Announcing a Year of Focus

The C. G. Jung Club London announces a focused immersion and study of
C. G. Jung's Septem Sermones ad Mortuos
(The VII Sermons to the Dead)

From September 2025 to July 2026 the C. G. Club London will dedicate its Thursday lectures (in person and online) to different aspects of C. G. Jung's VII Sermons to the Dead, the only part of The Red Book, which was published during Jung's lifetime.

Thanks to the editor of The Red Book, Sonu Shamdasani, London has become a centre of Red Book expertise. It is only fitting that the C. G. Jung Club London should benefit from this interest in our analytic community.

Apart from monthly lectures the Club will offer an online VII Sermons reading group (priority will be given to Club members), as well as a dramatic reading of the text, accompanied by live music (Essex Church, London, 13th  of November 2025).

The programme is not finalised but it will broadly feature the following subjects and speakers. Booking on this website will open in the course of August.

September

Katerina Sarafidou: Introduction to the VII Sermons and their Red Book and Black Book contexts.
Essex Church / online
 

October

Lance Owen: The Gnostic background to the VII Sermons 2 lectures.
Online only.  

November

A dramatic Reading of the VII Sermons, accompanied by the violinist Eulalie Charland.
Essex Church / online
 

January

Angeliki Yiassemides: Temporality in Jung's VII Sermons.
Essex Church / online

February

Liz Green: On the Astrological and Magical Background of Philemon.
Online only

March

Jim Fitzgerald: Abraxas  

May

James Harpur: Impersonating a Figure of the Past - a Poet's View.
Essex Church / online  

June

Diane Finiello Zervas: Jung's Cosmological Mandalas.
Essex Church / online  

July

George Bright: Jung's 8th Sermon to the Living.
Essex Church / online

The following Club activities will re-commence in the Autumn as ususal: