype!” (parts one and two), and “Disclosure Dud” (a review of the Steven Spielberg film Disclosure Day).
He is a regular guest on SEREPTIE’s podcasts Acid Horizon and LEPHT HAND. Last week he joined SEREPTIE and Deleuzian scholar Jay Conway for an exclusive episode of Acid Horizon entitled The Philosophy of Heat. He later had a fascinating discussion with SEREPTIE for his solo-podcast, LEPHT HAND, entitled Scandal, Shadow, and the Underworld: Where the Symbolic Meets the Political.
Later this month Dr. Langan will be presenting “Too Hip for the Room: Jung, Spinoza, and Escaping Our CyberPsychosis” at the Digitalization and Analytical Psychology Conference presented by the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), held in-person at University College London from August 27th–29th. Additional presenters include Speaking of Jung guests Sonu Shamdasani, Susan Schwartz, Kevin Lu, and Fiann Paul.
Then on August 30th, Dr. Langan will be hosting a free, online public panel and Q&A for the Acid Horizon Research Commons. Does Psyche Matter? Jung and the Unconscious in 2026 will pose the question, Is depth psychology able to address the real crises of our world? He will be joined by panelist Gabriela Sova Spulirova, author and filmmaker JF Martel, and Dr. Christian McMillan of the University of Essex.
And finally, Dr. Langan will be teaching a class with the Acid Horizon Research Commons in October entitled Jung & Spinoza: God, Affect, Destiny. It will be held via Zoom on four Sundays in October from 11 AM until 1 PM EST. Readings will draw on Spinoza’s Ethics and Jung’s Collected Works (including “On the Nature of the Psyche,” “The Transcendent Function,” Symbols of Transformation, and Mysterium Coniunctionis), alongside Langan, Lloyd, and Storr.
This video interview was recorded on Wednesday, August 12, 2026. It’s 01:18:10 long and 75 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser (click the play button in the bar below) or download it directly to your computer. You can also watch the video edition on our YouTube channel.
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SHOW NOTES
Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 117 with Roderick Main, Ph.D.
Acid Horizon Podcasts Hosted by SEREPTIE
Scandal, Shadow, and the Underworld: Where the Symbolic Meets the Political LEPHT HAND Podcast, Aug. 6, 2026 (Exclusive to LEPHT HAND Patreon members)
Digitalization and Analytical Psychology In-person conference at University College London, Aug. 27–29, 2026
Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 116 with Harald Atmanspacher, Ph.D.
Psychological Types Vol. 6 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
The Essential Jung Selected and Introduced by Anthony Storr, with a new foreword by John Beebe
General Index Vol. 20 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Vol. 9i of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (Includes “The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales,” para. 384-455)
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 130 with Joseph Cambray, Ph.D.
The Pauli-Jung Conjecture: And Its Impact Today Edited by Harald Atmanspacher and Christopher A. Fuchs (Includes Joseph Cambray’s essay, “The In uence of German Romantic Science on Jung and Pauli.” Join our Patreon to read the full quote we discussed.)
Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of Opposites by Lucy Huskinson, Ph.D.
Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958 Edited by C.A. Meier, with an introduction by Beverley Zabriskie (Speaking of Jung, Ep. 85)
“But there’s always this middle third.” ~Robert H. Langan
Deleuze and the Unconscious by Christian Kerslake
Immanence and the Vertigo of Philosophy: From Kant to Deleuze by Christian Kerslake
Answer to Job Extract from Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 60 with Mark Saban, Ph.D.
‘Two Souls Alas’: Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making of Analytical Psychology by Mark Saban, Ph.D.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung and Aniela Jaffé
The Jung-White Letters The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Victor White
Hegel or Spinoza by Pierre Macherey
Psychology and the Occult Extracts from Vols. 1, 8 and 18 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung (Includes Jung’s dissertation, “On the Psychology and Pathology of So-called Occult Phenomena”)
Psychology and Alchemy Vol. 12 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Disclosure Day Steven Spielberg film, available to rent or purchase from Amazon Prime Video
Disclosure Dud: A Review – Why Spielberg’s Latest Flick Fails Substack article by Robert H. Langan, Ph.D.
Speaking of Jung, Ep. 126 with Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.
Inside the Actors Studio with Steven Spielberg (IMDB page) Season 5 Episode 9; Original airdate: Mar. 14, 1999
Jackie Gleason (and Richard Nixon) and the Pickled Alien The Black Vault Case Files
ADDITIONAL LINKS
Robert H. Langan, Ph.D. His website
Holism: Possibilities and Problems (Routledge, 2019) Edited by Christian McMillan, Roderick Main, and David Henderson
Jung, Spinoza, Deleuze: A Move Towards Realism Includes Dr. Langan’s essay “Jung, Deleuze and the Problematic Whole”