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A lecture during the Eranos conferences of 1938. Paul Masson-Oursel is

the speaker. Carl Gustav Jung is listening on the left side of the image.
The Eranos Circle (in German Eranoskreis) is an interdisciplinary organization.
of scientific and philosophical multicultural analysis. The name was chosen by
Rudolf Otto, to refer to the annual meetings held at Olga's house
Frébe-Kapteyn (1881-1962). Her original goal was to explore the links between the
Eastern and Western thought.

In Greek, eranos means shared food, frugal food where everyone

contribute your part, shared celebration.

If Rudolf Otto, as the denominator, and Frau Fröbe, as the founder, compose the two
The vertices of the emerging symbolic triangle will be Carl Gustav Jung who will occupy the
third vertex, as an inspirer. It will therefore be the approach
multidisciplinary group of wise individuals, scientists, researchers, and specialists
the one that crystallizes and shapes the valuable results of this shared celebration.

Each conference lasts about eight days, during which all the
participants eat, sleep, and live together, promoting a closeness that
It encourages an atmosphere of dialectical discussion. Each year a new topic is presented.
and the idea is that each thinker deliberates for two hours about the same subject
contribution to the banquet of ideas by outlining a pictorial sketch that is
immediately shared and complemented by the various strokes coming from
from the different intellectual palettes. In this way, we would introduce ourselves into a
Gestalt colorist generated by the synergetic kaleidoscope of multiple thinkers
immersed in a productive intellectual discourse.

Index
1 Foundation
2 Significance of the Circle
3 Stages and representatives
4 Conferences and chronology
5 See also
6 Bibliography
7 References
8 External links
Foundation

Ascona in 1932.
Starting in 1933, the foundation and the beginning of the successive meetings will take shape.
annual conferences held during the month of August in Ascona (Switzerland), to
banks of Lake Mayor, extending over 55 years and enduring until the
year 1988. Starting in 1989, Eranos leaves its classic cycle of conferences to
reduce to committees that study monographic topics under the direction of Rudolf
Ritsema (1918-2006). Currently, a small group of Orientalist sign is functioning.
another sign of interculturality.

The publication of the Eranos-Jahrbücher series (Eranos notebooks) is a compilation.

of the lectures given at the meetings of the Eranos Circle
constitutes, in the words of Mircea Eliade, one of the best collections
scientific studies related to the study of symbolism.

Significance of the Circle

Beneath all of Eranos' discourse lies the search for meaning, the hermeneutics.
symbolic of meaning, the conjunction of opposites, the compensation and integration of
the polarized unilaterality through the Symbol. As referred to by Andrés Ortiz-Osés
illustrative result regarding the mediating position (complexio oppositorum),
both from Jung and from Eranos, the response that the great Swiss psychologist sent
to the founder of Eranos in 1945.4? In the face of the dilemma raised by having to
choosing between her motherhood and the direction of Eranos, Jung replies:

His vital work for Eranos has been essential and appropriate, although it enters into
contradiction with her duties as a mother, which are also essential and
adequate. One thing is necessary, but so is the other: one must not take a
decision, but to endure the opposers, for you yourself are a contradiction that
bubble trying to merge the incompatible substances of the masculine and the feminine
feminine in the fire of suffering, in order to shape the firm and unstitched.
We all have to go through this kind of conscious molting or
unconsciously, whether wanting it or not, the man is crucified.
between opposites and suffers until the third mediator arrives. Do not doubt the
authenticity of its two elements, and let what has to happen happen. Give yourself
reasoned with her daughter, considering herself a bad mother, defending her maternal duties.
against Eranos: but never doubt that Eranos is also something authentic that
has always been involved with you.

Therefore, one must endure the adversity of the opposition until reaching a resolution.
in the third mediator. Here lies the symbolic key of Jungian mythology.
Eranosian, based on the conjunction of disconnected realities. It is conceivable to view the Circle
from Eranos as a ritual space that embraces flowing time, joining the
scattered realities in connections of meaning. This is possible through the
symbolism, since the symbol appears as a configuring principle of the real.
Eranos had to overcome the atomization of knowledge, its one-sidedness and dogmatism.
consequent, seeking a holistic and synthetic worldview based on study
specialized in cosmogonic theories, initiation rites, the ideas
eschatological, the doctrines of salvation or redemption and the fundamental concepts
of God.

Stages and representatives

The complete list of representatives who were part of the Eranos Circle
it would be established in two large periods: 5? 6? 7?

