(2021). To Our Readers. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-5.

(2021). Six Poems. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 6-12.

ABSTRACT The “Maid of Desolation,” driven by matricidal heroic thinking, is flooding our collective consciousness by way of the coronavirus, an ethical wakeup call that holds not only unfathomable tragedy but also the possibility of transformation and rebirth. Shifting to another way of being requires that patriarchal consciousness undergo a sacrifice, an ego death. Jung makes three major psychological

(2021). Artist Portfolio. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 35-35.

ABSTRACT This paper describes some of the changes in the image of the hero over the last one hundred years beginning with the rise of the theoretical understanding of the hero, initially described by Leo Frobenius, Otto Rank, Sigmund Freud, and C. G. Jung, with a focus on how C. G. Jung described the classic hero archetype. This image of the hero is juxtaposed to current cultural images, where a “de-heroizing”

(2021). Artist Portfolio. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 49-50.

ABSTRACT In 1933, C. G. Jung became president of the “Nazified” General Medical Society of Psychotherapy and editor of its publication, the Zentralblatt für Psychotherapie. As a result of his work with the Germans during this turbulent period, Maurice Léon, who worked for a prestigious New York City Wall Street law firm, accused Jung of being a Nazi auxiliary who should be placed on trial in Nuremberg

(2021). Artist Portfolio. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 81-82.

ABSTRACT In 1952, after a long period of reluctance, C. G. Jung accepted the idea that a biography should be dedicated to his life and work. This book, which was never completed, was to be written by a German-Swiss psychotherapist, Lucy Heyer-Grote (1891–1991), ex-wife of his former disciple G. R. Heyer. The draft of this authorized biography, considered lost, was recently found in the archives of

(2021). Artist Portfolio. Jung Journal: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 103-103.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the connections between the concepts of enlightenment and individuation, focusing in particular on individuals with significant experience in both traditions. Nondual or mystical experiences are contextualized as aspects of the religious function of the psyche. Experiences occurring in late-stage individuation are examined and compared to aspects of the Zen Ox-Herding Pictures

(2020). To Our Readers. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 1-5.

(2020). Excerpt from The Master. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 6-9.

(2020). Said the Poet to the Analyst. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 10-10.

(2020). Two Poems. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 11-11.

(2020). Feelings of Sandplay Therapy. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 12-13.

(2020). Analytic Hour. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 14-14.

(2020). Go out into far fields of glass and flowers. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 15-15.

(2020). What Do You Hear in These Sounds. Jung Journal: Vol. 14, THE CLINICAL EXPERIENCE, pp. 16-17.

ABSTRACT There are direct archetypal relationships between Mesoamerican/pre-Columbian native myths and the beliefs and behaviors of gang-entrenched Latinx youth and men. These include relationships between warrior imagery and sacrifice in gang activity, the Virgin of Guadalupe and male-female relationships, and ancestral connections to the land and the love of the neighborhood. Within psychotherapy

ABSTRACT The author discusses “silence” as key to her analytic work with adults and children. Silence refers to a quality of presence, of listening and “being with the patient.” In silence, human connection and love can arise and healing occurs, as a deeper feeling for life’s mystery enters. Moments of communion may awaken the healing power of love through feeling, images, and sensations, allowing

ABSTRACT C. G. Jung’s “Psychology of the Transference” (1946/1954, CW 16) describes his template for healing in psychoanalysis. He selected a series of ten erotic alchemical woodcuts from the Rosarium Philosophorum. The author contends these drawings were chosen because of Jung’s emotional, deep, and healing relationships with three women who had previously been his patients: Sabina Spielrein, Maria

ABSTRACT Through a clinical vignette the author describes Jungian analytic work as it unfolds in a relational, affectively attuned way, while also focusing on the direct moment-to-moment experience of the body. The neuropsychological underpinnings of what Donald Kalsched refers to as the archetypal affect ignited in trauma are explored. Focusing on the body as the primary portal for the healing of

ABSTRACT This paper explores the author’s clinical work with a young boy between the ages of four and eleven. The author postulates that there are, in addition to “defenses of the self” that develop in a pathological, indeed, toxic way to isolate the child by alienating others and making the child emotionally sick, healthier defenses of the self, which are described as image-producing antibodies that

ABSTRACT This article identifies a disorder of the self that is common to a number of clinical presentations, which all share the idea that the patient presenting him- or herself for psychological help is a “loser” who may not be able to be helped by psychotherapy. Resisting the reduction of this idea to a single complex bedeviling the patient, the author suggests instead that this idea is the consciousness

ABSTRACT “Who Is My Jung?” describes the author’s personal journey toward Jung and his individuation as a Jungian. It confronts Jung’s anti-Semitism and also his need to invent a new therapy for each patient. The author stresses the important role of therapeutic space and places renewed attention on how we write about patients.

