Actress Kathleen Chalfant and analyst Margaret Klenck will interpret C.G. Jung's Red Book during THE RED BOOK DIALOGUES at the Rubin Museum of Art on Sunday, November 15th at 6PM.
Kathleen Chalfant is a Tony Award-nominated and Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning American actress who came to prominence for her role in Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. As Vivian Bearing in Margaret Edson's play Wit for she received the Outer Critics, Drama Desk, Obie and Lucille Lortel awards. During her work with Wit, she incorporated her experiences dealing with the concurrent terminal cancer of her brother Alan Palmer. In addition, she shaved her head for the role. For her 2003 performance in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads, Chalfant won a second Obie award. This year she was in Tony Gilroy's Duplicity, had a recurring role on the FX series Rescue Me and can be seen in the new NBC series Mercy this fall.
Margaret Klenck MDiv, LP, is a Jungian Analyst in private practice in New York City. She is a graduate from the C.G. Jung Institute of New York, and holds a Masters of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, where she concentrated in Psychology and Religion. Margaret is a member of the newly formed Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York, for which she is the Director of Admission and Vice President, as well as faculty member and supervisor. She is also a member and on the faculty of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts and has served on the faculty of the Blanton-Peale Institute. Recently, Margaret participated in the PBS two-part series "The Question of God: Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis."
WNYC is a media sponsor of The Red Book of C.G. Jung. Promotional support is provided by Pacifica Graduate Institute. Programs presented in association with the C.G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology.
The Red Book of C.G. Jung: Creation of a New Cosmology
This unprecedented exhibition marks the first public presentation of the preeminent psychologist C. G. Jung's (1875-1961) famous Red Book. During the period in which he worked on this book Jung developed his principal theories of archetypes, collective unconscious, and the process of individuation. It is possibly the most influential unpublished work in the history of psychology. More than two-thirds of the large, red, leather-bound manuscript's pages are filled with Jung's brightly hued and striking graphic forms paired with his thoughts written in a beautiful, illuminated style. Jung was fascinated by the mandala-an artistic representation of the inner and outer cosmos used in Tibetan Buddhism to help practitioners reach enlightenment-and used mandala structures in a number of his own works.
