MAY-JUNE 2025

Creative Mythology and Individuation

LIve-VIDEO SEMINAR SERIES

with Dr. Evans Lansing Smith

 

Course Description

This series focuses on a series of three archetypal dreams richly amplified by motifs from Alchemical, Arthurian, Egyptian, Classical, Celtic, and Nordic mythologies. An illustrated memoir of my travels with Joseph Campbell in France, Egypt, and Kenya introduces the sessions.

Learning Objectives

  • Interpret the archetypal symbolism of the myths and rituals of a variety of cultural traditions

  • Explore Campbell’s approaches to myth, with an emphasis on Jungian depth psychology

  • Develop an understanding of the trajectory and influence of Campbell’s career

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Creative Mythology and Individuation

with dr. evans lansing smith

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series

Tuesdays May 13-June 17, 2025

4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern
+ Video Recording will be available

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Creative Mythology and Individuation with Dr. Evans Lansing Smith
$147.00 $247.00

Live-Video Jungian Psychology Seminar Series • Tuesdays May 13-June 17, 2025 - 4-6pm Pacific / 7-9pm Eastern + Video Recording will be available

Course Outline

Session 1 • May 13

Dream #1: The Night-Sea Journey and Individuation: Greek, Irish, and Nordic Mythologies

Travels with Joseph: Megalithic Mysteries and the Grail Romances in Normandy and Brittany

Session 2 • May 20

Creative Mythology 1: Mystery Bowls and the Grail

Session 3 • May 27

Dream #2: Shipwreck and Cannibal Cave: Alchemical, Greek, and Oriental Mythologies

Travels with Joseph: Egyptian Underworlds and African Encounters

Session 4 • June 3

Creative Mythology 2: Troubadours, Minnesänger, Tristan and Isolde

Session 5 • June 10

Dream #3: Joseph Campbell and the Open Eye Foundation

Alchemical motifs from the Rosarium Philosophorum, The Splendor Solis, and Atalanta Fugiens

Session 6 • June 17

Creative Mythology 3: The Secularization of Myth in Modernism

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Dr. Evans Lansing Smith

Dr. Evans Lansing Smith is Professor of Mythological Studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he has taught for 20 years, serving as Chair for 10.
He is the recipient of awards for distinguished teaching from Midwestern State University in Texas, and the Pacifica Graduate Institute. His Ph.D. is from The Claremont Graduate School, and his M.A. in Creative Writing from Antioch International, and his B.A. from Williams College. He is the author of three books of poems, two novels, and ten books and numerous articles on comparative literature and mythology. His edited volume of Joseph Campbell’s writings and lectures on the Grail Romances was published in 2015, and his edition of the Selected Correspondence of Joseph Campbell in 2019.

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