E06 The white raven: C.G Jung & Victor White with Ann Conrad Lammers

Ann Conrad Lammers is a Jungian scholar who has worked and written at the crossroads of theology and psychology for the last forty years. Her doctoral work at Yale University led to the book In God’s Shadow: The Collaboration of Victor White and C.G. Jung, and she is the editor of their correspondence.

In this episode, Ann guides us through the creative and complex relationship between C.G. Jung and Dominican priest Victor White: a foundational relationship for Jung, and crucial to a deeper understanding of how Jungian psychology relates to Christianity.

With read excerpts of the Jung–White  correspondence as a backdrop, Ann shares her view on Jung as a Christian, the proposed idea of Jung as a therapist of an ailing Christian tradition, Jung’s relativized Christ, and the potential dangers of an Imitatio Jung.

A special thank you to Jungian analyst Paul Brutsche for his beautiful Basel accent in recording the voiceover of C.G. Jung.

Biography

Ann Conrad Lammers is co-editor of The Jung–White Letters, The Jung–Kirsch Letters, as well as editor and cotranslator of Erich Neumann’s two-volume work, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness. She is currently English-language editor and assistant translator for a selection of Emma Jung’s previously unpublished writings and artworks.

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Contents of this video

0:00 Intro
2:26 How I came to Carl Gustav Jung
7:27 Who was Victor White?
14:33 Jung’s first response to White (Narrator reading)
17:49 The white raven
19.39 White’s response letter to Jung (Narrator reading)
20:41 The collaboration
27:35 White’s response to Answer to Job (Narrator reading)
35:30 Jung’s last letter to White
36:40 White’s last letter to Jung
37:23 Jung’s wish to be a therapist of the Christian West
41:22 The BBC interview and Jung’s response
44:42 Do you view Jung as a Christian?
46:28 Is there room for Christ in Jung’s vision?


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Music played in this episode
"Dawns Dew" and "Mind" by ketsa.uk. Licensed under creativecommons.org by NC-ND 4.0.