The Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla is organising a webinar under its
Distinguished Lecture Series on 28th May 2021(Friday) at 3:00 PM on “C.G. Jung’s Psychology and
The Upanishadic wisdom: From ‘Individuation’ towards ‘Ātmanization’” by Ms. Noa Schwartz
Feuerstein, a graduate of the ‘Israeli Institute of Jungian Psychology’ (2007), MA studies in Clinical
Psychology in ‘Bar-Ilan University’ (1995), and Ph.D studies in ‘Comparative Religions and Indian
studies department’ in the ‘Hebrew University’ Jerusalem. She is writing a book titled “On Horror
and Beyond: C.G. Jung’s Relation to India and Upanishadic Wisdom” in which she reveals the
disrupted dialog Jung had with the East, by re-reading the Upanishadic literature in light of Jung’s
reservations.
She is studying Yoga Sutra with Ritambhara’s Sangha for the last three years.
She will briefly explore the history of Jung’s relatedness to India. Starting with his early wide acquaintance with India’s ancient literature, continuing with India’s presence in his ‘Red Book’,
then, tracking his fluctuations towards the Indian culture.
She intend to give voice to a Upanishadic
answer to Jung’s reservations and fears. For this aim she has chosen a paradigmatic text taken from
the ‘Bṛhadāraņyaka Upanishad’, the dialog between the Rishi Yājñavalkya and his wife Maitreī, on
the threshold of him leaving her, intending to become a ‘sannyasa’. The Indian’s ashrama system
will be compared to Jung’s ‘stages of life’, out of which she will add to Jung’s theory of Individuation a new stage, ‘ātmanization’. The lecture will be summed up with Jung’s near-death dream, symbolizing ātmanization.
Carl Gustav Jung; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who
founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry,
anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology and religious studies. Jung worked as research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he
came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
