The lecture series Clinical Psychology II is about deepening the basics of clinical disorders (appearance, etiology, classification). Selected concepts and treatment methods of clinical-psychological interventions (including prevention, psychotherapy, rehabilitation) are taught. Knowledge of intervention research in clinical psychology (including psychotherapy research) as well as questions about the evaluation of practical preventive and intervention measures are part of the lectures as well. With the help of case vignettes from different areas, the clinical disorders are illuminated interculturally and throughout the arts.

This lecture deals with the cultural and conceptual history of the so-called trickster figure. They are characters who deceive, lie and behave in extremely strange ways. Their dubious behavior creates a special attraction that science has never been able to ignore. The term refers to a mostly male mythical figure who, equipped with supernatural or divine abilities, brings sorrow and well-being to people at the same time through cunning. Trickster stories have been told in almost every religious and cultural denomination. Stories of characters that are sometimes comical, but which highlight important social values. Some examples of diverse cultures are the African tricksters Ananse, Eshu and Legba, the Coyote, Wakdjunkaga or Manabozo found in America or the Asian tricksters Susa-no-o, Sun Wuk'ung, Agu Tampa and Horangi. In Europe, the Greek messenger of the Gods Hermes and the Nordic Loki are considered tricksters. Across different cultures worldwide, tricksters have similar social functions. It is therefore necessary to open up new Jungian access paths for the trickster figure against the background of archetype and individuation.

Edgar Allen Poe, the poet and writer who raised the unconscious to a new level of research in 19th-century American literature, also developed new literary genres such as the first detective novel and the beginnings of science fiction. Poe himself considered the story about the Parisian amateur detective C. Auguste Dupin, who also served Arthur Conan Doyle as a template for his Sherlock Holmes, to be one of his most successful. The short story was the subject of an extensive literary-historical debate between Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan in the 1960s. Against the background of Dark Romanticism and psychoanalytic concepts, Poe’s short story is critically re-examined.

Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs between the Twilight of the Gods and World Destruction: Analytical-therapeutic approaches to Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk" This lecture will not only be about Wagner's opera in musical terms, but rather about re-opening this work in a symbolic and cultural way. The “Ring” has become operatic history as the overtaxing of itself: the failure in the “Götterdämmerung” has paradigmatically merged into the mantra of the work. The "Ring" as being overwhelmed, overloaded, overexerted, was seen from the beginning as hubris and excessiveness, an attack on the intellectual space of the 19th-century and the newly emerging society of industrialization. The "Ring" is Richard Wagner's attempt to tell (himself) the whole world and human history (newly) emotionally, to measure himself against "Orestie", "Hamlet" or "Faust", Homer, Beethoven and on everything that art and the humanities have produced. It is therefore necessary to open up new analytical-therapeutic access paths for us today against the backdrop of narcissism, intergenerational traumata and individuation for the diverse symbols, signs and figures of the "Ring".

The lecture series Clinical Psychology II is about deepening the basics of clinical disorders (appearance, etiology, classification). Selected concepts and treatment methods of clinical-psychological interventions (including prevention, psychotherapy, rehabilitation) are taught. Knowledge of intervention research in clinical psychology (including psychotherapy research) as well as questions about the evaluation of practical preventive and intervention measures are part of the lectures as well. With the help of case vignettes from different areas, the clinical disorders are illuminated interculturally and throughout the arts.

Among Poe scholars and students alike, it is a widespread truth, that Poe depicts many characters in his works despereately in need of psychotherapy and medication - or to put it in the terminology of nineteenth-century medicine - opium, electricity, blood-letting, purgatives and a spin on the rotary couch, just to name a few. In this seminar, the darker sides of American literature, the delusions, the superstitiousness, the psychopathic behaviour or monomania will be selectively scrutinized and elucidated starting with Poe‘s short stories and following up the path far into the postmodern era.

The lecture series Clinical Psychology II is about deepening the basics of clinical disorders (appearance, etiology, classification). Selected concepts and treatment methods of clinical-psychological interventions (including prevention, psychotherapy, rehabilitation) are taught. Knowledge of intervention research in clinical psychology (including psychotherapy research) as well as questions about the evaluation of practical preventive and intervention measures are part of the lectures as well. With the help of case vignettes from different areas, the clinical disorders are illuminated interculturally and throughout the arts.

Sigmund Freud has the merit of having introduced dreams as a research subject to science. Jung, on the other hand, freed dreams from the sphere of the purely individual to the collective, archetypal contents and symbols that were given to humankind a priori. At the beginning of a psychotherapy, the initial dream starts off the actual therapy. Similar to the way in which the existence of a person in the “scene” can be communicated in an extremely condensed form in the first session, the initial dream already contains references to the past, but also to the future. In the Jungian sense, the initial dream always contains a final aspect, already showing unimagined development possibilities of a person in symbolic form. The initial dream can therefore also be viewed as a condensed microcosm of therapy.

