Murray Stein - Unlock the Secrets of Jungian Psychology

Murray Stein is a Jungian Psychoanalyst, author, and lecturer.  He received his bachelor's in literature and Masters in Divinity from Yale and completed his PhD in Religion and Psychological Studies at the University of Chicago. He was trained as a Jungian Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich and is a founding member of the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts and the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. He is the author of many books including The Principle of Individuation and Jung’s Map of the Soul. Murray Stein welcome to the show. In this episode, we unpack Jung’s Map of the Soul, explore Murray’s experience studying with Jungian legends James Hillman and Marie Louise von Franz, delineate levels of religious understanding, and dive deeper into ethics, serial killers, and collective shadows. 

🔗[Links & resources] 🔗

• Murray Stein’s personal site
• Jung’s Map of the Soul by Murray Stein
• Transformation: Emergence of the Self by Murray Stein
• Memories, Dreams & Reflections by Carl Jung
• The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
• James Hillman
• Marie-Louise von Franz
• Karl Barth
• Rob Burbea
• Tom Cheetham on the Elevating Consciousness Podcast
• How to Illuminate & Integrate Your Shadow by Artem Zen
• Transformation: Emergence of the Self by Murray Stein
• The Red Book by Carl Jung
• Depth Psychology and a New Ethic by Erich Neumann
• Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
• BTS - Map of the Soul (album)

📝[Show Notes] 📝

0:00 - Introduction 
1:53 - Growing up in a religious home, going to divinity school, and finding Jung
12:38 - Studying with James Hillman and Marie Louise Von Franz and working with psychoanalysis 
19:38 - Moving towards deeper levels of religious understanding 
23:20 - What Hillman and von Franz contributed to Jungian psychology 
26:58 - Unfolding Jung’s Map of the Soul 
42:10 - Jung’s greatest discovery 
46:15 - Jung’s Map of the Soul (Condensed) 
49:09 - Diving deeper into ego, persona, and shadow 
1:01:15 - Ethics, conscientious, serial killers, and collective shadows 
1:06:40 - Taking Jungian psychology from theory into practice 
1:12:45 - The Future of Jungian Analysis

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