ABSTRACT Jungian analyst Henry Abramovitch’s book is a set of meditative essays that seeks to explain the most mysterious moments in the lives of the cultural heroes mentioned in the book’s title. Each chapter begins with the word Why? and addresses a riddle in the subject’s biography. The riddle is partially answered by examining the psychological formation, traumas, transformative insights, and memories

ABSTRACT Stephen Wilkerson’s book is an alchemical interpretation of Goethe’s classic poem Faust, a Tragedy. This review offers observations, questions, and criticisms of this well-researched book. The author’s application of an alchemical analysis is thoughtfully and thoroughly applied to five key sections of the poem. Although Jung treasured Faust and his comments on it are ubiquitous throughout

ABSTRACT This essay examines Cain’s murder of his brother Abel in Genesis, the implications of his question “Am I my brother’s keeper?” and his exile. It also considers selected historical transformations of Cain’s archetype and the relevance of his myth to the current COVID-19 pandemic. Jungian theory provides a framework for the discussion.

ABSTRACT The literary works of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison are looked at through the lens of analytical psychology. These authors knew and respected each other’s work, and they shared common attitudes toward the cultural complex of racialized intersubjectivities (the result of the collapse of relational space). To work with this complex, they developed a relationship to their inner lives that allowed

ABSTRACT Marybeth Carter’s paper, “Crystalizing the Universe in Geometrical Figures,” draws on the creative works of artist Hilma af Klint and psychologist C. G. Jung to illustrate their use of geometrical figures as a form of code to denote states of consciousness integral to human development. Three key areas are explored common to af Klint and Jung: (1) mediumistic experiences popular during the

ABSTRACT In American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018), the poet Terrance Hayes engages the Other and otherness by addressing himself to the alterity inherent in racial violence, to the location of the assassin within the mind, and to the American sonnet as a potential site either of annihilation or vitality. Several of his many sonnets are excerpted, and Hayes’s use of the volta

“Katrina: Water and Sacred Rites” explores the historical, environmental, and African American cultural trauma of the Katrina disaster of 2005. This is presented in the foreground of the current co...

ABSTRACT D. Steven Nouriani interviews Parvin Faramarzi, who has translated many of Jung’s well-known works, including Memories, Dreams, Reflections and several volumes from his Collected Works. In a dialogue across the globe, from San Francisco to Tehran, Nouriani discovers Faramarzi’s fascinating journey of fate, which brought her to Jung and transformed her life. As a young woman, Faramarzi was

ABSTRACT Jung often discussed the phenomenon of the human spirit, emphasizing its ambiguous nature; it may work for good as well as for evil. This article engages with the ambiguous nature of spirit through a discussion of the double-figure of the white and the black magician. The black magician represents the dark side of the work of the human spirit—our narcissism and power drive. In the process

ABSTRACT Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus, produced during the plague years in Athens, tells the story of a king discovering that he has caused the plague on his city by unconsciously re-enacting ancestral crimes. This paper uses the myth of Oedipus to explore the question: how has the “king,” ruling principle of our age, led us into our current crisis in which a pandemic is unfolding? This paper traces

ABSTRACT On the path to raise consciousness about the Jungian racial shadow, the author finds herself in an identity crisis. As a Jew whose family escaped the Shoah she has always identified with Black people. They are central figures in her inner life, helpful spirit guides in her dreams. She has to confront the reality of the outer world, in which Jews became white people, with all the privileges

ABSTRACT Patrick Mahaffey’s Integrative Spirituality: Religious Pluralism, Individuation, and Awakening is a sophisticated and deeply considered series of relationships between Jungian and archetypal psychology and several religious traditions and practices, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Yoga as well as contemplative and mystical ways of being and seeing. The overriding concern and

ABSTRACT To what degree is identity illusory, even somewhat dreamlike? This article follows that thread, developing it through experiences related to being a refugee as well as a foreigner. Usually, these life events mean crossing various perimeters, not only borders but also perimeters of culture, language, legal status, social norms, and much more. These perimeters can be used to define us; however

ABSTRACT This article is a survey of psychological and scientific developments following upon C. G. Jung’s stunning theory of synchronicity. Attention is given to the nonlocally entangled worlds of psychotherapy, theoretical physics, number theory and sacred geometry, laboratory research in human psychic abilities, and the spiritual implications of humanity’s current stage of collective consciousness

This spring we find ourselves in a new and terrifying reality. No other period in our lifetimes has felt as threatening and unpredictable. A pandemic and potential worldwide economic collapse threatens the lives we knew just a few short months ago, potentiating worldwide chaos and strife. While our world has changed dramatically and our inclination is to fret, Jung’s words can provide some modicum

ABSTRACT This memoir of a childhood in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam is remarkable as a family story of feminine heroism. Small Hendrika witnesses and endures starvation, hides a Jewish refugee, is terrorized and more. The book demonstrates individuation under pressure and how the numinous can save the soul, especially in extreme circumstances.

