Sat, Oct 25
|Church of Reconciliation
WORKSHOP: "Jung's Approach to Alchemy" led by Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst
Jung was engrossed in the study of alchemy as an inner path to transformation with symbols connected to the collective unconscious. He wrote, “Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious ...
Time & Location
Oct 25, 2025, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Church of Reconciliation, 110 N Elliott Rd, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
About the Event
Workshop on "Jung's Approach to Alchemy"
Stanton Marlan, Ph.D., Jungian Psychoanalyst
Jung was engrossed in the study of alchemy as an inner path to transformation with symbols connected to the collective unconscious. He wrote, “Only by discovering alchemy have I clearly understood the Unconscious is a process and that ego’s rapport with the Unconscious and its contents initiate an evolution, more precisely, a real metamorphosis of the psyche.”
Dr. Marlan will begin Saturday by continuing discussion on the Dark Tremendum and the value of darkness. Next, he will present Jung’s approach to Alchemy, illustrating the stages of transformation. In the final section of the day he will share information on his book-in-progress on the Illuminati, the discovery of a light in the darkness which emerges at a new level of consciousness.
Biography of Stanton Marlan
Stanton Marlan is an archetypally-oriented Jungian analyst and clinical psychologist who has a long-time passion for alchemical and dream studies. He worked closely with James Hillman, first as his analysand and later as a colleague and friend.
Dr. Marlan holds two Ph.Ds. from Duquesne University, one in Clinical Psychology and the other in Philosophy. He is a training and supervising analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, President of the Pittsburgh Society of Jungian Analysts, and past President of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis. He is an adjunct Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University and a Clinical Supervisor at Duquesne’s Psychology Clinic.
Dr. Marlan has lectured widely at Jungian and Archetypal conferences in the United States and abroad and has taught at the C. G. Jung Institute Zurich as well as at other Jungian institutes and universities.
He has edited a number of books including Salt and the Alchemical Soul, and is the author of several books including The Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness, and C. G. Jung and the Alchemical Imagination: Passages into the Mystery of Psyche and Soul, which was awarded Best Theoretical Book in Psychoanalysis 2021 by the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis.
He has a private practice in Pittsburgh.