Professor David Peimer
Perspectives on Jung Today: His Life and Ideas, Part 2
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 theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and 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. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.
Yeah, in moments of strangeness, I do. Yeah, I do apply it to myself and people I know, but I would never tell them. I think it helps with my writing of theatre. It helps with my understanding of character and writing my plays, to be frank. You need to write according to it, but it just helps, fill in to play creatively.“ Definitely. I think Christopher Nolan was very aware of it when he did "Oppenheimer” and the way he showed, you know, Tom Conti playing Einstein and some of the others, Edward Taylor and some of the, I think it’s there. I think of a very contemporary film in “Oppenheimer.” It’s obviously there in Barbie.