There are probably few seminars that combine Marquis de Sade, the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masow and Ignatius de Loyola in one title. What are the possible similarities between a saint living in chastity, who brought the Societas Jesu into being, which was almost synonymous with abundance of power, dogmatics and the political entanglements within the Counter-Reformation, and a French nobleman who was imprisoned for decades in the Bastille and who kept himself alive only with ink and pen and obsessive sexual and violent fantasies? It seems that there are not only centuries between these antipodes of extremes, but also gaping abysses and discourses about the normal and the pathological. But are their obsessions really so contrary to us postmodernists? Is one to be affirmed, the other to be condemned per se? Does one have to canonize the one and condem the other, even burn the Marquis according to Simone de Beauvoir? In the seminar, the attempt is made to make the impossible possible at least as a thought operation and, in spite of all prophecies of doom, to have both the so-called sacred and the perverse figure as a continuum of human experience, such as de Sade, von Sacher-Masow and de Loyola to be able to contrast better and to trace de Sade's traces in works of modernism in a variety of ways and to be able to work them out explicitly against the backdrop of archetypal patterns.

Ongoing Seminars regarding theory and differential treatment options for clinical disease categories.

Ongoing Seminars regarding theory/conceptions of Jungian Analysis.

The lecture "Mozart's Magic Flute as a path of individuation between Freemasonry and archetype" will not only be about Mozart's opera from a musical point of view, but rather about re-opening this work in a symbolic way. The work “Magic Flute” has already posed many puzzles since its premiere, there seem to be two completely different levels of understanding: on the one hand, the Papageno world of popular theater and on the other, a mystery world for the initiated. The focus of the lecture is the archetypal development of the symbolism and structure of the Magic Flute and its meaning against the background of individuation and self-development.

Ongoing clinical Seminars for medical practitioners in the field.

Introductory seminar elucidating the philosophical background of Daseinsanalyse.

In the first written documents of mankind, dreams and their manifold patterns of interpretation had already been reported. The understanding of dreams reveals a lot about the respective culture and the prevailing concept of mankind of the epoch, from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages and into our post-modern era. Sigmund Freud has the inestimable merit of having introduced dreams as a research object to science, while Jung, on the other hand, opened dreams from the sphere of the purely individual to collective, archetypal contents and symbols that were given to people a priori.

"Seminar to situate Jungian psychology in the context of neurophilosophy and transhumanism. The application of machines transforms our world, but at the same time requires a certain perception of it. Machines have thus become an exemplary model of the cultural construction of the world, both in coping with the past and in taming the future, and thus become the object of a semiotics of cultural representations. "Transhumans are the first manifestation of a new kind of evolutionary being," says the American futurist FM-2030. Transhumanists invoke the age of the fusion "man-machine" in increasing numbers. In addition to the biotechnological manipulation of the genome, it is increasingly neurotechnologies that humans use to modify their own selves. With the therapeutic success of these technologies, we are faced with previously unimaginable neurotechnological restructuring measures of body and mind, which are aimed at the absolute "optimization" of the human being. What effects does “homo roboticus” have on psychotherapy, especially on Jungian psychology? Forms of self-instrumentalization, self-reification and self-cyborgization are discussed throughout the history of ideas."

In the workshop "The Unconscious in Film", the multiple universe of the film director David Lynch is examined in more detail based on his three works "Lost Highway," "Mullholland Drive" and "Inland Empire". One could easily say that his works represent "dreams in dreams" within the respective cinematic narratives. The workshop is an attempt to introduce Lynch's opus and at the same time unveils a novel way of accessing the unconscious in movies.

First and foremost, the nightmare indicates an oppressive situation that usually occurs during sleep, in which the sleeper feels a huge weight on his chest, which constricts him and steals his breath. From the 16th-century onnwards, the cause of this condition had been explained medically on the one hand, and demonologically on the other hand, whereby the lines of interpretation were closely interrelated. All in all, these are ideas that found echo in the demonological discourse, in literary, religious-moralizing and superstition-critical writings as well as in the narrative motifs of popular culture. To this day, it is controversial in research what interactions existed between these different levels of preoccupation with the Alb and what significance these fantastic imaginations had for the social behavior of particular or larger population groups.

Ongoing Seminaries regarding theory and treatment options for clinical disease categories

Seminar about an in-depth study between Freudian concepts of neurosis vers Jungian theories about complexes

The concept of trauma represents a cultural interpretation model of modernity. It links discourses in medicine, psychoanalysis, art and literary theory to form an interwoven network of seeming symmetries, which no longer refers to the individual history of a specific patient, but rather points to subtle ruptures in collective memory. The fragmentation and aporias of understanding, representation and referentiality were only expressed in the poststructuralist theories of meaning in the middle of the 20th century, but sparked their acuity as early as 1900, since Freud's concept of trauma as a psychoanalytic topos provided an elucidating background for it while creating what is ultimately perceived as 'modern' or what is the alterity of modernity.

"The lecture “Libido / complexes or the will to power- C.G. Jung and Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: A Comparison” does not only portray Jung's ambivalent relationship to philosophy in general and to Nietzsche in particular. Above all, Nietzsche's philosophical doctrine of the will to power and Jung's psychological interpretation of the world are brought into a stimulating dialogue in the sense of a philosophia perennis. Against the background of the history of philosophy (including German idealism and the so-called “Lebensphilosophie”), the concepts of libido / complexes and the will to power are thoroughly discussed in detail."