Description
Date: 24th September 2026, 7pm
Venue: David's Bookshop. This is an in person event (not available to attend online)
Event to start at 7pm, doors opening 6:30pm.
Please note there are no physical tickets, your name will be added to a guestlist after purchasing and this will get you entry at the event. Ticket price is redeemable off the cost of the book on the night.
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Launch Event & Reading
Radical Jung explores how Carl Jung’s insights can guide us through the crises of digital era capitalism. The increasingly popular pursuits of psychotherapy and other wellness practices can result in a retreat from political activism. Yet without engaging with the growing horrors of modernity, from livestreamed genocide to ecology destroying data centres, there is little hope that our minds, society and the natural world will be able to heal. By critically engaging with the work of Carl Jung, Radical Jung explores how we can engage in a journey of introspection that not only avoids a retreat into individualism but can inform and develop our political agency.
This book critiques the appropriation of Jung by right wing and conservative thinkers like Jordan Peterson while emphasizing the need for creative solutions rooted in Gnostic introspection. Through our dreams, and psychedelic and sober visions, we can engage with the unconscious. In doing so, we cultivate compassion and political agency in a chaotic world that is becoming increasingly overwhelming. By integrating Jungian processes and archetypes with contemporary issues, the book offers a path towards collective healing and a reimagined relationship with radical politics, nature, and ourselves.
Rob Faure Walker is a writer and theorist. He also works as an ecotherapist in North Wiltshire, where he lives with his family between the great stone circles of Avebury and Stonehenge.
Gareth Farmer from Revol Press will also be present to discuss this new author-run and oriented publisher dedicated to putting out solid left wing theory.
Revol's goal is to revive countercultural dreaming alongside incisive materialism, emphasizing quality over ‘edgy’ content and hot takes, putting out considered yet incisive reflections in a timely manner. We aim to support established writers and discover new talent, prioritizing fair royalties, ongoing dialogue, and an emphasis on quality essays and books that promote formal and theoretical innovation.
Their writers are part of a collective effort in publishing, not only making competitive royalties from their own book but taking a percentage of profits from all other books Revol produces and sells.
Revol Press is here to reassert the creative opposition of the author, in solidarity. Where once you paid lip service to the revolution and were considered credible, now you can build something revolutionary without compromise.
