How to Live a Larger Creative Life with James Hollis

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This episode features Dr. James Hollis, a Washington D.C.-based Jungian psychoanalyst, teacher and author of over twenty books. We cover topics such as the relationship between anxiety, depression and creativity, choosing growth over comfort, facing fear and lethargy, living an examined life, dreams and the unconscious, the meaning of soul, midlife and the second half of life, asking better questions, creative discipline, personal accountability and what it means to live a larger creative life.

Biography

Dr. James Hollis is a Jungian analyst, trained in Zurich, Switzerland, and based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of twenty-two books, including The Middle Passage, Swamplands of the Soul, The Eden Project, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Living an Examined Life and his latest book, co-written with L.A.-based artist Enrique Martínez Celaya, Tending the Fire: Creativity, Purpose, and the Unfolding Self.

"Creativity is not so much an act of will as it is opening oneself to the dynamics of the unconscious."

Hollis taught humanities for twenty-six years in various colleges and universities before retraining as a Jungian analyst at the Jung Institute of Zurich. He served for many years as Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Texas and was Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington until 2019, where he now serves on the Board of Directors. He is a retired Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, was the first Director of Training of the Philadelphia Jung Institute, is Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation and serves as Professor of Jungian Studies at Saybrook University.

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