This award was begun in 2017 in honor of Jungian analyst Kimberly D. Ritter Arndt who died at 55 in May 2016. Kim was one of the first graduates of the International block program at the C.G. Jung Institute, Zürich. Following her graduation, she founded the CG Jung Institute Zürich Alumni Association. https://junginstitut-alumni.ch She had a deep love for Jungian psychology—the link between the outer and inner reality of the psyche manifest in the symbol.
The Kimberly D. Ritter Arndt Award recognizes the best candidate symbol paper through a blind juried process conducted by a panel of internationally published Jungian analysts, lecturers,and publishers. Annual award recipients receive a certificate and monetary award. Their work is published on the Foundation website.
There having been a break since 2022, the Award will be re-launched and publicised this year.
2017 Wunggud’s Thread: One Ngarinyin story of individuation
The Foundation awarded the first Kimberly D. Ritter Arndt Award to Juliana Kaya Prpic for her paper “Wunggud’s Thread: One Ngarinyin Story of Individuation” which examines an Australian Aboriginal myth through the symbolic lens of Jungian psychology. View more
2018 Motherless Child—Childless Mother
The Foundation awarded the second Kimberly D. Ritter Arndt Award to Maude Davis for her paper “Motherless Child—Childless Mother.” As noted by one of our recognized jurors, this paper“seems most important and creative at the present time because its theme—the close connection of life and death in the symbol of the mother—has been generally forgotten in the Jungian world and in the world in general.” View more
2019 The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Numinous in the Development of History
In this symbol paper Stefano Carpani explores the concept of the numinous in the development of history, looking specifically at the fall of the Berlin wall, and the events that occurred on November 9th, 1989. This paper was subsequently published in a collection of Stefano Carpani’s work: https://www.amazon.com/MYTH-ANALYSIS-Neo-Jungian-Analytical-Psychology/dp/B0D77N269D
THE NEW MYTH OF ANALYSIS For a Neo-Jungian Analytical Psychology: THE NEW MYTH OF ANALYSIS For a Neo-Jungian Analytical Psychology (C.G. Jung, M.L. … Horkheimer, Marcuse) (Neo-Jungian Studies)
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2020 The Red Kite Feather
Chloe Schneider recounts her personal experience of repeated synchronicities around this bird of prey the Red Kite. View More
2021 Van Gogh and The Starry Night
Paola Motolese reflects on her personal experience of Van Gogh’s 1889 painting The Starry Night as a map for the journey of re-birth. View more