Seminars And Lectures

John has lectured internationally on various topics related to Jungian psychology. Selected examples include:

  • “Judas and the Psychology of Betrayal”, Lecture presented at the International Society for Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority Conference, Berlin, 2012.
  • “Reflections on the Jungian nature of psychology as the discipline of interiority: a response to Saban’s ‘Misunderstandings’”, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 60, 2015.
  • “‘One small step for man…’: The moon landing and the psychological difference”, Psychology as the Discipline of Interiority, Sandoval and Knapp ed., Routledge 2017).

  • The alchemical ‘not’ and Marlan’s stone that remains a stone. A response to his critique of Giegerich’s ‘psychology proper’, Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 63, 2018.
  • “Psychology’s Uroboric Encounter with its Own Other”, Lecture presented at the International Association for Analytical Psychology Congress, Vienna 2019.
  • “My Method is No Method: The Radical Nature of Jungian Psychology”, Lecture present to the Calgary Jung Society, 2021.
  • “‘It’s Not Art!’: Interiorizing Jung’s ‘Confrontation with the Unconscious’”, Essays on ‘The Soul’s Logical Life’ in the work of Wolfgang Giegerich. Sandoval, EL-Bejjani, Power ed., Routledge 2023.
  • “Modern Technology as Antichrist” Where is Soul? Psychology in Modernity. Mogenson and Power ed., Dusk Owl Books, 2025.