16/09/2026
What does a medieval poem about a journey through hell have to do with the foundations of Jungian psychology?
Quite a lot, as it turns out. Jung spent more than sixteen years composing the Red Book, the work he called the most difficult and most important experiment of his life and the seed of everything that later became analytical psychology. For much of that time he was immersed in Dante, and he found in the Commedia a guidance for his own descent and return.
The SAP's Fire Seminars follow that thread. They're led by Dr Tommaso Priviero, a historian of psychology at UCL and QMUL whose book on Jung and Dante, Of Fire and Form, won the 2025 Eugenio Montale award.
Three sessions remain in the 2026 series: 19 September, 17 October, and a concluding hybrid session on 14 November. Each session works through the Red Book by close reading and careful context, using it to reopen the core ideas of Jungian psychology from an angle most people never see.
You can book any of them individually at £40, and the seminar is open to anyone drawn to Jung's work, whether professionally or out of personal interest.
jung-dante-and-the-making-of-the-red-book-the-fire-seminars- 10 seminar series starting in January 2026 to November 2026
