Jay Sherry
Author of:
The Jungian Strand in Transatlantic Modernism
&
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Avant-Garde Conservative
Faint Voices from Greenwich Village: Carl Jung’s Visit to the Village
Only months after splitting with Freud over New Year’s 1913, Carl Jung made an eye-opening trip to New York. He spoke about dreams to the Liberal Club and was a dinner guest of the Village’s Heterodoxy Club, the country’s first feminist organization. Like the public at large, he got his first exposure to modern art at the Armory Show, which inspired his Red Book.
Jay Sherry, PhD, has lectured internationally and written two books that locate Jung in the context of 20th-century cultural life. His talk will highlight these events and the creative Villagers who Jung encountered. His ideas about symbol-making and the psyche resonated with a diverse group of intellectuals who were interested in progressive education, literature, and theater.
The Jungian Strand in Transatlantic Modernism
Winner of the Gradiva Award for Best Book from the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Avant-Garde Conservative
BIO
Jay Sherry grew up in Ohio where his sense of the Native American presence in the landscape led to an interest in history. He graduated from Georgetown University with a degree in Foreign Service; while there he discovered the work of Carl Jung and decided to study psychology. After receiving his M.A. from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (New York) he went to Switzerland where he taught history and attended classes at the Jung Institute in Zurich. He is an educator and an independent historian of psychoanalysis who has lectured widely and written for a variety of psychoanalytic publications. He holds a Ph.D. from the Freie Universität Berlin and his book Carl Gustav Jung, Avant-Garde Conservative was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter.
NYC WALKING TOUR WITH JAY SHERRY
"Faint voices from Greenwich Village: Jung's impact on the first American avant-garde"
This walking tour will highlight Jung's 1913 trip to New York City and the role that Beatrice Hinkle, America's first Jungian psychoanalyst, had in promoting his work then and in the years that followed. Blackballed by New York Psychoanalytic Society for aligning herself with Jung, she was a member of the feminist Heterodoxy Club and analyzed many of the creative young people gravitating to Greenwich Village. Jung's contact with Kahlil Gibran and other bohemians there would play a role in the active imaginations that he began after returning home and that would eventually become the Red Book. Those participating will come away from it with a deepened appreciation for this creative moment in Jung's career and it's impact via Beatrice Hinkle on modern American culture.
Cost
$25 General Admission
$15 for students and seniors.
Length
1 Hour
Walking between 1 and 2 miles. Start on time!
