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This paper presents selected excerpts from Lewis Aron’s lectures on Jung’s impact on psychoanalysis broadly and on relational psychoanalysis in particular. It explores the ways contemporary analysts, often without even knowing it, are building on Jung’s work. This series of lectures was given over the course of two meetings with a reading group in Dallas, Texas, on 9/11/2015 and 9/25/2015. Lew was known for his weekly private study groups. In addition to his in-person groups, in 2011, he began running virtual reading groups, and by the time of his death in February 2019, Lew had more than 150 weekly group members across the country and internationally. As anyone who attended one of Lew’s lectures could attest, he had a unique capacity to seamlessly weave historical context, the individual life experience of the theorists, and deep knowledge of theory into a narrative that felt much more like a story coming to life than a lecture. The effect was an incredibly engaging and richer understanding of both historical and current psychoanalytic theory and applications. It is our hope that by relaying some of these lectures, others can partake in some of the gifts we felt grateful to have experienced with him. This article is part of a forthcoming book featuring Aron’s last lectures.