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The Beauty of the Women in Willem de Kooning's Paintings Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Deborah Bryon
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Maggi Hambling—Breaking Bread with the Dead Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Juliet Miller
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Unhinged: A Prospective Perspective on Being Unsafe Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Tiffany N. Houck
Given the unprecedented events unfolding around the globe over the past four years, psychoanalytic communities near and far have sought to ask and ventured to answer the question: What does psychoanalysis have to offer individuals, and the collective, as a way of seeing and being with the reality of what is? Taking up these questions in such a time as this, feels, perhaps inevitably, unsafe. Sometimes
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The CARE System in Its Importance in Dealing with Today's Crises1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Verena Kast
The CARE system is a gift from Mother Nature, we have it in our biological heritage; it enables us humans—as a basic gift—to help each other in a large, life‐serving context, and thus also to counterbalance destruction. It is about a basic human ability, linked to typical behaviour, but also about a basic human need for connectedness. In this paper, I would like to show how the CARE system can be activated
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Editorial of the Special Issue Analysis & Activism: Do We Really Have the Answer? Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Monica Luci, Stefano Carpani, Tine Papič
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Covington, Coline. Who's to Blame? Collective Guilt on Trial. Routledge. 2023. Pp. 172. Pbk. £18.99. Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Hessel Willemsen
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To(o) Queer the Analyst: Lesbiana, Junguiana and Sudamericana. Towards Woven Onto‐Epistemologies1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Valeria Kierbel
This is a two‐part paper: in the first one, a personal story serves as a conceptual prism through which I address the issue of how a queer analyst can be a problem for analytical psychology; in the second, I present some readings and images—mostly from decolonial feminisms—that have been of interest to me lately in my path to queer Jungian psychology, that is, to de‐essentialize and de‐individualize
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On Theoretical Edges and Exclusionary Borders: Towards a Genealogy of “Analyzability” in Jungian Psychoanalysis Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Alex Sierck
An oft‐repeated and largely unexamined assumption in Jungian psychoanalysis is the notion of “analyzability”, that is, of an individual's ability or present capacity to think symbolically. It is often taught that if someone is unable to think symbolically, a depth analysis is not possible. Such an individual may be more aptly suited for supportive psychotherapy, the argument goes, an experience that
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Film and Culture: Introduction Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Constance Romero, Laura Tuley
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Wright, Jason. Blake’s Job: Adventures in Becoming. Routledge. 2023. Pp. xiv + 212. Pbk. $39.95. Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Susan Rowland
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Jung, C. G. (Ed., M.Liebscher). Jung on Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises: Letures Delivered at the ETH Zurich: Volume 7: 1939‐1940. Translated by Heather McCartney & John Peck. Princeton University Press. 2023. Pp. 368. Hbk. $39.95 / £35. Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Max Noak
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-02-06
No abstract is available for this article.
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Jung's Erotic Phenomenology: I. A New Translation Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Wes Wallace
In the introduction to The Psychology of the Transference (1946), Carl Jung sketched out a theory of “erotic phenomenology” which condenses his teaching about sexuality and romantic love into a very concise summary. But the meaning of this passage is obscured in the English translation given in the Collected Works of C. G. Jung. I propose here a new translation which makes Jung’s meaning clearer, along
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Structural Aspects of Synchronistic Moments in Psychotherapy—Findings of an Empirical Study of Synchronicities in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Gunnar Immo Reefschläger
Synchronicity describes a meaningful coincidence of events, which is familiar to us from treatments of our patients, but unfortunately has not yet been empirically substantiated. Adding to previous findings that point out beneficial aspects of synchronicity (Marlo, 2022; Lagutina, 2021; Connolly, 2015), in this paper I will show through a series of five synchronistic moments which happened in the context
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Masks and Faces in the Setting at the Time of Coronavirus Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Silvia Presciuttini
The “health emergency” forced analysts to seek new ways of continuing with analysis. The article focuses, in particular, on the changes brought about in the setting by the presence of the sanitary mask, following a line that begins with the theme of the “mask” in the collective uses of human cultures, and develops through the Jungian concept of persona, as opposed to the “face” that may convey an authentic
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Therapy for the Dead: Working Clinically with Jung's Black Books and The Red Book Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-12-30 Ginny Hill
