The Host
Jungian analyst in New York. My working life is spent listening to one person at a time with the whole of my attention, and this show turns that same practice toward a question.
Why this show
I trained as a Jungian analyst, which is a long apprenticeship in one skill above all others: staying with something until it opens. The material that matters tends to arrive late and sideways, usually at minute fifty, usually while someone is talking about something else. An hour is the smallest unit in which that can happen.
Analysts have grown quiet with one another. We publish in separate journals, train in separate institutes, and describe overlapping phenomena in vocabularies that have drifted so far apart that translation now takes real effort. I wanted a room where a Lacanian, a somatic practitioner, and a Jungian could take up the same question and each say plainly what they see, with the differences between them left intact.
So each conversation stays with a single region of interior experience: waiting, envy, being watched, homesickness, the hour before sleep. We break the question into the smaller questions it contains and take them one at a time. We follow the digressions, since the material tends to arrive through them. Where our readings diverge, the divergence is the finding.
This is the work I do in a consulting room, carried out with someone who can do it back. My guests have spent years with something and can afford to think out loud about it in public.
A question that settles inside an hour was probably settled before we began.
What the Jungian Lens brings
My orientation shapes every question I ask. It takes the image as primary, so a dream, a symptom, or a figure from a folk tale is read first in its own form. It asks what a difficulty reaches toward alongside what produced it, which keeps the whyin a conversation that often confines itself to the how. It works comparatively by habit, drawing on myth, religion, alchemy, and art, which makes it a natural host for guests arriving from the humanities as readily as from clinical training. And it kept the word soul in working use.
My guests know exactly where I stand, and that frees them to stand somewhere else.
Jungian analysis in New York's West Village. Individual work, dream analysis, supervision.
Articles, translations and resources on Slavic mythology, languages, history, cultural arts.
Notes, images and passages: the working margins of the show and the essays.
A channel on depth psychology: unconscious, dreams, alchemy and myths.
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Tell me the region of interior experience you would want an hour on, and why it has held your attention this long. That is the whole pitch.
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