Jungian Keynotes
In-depth explorations of key aspects of Analytical Psychology
Jungian Keynotes is a series of eight lectures at the start of each new semester for both ISAP students and the public. This series is not an introduction to Analytical Psychology per se but offers a short introduction followed by an in-depth exploration of a key aspect of Jungian psychology. The lectures will highlight a different aspect each semester. ISAP’s teaching program is not, and cannot be, structured as a linear progression of levels or a tidy division into topics. Analytical Psychology is intrinsically holistic, so learning is by a process akin to osmosis.
Jungian Keynotes – September 2026
Facing Contemporary Challenges
The world today is changing rapidly and facing many interrelated challenges. As Jung asserted decades ago, our time is characterized by a loss of connection to soul and nature. What answers and insights can Jungian psychology provide in a technocratic world threatened by multiple civilizational crises: conflicts and wars waging in more and more regions; an ‘eternal growth’ paradigm leading to ecological disruption that jeopardizes our basis of existence; digital media that impair us cognitively and psychologically with far-reaching consequences; social inequality and forced migration. Wisdom is increasingly outvalued by (artificial) intelligence, and truth is distorted and even abandoned in the interests of power.
This series of eight lectures addresses some of these issues. What does this situation mean for us as analysts and as human beings? How does it affect people in general, but also our daily sessions with patients and analysands? How can we understand current societal and ecological problems psychologically and symbolically? How can Analytical Psychology help us to navigate the deep social, cultural, technological and psychological transformations of our time? How can we face our own shadow and darkness instead of projecting it onto others? How can we (re)align ourselves with the Self and find meaning in the midst of uncertainty, chaos and fear?
All Jungian Keynotes lectures will be on-site and broadcast live on Zoom. You can purchase Zoom attendance below on this page. See our Zoom Lectures page for more details.
Date & Venue
8–11 September 2026
Stampfenbachstr. 115, 8006 Zürich
Tram 17, 50 or 51 to Beckenhof
Event Schedule
Tuesday, 8 September
13:00–14:45
Josephine Evetts-Secker, Professor Emerita, Rev.
01 02 Lecture | Losing Touch and Gaining Infinite Connection: A Humanist Dreamer at Home and Adrift in a Quantum/Post-Quantum World
In the quantum world, here or there becomes here and there ... and probably elsewhere. The lecture begins to explore how this experience feels familiar to the Jungian dreamer and the analysand on the path of individuation. Rather than say more, I would like participants to imagine what the content of the lecture might be.
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8 September 2026 | 13:00–14:45 <— ZURICH TIME
15:00–16:45
Brigitte Egger, Dr. sc. nat. ETH
01 03 Lecture | Ecological Issues Unveil the Unlived Soul Life of our Time
The ecological crisis has its roots and solutions in the way we think and act. As our time has lost the soul dimension, key psychological values appear projected concretely onto core themes of today, overcharging them, mostly with destructive ecological effects. The symbolic analysis of ecological problems unveils, in revealing images, the unlived soul of our time and helps to ground our lives again in soul and natural processes, honouring the basic unity between human beings and nature. Analytical Psychology offers crucial resources for the doubly needed ecological and personal-cultural turnaround.
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8 September 2026 | 15:00–16:45 <— ZURICH TIME
Wednesday, 9 September
13:00–14:45
Deborah Egger-Biniores, MSW
01 06 Lecture | Living on Different Levels with Darkness: Ours and the World's
The heart of the moral and psychological problem we are facing is not intellectual. It requires a new form of humanism according to E. Neumann: human individuals who stop blaming and projecting on the ‘other,’ human individuals who begin to understand the ‘other’ is also within me; human individuals who can embrace shadow, darkness, even evil, as essential to vitality and life lived fully.
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9 September 2026 | 13:00–14:45 <— ZURICH TIME
15:00–16:45
Bernard Sartorius, lic. theol.
03 07 Lecture | The Golem – an Old Prophetic Illustration of the Crisis of our Industrial Consumer Civilisation and its Spirit
Since medieval times, there have been stories about figures made of clay animated by the name of God inscribed on their forehead. Initially these Golems were only symbolic of the power of God, but gradually this power was used for domestic tasks. These Golems easily followed the instructions of their makers, but had the critical feature of permanent growth, thus endangering – with no ill intent – the house and its inhabitants. The last Golem stories show desperate attempts to stop this destructive growth. This myth will allow us to look at our present-day collective civilisational situation.
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9 September 2026 | 15:00–16:45 <— ZURICH TIME
Thursday, 10 September
13:00–14:45
Marian Dunlea, MSc
01 09 Lecture | BodyDreaming in a Time of Conflict
The BodyDreaming approach places embodied regulation at the heart of analytical psychology. In times of war and global unrest it supports alignment with the Jungian Self – the archetype of orientation and meaning. By working directly with the nervous system, the body begins to respond, restoring safety and creating space for what was shut down. Soul is experienced intimately in the cellular resonance of the body. This participatory, ensouled relationship with body and world helps metabolise shock, reduce chronic states of reactivity, and sustain presence, meaning, and connection amid chaos.
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10 September 2026 | 13:00–14:45 <— ZURICH TIME
15:00–16:45
Andrew Fellows, PhD
11 10 Lecture | The 2,000,000-Microsecond-Old Man
In the industrialised world, our attention spans, both individually and collectively, are becoming ever shorter. I will outline the factors contributing to this relatively recent phenomenon, especially the role of digital media, and link this to Jung’s critique of our “monotheism of consciousness.” I will then elaborate some of the resulting dangers due to our failure, again individually and collectively, to deal with long-term problems such as extreme wealth inequality, forced migration, climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.
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10 September 2026 | 15:00–16:45 <— ZURICH TIME
Friday, 11 September
13:00–14:45
Murray Stein, PhD
01 12 Lecture | The Challenge of Too Much Intelligence and Too Little Wisdom – What to Do About It?
This is a lecture with a question-and-answer session.
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11 September 2026 | 13:00–14:45 <— ZURICH TIME
15:00–16:45
John Desteian, JD, DPsy
08 13 Lecture | The End of Truth and the Birth of Subjectivism
The problem of subjectivism in the discernment of truth has lead to wholesale abandonment of truth as a desireable collective project.
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11 September 2026 | 15:00–16:45 <— ZURICH TIME
Cost & Registration
Payment in cash at the door
The Complete Lecture Series
General Entry – CHF 250
Students & Over 65 on-site – CHF 200
Official proof of student status or age must be shown on-site for discount.
Purchase of the Jungian Keynotes package includes Confirmation of Attendance.
Per Lecture
General Entry – CHF 50
Students & Over 65 on-site – CHF 40 (official proof of student status or age must be shown on-site for discount)
Refugees attending on-site – CHF 10 (proof of official refugee status must be shown on-site for discount)
Confirmation of Attendance on-site – CHF 10
Gratis for ISAP Students and Analysts
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