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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)

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Episode 2: There is no retreat from Culture

There is no retreat from culture or is there? In this episode TZL’s Sean McGrath, Evangelos Tsempelis and  Jakob Lusensky discusses culture, nature, archetypes, metaphors and instincts while the DJ spins some weird tunes. From The Zurich Lab. 

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Once upon a time psychoanalysis was out on the streets...

by Andrea Monroy Toro

Psychoanalysis in early 20th Century's Berlin was not restricted to hospitals or psychopathology. Its approaches and ideas fascinated artists, philosophers and seekers who used psychoanalysis as a way to explore themselves and unfold their creativity.

Sigmund Freud disturbed the scientific community when he opened a new window to engage with ourselves through words, dreams and fantasies. He developed his own methods of study and practice around something the artistic process explores in a more intuitive way: the unconscious – that is to say those mental processes of which the subject is not aware, a space full of unrecognized passions and feelings.

For this reason Freud was captivated with the work of poets and writers who could embody the inexpressable and unbearable aspects of the mind. At the same time psychoanalytic ideas penetrated the cultural scene, influencing modern art and literature. The aesthetic was one of the aspects psychoanalysis affected, where aspects like uncertainty, instinct and death became motors for creativity. The most conservative part of society was indignant that this kind of art did not represent the rationalism and moral superiority of the human being.

Artists like Hilda Doolittle and Gustav Mahler analyzed their lives and their creative processes with Freud. However not only artists can explore their unconscious. Anyone who dares to jump into the unknown of their dreams, feelings and frustrations can explore their inner world.