Jung’s Black Books, published in October 2020, form the foundation of all subsequent concepts, techniques, and theoretical formulations of analytical psychology, and provide the source material of Jung’s Red Book, published in 2009. One of the themes emerging from these notebooks is the idea of love as the central experience of being human, but also as the foundational element of the analytic process and psychic change.  This seminar will outline Jung’s idiosyncratic presentation of love in the Black Books and explore its significance for the later development of the concept of individuation and for the inner workings of the analytic relationship.

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Katerina Sarafidou is the Head of Research and former Jungian Director of the MSc Psychodynamics of Human Development run by Birkbeck College and the British Psychotherapy Foundation. She is an honorary member of the British Jungian Analytic Association and is carrying out academic research at the Warburg Institute on Jungian theory and German aesthetics. She is one of the three founders of The Circle of Analytical Psychology, which offers a 2-year course of study on Jung’s Liber Novus. She is also leading a Reading Group for the British Psychotherapy Foundation focusing on the systematic study of Jung's primary texts.

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Jung, C.G. 1995. Chapter XII Late Thoughts, pages 386-388. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Fontana Press

Jung, C.G. 2020. Black Book 4, pages 273-276. The Black Books, W.W. Norton & Company

Jung, C.G. 2020. Black Book 5, pages 203-212. In, The Black Books, W.W. Norton & Company

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