Jung and the Kabbalah with Pinchas Giller

Jung and the Kabbalah with Pinchas Giller

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Carl Gustav Jung’s archetypes of the collective unconscious are a useful tool in understanding the classical Kabbalah of the Zohar and the 15th century Safed Kabbalists. The common element in Jungian psychology and the Kabbalah is the role of the religious symbol.

Jung argued that through symbols, one can order conscious experience, so that there is an ongoing window into the archetypes of the unconscious. In Jungian psychology and Kabbalah, there is a common striving towards living the "symbolic life." Like alchemy and Gnosticism, the Vedic traditions and tantra, Kabbalah is but one conveyance of the symbolic life.

This talk will focus on one common element of Jung and the Kabbalah, namely, the Mother archetype in Jungian terms with Jewish and Kabbalistic sources, utilizing Erich Neumann’s study, The Great Mother. This talk will also briefly review another area of Jungian inquiry, namely the significance and recurrence of Mandala symbolism, noting the startling recurrence of this motif in the depiction of Sabbath tables in Kabbalistic prayerbook manuscripts of the eighteenth century.

Pinchas Giller was brought up in Cocoa Beach, Florida and received his BA at Columbia University. He was ordained at Yeshiva University and received his doctorate at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley. Rabbi Giller has written extensively on Judaism and his field of expertise, Jewish Mysticism or Kabbalah. He has written four books, The Enlightened Will Shine: Symbolism and Theurgy in the Later Strata of the Zohar (State University of New York Press, 1993), Reading the Zohar (Oxford University Press 2000), Shalom Shar’abi and the Kabbalists of Beit El (Oxford University Press 2000) and Kabbalah: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum Press; 2011). He has also edited Be'er Moshe al ha-Torah, by Moshe ha-Kohen Reicherson. Rabbi Giller is Professor of Jewish Thought and chairman of the Jewish Studies department of the American Jewish University, Los Angeles.

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