{"title":"Fits and Seizures: Dog as Therapist to the Analyst","authors":"P. Power","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2153526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2153526","url":null,"abstract":"The author compares idiopathic epilepsy in her dog to her own life-long emotional “fits” in search of deeper understanding. Delving into the mechanisms of both conditions, she explores the dog-human connection and seeks amelioration of problematic symptoms—for both. She considers the personal, practical, and transpersonal dimensions. God is an ailment man has to cure… –Jung (1975, p. 33)","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"371 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47047518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review","authors":"M. Mccarthy","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2157151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2157151","url":null,"abstract":"Henning shows how our lives are rooted in the physical, in the hungers and thirsts we share with the doe and buck, that our very imagining of the “silvered wolf” makes him “the heart’s centerpiece.” The natural world beyond our fences reminds us of our mistake, of the “fracture” that grew because we have “forgotten the wholeness of the world.” Faithfully, the world remains, calling us; the animals “continue to weep” as separation brings suffering to all. In Henning’s poems, healing the fracture comes with attention and intent, seeing the doe’s hunger, and the coyote’s, watching the transformation from serving and satisfying hunger into the doe’s “burst of radiant being.” In “Exchange,” her sister watches a doe dying in the aftermath of a coyote attack. The poem becomes a kind of magical spell, where the deer returns as a trout, its side marked by spots that were the coyote’s teeth marks, marks that the","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"520 - 521"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49627575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Active Imagination and The Legend of Zelda: An Unlikely Source of Modern Mythology","authors":"A. J. Howe","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2138198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2138198","url":null,"abstract":"Jung often stated that one must find one’s myth and that children would manufacture their own mythology if left to their own devices. Video games are a common part of childhood today but are often maligned and conflated with pathologic addiction. In this paper, I present the case of “R,” who played games in The Legend of Zelda series during his childhood. In R’s present therapy, these games have taken on a new significance. He has revisited the characters and stories of the series, and we have considered its potential psychological impact in our sessions. On reflection, playing video games in The Legend of Zelda series helped him to navigate his childhood and adolescence after a difficult time with an emotionally abusive childcare provider. In this paper, I present the game series as well as the four specific games R played. Using a combination of his and my reflections alongside other academic investigation, I suggest his playing of the games were a way of accessing a mythology that felt relevant to him and was in truth a form of active imagination. One can withhold the material content of primitive myths from a child but not take from him the need for mythology, and still less his ability to manufacture it for himself. —Jung (1967, para. 30)","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"436 - 445"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48981726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Fariba Darabimanesh, Monir Saleh, Christian van Gorder
{"title":"Individuations and Annihilations of the Self: Jalal al-din Rumi, C. G. Jung, and Views about Inner Transformation toward Individuation","authors":"Fariba Darabimanesh, Monir Saleh, Christian van Gorder","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2135940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2135940","url":null,"abstract":"Both Jalal al-din Rumi and Carl Gustav Jung explored the brilliance of sacred transformation, and how changes and growth happen in order to touch God’s essence and reach individuation. This study compares ideas of transformation in these two observers of human nature. We explore the emphasis on the sacred and intuitive perceptions of Rumi alongside the categorical ideas of Jung, writing 700 years later. Both delved into the deepest layers of human nature, with a focus on how conceptions of the core of “self” could bring a sense of inner illumination toward either union with God (Rumi) or individuation (Jung).","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"407 3","pages":"421 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41284009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I Dreamt Last Night of the Three Weird Sisters: Mothers, Daughters, and “The Three Spinners”","authors":"Carolyn Mikulencak","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2153522","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2153522","url":null,"abstract":"This essay explores the complex relationship between mothers and daughters by looking at both the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Three Spinners” and my own experience, imagined and real, of being a daughter to my mother.","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"382 - 390"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44287329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Letter to Jim: Four Poems of Water and Soul","authors":"Katrina Hays","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2154585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2154585","url":null,"abstract":"This letter to the author’s Jungian therapist discusses the process by which therapy and the practice of writing align in a mysterious connection between upwelling unconscious and the divine interaction with human creativity. The attendant four poems investigate the haunted spaces of the psyche where self-hatred and physical harm jostle with the insistences of soul. The frame of depth work, a writing practice, and thousands of hours spent physically engaged with the world’s waters were combined to create a wide and ongoing inquiry into the nature of the writer’s inner life and the invisible archetypal pressures that bear down on awareness. The resulting letter and poetry show a developed sense of the mysterious connection of things seen and unseen, and relatedness with an invisible, instructive framework that allows the writer to live within body, and express via word. The final judgment is that the author writes herself into being each day; that practice keeps her wide and sensitive, supple and alive.","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"397 - 403"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49132530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review","authors":"Marion Anderson","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2157150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2157150","url":null,"abstract":"This book is a timely treat! After the publication of Jung’s (2009) Red Book, painting from the unconscious and picture interpretation seemed to gain interest and momentum in the English-speaking world. Ingrid Riedel and Christa Henzler are training analysts and supervisors at the Jung Institute in Z€ urich, Switzerland, where picture interpretation is a mandatory course in the certification process to become a Jungian analyst, as is also the case at the Jung Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. This English translation of Painting Therapy fills some of the gap in books describing the practical application of painting and picture interpretation from the standpoint of Jung’s analytical psychology. Only a proportionally small number of books describing the clinical use of painted images emanating from the unconscious and their analytic understanding have been translated into English (p. xii), and this translation effort, supported by the C. G. Jung Foundation Z€ urich, intends to make important German language texts accessible to international students. The lack of translated material is surprising since the process of painting was important in Jung’s personal and clinical practice, as documented in The Red Book (Jung, 2009) and Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung, 1961/1989), as well as through thousands of images created by C. G. Jung’s and Jolande Jacobi’s clients, many of which are now archived in the Picture Archives held at the Jung Institute in Z€ urich. Another book by Ingrid Riedel, in collaboration with Ruth Ammann and Verena Kast about the images contained in the Picture Archives, will soon be released. Speaking from a personal standpoint, it is not an exaggeration to say this book changed my life. It reconnected me to my roots, helped me find my center, and brought me to where I am today. Painting and museum visits were regular activities when I was a child. When I was 18 years old, I read Jung’s (1964) Man and His Symbols. Little did I know that my first career path as a graphic designer would eventually lead to my second career as a psychologist and Jungian analyst, uniting concrete images with symbolic images of the psyche. During my last year of university in Brazil, two","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"516 - 519"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48705043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}