Crick Crack Club Talks: Eating the White Snake

Eating the White Snake'
A Talk by Catherine Bygott (with Ben Haggarty)
 
Servants, kings, forbidden food, talking animals & the repayment of debts... Can these fairytale components be a mirror for the human subconscious? How do we relate to the archetypal characters in stories? What is it in stories that we find so appealing...?

In the fourth of the Crick Crack Club talks on myth and meaning, Jungian analyst Catherine Bygott suggests that it is the capacity of stories to reflect a deep core of truth about our humanity, that makes stories so compelling.

Tonight's talk is a chance to get an introductory glimpse of renowned psychiatrist, Carl Jung's, map of the soul; through the lens of a grown-up Grimms fairytale - The White Snake (retold this evening by Ben Haggarty) and the patterns, metaphors and symbols found lurking within it.

After the story and talk, it’ll be your chance to talk, question, muse and mull over what you’ve heard, what you think, what you agree with and what you don't – whilst drinking wine and nibbling nibbles.

Creator of some of the best known psychological concepts, Jung (1875 - 1961), has been influential in psychiatry, philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, and literature. His outlook was a theory of collective sub-consciousness, capable of influencing archetypal introvert and extrovert behaviours, and containing a hidden objective knowledge which we all know, but don't know that we know.