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I am a professor of Kabbalah, writing inter alia on its psychological thought. I was exposed to the writings of the late James Hillman in 1988, and corresponded with him for several years (the system was that one sent him a fax and he replied by postcard...). In 2012, I met David L. Miller, who urged me to explore further the works of Wolfgang Giegerich. Since then I have been increasingly captivated by them. I am especially interested in the discussions of history and soul and the Western-Buddhist comparison. I look forward to taking part in discussions and activities and congratulate ISPDI for all of its prolific discourse.

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My name is Artur Lucman Nogueira Braga, I am a trained psychologist living in Switzerland but originally from Brazil. I have been exposed to Jung's theory and biography since I was a child. My father is a Jungian analyst and my older brother as well. I started studying Jung when I was a teenager and it provoked a big interest in philosophy. In this way, I decided to study philosophy and psychology. I did both degrees at two different universities in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. One of my biggest interests in philosophy was to understand more about the epistemology of Analytical Psychology. This led me more and more to study Kant and then German Idealism. In 2011 I joined a study group about Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, after that in another group interested in Science of Logic of Hegel and I had the intuition that the debate…

A German by birth, Master's degrees in Sociology and Psychology and currently in doctoral studies I am simultaneously striving for a training as analytical psychotherapist at the Küsnacht institute. Coming from a sociological background, I am interested in social and cultural evolution, i.e. (macro-)social transformations and their formal correlation ("Formzusammenhang") with symbolic patterns ("symbolische Formen"), ontologies and technologies in order to explain the seemingly epochal transformation ("Epochenschwelle") that occurs in the wake of our Technological Civilization. In different, more giegerichian, terms I am working on a history of the Soul - even though I am not as purely psychological in my approach as Giegerich himself is.

Concerning my interest in Jungian thought and practice, I was initially looking for the transformation of the collective unconscious in the Technoscene to combat it's inherent meaning crisis, but having encountered Giegerich I am not so sure if "archetypes" and "meaning" are still th…