Jung the Leontocephalus (1992) a readable, horizontal view

Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2019

Suppose that in opening your mail today, you were to find a postcard announcing a series of lectures to be given live somehow by C. G. Jung on the historical development of psychology as an intellectual discipline. This is not far from the actual experience that the Philemon Foundation has given us with the publication of this set of sixteen public lectures that Jung gave in 1933-1934 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (known by its German acronym ETH). Reconstructed to preserve Jung's voice from contemporary shorthand transcriptions and other materials, the lectures have been seamlessly edited by Ernst Falzeder, who provides a brilliant introduction and thorough notes that unlock all of Jung's passing references and correct all his little mistakes in a way that rescues Jung even from himself. And for this first, definitive English edition, the translators have attended to how Jung must have sounded in the original German. These lectures convey an impression of a mature Jung speaking to an audience of his own countrymen about territories of the mind he had by then made his own. This was brave. Psychology had not been considered essential to the Germanborn medical psychiatry in which Jung was formally trained, and he was essentially on his own in his studies of psychology. Here we find him nevertheless willing to stake his claim as an expert in the field. The lectures served that purpose; the Swiss Federal Council granted him 'titulary professorship' in 1935 and Jung continued under that title at the ETH until 1941. (As the first in a series of eight volumes of the entire ETH lectures, this one begins with a generous foreword by Ulrich Hoerni describing 'C. G. Jung's Activities at ETH Zurich'. It also includes a definitive chronology of 'Events in Jung's Career' between 1933 and 1941, compiled by Falzeder, Martin Liebscher, and Sonu Shamdasani, and set against the 'World Events' that marked this period. It was a time when consciousness was stressed, and in this volume Jung demonstrates that he is wise enough to give ample attention to all the various objects of consciousness. In doing so, Jung finds not just mind, but mind's

Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2011

, all training analysts at CIPA (Centro Italiano Psicologia Analytica) have succeeded in bringing together a cornucopia of distinctive Italian papers with additional contributions from Jean Knox, Hester McFarland Solomon, George Hogenson and, in the child and adolescent section, Gustav Bovensiepen, Brian Feldman and Brigitte Allain-Dupré. The authors set out to demonstrate the fertile influence of Jung's theories and their relevance to current psychoanalytic practice and research. This is a vast and demanding task and inevitably some of the papers struggle to remain within the confines of Jung's theories. The pitfall comes when a contemporary hermeneutic reading is projected onto theories from an earlier zeitgeist. The psychoanalytic community of today lives in interesting times poised on the cusp of a major paradigm shift and has to be prepared to sacrifice or revise some cherished tenets whilst other more obscure ones might re-emerge to coalesce with new findings from the neurosciences, philosophy and anthropology. Bisagni, Fina and Vezzoli identify a shift from traditional psychoanalytic paradigms towards a new paradigm of complexity. Most writers identify the common unifying theme as a shift towards a relational model and a move from Oedipal interpretations to affect regulation and the co-creation of meaning. The papers present Jung seen through a different cultural lens. Most contributors refer to psychology in the classical Jungian sense rather than what is now common practice in Anglo-Saxon academia. The editors preface the volumes with a general statement that Jungian concepts have been widely recognized and integrated into modern psychology. This might be specific to the Italian scene as it would hardly be recognized as a valid proposition for current clinical psychology. The authors succinctly trace the ancestral influences from Freud, Klein, Bion, Fordham and Bick, among others, and demonstrate how their thinking has evolved whilst still embedded in the analytic tradition. The novelty and freshness of the writing shines through in the synthesis of familiar theories with evocative Italian thinking, referenced in papers likely to be unfamiliar to the general reader. Regretfully, however, some of the rich cultural layering might be lost in translation, though this reflects the constant interplay between mimesis and alterity in the analytical dialogue where meaning always gets lost in translation as new meaning is co-created between patient and therapist. The two volumes offer a compendium of core Jungian and psychoanalytic concepts blended with findings from attachment theory and affective neuroscience. The editors have succeeded in bringing together papers from both developmental and classical Jungian traditions. The papers are stimulating to read as they vary in style from

