This lecture reflects on the postmodern culture's denial of principles as transcendent sources of order. If this denial makes the culture post-archetypal, then that precisely is the archetypal nature of the culture. This ironic turn in the postmodern context raises a question about the nature of an education when there are no foundational principles to teach. David Miller is a faculty member at Pacifica and is the Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Toward a Theology of Play.
Unexamined theories lose their vitality or run the risk of becoming ideologies or cults.
Giegerich's book, The Soul's Logical Life, attempts to do for the Jungians what Lacan did for the Freudians. His is a severe critique but an intelligent one. Ginette Paris will present the argument and open it for dis-cussion. Ginette Paris is an archetypal psychologist, a lecturer, and the author of books on Greek and Roman mythology, including Pagan Meditations and Pagan Grace. She is a core faculty member and the research coordinator for the Mythological Studies Program at Pacifica.