Closed Reading Seminars

Reading seminars for IGAP Candidates only

Studies Programme 2025/2026

Symbolism of the Mandala

Gill Kind and Nan Parry

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February 26, 2026

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Following on from the first two reading seminars on CW 12 Psychology and Alchemy led by Robert Macdonald, Gill Kind and Nan Parry’s seminars for February and March 2026 will focus on paragraphs from Part II: Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy, Chapter 3, 'The Symbolism of the Mandala’; Part III:Religious ideas in Alchemy, Chapter 1 'Basic Concepts of Alchemy'; Chapter 2, 'The Psychic Nature of the Alchemical Work’; Chapter 3, 'The Work’; and Chapter 4, ‘The Prima Materia'.

Individual dream symbolism in relation to alchemy

3. The symbolism of the mandala. In: Jung, C., Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 12. 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 95-223).

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Religious Ideas in Alchemy: an historical survey of alchemical ideas

Gill Kind and Nan Parry

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March 26, 2026

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Religious Ideas in Alchemy: an historical survey of alchemical ideas

1. Basic concepts of alchemy. I. Introduction. II. Thealchemical process and its stages. III. Conceptions and symbols of thegoal. In: Jung, C., Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 12. 2nd ed.,Princeton University Press, 1968. (pp. 225-241).

2. The psychic nature of the alchemical work. In: Jung,C., Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 12. 2nd ed., Princeton UniversityPress, 1968. (pp, 242-287).

3. The work. In: Jung, C., Collected Works of C. G.Jung, Vol. 12. 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1968. (pp. 288-316).

4. The prima materia. In: Jung, C., Collected Works ofC. G. Jung, Vol. 12. 2nd ed., Princeton University Press, 1968. (pp. 317-344).

 

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Psychology of the Child Archetype

Irene Cioffi

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April 23, 2026

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1951, pp. 151-182

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Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairy Tale

Philippa Campbell

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May 28, 2026

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1948, pp. 207-254

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On the Psychology of the Trickster Archetype

David Guy

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June 25, 2026

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1954 pp. 255-275

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