With the 2020 publication of the facsimile edition of The Black Books, we have an opportunity to study the layers of C. G. Jung's creative writing process for the first time. In this paper, I explore Jung's practice of active imagination in relation to his fantasy dialogues with the dead during two specific episodes in 1914 and 1916. I discuss Jung's concept of the collective unconscious corresponding
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-28
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Alchemical Oedipus: Re-Visioning the Myth Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Reginald Ajuonuma
The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play Oedipus Rex in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it. The absence of a developed Jungian response to Oedipus means the myth’s psychologically constructive elements have been overlooked in favour of
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Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Jessica Whitesel
In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the
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Mythological Underpinnings of Feminine Development Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Diana Oxley
In the manner of Oedipus Rex, the myth of Myrrha—a story about a daughter's initiation of sex with her father—promises to divulge insights about feminine development. Given parallels between these two myths, the author asks why Jung identified Electra rather than Myrrha as the feminine counterpart to Oedipus, and revisits Freud's and Jung's differing interpretations of the incest theme in personality
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Sacred Circle: Symbol of Wholeness in Traditional Persian Art and Architecture Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Fariba Darabimanesh
Jung wrote extensively about the archetypal mandala symbol as an expression in many cultures of the centrality and nature of the interplay between human consciousness and divine consciousness. This article investigates—how in Persia, for millennia—the archetypal symbol of the mandala has been widespread in many expressions of the sacred arts. My research outlines the importance of the archetypal mandala
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Thinking Childbirth from an Emancipatory Perspective? Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Clarisse Picard
Feminist thought, despite the importance of its work, has not resolved the phenomenon of women's subordination in the care and education of children, and in society as a whole. Meanwhile, we are witnessing a gradual but continuous process of disconnection between women's bodies and subjectivity, and the conception, pregnancy and birth of children, due to developments in reproductive techniques. Considering
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-30
No abstract is available for this article.
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Chasing the Numinous: Hungry Ghosts in the Shadow of the Psychedelic Renaissance Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Helge Michael Osterhold, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold
In recent years a renewed scientific, public and commercial interest in psychedelic medicines can be observed across the globe. As research findings have been generally promising, there is hope for new treatment possibilities for a number of difficult-to-treat mental health concerns. While honouring positive developments and therapeutic promise in relation to the medical use of psychedelics, this paper
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An Epistolary Conversation Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-08 John Beebe, Stefano Carpani
This written exchange is between a senior and a younger Jungian analyst on issues relevant to the development of analytical psychology throughout the world today. The younger analyst, Stefano Carpani, considers himself a neo-Jungian. He explains to John Beebe, known for post-Jungian contributions to the study of typology, integrity, and gender, how important it is to include sociological perspectives
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Where Does I Stand? Reflections on Home and Identity Ensnared in a Cultural Narrative Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Joanna de Waal
In this paper the author explores a cultural narrative that she suggests rests on the concepts of the Feminine and Masculine as such, employing both as though they contain an agreed set of universal givens. These givens are extrapolated from an androcentric perspective on female and male bodies, in particular their biological functions regarding reproduction. The metaphors of the baby-in-womb, mother’s
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Dialectics of Sign and Symbol and the Utterance of Archetype Theory Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Raya Jones
Debates surrounding Jung’s archetype theory could be characterized as tacit attempts to contend with the concept’s dual function as referring to something known to psychologists (sign) and standing for something that is fundamentally unknowable (symbol). This essay considers implications of the term “archetype,” outlines and critiques some of the conundrums of categorization and scientific credibility
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Correction to “Dreaming for the World: A Jungian Study of Dreams During the COVID-19 Pandemic” Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-07-04
Landau, R., Brooke, R., Martin, N., Lampe, A., Stich, B., and Russian collaborators (2023) “Dreaming for the World: A Jungian Study of Dreams During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Analytical Psychology, 68(2), 348–368. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12905. In the above article, Ned Martin was erroneously omitted from co-authorship of the paper. The article's Version of Record on Wiley Online
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-29
No abstract is available for this article.
