Fairytale Salon

C.G. Jung's Psychological Types

“It was culture itself that inflicted this wound upon modern humanity. As soon as enlarged experience and more precise speculation made necessary a sharper division of the sciences on the one hand, and on the other, the more intricate machinery of States made necessary a more rigorous dissociation of ranks and occupations, the essential bond of human nature was torn apart, and a ruinous conflict set its harmonious powers at variance.”

— Friedrich Schiller (1795)

With this quote from Schiller, Jung sets out the cultural need for his Psychological Types (1920) in Volume Six in The Collected Works. Jung conceptualises 8 psychological types that help us understand how we perceive and respond to the world - both internally and externally

Format

Process | Film | Q & A

Date & Time

Fairytale Salon happens every 3rd Saturday of the month from 2 - 4:30 pm, scheduled on:

• June 13 2026

-Summer break-

• September 19 2026
• October 17 2026
• November 21 2026
• December 19 2026
• January 16 2027
• February 20 2027
• March 20 2027
• April 17 2027
• May 15 2027
• June 19 2027

Language

English and Dutch on request.

Price & Admission

€ 10– excluding museum entrance*.
*Museum admission is free with museumkaart, stadspas, iAmsterdamCityCard, or with an EFM membership.

About the Host

Barbara Helen Miller, Ph.D., is a psychoanalyst (C. G. Jung) in private practice, a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, Training Analyst for IAAP in Tbilisi Georgia, anthropologist in co-operation with Research Group Circumpolar Cultures, her research a case study on Sámi healers in Porsanger, Norway. Many of her publications attempt to bring analytical psychology and shamanism into fruitful dialogue.

School of Active Imagination

C G Jung approaches the process of mediating, transitioning, and transforming inner experience through a dialectic, found, a.o., in active imagination. Such dialectic may include other narratives (myths and fairytales) from the analyst’s repertoire, these narratives for the most part being held in mind during and after the session and comprising the analyst’s associative thinking.

Theme for school year (2026-2027), Joint Attention: work with the affective core of the Self and formation of creation myths. Joint attention is the shared focus of two individuals on an object, event, or scene, often involving eye contact, gesturing (like pointing), and emotional sharing. The social-cognitive model of joint attention proposes that, as infants monitor and represent their own goal-related intentional activity, they also monitor and represent the goal-related behavior of others.

Fairytale Salon: Fairytales, Myths and Dreams viewed as archetypal narratives employed by C G Jung.
Forum for Process: Alchemy and process theology, a.o., viewed as archetypal narratives on process employed by C G Jung.

Study Material