Iaap newsletter 28 - The new Israeli Jungian society

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Submitted by
Josef Marty and Marianne Müller
C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich
We add here a report of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich. The SGAP having no
training institute acknowledges the graduates of the Institute and those of ISAP
ZÜRICH represented by AGAP. Based on our collaboration with the Institute and
following an old tradition we asked its president for a report.
Report from the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich, Küsnacht, by Daniel Baumann:
The 60th anniversary for the C. G. Jung Institute, 2008, was a particularly intensive
and fruitful year. Aside from the regular program in analytical psychology, we held
various additional events that were intended to interest a broader segment of the
public.
In February we convened a bilingual intercultural symposium that focused on "Religion
and the Psyche in East and West". More than one hundred guests and participants
from all five continents attended the event and engaged in an active and exciting
exchange.
The Institute’s 60th anniversary celebration, which was open to all alumni, faculty,
students and friends of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zürich, may be described as a
climax for the past year’s program. In cooperation with the Collegium Helveticum of
the University of Zürich (UNIZH) and Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich (ETHZ)
as well as the Volkshochschule Zürich (VHSZH), we offered an extensive scientific
program entitled: “At bottom, psyche simply is world” (C.G. Jung, Collected Works
9/1, § 291). In addition to symposia, lectures, and a broad-based interdisciplinary
exchange, we staged a weekend long festival at the Institute in June. Following a
number of welcoming comments, Professor Daniel Hell, Ph.D. gave the main festival
address (clinical director and head of the medical directorate of the University of
Zürich’s Psychiatric Clinic). The afternoon was structured to offer a variety of events:
interviews; reflections by students and faculty; films; as well as an exhibition of art
from the Institute archives. The well-attended festival closed with an evening cruise
and aperitif on Lake Zürich where the attendees enjoyed a sumptuous meal and live
music with dancing.
pg. 67