Heyong Shen for the Fay Lecture Series

Co-sponsored by the McMillan Institute for Jungian Studies, the Fay Lecture Series (originally founded by the late Carolyn Fay, the legendary Houston philanthropist) welcomes internationally-renowned scholars from the world of analytical psychology to Houston's Jung Center for a weekend of pioneering and thought-provoking research into the mystery of the objective psyche.  Each lecture series is later published in hardcover by Texas A&M University Press and makes a significant and enduring contribution to the history of psychology.  This year the center warmly welcomed Heyong Shen, the foremost scholar of Jungian analysis in China. 

Professor of Psychology at South China Normal University, Shen is the founding president of the Chinese Federation for Analytical Psychology and the main organizer of the International Conference for Analytical Psychology and Chinese Culture.  An expert on traditional Taoism and a former Fulbright Scholar, he has taught for Switzerland's Eranos Foundation and the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP).  He also founded the Chinese Journal for Analytical Psychology and is the chief editor for the Chinese translation of Jung's collected works.  Jung had a profound personal interest in Chinese culture and wrote extensively on Chinese philosophy and symbolism. In his foreword to Richard Wilhelm's translation of the I Ching, the ancient Chinese oracle and book of wisdom, Jung referred to Chinese logograms as readable archetypes.

Shen's Fay lectures were entitled "Learning the Truth of the Heart."  The symbol of the heart is at the core of traditional Chinese psychology and culture, and, over the weekend, Shen discussed Jungian analysis in China and explored what the historical Chinese emphasis on the heart adds to Western understandings of modern depth psychology.