Post-Jungians Today: Key Papers in Contemporary Analytical Psychology

257 Pages·1998·1.23 MB·English

by  Ann Casement

Post-Jungians Today
Post-Jungians Today brings together contributions from leading figures in the
international Jungian community to explore how the practice of analytical
psychology is adapting to the realities of the postmodern world.
In developing the original insights of Jung himself, post-Jungians are
committed to an approach that diverges from the total emphasis on psychic
reality and takes account of the realities of the outer world. Here authors from
very different social, cultural and professional backgrounds explore how Jungian
psychology can continue to make a relevant contribution to social and political
debates on topics such as gender, ethnicity and sexuality.
A showcase for the diversity of Jungian thought around the globe, Post-
Jungians Today presents an up-to-date analysis of current clinical and theoretical
developments within analytical psychology as it is practised and in the light of
how the discipline is viewed by the academy. The book also assesses why
Jungian concepts occupy a unique place in the history of ideas and discusses the
traditionally problematic relationship between analytical psychology and
psychoanalysis.
For anyone interested in the pluralism and influence of Jungian thought in the
postmodern world, and in the future of the Jungian enterprise, this is essential
reading.
Ann Casement is a training analyst at the Association of Jungian Analysts in
London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Chair of the
United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Contributors: John Beebe; Ann Casement; Roberto Gambini; Donald E.
Kalsched; Verena Kast; Hayao Kawai; Renos Papadopoulos; Andrew Samuels;
Mara Sidoli; Anne Springer; David Tacey; Polly Young-Eisendrath; Luigi Zoja.
Post-Jungians Today
Key papers in contemporary
analytical psychology
Edited by Ann Casement
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First published 1998
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Post-Jungians today: key papers in contemporary analytical
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p. cm.
“The Jungians Today Conference held in London in 1995”—Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Jungian psychology—Congresses. 2. Psychoanalysis—Congresses.
I. Casement, Ann. II. Jungians Today Conference (1995: London,
England)
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
ANN CASEMENT
PART I Think pieces 13
1 Will the post-Jungians survive? 14
ANDREW SAMUELS
2 Analysis and tragedy 33
LUIGI ZOJA
PART II Individuation 51
3 Toward a Jungian analysis of character 52
JOHN BEEBE
4 The qualitative leap of faith: reflections on 68
Kierkegaard and Jung
ANN CASEMENT
PART III Clinical papers 83
5 Archetypal affect, anxiety and defence in patients who 84
have suffered early trauma
DONALD E. KALSCHED
6 Archetypal patterns, mental representations, and 105
replicative processes in infancy
MARA SIDOLI
PART IV Fairy tales 119
7 Can you change your fate? The clinical use of a 120
specific fairy tale as the turning point in analysis
VERENA KAST
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8 Splitting: resolved or reserved? 136
HAYAO KAWAI
PART V Ethnicity 148
9 The challenge of backwardness 149
ROBERTO GAMBINI
10 Jungian perspectives in new contexts 164
RENOS PAPADOPOULOS
PART VI Gender 186
11 Reflections on female homosexuality 187
ANNE SPRINGER
12 Contrasexuality and the dialectic of desire 199
POLLY YOUNG-EISENDRATH
PART VII Academe 214
13 Twisting and turning with James Hillman: from 215
anima to world soul, from academia to pop
DAVID TACEY
Author index 235
Subject index 238
Contributors
John Beebe is a Jungian analyst practising in San Francisco. He is founding
Editor of the San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal and recently served
as Editor of the Journal of Analytical Psychology. His books include Integrity
in Depth and Aspects of the Masculine, and he co-authored Psychiatric
Treatment: Crisis, Clinic, and Consultation.
Ann Casement is a training analyst at the Association of Jungian Analysts in
London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and Chair of
the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.
Roberto Gambini is a Jungian analyst currently documenting the mutilation
of trees in large cities and studying its effects on modern man. He is preparing
two books: the first on dream analysis and symbolism, and the second on soul
and underdevelopment.
Donald E. Kalsched is a clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst. His
most recent book is The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the
Personal Spirit (1996).
Verena Kast is President of the International Association for Analytical
Psychology and lectures in Europe and the USA. Her more recent publications
include Folktales as Therapy (1995) and Fairy Tales for the Psyche (1996).
Hayao Kawai is President of The Association of Japanese Clinical
