Conferences

Sunday 27^th May, at 11.00, at the National Theatre's Black Box, Ion Vianu will hold the conference entitled Carl Gustav Jung, a thinker of the crossroads. The price of a ticket is 23 or 10 lei.

About the conference

The conference offers a closer look on the life and work of the great founder of analytical psychology, of the influences which crossed him, of the crossroad character of his work, where science meets religion, agnosticism meets mysticism, tradition meets modernity. The conference examines the extent in which Jung's inheritance could contribute to the salvation of the "profound man", who is opposed to the contemporary flat and superficial individual. Jung could become an even more important reference for the 21st century than he was for the preceding one. 

About Ion Vianu

Psychiatrist, essayist, novelist, born in Bucharest in 1934. The son of Tudor Vianu. Unfinished classical studies. PhD. in medicine, psychiatrist for 40 years: in Romania, where he had academic positions, and in Switzerland, as a practitioner. He emigrated in 1977 and was active, in exile, amongst the movement for human rights and against the political usage of psychiatry, by publishing and working at Radio Free Europe. His publishing activity, in favour of human rights, also continues after the revolution, in Romania. As an essayist he made his debut with the volume Style and Person (1975), being influenced of psychoanalysis but unlisted in a psychoanalytic society. As a memorialist he wrote Remembrances in Dialogue (1994), together with Matei Călinescu. He initiates a cycle of novels with the title The Archive of Treason and Wrath, from which The Notebooks of Ozias (2004) and Vasiliu, Loose Leaves (2006) were published. The project, which will be finished with a third book is meant to be a description of the past century, especially of its second half. Another novel, Paramnesias, with an autobiographical note, was published in 2005. He is a member of the Group for Social Dialogue, senator of the Civic Alliance. In 2009 he publishes Exercises in Sincerity, an account of his civic involvement from the seventies. In 2010 he publishes a new autobiographical novel, Amor Intellectualis, which România literară designated as the Book of the Year 2010; also for this novel, the author received the prize of Excellency Opera omnia offered by Radio Romania Cultural as well as the prize for memoirs of the magazine Observator Cultural, and the Special Prize of the Union of Writers for the year 2010. Also in 2010 the Spanish translation of the novel Vasiliu, Loose Leaves/ Vasiliu, hojas sueltas, made by Ioana Zlotescu, was published.

Photo Cristea Enache

Translated by: Izabella Feher

MTTLC, Bucharest University