Performance (in-person and ZOOM online): Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7:30 pm – 9:45 pm EDT
SPECIAL: We will host an in-person Social Hour before the performance, beginning at 6:30 pm at The Link Counseling Center. Enjoy some informal chat time with fellow Jung Society members and attendees and connect with other people interested in Jung and psychological-spiritual work. Meet our board members and give us your suggestions for future programs and speakers. Shop our book sale and visit our well-stocked and extensive library, available to our members. We look forward to seeing you there!
This event will be recorded. If your schedule does not allow you to attend the lecture, you can still reserve a ticket and a recording will be emailed out to you to watch at your convenience within 30 days of the lecture. Access to the recording cannot be extended past 30 days for any reason. No refunds will be given if you are unable to watch the recording within 30 days.
Cost: members: FREE; non-members: $35; students $15
CEUs: $25 (APC, LPC, LMSW, LCSW, AMFT, LMFT)
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Description:
“We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling”
— Jimmy Neil Smith
Performing the Classics is a solo-performer storytelling program that dramatizes four classic selections of literature from the Western tradition including Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Homer’s The Odyssey, The Book of Job, from the Bible, and the fairytale Jack and the Beanstalk.
“A work of art exists as an autonomous being.”
— C.G. Jung
Jungian symbols will be analyzed within classic works of literature as projections of the unconscious. Aesthetic performance is therapeutic through understanding the healing properties of reconnecting the conscious and unconscious and could create a numinous experience. Art and the realm of experience coincide and foster a development of “self”.
John W. Tucker Jr. is a graduate of Kennesaw State University’s Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, where he began his focus of adapting literature for the stage. As he continued his training, he began combining his enthusiasm for adaptation with some of the most beloved and classic stories in the Western tradition. Initially, his stories were performed for ESOL (English as a second language) students, but quickly expanded to students of other disciplines such as English, History, and Philosophy, as well as diverse audiences of all ages. John currently teaches ancient Latin at Dunwoody High School and Kennesaw State University.
