In the summer of 1919 Jung made his first post-war visit to Great Britain since 1914. New documentary information has revealed that in addition to his public talks in July 1919, Jung spent six weeks in London between June and mid-July teaching his British cohort of colleagues and analysands. He led a seminar which analysed a series of dreams from a case of shell-shocked soldier treated by his English colleague Maurice Nicoll during 1917. Many of Jung’s core psychological concepts developed from his confrontation with the unconscious during 1913-1914, writing Liber Novus, illustrating The Red Book, and his scientific papers and books published between 1916-1918, were introduced to the British medical establishment dealing with the aetiology and treatment of shell-shock during the war by Nicoll, Constance Long (editor of Jung’s Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology 1916, 1917) and David Eder. Jung’s first formal English Dream Seminar, held once or twice weekly, provided him with an opportunity to demonstrate the prospective aspects of dreams that indicated the conscious and unconscious changes necessary for the individuation process and birth of the new god-image.

PDF copies of Constance Long’s notes on Jung’s Dream Seminar will be distributed in advance of the seminar.

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Diane Finiello Zervas is an art historian and a senior member and supervisor at the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists with a special interest in the interface between creativity and psychology. She has published two books and numerous articles on Florentine Medieval and Renaissance Art, served as a guest editor and author for Harvest, and edited and contributed to Francesco Donfrancesco, Soul-Making: Interweaving Art and Analysis. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. Her interest in Jung’s Red Book and visual works led to “‘Intimations of the Self’: Jung’s Mandala Sketches, 1917” in The Art of C.G. Jung. Ed. The Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Together with George Bright and Katerina Sarafidou she is a co-founder of the London Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a two-year reading seminar on Liber Novus and The Red Book. A frequent contributor to Phanês. Journal for Jung History, her forthcoming book ‘Enchanting the Unconscious’: Jung, England, and his English Seminars, 1919 and 1920, Routledge Press, 2025.

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C.G. Jung, Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, translated by B. Hinkle as Psychology of the Unconscious 1916: CW B London: Routledge

C.G. Jung, “The Role of the Unconscious”, 1918 in CW 10.

D. Finiello Zervas, Enchanting the Unconscious. Jung, England, and his English Seminars, 1919-1920. London: Routledge (forthcoming in 2025).

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