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Implicit States of Connectivity in the Clinical Practice of Jungian Psychoanalysis and Andean Shamanism Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Deborah Bryon
This paper will describe the spiritual states of “oneness” experienced by Andean shamans in relation to oceanic states in early infancy and working with trauma in Jungian analysis. The author’s work exploring implicit energetic experience with Andean shamans will be referenced with comparisons made to depth psychology, in both theory and in practice. Definitions of Q’echua terms describing different
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Jung’s Psychoid Monism Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Pauli Pylkkö
Jung’s final psychoid theory of archetypes was an additional attempt to find a solution to the philosophical problem of how to relate mind and matter. In the following essay Jung’s solution is summarized by a set of 17 theses, and Jung’s philosophy will be called psychoid monism. According to psychoid monism, what ultimately and primarily is, is the psycho-physically neutral domain of instinctual experience
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Jung Among the Physicists: A Review Essay of Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-12 Roderick Main
This essay reviews the recent book by Harald Atmanspacher and Dean Rickles, Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning. The essay aims to contextualize and clarify the book’s core argument about the theoretical and empirical fruitfulness of decompositional dual-aspect monism as an intervention into the mind-body problem that ascribes a pivotal role to meaning. The variants of dual-aspect
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The Unreal Child1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Isabelle Meier
Unrepresented mental states lead to an impaired ability to feel emotions and trust in oneself, one’s history and in the world. The article explores the question of how representations of oneself and the relevant other, the mother, become possible in the course of therapy when dissociative processes previously made this impossible, and what role unconscious communication plays in the analytic realm
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Labels and the Self: Identity Labels as Scaffold Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-05-08 Leigh Money
This paper considers how labels may be used: “Neurodiverse,” “genderfluid,” “sex-positive,” “ADHD,” and “highly-sensitive” are just some of the labels that may be offered by patients in introducing themselves. Such labels can be thought of as shortcuts, a way to define identity and sum up a feeling state, attitude, or behaviour. While they may sometimes be “given” in the sense of a diagnosis, they
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-28
No abstract is available for this article.
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The Syzygy, Reformulation and New Perspectives: Dreams, Anima-Animus and Gender1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Mario Saiz, Ma. Paz Abalos, Claudia Grez, Michael Bartfeld, Federico Benchin, Susana Toloza, Madeleine Porre, Javiera Falcone
The main objective of this qualitative and quantitative research paper is to explore the occurrences and relations of the anima, animus and androgynous in dreams, with particular emphasis on the consideration of the androgynous in the human psyche. The sample consists of 9 series of dreams (141 dreams in total), from 9 dreamers, 7 women (female sex/gender) and 2 men (male sex/gender), aged 25–57, heterosexual
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Dreaming for the World: A Jungian Study of Dreams During the COVID-19 Pandemic1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Ronnie Landau, Roger Brooke, Anna Lampe, Brianna Stich
This project explores what dreams might reveal about the collective psyche’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in its first year, before the development of vaccines. A brief survey, distributed to Jungian colleagues and organizations, and to various social media sites, invited people to submit online a dream related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Four hundred and thirty-six dreams were submitted. Forty
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Some Questions Raised by the Practice of Online Analysis1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-06 François Martin-Vallas
In this paper the author explores some of the issues raised by the practice of online analysis. In particular, he emphasizes the difference between the setting and the frame and proposes a theoretical approach of the latter as emerging within the transferential dynamic.
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Enforced Disappearances and Torture Today: A View from Analytical Psychology Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Monica Luci
In very rare cases, individuals survive the atrocities of abduction, imprisonment and torture that are part of the hallmark of enforced disappearances. Cases of people who survive torture and seek asylum in a third country help us understand some important aspects related to the crime of enforced disappearance.
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Enforced Disappearances and Torture Today: A View from Analytical Psychology Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Maria Giovanna Bianchi
Enforced disappearance represents the quintessence of human rights violations with a strong psychological component. Bodies vanishing have a deterrent effect by terrorizing and paralyzing the entire society. However, the absence of those bodies is overly present in the inner experience of the families of the disappeared, who are victims in their turn. A state of severe psychological deterioration affects
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Devouring and Asphyxia: Paradigm Crisis, the Depletion of the Hero and Complex Thought1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-04-02 Walter Boechat
This article deals with the profound paradigm crisis that affects modernity and threatens the destiny of humanity. This crisis results from the lack of perspective offered by the paradigm of modernity with its emphasis on unilateral rationality, scientific objectivity, and exploitation of natural resources by a hyper development of an inflated Hero archetype. The emergence of a new paradigm of complexity
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Collective Trauma, Implicit Memories, the Body, and Active Imagination in Jungian Analysis1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Karin Fleischer
This presentation attempts to show the healing potential underlying the inclusion of the patient's body in the analytic process, while honouring and revisiting the understanding of the psyche-body connection described by Jung in his early work. In addition, the author offers reflections on the impact of collective trauma whose aftermath, among others, has been the disappearance of thousands of people
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Devouring and Asphyxia: Symptoms of a Cultural Complex in Present Times1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Liliana Liviano Wahba