D errida begins "Freud and the Scene of Writing" insisting that "despite appearances, the deconstruction of logocentrism is not the psychoanalysis of philosophy" (196), citing Freud's logocentric relegation of writing to the status of supplement for the primary processes of memory (227). Nevertheless, at the end of the essay Derrida radicalizes the Freudian trace as a deconstructive remainder in the name of a "psychoanalytic graphology," "a psychoanalysis of literature respectful of the originality of the literary signifier" (230-31). Even as "Resistances" establishes a "restanalysis" outside the psychoanalytic order of sense (5), in Archive Fever his Third Thesis refers to Freud as the first who "has analyzed, that is also to say, deconstructed" the archontic, even as his compulsive repetition of patriarchal logic defines the movements of Freud's own archive (95). This fort/da implies a distinction between a logocentric "Psychoanalysis" centered on the metanarratives of the Father (the Oedipus complex and the primal This essay assesses Jungian metapsychology as a "dangerous supplement" to Freudian psychoanalysis in historical, critical, and hermeneutic registers. Reading Jung otherwise offers a depth-psychological model with deconstructive valency unconstrained by Freudian metanarrative, and a Jungian analysis of what is unthought in Derridean deconstruction.

Journal of Jungian Scholarly Studies

is a book I trust," says renowned analyst, Marion Woodman on the back cover, and I know what she means. Possession makes a bold claim and defends it with stout heart and convincing argument: that the "possession" of the psyche by something alien and Other is the defining trope of Jungian psychology. Even more ambitious than the notion of "the Other" are the implications of the book's title and structure. "Possession," a word that seems to defy psychological containment and immediately drag in exorcists, Gothic literature, and horror films, is a very deliberate choice here. For on the one hand, the book is a superb addition to the growing body of work on the cultural dimension of psychology as a discipline, a discipline that Craig Stephenson shows needs to become aware of how different cultures and societies "frame" the Other within. On the other hand, this book is also important for a scrupulous and historically anchored examination of Jung's attitude toward language. Why does Jung use the highly charged term "possession" when he could stick to the cleanly psychological and conceptual language of "feeling toned complexes"? This book explains why. So Possession is part of that vital revolution in the academy, the revision of disciplinary boundaries. In particular, the anthropology of the last century, the book shows, has issued crucial challenges to psychology as to other disciplines. In particular, non-Western societies tend to speak of spirits and gods as possessing, whereas Western medicine insists upon a language of pathology. Jung, of course, was well aware of this cultural variance, just as he was conscious of historical change in the perception of the psyche's inner voices. He began his career with a doctorate on spiritualism and continues to write about the proximity of religious and psychological discourse in the "gods" of the psyche. Stephenson's work is dedicated to exploring just why Jung could not stick to psychology, to his own century, and to writing about therapy. His book is powerfully trustworthy in that it answers questions about Jung's Collected Works that many readers have, yet do not know that they have. What is the significance of

International Journal of Jungian Studies, 2022

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Reviews the book, Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern: Notes From the Seminar Given in 1936–1941: Reports by Seminar Members With Discussions of Dream Series by C. G. Jung, edited by John Peck, Lorenz Jung, Maria Meyer-Grass, translated by Ernst Falzeder, and in collaboration with Tony Woolfson (see record 2014-16249-000). Dream Interpretation Ancient and Modern contains 14 presentations of 12 seminar participants (two participants presented twice). Jung’s comments for each presentation are included, although in some cases it seems that some of his comments are missing or are highly abbreviated. The book is organized in four sections: Older Literature on Dream Interpretation, The Enlightenment and Romanticism, The Modern Period, and Visions and Dreams. The older literature consists of an investigation of three Hellenic thinkers and one Reformation theorist: Macrobius (flourished CE 400), Artemidorus (flourished third century CE), Synesius of Cyrene (CE 373–414), and Caspar Peucer (1525–1602). This book can be very useful for readers who have little or no understanding that dreams were interesting to well-educated scholars for thousands of years before Freud and Jung began their investigations. These readers would do well to remember that none of the papers or Jung’s commentaries are exhaustive, systematic treatises on these historical ideas about the meaning of dreams. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)

Journal of Religion