The Jinn is Out of the Bottle

APRIL 26, 2026 | PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE | MYTHOLOGICAL STUDIES WITH EMPHASIS IN DEPTH PSYCHOLOGY | MYTH AND THE OTHERWORLD | PROF: DR. EVANS LANSING-SMITH | SPRING 2026/SUMMER 2025 | LECTURE

The subject of this lecture is the jinn in “Aladdin and His Enchanted Lamp." My aim is to develop the symbolic literacy needed to understand this figure and the narrative paraphernalia with which it constellates. This necessarily involves considering other varieties of jinn that appear in many stories within the Thousand and One Nights, as well as the broader mythical vocabulary of the cultures in which the jinn was forged.

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