Jung in the World podcast has brought together some of the most original minds of our time, MacArthur fellows, bestselling authors, mythologists, cultural icons, and groundbreaking psychoanalysts to talk about what it means to make a world that sustains an inner life. With nearly two million downloads since its launch in 2020, the podcast offers penetrating conversations at the intersection of psychology, culture, and contemporary life. Guests have included Judith Herman, Mark Nepo, Natalie Goldberg, Lewis Hyde, Richard Tarnas, Megan O’Gieblyn, and Jungian analysts James Hollis and Murray Stein. Hosted by Patricia Martin. A production of the Institute for Psyche and Culture.
Jung in the World | When Carl Jung Met His Soul: Confronting the Unconscious | George Bright, Red Book scholar
Carl Jung's Red Book remained hidden for nearly a century. It is the record of what happened after his 1913 break with Freud, when Jung deliberately turned toward his unconscious and met his soul.
Red Book scholar George Bright returns to Jung in the World to explore what Jung found in that confrontation and how it profoundly transformed Carl Jung’s understanding of psychoanalysis and the collective. Bright also offers a surprising reading of Freud's break. Early psychoanalysis was a new field fighting for legitimacy, and Freud had to train his competitors.
For anyone drawn to Jung, the history of psychology, or the long work of meeting the unconscious.
In this episode:
Why Jung's break with Freud was partly about the realities of a new scientific field, and why Freud had little choice but to train future competitors
What Jung was looking for when he turned toward his unconscious in 1913
How the Red Book became the source of Jung's later theories
George Bright is a British analytical psychologist with more than three decades of private practice in London. He is a Training and Supervising Analyst with the Society of Analytical Psychology and a Member of the Chicago Society of Jungian Analysts. Educated at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, he teaches Jung's Red Book in London, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In 2016 he co-founded The Circle of Analytical Psychology, dedicated to close study of the Red Book and the Black Books. His paper "Synchronicity as a basis of analytic attitude" won the Michael Fordham Prize.
22 Jul 2026
Jung in the World | Synchronicity at the Deathbed: Jung and Meaning at the End of Life with Daniel Ross
Carl Jung called it “an acausal connecting principle” — but for Dan Ross, a Jungian analyst working in hospice care, synchronicity isn’t just theoretical. In this episode, Dan reveals what thirty years of end-of-life work taught him about Jung’s most misappropriated theory, its roots in Jung’s relationship with physicist Wolfgang Pauli, and why studying synchronicity seems to produce more of it. This episode is rich with poignant examples blended that will leave you thinking differently about how synchronicity works in your own life.
Daniel Ross, RN, PMHNP, MSN, MBA has been a nurse for 40 years and in hospice for over 30. As a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner, he brings both a medical and psychiatric experience to the field of end-of-life care. He is a Jungian Analyst at the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago where he has been Director of Training in the Analyst Training Program and Co-Director of the Jungian Psychotherapy Program and Jungian Studies Program. Dan works in the field of Hospice and Palliative Care and is in private practice as a psychotherapist in Chicago.
25 May 2026
Jung in the World | Judith Herman, M.D. on Trauma and What Remains
Judith Herman is widely known as a defining voice in trauma psychiatry for more than fifty years. Her work bridges the personal and the political, framing trauma as not only an individual experience, but a public health and human rights issue. In this interview with host Patricia Martin, Judith Herman tells the story of how […]
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