The Soul of Prague: In the Footsteps of Alchemy, Legends, and Analytical Psychology

The Soul of Prague: In the Footsteps of Alchemy, Legends, and Analytical Psychology

Educational Trip to the Czech Republic (Prague, Kutná Hora, and Příbor)
June 12-21, 2027
15 CEs Available

This trip is co-sponsored by the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago and the AMOS Teaching Agency. After the event, the link to purchase CEs ($25 fee) will be sent to registrants.

Presentations and experiential workshops, professionally guided cultural excursions, organizer-led walks, a documentary screening, shared meals, reflection, and discussion.

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Fee covers: Nine nights at the Hotel Carlo IV with daily breakfast; presentations and workshops: 15 CEU’s through the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago; 10 days public transportation pass; transportation to Kutná Hora and Příbor; opera admission; entry to the alchemy museum, selected Jewish Museum sites, the Old Jewish Cemetery, and Sigmund Freud’s Birth House; the welcome dinner, Vltava River dinner cruise, and closing gala dinner with selected beverages.

The faculty includes Jungian analysts, psychologists, psychotherapists, researchers, writers, and educators:

  • Dr. Rastislav Kučinský, M.D.
  • Mgr. Daria Skalová
  • Mgr. Petr Lisý
  • Dr. Andrea Schensová, Ph.D.
  • Ing. Jiří Lisý
  • Mgr. Lucie Stiborová
  • Dr. Miluš Kotišová, Ph.D.
  • Vladislav Šolc, M.S.
  • Dr. Giuseppe Buffa, M.D.

Learning Objectives
As a result of attending this course, participants will be able to:

  1. Interpret fairy-tale motifs of loss, crisis, and renewal through Jungian understanding of transformation. 
  2. Explain how Czech legends and alchemical symbolism illuminate archetypal patterns and how they reflect the process of individuation.
  3. Describe how ecopsychology and perspectives on Tantra and sexuality contribute to understanding embodiment and the relationship between psyche and the body.
  4. Compare key concepts in Freud’s psychoanalysis and Jung’s analytical psychology within their historical contexts.
  5. Evaluate the role of language, symbols, and context in human meaning-making and the assessment of artificial intelligence.

After the course, participants will:

  1. Identify archetypal themes in fairy tales, cultural narratives, and personal experiences.
  2. Connect alchemical imagery with psychological processes of crisis, integration, and renewal.
  3. Discuss how embodiment, sexuality, and relationships with nature inform psychological understanding.
  4. Apply insights from the sessions to professional reflection, including questions about consciousness, technology, and meaning. 

Required Reading

  • Jung, C. G. (1964). Approaching the unconscious. In C. G. Jung (Ed.), Man and his symbols (pp. 18–103). Doubleday.
  • von Franz, M.-L. (1996). The interpretation of fairy tales (Rev. ed.). Shambhala. Assigned reading: Chapters 1–3, pp. 1–45.
  • Kučinský, R. (in press). Three lemons. Chiron Publications.

Recommended Reading

  • Freud, S., & Jung, C. G. (1974). The Freud/Jung letters: The correspondence between Sigmund Freud and C. G. Jung (W. McGuire, Ed.; R. Manheim & R. F. C. Hull, Trans.). Princeton University Press.
  • Jung, C. G. (1996). The psychology of Kundalini yoga: Notes of the seminar given in 1932 (S. Shamdasani, Ed.). Princeton University Press.

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