Main stage 1933-1988

Charles R. C. Allberry
A. Hilary Armstrong
Leo Baeck
Hans Bünzinger
Julius Baum
Charlotte A. Baynes
Louis Beirnaert
Ernst Benz
Rudolf Bernoulli
Jean Brun
Martin Buber
Ernesto Buonaiuti
Walter Burkert
Frederik J. J. Buytendijk
M. Carl v. Cammerloher
Joseph Campbell
Chung-Yuan Chang
Paul Citroen
Vera Chr. C. Collum
Henry Corbin
Walter Robert Corti
Jean Daniélou
Theodor-Wilhelm Danzel
Martin C. D'Arcy
Yves A. Dauge
Bernard Delfgaauw
Friedrich Dessauer
Peter Dronke
Gilbert Durand
Robert Eisler
Mircea Eliade
Antoine Faivre
Markus Fierz
Marie-Louise von Franz
Joseph Gantner
Kurt Gerhardt
Wolfgang Giegerich
Erwin R. Goodenough
Michel Guiomar
Pierre Hadot
J. Wilhelm Hauer
Friedrich Heiler
Erich Heller
Pjotr Hendrix
Gustav Richard Heyer
James Hillman
Helmut Hoffmann
Gerald Holton
Stanley Romaine Hopper
Graham Hough
Michel Hulin
Rene Huyghe
Toshihiko Izutsu
Helmuth Jacobsohn
Aniela Jaffé
Edwin Oliver James
Adolf E. Jensen
Carl Gustav Jung
Werner Kaegi
Hans Kayser
Károly Kerényi
Geoffrey S. Kirk
Hans-Joachim Klimkeit
Max Knoll
Wilhelm Koppers
Hermann Landolt
Joseph Bernhard Lang
Detlef I. Lauf
John Layard
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Hans Leisegang
Karl Löwith
Ulrich Mann
Louis Massignon
Paul Masson-Oursel
Fritz Meier
Jean-Pierre de Menasce
David L. Miller
Siegfried Morenz
Alexandre Moret
Paul Mus
Georges Hermann Nagel
Erich Neumann
Heiko A. Oberman
Walter F. Otto
Paul Pelliot
Raffaele Pettazzoni
Charles Picard
Herbert Pietschmann
Helmuth Plessner
Manfred Porkert
Adolf Portmann
Laurens van der Post
Emil Preetorius
Ira Progoff
Jean Przyluski
Henri-Charles Puech
Max Pulver
Gilles Quispel
Paul Radin
Hugo Rahner
Kathleen Raine
Herbert Read
Karl Reinhardt
C. A. F. Rhys Davids
Peter Anselm Riedl
Erwin Rouselle
Christopher Rowe
Hans Sachsse
Shmuel Sambursky
Tilo Schabert
Karl Ludwig Schmidt
Paul Schmitt
Herbert Schneider
Gershom Scholem
Erwin Schrödinger
François Secret
Jean Servier
Daryush Shayegan
Morton Smith
Andreas Speiser
Roger A. Stamm
Sigrid Strauss-Kloebe
Hildemarie Streich
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Richard Thurnwald
Paul Tillich
Giuseppe Tucci
Shizuteru Ueda
Thure von Uexküll
Sándor Vág
Charles Virolleaud
Eric Voegelin
Boris Vysheslavtzeff
Wladimir Weidl
J. G. Weiss
Viktor Weisskopf
Heinz Westman
Hermann Weyl
Victor White
Lancelot Law Whyte
Hellmut Wilhelm
Walter Wili
Swami Yati Swara Ananda
Robert Charles Zaehner
Dominique Zahan
Alfred J. Ziegler
Heinrich Zimmer
Victor Zuckerkandl.
New cycle 1989-2013 (Friends of Eranos)
Emmanuel Anati
Sorin Antohi
A. Hilary Armstrong
Aleida Assmann
Jan Assmann
Polymnia Athanassiadi
Henri Atlan
Anthony Aveni
Moshe Barasch
Elisabetta Barone
Wolfgang Bauer
Gaetano Benedetti
Philippe Béneton
Norbert Bischof
Anders Björnsson
Gerhard B wering
Remo Bodei
Rémi Brague
Michael von Brück
Adrien Candiard
David Carrasco
Giovanni Casadio
Gabriele De Angelis
Georg Dürr
Elisabeth von Erdmann
Josef van Ess
Adriano Fabris
Håkan Forsell
Dieter Fuchs
Francesco Gaiffi
Giulia Sfameni Gasparro
Burkhard Gladigow
Helder Godinho
Friedrich Wilhelm Count
Fritz Graf
Heinz Halm
Joseph Hanimann
Walter Haug
Michael Henkel
John von Heyking
James Hillman
Erik Hornung
Michel Hulin
Moshe Idel
Massimo Iiritano
Alain Juranville
Hayao Kawai
Eiko Kawamura
Bernard McGinn
Steven McGuire
Reinhold Merkelbach
Flavia Monceri
Gerson Moreno-Riaño
Ulrich Müller-Herold
Yūjirō Nakamura
Friedrich Niewhner
Ryusuke Ohashi
Enzo Pace
Antonio Panaino
Michel-Yves Perrin
Aaron Powell
Ilya Prigogine
Chloé Ragazzoli
Matthias Riedl
Alessandro Scafi
Ina Schabert
Tilo Schabert
Annemarie Schimmel
