This volume brings together selected papers from the 2021 IAJS conference focusing on Jungian psychology’s place within the broader human science field, with contributions providing an interdisciplinary examination of fields such as psychoanalysis, feminism, critical thought, and eco-psychology.
The historical foundations of Jungian thought in phenomenology, hermeneutics, the significance of imagination and the body’s genetics open the book with outstanding essays from both renowned and aspiring new scholars. Chapters highlighting matters of current social, political and ecological considerations shed light on the intersections between Jungian psychology and much contemporary thought in these fields. The healing process takes center stage in the last part of the book, which will interest readers involved with the broader psychotherapy field.
With rigorous and scholarly contributions from a variety of international figures in analytical psychology, this book will be of great interest to all Jungian and depth psychology scholars, students and analysts in training, as well as readers in the broader human science psychology field interested in current Jungian psychology and phenomenology.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Jungian Psychology and the Human Sciences
Roger Brooke
1. The Role of the Good-Enough All-Rounder in Jungian Studies: “Clinic and Academy” Revisited
Andrew Samuels
Part 1: Philosophical Foundations
2. The Way of the Daimon: From Jung’s Red Book to the Alchemical Imagination and the Reddening of Psychology
Stanton Marlan
3. In the Gap between Phenomenology and Jungian Psychology: Cultivating a ‘Poetics’ of Psychological Life
Robert D. Romanyshyn
4. Two Jungs: Two Sciences?
Mark Saban
5. Archetypes, Embodiment, and Spontaneous Thought
Erik Goodwyn
Part 2: The Social and Political Horizons
6. Healing is Political
Robin McCoy Brooks
7. Hillman’s Ambivalence: An Inhuman Twist of Human Science
Michael Sipiora
8. Geography of Creative Thought: Walking with Freud and Nietzsche
Lucy Huskinson
9. An Archetypal Perspective on Anti-Homeless Architecture
Adam J. Schneider
10. Encounters with African Elephants: Transformative Gatherings
Gwenda Euvrard
11. Anatomy of a Vision: A Psychological Approach to the Papua New Guinea UFO Sightings, June 26-27, 1959
David J. Halperin
Part 3: Psychotherapy and Analysis
12. Jung’s Personal Confession
Betsy Cohen
13. Jung, Groddeck, and Analytic Technique
Marco Balenci
14. Jung and Kristeva: The Looking Glass between Self and Other
Susan E. Schwartz
15. Ressentiment: Its Phenomenology and Clinical Significance
John White
16. Froom Grievous to Grief
Fanny Brewster