Jung's Life Story Live On Stage
John Maxwell Taylor John Maxwell Taylor
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 Published On May 3, 2024

The audiobook version of FOREVER JUNG is freely downloadable from johnmaxwelltaylor.com
This universally acclaimed, award-winning 20-character play on the life of C.G. Jung, featuring John Maxwell Taylor's award-winning performance as Jung, is a powerful recreation of the live event that thrilled audiences internationally for five years. Featuring soprano Claire Connelly as one of Jung's patients and a sweeping symphonic orchestral and choral music score composed by John Maxwell Taylor, this expanded version of the original is sure to appeal to lovers of transformational theater. Here is the beauty of the English language and art that pushes the limits of consciousness towards new horizons.

"Speaks from the heart. Taylor's Jung takes on an authentic glow. A big name bio with spiritual overtones." --San Francisco Chronicle
"A remarkable example of Transformational Theater" --Los Angeles Magazine
"Vivid and amusing characterizations." --Dramalogue

NAAP - The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Newsletter Spring 1996 had this to say:
"British actor John Maxwell Taylor won a Gradiva award for his portrayal of Carl Jung in Forever Jung, a one-man play which he also wrote. No small task when he was up against Uta Hagen, who was also a nominee in the acting category. Looking more like a Viennese analyst than an actor in his black turtleneck sweater and grey pinstripe suit, Taylor told the audience about touring with his one-man show. "My God, what an amazing country this is!” he began. "I have to tell you what I say when I go on tour, and various union groups have dinners for me before the performance, they think Carl Jung is coming to dinner, and his only be! So I have to say to them, "Well, you know, the artist writes more than he knows." But they persist I get out the pipe and I just tell them everything I know.” What Taylor may not know is this is exactly what Jung would do according to one of his students. It is said of Jung in the famous documentary Matter of Heart that "he gave you everything he had." Which is another similarity between the actor and the analyst. More than that, Taylor's anecdote voiced the premise of the Gradiva Awards, which are inspired by Freud's belief that artists and writers are the best psychoanalysts. As Freud stated in Delusions and Dreams in Jensen's Gradiva (1907), "creative writers are valuable allies and their evidence is to be prized highly, for they are apt to know a whole host of things between heaven and earth in which our philosophy has not yet let us dream”.

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