Christoph Schumann
Rita Laura Segato
Kurt-Victor Selge
Jean Servier
Hans-Jörg Sigwart
Erika Simon
George Steiner
Elettra Stimilli
Zdenek Silver
Lawrence E. Sullivan
Arpad Szakolczai
Harald Szeemann
Joël Thomas
Alexander Thumfart
Alexandra Tischel
Stéphane Toussaint
Christine Trevett
Shizuteru Ueda
Olli-Pekka Vainio
Gianni Vattimo
Hendrik Simon Versnel
Julia Wannenmacher
Eugene Webb
R. J. Zwi Werblowsky
Joseph Zarone
El mire Zolla.
Conferences and chronology
Main stage 1933-19888?9?7?
1933: Yoga and meditation in the East and in the West.
1934: Symbolism of the East and the West and guide of the soul.
1935: Guide of the soul in the East and West.
1936: Formation of liberation ideas in East and West (1).
1937: Formation of liberation ideas in the East and West (2).
1938: Form and worship of the Great Mother.
1939: The symbolism of the renaissance in the religious concept of times and of
town.
1940, 1941: Trinidad, Christian symbol and gnosis.
1942: The hermetic principle in mythology, gnosis, and alchemy.
1943: Ancient solar culture and the symbolism of light in Gnosis and in the
early Christianity.
1944: The mysteries.
1945: The soul.
1946: Soul and nature.
1947: The man (1).
1948: The man (2).
1949: Man and the mythic world.
1950: Man and the ritual.
1951: Man and Time.
1952: Man and Energy.
1953: The man and the earth.
1954: The man and the transformation.
1955: The man and the sympathy of all things.
1956: Man and Creativity.
1957: Man and Meaning.
1958: Man and Peace.
1959: The Renewal of Man.
1960: Man and Training.
1961: The man in the field of effort concerning disorders.
1962: The man, the guide and the guided in work.
1963: Of the sense of utopia.
1964: The drama of man in the world of ideas.
1965: Shape as a task of the spirit.
1966: Creation and formation.
1967: The polarity of life.
1968: Tradition and present.
1969: Meaning and transformation of the image of man.
1970: Man and speech.
1971: The stages of life in the creative process.
1972: The kingdoms of color.
1973: Correspondences between man and the world.
1974: Standards in a Changing World.
1975: The Variety of Worlds.
1976: Unity and variety.
1977: The Sense of Imperfection.
1978: In time and out of time.
1979: Thought and mythical images.
1980: Extremes and borders.
1981: Rise and fall.
1982: The game of gods and men.
1983: Material and Imaginal Bodies.
1984: The beauty of the world.
1985: The hidden course of events.
1986: Human and cosmic reflection.
1987: Crossroads.
1988: Concordance or coincidence.
New cycle 1989-2013 (Friends of Eranos)
1990: Resurrection and immortality.
1991: Structures of Chaos.
1992: Migrations.
1993: The energy of words.
1994: Principles.
1995: The truth of dreams.
1996: Guilt.
1997: Cultures of Eros.
1998: The language of masks.
1999: The Order of Time.
2000: Pioneers, poets, teachers. Eranos and Monte Verità in the history of the
civilization of the 20th century.
2001: Prophets and prophecies.
2003: Human beings in war, in peace with nature.
2004: Religions: the religious experience.
2005: God or gods.
2006: The city: axis and center of the world.
2012: The Eranos movement.
2013: The virtues of tolerance.
See also
Jungian interpretation of religion
Bibliography
The Eranos conferences were compiled into 57 volumes (from 1933 to
1988), in German, English, and French. In Spanish, three are available.
compilation volumes published by Editorial Anthropos that include
partially some of those conferences. The edition was prepared by the
Professor Andrés Ortiz-Osés, who was the pioneer in the introduction of the Circle
Eranos in the Hispanic sphere:

