Wednesday 3 January 2007

Jung and Binswanger Visit Freud (1907). Inner Circle Seminar 110 (4 March 2007)

C. G. Jung
Ludwig Binswanger
Sigmund Freud

























Jung and Binswanger
Visit Freud

(3 March 1907)


Anthony Stadlen
conducts
Inner Circle Seminar No. 110
Sunday 4 March 2007
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

100 years ago the Swiss psychiatrists Carl Gustav Jung and Ludwig Binswanger visited Sigmund Freud in his home at Vienna, Berggasse 19. Jung later reported that Freud had apologised to him for having nothing at home but ‘an elderly wife’. In fact, Freud’s wife’s sister, Minna Bernays, also lived with the Freuds. Jung said she had confided in him that she and Freud had a sexual relationship. Jung became Freud’s ‘son’ and ‘crown prince’, the ‘Aryan’ front-man Freud wanted for his ‘Jewish science’ of ‘psychoanalysis’. But Jung rebelled, and founded his own school of ‘analytical psychology’. Binswanger, no less independent, founded ‘existential analysis’. But he told Freud that he wrote his severe criticisms ‘with love’. He and Freud remained friends despite radical disagreement.

What was going on between these three men? What are the points of convergence and divergence, in theory and practice, between the three schools of psychotherapy they founded?

Venue: Room G, Acland Building, Regent’s College, Inner Circle, London NW1

Cost: Students £77, others £99, in advance; some bursaries
Apply to: Anthony Stadlen, ‘Oakleigh’, 2A Alexandra Avenue, London N22 7XE
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8888 6857 E-mail: stadlen@aol.com

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