Remedios Varo: The Interior Castle
An Imaginary meeting, Carl Jung (died 1961) & Teresa of Avila (died 1582): Two Spiritual Pilgrims
On just turning 21, I found myself in Rome about to begin a diploma in spiritual theology. The main focus of this study was the works of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross.
Around 30 years later I found myself in a teaching position and felt the need to find a psychologist whose writings had historical and cultural meaning. I found Carl Jung.
Jung, like me, had a Christian upbringing and had migrated to a secular humanist philosophy but one rich with mythic and cultural underpinnings.
In this presentation my intention is to bring together these two major life events and offer some reflective ponderings in the form of an imaginary conversation
Dr. David Russell
David lives in Blackheath in the Blue Mountains.
On retiring from a teaching and researching role at Western Sydney University’s School of Psychology, he took up a psychology practice in Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Now, as a part-time psychotherapist, part-time academic and very active grandparent, he maintains a small private clinical practice and has a minor role as an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Metavision Institute.
He is a past-Present of the Sydney Jung Society.