BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VEVENT UID:307@junginoc.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261018T130000 DTSTAMP:20260914T164032Z URL:https://junginoc.org/events/2026-10-18-kopp-marx/ SUMMARY:The Eros Problem in the Age of the Puer Aeternus DESCRIPTION:\nThis program will be recorded and made available publicly on our \;YouTube channel. You do not need to have registered to view the video.\n\n\n\nStarlite Terrace is the Los Angeles apartment building where four protagonists live in the eponymous novel by Patrick Roth. Over the c ourse of a year\, from June 2002 to June 2003\, four residents tell their highly personal stories. At their centers they are “average” people in or beyond midlife\, whose thoughts\, feelings and actions are influenced to a high degree by movies and the movie industry. However\, in each of th eir singular collisions with life\, a universal and mythical pattern is un furled which gives these so-called ordinary people a dignity they have lon g since lost in everyday life. It is the narrator\, a fifth protagonist as it were\, who assembles the life shards of his characters into four “Ho llywood individuation stories\,” as Roth calls them.\n\n\n\nIn this prog ram we will deal with the third story\, entitled “Rider on the Storm.” It is the seemingly ordinary story of Gary - a man shaped by the hippie m ovement whose attempt to build a late-in-life romantic relationship is thw arted by the lingering shadow of a past rape. On the transpersonal-archety pal level of the narrative\, in the imagery of the flood\, the storm\, and the downfall\, the dark\, destructive god of instinct reveals himself - a n aspect of the fading divine image under the signs of Wotan and Yahweh. S wept up in the whirlwind of the great transformation and at the same time identifying with the rejuvenated image of God - the puer aeternus - which is emerging in his psychological background\, Gary finds himself caught be tween all sides. His only salvation lies in clinging to the anima\, the fe minine principle of feeling that mediates between the opposites.\n\n\n\nLi sten to Patrick Roth read "Rider on the Storm" (26 minutes)\n\n\n\nPurchas e Starlite Terrace on Amazon\n\n\n\nWikipedia article about Starlite Terra ce\n\n\n\nMichaela Kopp-Marx\, PhD\, is in training as a Jungian analyst a t the Research and Training Centre for Depth Psychology according to C. G. Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz in Zurich and is authorized to conduct co ntrol case analyses. \; She is also a professor of Modern German Liter ature at the University of Heidelberg. Her field of work and research is m odern and contemporary literature\, especially the interrelations between visual art\, film\, and literature (Rilke and Rodin: In Search of the True Way of Writing\, 1999). She is particularly interested in C.G. Jung’s a nalytical psychology\, including the theory of archetypes and symbol theor y in contemporary literature\, especially in the work of the author Patric k Roth. In addition to interpretive essays and anthologies on Roth’s lit erature\, she published an annotated new edition of his Die Christus Trilo gie in 2017.\n\n\n\nPurchase Die Christus Trilogie\, in German\, with comm entary by Michaela Kopp-Marx\, on Amazon\n\n\n\nLearning objectives:\n\n\n \n\nExplain how the anima can play a mediating role in a man’s individua tion journey.\n\n\n\nDiscuss if neglecting the eros principle can lead to a new path to the anima.\n\n\n\nLearn what it means to experience the puer aeternus archetype individually and collectively.\n\n\n\n\nImage: Peter B irkhäuser\, Puer Aeternus (Oil\, 1960)\n\n\n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://junginoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/ Kopp-Marx.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR