Issue 2/2025 (No. 8) of the Russian-language Jungian journal published by the Practical School of Analytical Psychology (PSAP) arrives with a theoretically rich selection of articles, including translated contributions from two prominent voices in international analytical psychology, alongside conference materials and personal reflections on last year’s landmark IAAP Congress in Zurich.

Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche

The issue’s theoretical core opens with Susan Schwartz on the eternal girl archetype and its darker dimensions, a theme that sits in productive dialogue with her broader work on narcissism and feminine psychology. Murray Stein follows with a piece on images of anima and animus in the Bible, bringing the central Jungian concepts of the contra-sexual into dialogue with one of the West’s foundational symbolic texts. Both pieces appear in Russian translation.

Russian contributors then take up adjacent questions. O. L. Maleeva asks whether anima and animus are best understood as personifications of the inferior function. P. P. Kozin rounds out the section with a piece on the sacred in the analysis of ego-identity transformation, situating spiritual experience within the analytical process.

Conference Materials

The issue includes papers from a joint PSAP and IAPiPDO conference. K. N. Vasiliev takes on the myth of postmodernity, Yu. E. Korneeva offers a journey into the depths of myth, and a round table discussion closes the section with a question that has long animated the relationship between analytical psychology and science: alliance or conflict between science and symbolism?

Impressions from Zurich

The issue closes on a personal note with three reflections on the XXIII IAAP Congress, held in Zurich in August 2025 to mark the 150th anniversary of Jung’s birth. M. A. Zhukova writes on the experience of understanding and what it meant to be present at such a gathering. D. I. Kostevich offers something more intimate, opening a folder of photographs as a way of processing the experience. And N. A. Pavlikova reflects on the congress itself, adding a Russian perspective to the many accounts of this historic gathering that have appeared in Jungian publications worldwide.

The journal is available to purchase via the PSAP website. While the content is in Russian, the translated pieces by Schwartz and Stein make it of potential interest to Russian-speaking readers in the broader international Jungian community.