Please join us for the following programs which will be only ZOOM due to financial challenges. Many thanks to those who donated in our recent fund-raising campaign. We have been able to continue to serve the North Dallas community and beyond with exceptional, albeit remote, programming. We intend to have some in-person gatherings, so please watch your email or Facebook for those opportunities. Not on our email list? Please contact us at info@jungdallas.org in order to request placement on our email list for programs and gathering opportunities.
James Hollis, (PhD) is a Zurich-trained Jungian Analyst who has a practice in Washington, DC. He also has written seventeen books, the latest being Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Times of Change and Prisms: Reflections on this Journey We Call Life.
February 14, 2025, James Hollis, Ph.D
Zoom Only - 7:00 P.M. to 8:30 P.M. Central
Presentation: On the Psychology of Comedy What is comedy? Why is it so often paired with its dark twin tragedy? Why do we laugh? Is comedy healthy, or pathological? (Freud, who was rather dour, wrote a book on the subject, and Jung, known for his earthy humor and voluminous laugh, did not). How does comedy reveal both the admirable and repulsive in our nature, our vulgarity and our sublimity?
Join us for James Hollis’ presentation with audience questions on Friday, February 14, 2025, at 7:00 p.m.