JANUARY 2025

Jung and the Mythology of STAR WARS

with Steve Ellerhoff, Ph.D.

THURSDAYS
January 2, 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025

What makes Star Wars a living mythology?

Many plainly recognize it as such, but this course will help us qualify that appraisal. Leapfrogging past Joseph Campbell’s well-documented influence on the saga, we turn to Jung—who gave Campbell his best hunches—to measure its viability as a mythology in direct relationship to psyche.

This seminar series will explore subjects in Steve’s forthcoming book, Jung and the Mythology of Star Wars. Together we will become better acquainted with some of Jung’s key concepts while exploring the mythic energy at the heart of the Star Wars saga.

We will delve into why it makes sense to see Star Wars through Jungian perspectives and compare, for example, the mythical Force to specific Jungian concepts: the unconscious, the godhead, the numinosum, the unus mundus, libido, and mana/mana personalities.

Come take a ride in the field of mythic storytelling, its boundaries reach far, far beyond our galaxy.

*How is Return of the Jedi’s second Death Star, often bemoaned as a failure in Lucasfilm’s storytelling imagination, a mythologically sound illustration of senex thinking?*

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JUNG AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF STAR WARS

WITH STEVE ELLERHOFF, PH.D.

THURSDAYS
January 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2025
7-9pm Pacific

Live Via Zoom +
Video Recording will be available
to all guests

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COURSE OUTLINE

Session One: Exploring the Force in Jungian Terms

Session Two: Yoda: An Archetypal Amplification

Session Three: Luke Skywalker and Jung’s Transcendent Function

Session Four: Leia: Archetypal Anti-princess, Hutt-slayer, Mother

Session Five: Star Wars as Living Mythology

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JUNG AND THE MYTHOLOGY OF STAR WARS with Steve Ellerhoff, Ph.D.

$127.00 $197.00

Live Seminar • THURSDAYS January 2, 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2025 - 7-9pm Pacific / 10-12pm Eastern - Live Via Zoom + Video Recording will be available to all guests

Early bird registration pricing ends Nov. 25

Steve ellerhoff, PH. D.

S. G. Ellerhoff holds a PhD in literary studies from Trinity College Dublin and is the associate editor at Tsunami Press. He is the author of Post-Jungian Psychology and the Short Stories of Ray Bradbury and Kurt Vonnegut (2016) and Mole (2020). He also co-edited George Saunders: Critical Essays (2017) and Exploring the Horror of Supernatural Fiction: Ray Bradbury’s Elliott Family 2020). His next book is Jung and the Mythology of Star Wars. More of his work is linked at www.sgellerhoff.com.