Professor David Peimer
Perspectives on Jung Today: His Life and Ideas, Part 1
Summary
Carl Jung was a giant of the 20th Century. This lecture will focus on his life and key ideas, answering the question: how does Jung speak to us today?
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre in the UK. He has worked for the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, New York University (Global Division) and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing in New York, UK, Berlin, EU Parliament (Brussels), Athens, Budapest, Zululand and more. He has most recently directed Dame Janet Suzman in his own play, Joanna’s Story, at London Jewish Book Week. He has published widely with books including: Armed Response: Plays from South Africa, the digital book, Theatre in the Camps. He is on the board of the Pinter Centre (London), and has been involved with the Mandela Foundation, Vaclav Havel Foundation and directed a range of plays at Mr Havel’s Prague theatre.
Great question. I’m going to talk more next week about Jung’s sense and understanding of spirituality, which is not just this sort of, you know, I don’t think, just the tabloid version of what spirituality means. I think it is in this sense of history and collective unconscious and collective memory through the archetype. That is where the spirituality is located. It’s not just suddenly putting on the mask of, hello, I’ve read a few books on spiritualism and now, you know, I’m a spiritual person. I think it goes there. If one wants a bit of depth to understanding Jung and spirituality, really. It’s not just looking at the Zulu chief or the chief of the Navajo and you know, putting the label of spiritual. Projecting it, to use Klein, you know, onto these people. But understanding it from this point of view that I’ve been mentioning. The collective unconscious in the archetypes.