“The secret of alchemy was in fact the transcendent function, the transformation of personality through the blending and fusion of the noble with the base components, of the differentiated with the inferior functions, of the conscious with the unconscious.”

Jung spent almost half his life studying alchemy. Unburying ancient texts, translating them, analysing their symbolism. Why? Because he saw there a culmination of all his work thousands of years before he was even born. Join us into this deep exploration of the transformation of our psychology.

“The functions are vehicles for the forces, or influences, or activities, which emanate from those two principles, those two gods, Logos and Eros. And perhaps you can also understand that if there were no principles whatever outside of the functions, one could never hope to detach anything form the unconscious. There must be something which helps one to detach a function, some principle outside which allows one to tear it away from the original lump of unconsciousness.”

There are few things in the psychology of Jung that are as fundamental as the opposites of Eros and Logos and how they share and form every aspect of our psyche up to the point that they can determine the basis of our whole psychology and worldview.

“The inferior function contains the priceless treasure of life force and therefore it is so important to bring it up. It is not for vulgar or criminal purposes, for the sake of its evil, that I try to bring out the swine or the criminal in people-whatever kindly critics may think.” - C.G. Jung

For Jung our dark and hidden parts are the gate to personal development. The most immediate path we have is our inferior function with which we can pull up the complete unconscious from our psyche. In this event we will explore this function and why inferior doesn’t mean lesser.