
“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
Process | Film | Q & A
Forum on Process happens every 1st Saturday of the month from 2 - 4:30 pm, scheduled on:
-Summer break-
English and Dutch on request.
€ 10– excluding museum entrance*.
*Museum admission is free with museumkaart, stadspas, iAmsterdamCityCard, or with an EFM membership.
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.
House with the Heads
Keizersgracht 123, 1015 CJ Amsterdam
A fifteen-minute walk from Amsterdam Central Station. Prefer public transport? Take trams 13 or 17, or bus 170, 172, or 174 to the Westermarkt stop. From there, walk back a short distance, turn left onto Keizersgracht, and you will find us on your right after 300 meters.
Amsterdam is best explored on two wheels, and the EFM is no exception. Ample bike parking is available along the Keizersgracht.
Parking in the area is paid (~ €8,05 per hour), and spaces can be difficult to find. The nearest parking garages are Q-park Nieuwendijk at Nieuwezijds Kolk 18 (650 meters), Q-park Bijenkorf at Beursstraat 15 (950 meters), and Q-park Europarking at Marnixstraat 250 (1,300 meters). You can also park at a P+R location and travel into the centre by public transport.
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