This conversation will explore the similar views about the personality found in the works of these two creative individuals. Their shared focus on the Self stemmed from a familiarity with the history of religions and the new science of psychology. The lens for understanding the revolutionary potential of this approach will be Whitman’s “Chanting eh Square Deific.”

Jay Sherry, PhD, has taught history and psychology at Long Island University-Brooklyn. He is currently the chairman of the Kristine Mann Library at the Jung Center of New York. He is the author of Carl Gustav Jung, Avant-garde Conservative and The Jungian Strand in Transatlantic Modernism.

Steven Herrmann, Ph.D., MFT is a Jungian analyst with a practice in Oakland, California. He is the author of Walt Whitman: Shamanism, Spiritual Democracy, and the World Soul (2010).