In our era many have sought insight into human destructiveness through reflections grounded in the psychoanalytic tradition—thinkers such as Paul Ricoeur, M. Scott Peck, and Jeffrey Burton Russell. It has been Jungian psychoanalysis, however, which has provided the most honest, sustained, and adequate reflections upon human evil. Jung’s great contribution to the problem of evil was his recognition that the shadow—which has both personal and archetypal dimensions—is not identical with evil.
In this program, Dr. Moore analyzes contemporary Jungian understandings of evil (Jung, von Franz, Sanford) and suggests some directions for further research.
Robert L. Moore (August 13, 1942 - June 18, 2016) was an American Jungian analyst and consultant in private practice in Chicago, Illinois. He was the Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the Chicago Theological Seminary; a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago; and director of research for the Institute for the Science of Psychoanalysis. Author and editor of numerous books in psychology and spirituality, he lectured internationally on his formulation of a Neo-Jungian paradigm for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. He was working on Structural Psychoanalysis and Integrative Psychotherapy: A Neo-Jungian Paradigm at the time of his death.
Dr Robert Moore was an internationally recognized psychotherapist and consultant in private practice in Chicago. Although he worked with both men and women, and was considered one of the leading therapists specializing in psychotherapy with men because of his discovery of the Archetypal Dynamics of the Masculine Self (King, Warrior, Magician, Lover). He served as Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Spirituality at the Graduate Center of the Chicago Theological Seminary, and has served as a Training Analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He is Co-founder of the Chicago Center for Integrative Psychotherapy.