ABSTRACT This paper explores the practice of care for patients in Aradale, the asylum established in the rural city of Ararat on the Victorian goldfields in 1867. It describes the institution’s descent into madness, from the idealized image of treatment behind its construction to the abject failure of the institution to realize those ideals and the resulting horror of its history. The paper utilizes

ABSTRACT The author examines the Jungian concept of the archetype of the Self, equating the role of the white lion as an “ordering principle” in nature with the Self as the regulating center in the human psyche. The lions’ deep-rooted symbolic and mythological significance is considered, with specific emphasis on the importance of white animals in spiritual traditions. Her hypothesis is contextualized

compiled an astounding array of comments and reflections in the analysts’ own words. Covered themes include analysts’ rationale for using disguised material and varying methods of preserving patient confidentiality; the ethics of asking permission, including divergent ideas about the timing of requests; managing patients’ refusal of permission; writing about oneself in disguise; whether written material

Questions of what is meaningful, what is useful, and what is honest in clinical writing intertwine with ethical considerations and professional requirements about describing what happens in our consulting rooms. In an article entitled “The Writing of Clinical Papers: The Analyst As Illusionist,” Fred Plaut looks at two angles of clinical writing: one has to do with how such articles originate out of

ABSTRACT Thomas Cattoi and David M. Odorisio co-edit a volume of essays that explore where depth psychology and mysticism as well as mystical experiences find convergences and divergences. The richly varied essays are gathered under three territories: Part I: Methodological, Hermeneutic, & Inter-disciplinary Perspectives; Part II: Historical & Theoretical Approaches; and Part III: Self and No-Self

We’re celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Jung Journal in this issue with an interview of the founding editor of the journal, John Beebe. The origin story of what was initially the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal is so intertwined with John’s personal journey that this fascinating interview is best thought of as a piece of a fine memoir. I am honored to follow in the footsteps of the

ABSTRACT Jeffrey Moulton Benevedes interviews Robert Andy Coombs about his photography and life and sexuality as a disabled gay man. The interview, like his photographs, pushes the boundaries of what might seem comfortable, inviting readers to examine their perceptions and expand their views of what it means to acquire a disability and live a full life.

ABSTRACT The United States is in the throes of a geopolitical emergency. As our catastrophic situation continues to crystallize, the word soul and an amplification of the dark side have been making headlines. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust is an epic poem that is about the loss of soul and its recovery; an analysis of this tragedy in relation to the current American political climate gives insight

ABSTRACT Modern hand-readers regularly refer to C. G. Jung because they believe that Jung endorsed the art of reading hands and practiced it himself. This is a myth. Jung was, however, impressed by the hand-reader Julius Spier (1887–1942) and endorsed his work. Spier introduced a Jungian form of hand-reading, which he called psychochirology, in Berlin in 1929. Psychochirology spread all over the world

ABSTRACT Jeffrey Moulton Benevedes, current editor of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, interviews John Beebe, founding editor of what was then The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal. They discuss Beebe’s history and what led to his becoming editor of the journal for twenty years. The conversation ranges from the process of editing, memorable issues published, the importance of being a forum

Abstract Compulsive gaming is a phenomenon seen with increasing frequency in recent years. In this article, the author develops insights gained through an intensive phenomenological analysis of his own relationship to games. Games offer individuals many things: a clear and explicit network of relationships, predetermined and inherently valuable goals, defined means to pursue said goals, space to creatively

ABSTRACT The drama of King Pentheus, ritual adversary and victim of the god Dionysos in Euripides’s Bacchae, bears striking resemblance to the drama of the alcoholic-addict in the progression of his or her disease. The chorus of the Bacchae sings of the holy rites and ancient wisdom that could cure the “madness” of Pentheus, in which resonances with the tenets of Alcoholics Anonymous can be found.

Abstract In his latest book, Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity, Peter Kingsley suggests that not only do most in the Jungian community misunderstand Jung the person, but they also fail to comprehend the true basis of his psychology. He further maintains, despite Jung’s protests to the contrary, that Jung was a prophet. Kingsley’s book confronts us with sharp criticism and exhaustive research

In the final issue of this volume, we visit some features of contemporary culture: reflections on conspiracy theories, a dive into the often secret and hidden world of gamers, a fresh look at Dionysus and his unexpected relationship to Alcoholics Anonymous, and a courageous telling of an analyst’s personal tale of “having no skin” after the death of her husband. Yet although each of these papers has