The story of Joseph (with whom Freud identified), his dreams and interpretations, is re-told and re-interpreted from a Jungian psychoanalytic perspective, with an effort at hearing the guiding voice and seeing the shadow.

As we cross the threshold of the ages, this is a reflection about the image and its shadow, the substance of soul and image-formation; and their relation to evil, to the idea of the Golem, the as-if personality and nothingness.

While Heavenly Jerusalem is a central image of wholeness and peace, Earthly Jerusalem is heavily burdened by the weight of shadowy forces. History and mythology have given Jerusalem and its sites their names, pertaining to evil and hell, holiness and ascendance.

This lecture presents a psychoanalytic view on the origin of society, the redeeming hero and his shadow, the enemy as shadow and the shadow of peace.

When called, the hero sets forth to redeem the soul, a forgotten myth or a lost sense of meaning that lie fallow, slumbering in the darkness of the shadow.