Cas van Rensburg

Cas van Rensburg (1942-2018) was a Jungian analyst, journalist, critic, author and playwright.

Born in ***, *****. He died in Onrusrivier in May 2018.

He was primarily a versatile and widely-read journalist, who wrote articles and reviews for a number of publications, but was also a Jungian analyst of renown. He had studied Jungian psychology in London, under Marianne Jacoby, for a number of years, which led him to his interest in theatre.

In the middle-1980s he was the literary advisor and resident dramatist for PACT in Pretoria,

He wrote Die Tweede Dood van Robey Leibbrandt produced by PACT, 1984 and at the KKNK in 1987; Om Hendrik weg te bring (1986), Oscar in Afrika (produced and well received at Aardklop in 1999), *

After his retirement he wrote a number of books, one of the most successful being Jou drome – jou onbewuste het ál die antwoorde ("Your Dreams- Your subconscious has all the answers", 2000), a work strongly influenced by Jung.

"Cas van Rensburg sterf". Die Burger, 2018-05-04.

Draft article on Reza de Wet, by Paul Boekkooi (2018).

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