The article discusses dominance and oppression in society due to cultural complexes filled with collective memories of destructiveness and perpetration, implicit memories which have remained repressed. Individual personal complexes and traumas are intertwined with traumatizing historical circumstances, setting up pairs of perpetrator and victim. The metaphors of devouring and asphyxiation are used
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Soul, Myth and Cosmovision in a Changing World: Essentials of Analytical Psychology and the Descendent Path1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Margarita Ovalle Vergara
This essay addresses the key role of analytical psychology amid our changing world: to work towards an expansion of Humanity's worldview. In current times of utmost transformation, it becomes imperative that we embrace a total cosmovision, one that includes the 360 degrees of existence: not only the 180 diurnal degrees of ascent, light and order, yet also the descendent sphere, incorporating what is
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Social Activism's Possibility through Perspectives of Gloria Anzaldúa, Walter Benjamin and C. G. Jung1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Robin McCoy Brooks
This paper explores the vertices of Jung's, Anzaldúa's and Benjamin's distinct ontologies and the way in which they connect in the shared recognition that what has been estranged in human history is enigmatically lodged in the world's fabric today. Cultural distress, in other words, is the outcome of what has become repudiated in the self and the collective across time. From this perspective, the paper
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COVID-19, Virtual Engagement and the Psychoid Imagination1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Joe Cambray
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on analytic training and the delivery of educational content is explored here. The proliferation of Zoom therapy and teaching is creating a post-human platform to which nearly everyone in contemporary society has had to adapt. Looking at the possible meanings of the pandemic, a psychoid factor (the virus) engaging the imagination has come to the fore as a response
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The Anima as an Archetype of Human Resilience in the Face of Calamity1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-20 Mei-Fun Kuang
This paper will provide a theoretical basis for looking at a dream in the analysis of a client during a calamity. Finding the archetype of the anima is a way of responding to a crisis, in this case to the COVID-19 pandemic period. With all the basic instincts disrupted by a catastrophe, the emergence of the anima, as archetype of life, is there to remind us how to survive and recover. The anima archetype
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The Black Foe: Being Towards Death1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-06 Jon Mills
The ontology of death is universal, hence archetypal. Nowhere do we witness any organic creature escape its talons. Analytical psychology has had an intimate relationship to death for the simple fact that it contemplates the soul, the numinous, and an afterlife. From Hegel to Heidegger, Freud and Jung, death was an existential force that sustained and transformed life, the positive significance of
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Working Online During the Contemporary COVID-19 Pandemic1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-03-03 John Merchant
Within the psychoanalytic school there has been substantial and ongoing debate about the efficacy of teleanalysis. However, as a result of the current COVID-19 pandemic and the online work with which the Jungian analytic community has now had to engage, this paper initially focuses on analysts’ actual experiences of working by teleanalysis. These experiences highlight a range of issues like “Zoom fatigue”
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-02-08
No abstract is available for this article.
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Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Erik Goodwyn
Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory
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When left hands touch: shadow vows and Jung’s quaternity Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-28 Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, Anthony Delmedico
Is there a connection between the exchange of vows and the fighting and suffering of couples that are unique to the institution of marriage? This essay introduces the concept of Shadow Vows, the unacknowledged assumptions, agreements, and obligations each partner brings to the relationship, which the authors believe are often responsible for longstanding marital discord and strife. The authors ground
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Opportunities of online analysis1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Arthur Niesser
The question of whether tele-analysis is an acceptable way of conducting analysis has been discussed since it has become available. Merchant (2016) and others concluded that ‘the essentials of a genuine analytic process are not necessarily precluded’ (p. 1). In this paper, the author goes a step further and examines potential advantages of tele-analysis. There may be benefits for patients with a history
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A duoethnographic exploration of colonialism in the cultural layer of the objective psyche Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Divine Charura, Stephen Bushell
Using a duoethnological approach, supported by Jung’s theory of archetypes and the layered objective psyche, the paper demonstrates how a duoethnological encounter can lead to new formulations of archetypal theory that challenge attitudes to diversity. The paper arises from the authors’ desire to explore the shame and pain of colonialism, initially in a diversity workshop and later by way of duoethnological
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Working with patients with disruptions in symbolic capacity1 Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Mark Winborn
This article focuses on understanding and working with patients who have poorly developed symbolic capacity, or for whom symbolic capacity has been disrupted due to trauma, particularly as it pertains to the use of reverie and interpretation in the analytic process. Many patients who present for Jungian analysis will initially present with deficits in symbolic functioning. This situation results in
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Seduction, deception and technology Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-17 Susan Tyler
This paper proposes that exploring the use of internet pornography creates a potentially beneficial, albeit defensive liminal space that can be used therapeutically. The content of compelling sexual scenes can be viewed as the psyche’s way of mastering internal trauma and masking an inner emptiness. However, from a Jungian perspective, the use of internet pornography can also be seen as a patient’s
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Issue Information Journal of Analytical Psychology Pub Date : 2022-11-28
No abstract is available for this article.