Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche: Pathways to the Arts (Wednesdays)

Jung Center of Houston offers Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche: Pathways to the Arts.

Can explorations of art inform depth psychology? This course, based on Ed Applebaum’s new book Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche, seeks to demonstrate the value of a dialogue that blends depth psychology with the arts.

Examinations of work by Gustav Mahler, Ingmar Bergman, Frida Kahlo, Edvard Munch, Georgia O’Keefe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolfe, and others, will facilitate group discussions about the artworks, their creators and the individuals who form the work’s audience.

Students are encouraged to view the work from a variety of perspectives and develop their own analytical technique: to follow the clues available, link threads together and analyze what they can see.

Required reading: Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche: Pathways to the Arts, Edward Applebaum
Recommended reading: Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald

After starting his musical career as jazz pianist and conductor, Edward Applebaum (pictured) decided to emphasize composition.

He received his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from UCLA. His music has been performed throughout the US, Europe, Israel, Japan and Australia. He has won numerous grants and awards, in various fields— composition, higher education, and the neurosciences—from agencies including the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the NIMH, the NEH, and the NEA. His Symphony No. 2 was awarded First Place in the Kennedy Center’s Friedheim Competition.

His book, Unfolding the Unconscious Psyche: Pathways to the Arts, was published by Routledge in August 2015.