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Ashok Bedi, MD. 48 minutes. Video & Audio Download.
Topics: Archetypes, Mind and Body, Religion and Spirituality, Society and Culture.
Jung’s Encounter with the Soul of India
Carl Jung visited India for three months in 1937-38 and made several observations about India, exploring his ambivalence about Hinduism and Yoga. He also expressed awe at the mystery of Buddhism, as well as a fascination with the Eros of Islam. Jung asserted that in the dreamlike world of India, the primitive and the civilized aspects coexist without a split. India offers an “Other Way” of civilizing people, without suppression, violence or rationalism. In contrast, the Western person lives in the rational/cultural world, with the primitive aspect of psyche dissociated in the unconscious – without the modulating impacts of culture and consciousness. We will explore Jung’s encounter with the soul of India in the context of contemporary analytical thought.
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This lecture is part of the conference West Meets East in Jung’s Psychology: A Dialogue.
Sample
Learning Objectives
This video will help you summarize Jung’s hypothesis about India’s psyche from an Analytical perspective.
Ashok Bedi, MD is a Jungian psychoanalyst and a board-certified psychiatrist. He is a member of the Royal College of psychiatrists of Great Britain, a diplomat in Psychological Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of England, a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He is a Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and faculty member at Carl G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is in private practice in Milwaukee.
© 2014 Ashok Bedi
℗ 2014 CG Jung Institute of Chicago