Kernyi, K., E. Neumann, G. Scholem, J. Hillman. Eranos Circle I: Archetypes and

Collective symbols. Barcelona: Editorial Anthropos, 1994/2004. ISBN 84-7658-435-0.
Karl Kerényi: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 15 (1947), Primitive Man and Mystery
Erich Neumann: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 18 (1950), The Matriarchal Consciousness and the
moon
Gershom Scholem: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 30 (1961), Good and Evil in Kabbalah
James Hillman: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 42 (1973), The Dream and the Underworld
Neumann, E., M. Eliade, G. Durand, H. Kawai and V. Zuckerkandl. Eranos Circle II:
The Hidden Gods
Erich Neumann: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 25 (1956), The Creative Man and the
transformation
Mircea Eliade: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 30 (1961), The creator and his shadow
Gilbert Durand: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 49 (1980), The Notion of Limit in the
religious morphology
Hayao Kawai: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 54 (1985), The Hidden Gods in Mythology
Japanese
Victor Zuckerkandl: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 30 (1961), Singing and Speaking
Jung, C. G., W. F. Otto, H. Zimmer, P. Hadot and J. Layard. Eranos Circle III:
Man and Meaning
Carl Gustav Jung: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 2 (1934), On the archetypes of the
collective unconscious
Walter F. Otto: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 7 (1939), The Meaning of the Mysteries
Eleusis
Heinrich Zimmer: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 6 (1938), The Indian Mother of the World
Pierre Hadot: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 43 (1974), The Figure of Socrates
John Layard: Eranos Yearbook, Volume 16 (1948), The construction of man in
Malekula
VV. AA.: The Circle of Eranos. A Symbolic Hermeneutics of Meaning. Barcelona:
Editorial Anthropos, 1994. ISBN 02115611.
VV. AA.: An evaluative interpretation of our culture. Analysis and reading of
symbolic store of Eranos. Anthology and studies. Barcelona: Editorial Anthropos,
1994. ISBN 11302089.
Durand, Gilbert (2011). The spiritual crisis in the West. The conferences of
Eranos. Edition and translation from French by Alain Verjat. The Tree of Paradise No. 72
(Major series), rustic. Madrid: Siruela Editions. ISBN 978-84-9841-623-7.
Ortiz-Osés, Andrés (2012). Hermeneutics of Eranos. The symbolic structures of
world. Prologue Eugenio Trías. Appendix by Gilbert Durand. Barcelona: Anthropos
Editorial. ISBN 9788415260363.
In English
Jung, Carl Gustav, The Solar Myths and Opicinus de Canistris: Notes of the Seminar
given at Eranos in 1943 (The solar myth and Opicinus of Canistris: seminar notes
held at Eranos in 1943). Daimon, 2015. ISBN 9783856309763
Tilo Schabert, ed. The Eranos Movement. A Story of Hermeneutics, Wuerzburg:
Koenigshausen & Neumann, 2016, 202 p. ISBN 978-3-8260-5855-4
References
Arnau, Juan (December 2, 2017). Henry Corbin. Angel Vision. Levante. The
Valencian Mercantile. Postscript. Consulted on December 7, 2017.
Definition of 'synergy' in the Wiktionary
Eranos Yearbooks. Consulted on July 19, 2010.
Eranos Circle III, presentation: [1], see also bibliography.
Eranos. "Speakers". Consulted on December 29, 2010.
Eranos Foundation. 'List of Eranos Lecturers 1933-1988 and 1989-2005'. Consulted
December 29, 2010.
Ortiz-Osís, Andrés (2012). Hermeneutics of Eranos. The symbolic structures of
world. Prologue Eugenio Trías. Appendix of Gilbert Durand. Barcelona: Anthropos
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Eranos. 'Themes'. Consulted on December 29, 2010.
Eranos Foundation. "List of the first 68 Eranos Yearbooks". Consulted on the 29th of
December 2010.
External links
Wikimedia Commons hosts a multimedia category about the Eranos Circle.
Official website of the Eranos Foundation
Amici di Eranos website
The Eranos Circle Eugenio Trías
Eranos Circle Analytical Psychology
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