Psychology. He has published articles in Psychologia, Journal of Sandplay
Therapy and Diogenes, and his books include Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales
in Japan (1995) and Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy (1996).
Renos Papadopoulos is Professor of Analytical Psychology at the Centre for
Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Training Jungian Analyst of the
Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists and Consultant Clinical
Psychologist at the Tavistock Clinic. He is Editor of Harvest; Journal for
Jungian Studies. He co-edited (with John Byng-Hall) Multiple Voices
Narrative in Systemic Family Psychotherapy. ]
Andrew Samuels is Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of
Essex and a training analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology. He also
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works as a political consultant. His recent publications include The Political
Psyche (1993) and The Secret Life of Politics (forthcoming).
Mara Sidoli is a founding member and past President of the C.G.Jung
Institute in Santa Fe and founder of the Advancement of Analytical
Psychology and Development Studies. She has published many papers in
international journals and is the author of Unfolding Self.
Anne Springer is a training analyst and President of the DGAP. She has
written on various topics, including a paper about sexually abusing analysts
and female perversions, and has co-authored a book on political-ecological
problems.
David Tacey is Head of Psychoanalytical Studies and Senior Lecturer in
Literature at La Trobe University, Melbourne. He teaches a Masters in
psychoanalytic studies which is officially part of the analytical training
programme for Jungian analysts in Melbourne. His recent publications include
Edge of the Sacred (1995) and Remaking Men: Jung, Spirituality and Social
Change (1997).
Polly Young-Eisendrath is a psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst
practising in Burlington, Vermont, as well as Clinical Associate Professor of
Psychiatry at the University of Vermont Medical College. She has published
many books, papers and articles and lectures widely on topics of resilience,
women’s development and couple relationships.
Luigi Zoja is a training analyst at the C.G.Jung Institut, Zurich, and past
President of Centro Italiano di Psicologia Analitica. He is first Vice-President
of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He is currently in
private practice. His publications (in English) include Drugs, Addiction and
Imitation (1989) and Growth and Guilt (1995).
Preface
Post-Jungians Today: Key papers in contemporary analytical psychology, grew
out of the Jungians Today conference held in London in November 1995. The
conference offered the opportunity for a celebration and an evaluation of what
had been happening over ten years in the Jungian world since the publication of
Andrew Samuels’ seminal book, Jung and the Post-Jungians.
As convener of the conference, I recalled for participants a talk I had had with
Andrew ten years before, at the launch of Jung and the Post-Jungians, about the
possibility of increasing dialogue between the four United Kingdom groups: the
Association of Jungian Analysts, the British Association of Psychotherapists, the
Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists and the Society of Analytical
Psychology. Since that time, the UK Umbrella Group has come into being and the
above conference, its second national one, was the biggest event so far for
bringing together in the UK the diverse voices of the Jungian family.
The Jungians Today conference covered a variety of topics, some of which
feature in the present book, such as gender, ethnicity and individuation. John
Beebe, Renos Papadopoulos, Andrew Samuels and I gave papers on the day and
another contributor to this book, Anne Springer, attended the event. I would like
to thank all of the analysts who were involved in making it such a lively affair, as
well as John Clarke, Sonu Shamdasani and Martin Stanton, who are not
members of the International Association for Analytical Psychology.
Edwina Welham from Routledge attended the conference, and afterwards she
and I had a meeting to discuss the possibility of a future project related to some
of the themes dealt with at the time. In the course of our discussions, the idea of
this book was born and the focus of the conference was broadened to cover the
international Jungian community. As a result, there are represented in the
following pages writers from Japan, Australia and Brazil, as well as from the
United States, Europe and the United Kingdom.
I would like to thank the twelve contributors to this book. It has been a great
pleasure to interact with each of them and to familiarize myself with their work.
I would particularly like to thank Edwina Welham for her support and
encouragement, and Andrew Samuels for his friendship and generous advice.
Ann Casement