{"title":"Power, Pamela J. (2024). Transitions in Jungian Analysis: Essays on Illness, Death and Violence. Routledge. 2024. Pp. 120. Hbk. £112. Pbk. 27.19.","authors":"Robert Tyminski","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"495-496"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533358","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":"Schenk, Ronald. The Serpent and the Staff/The Mermaid and the Diver: Stalking the Roots of Psychoanalysis. Asheville: Chiron Publications. 2025. Pp. i + 213. Hbk. $42. Pbk. $27.","authors":"David Sedgwick","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"497-499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534153","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":"A Protocol for the Use of Psychedelics in Jungian Psychoanalysis1","authors":"Leslie Stein","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70053","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The increasing, convincing scientific studies of the usefulness of psychedelics for promoting changes for the ego calls for analysts to take a position in relation to these substances. In appropriate cases, they may be considered as an aid to Jungian psychoanalysis, yet they remain controversial and outside the traditional realm of our therapeutic modality. The purpose of the plenary and this paper, both dedicated to the memory of Dr. Lionel Corbett, is to suggest a protocol for the consideration of psychedelics in full recognition of our history, theory, traditions, and practices as Jungian analysts.</p><p>Les études scientifiques de plus en plus convaincantes sur l'utilité des psychédéliques pour favoriser des changements de l'ego incitent les analystes à prendre position par rapport à ces substances. Dans les cas appropriés, elles peuvent être considérées comme une aide à la psychanalyse jungienne, mais elles restent controversées et en dehors du cadre traditionnel de notre modalité thérapeutique. L'objectif de cette séance plénière et de cet article, tous deux dédiés à la mémoire du Dr Lionel Corbett, est de créer un protocole pour l'examen des psychédéliques, en pleine reconnaissance de notre histoire, de notre théorie, de nos traditions et de nos pratiques en tant qu'analystes jungiens.</p><p>Die zunehmenden und überzeugenden wissenschaftlichen Studien zum Nutzen von Psychedelika für die Förderung von Ich-Veränderungen fordern Psychoanalytiker auf, zu diesen Substanzen Stellung zu beziehen. In geeigneten Fällen können sie als Unterstützung der Jungianischen Psychoanalyse in Betracht gezogen werden, dennoch bleiben sie umstritten und liegen außerhalb des traditionellen Rahmens unserer Therapieform. Ziel des Plenums und dieses Beitrags, beides dem Andenken an Dr. Lionel Corbett gewidmet, ist die Entwicklung eines Protokolls für den Umgang mit Psychedelika unter voller Anerkennung unserer Geschichte, Theorie, Traditionen und Praxis als Jungianische Analytiker.</p><p>L'aumento dei convincenti studi sull'utilità delle sostanze psichedeliche per favorire cambiamenti dell'Io, richiede che gli analisti prendano una posizione a riguardo. In casi appropriati, possono essere considerate un aiuto nell'analisi junghiana, eppure l'argomento resta controverso e al di fuori del tradizionale ambito delle modalità terapeutiche. Obiettivo della plenaria e di questo lavoro, entrambi dedicati alla memoria di Lionel Corbett, è quello di creare un protocollo per prendere in considerazione l'utilizzo di sostanze psichedeliche, nel pieno rispetto della nostra storia, della teoria, delle tradizioni e delle tecniche come analisti junghiani.</p><p>Растущее число убедительных научных исследований, доказывающих ценность психоделиков для изменения эго, говорит о необходимости для аналитиков занять определенную позицию по отношению к этим веществам. В ряде случаях их можно рассматривать как вспомогательное средство для юнгианского психоанализа, однако этот вопрос остае","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"417-433"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533053","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":"Re-enchantment in Adolescent Psyche: Spiritual Experiences in Video Games and Dreams1","authors":"Kan Chen, Xiao You","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70057","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study explores spiritual experiences in online video games and dreams from the perspective of analytical psychology, focusing on how such experiences activate the archetype of initiation in adolescents. Method: The present study adopted a Jungian psychological perspective to analyse symbols and psychological processes emerging in dreams that occurred after interaction with video games. Scores on Mystical Experience Questionnaire (MEQ-30) were used to assess whether the participant had undergone a spiritual experience while playing video games. Participants continued to record dreams for a 10-week follow-up period. The paper presents two case studies to illustrate that video games can evoke diverse spiritual experiences that are often connected to an individual's personal complexes. These spiritual experiences may activate the archetype of initiation and interact with dreams, thereby contributing to the process of individuation. In cases of addiction, an archetypal self-care system may be at play—representing a destructive aspect of the Self—which is experienced as a damaging form of spirituality. The paper suggests that Jungian analysts and educators should recognize the transformative and spiritual dimensions embedded in video games to support healthy initiation in adolescent development.</p><p>Cette étude explore les expériences spirituelles dans les jeux vidéo en ligne et les rêves sous l'angle de la psychologie analytique, en se concentrant sur la manière dont de telles expériences activent l'archétype de l'initiation chez les adolescents. La présente étude a adopté une perspective psychologique jungienne pour analyser les symboles et les processus psychologiques émergeant dans les rêves survenus après une interaction avec des jeux vidéo. Les informations ont été obtenues grâce à des entretiens impliquant des dessins. Les scores de l'échelle MEG-30 ont été utilisés pour évaluer si le participant avait vécu une expérience spirituelle en jouant. Les participants ont continué à enregistrer leurs rêves pendant une période de suivi de 10 semaines.</p><p>Résultat: L'article présente plusieurs études de cas pour illustrer les conclusions suivantes: les jeux vidéo peuvent évoquer diverses expériences spirituelles qui sont souvent liées aux complexes personnels de l'individu. Ces expériences spirituelles peuvent activer l'archétype de l'initiation et interagir avec les rêves, contribuant ainsi au processus d'individuation. Dans les cas d'addiction, un « système d'autoprotection archétypal » (<i>archetypal self-care system</i>) peut être à l'œuvre — représentant un aspect destructeur du Soi — qui est perçu comme une forme de spiritualité apparemment unificatrice mais finalement nuisible.</p><p>L'article suggère que les analystes jungiens et des éducateurs devraient reconnaître les dimensions transformatrices et spirituelles intégrées dans les jeux vidéo afin de soutenir un développement sain chez les jeunes.</p><p>Diese Studie untersucht spirit","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"434-459"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532876","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":"Coming to Terms with the Other: Entering the Unknown/Non-Understandable1","authors":"Audrey Punnett","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70054","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The quote from the stone at Bollingen begins, “Time is a child playing like a child playing a board game; the kingdom of the child.” It holds much value for those of us working with children: we are entering their world, their “kingdom” to understand and to help them develop so they will thrive in this world. The case of an immigrant family from a South Asian background who were trying to assimilate into the American culture, and yet hold on to their valued traditions, placed much pressure on their eldest male child to succeed. Like the <i>orphanus sum</i> quote on another side of the stone at Bollingen, he felt orphaned, and alone to face the disappointments he experienced from his parents. The eight-year analysis presented in this paper follows his journey from orphan to warrior. To enter relationship and to know oneself is key to all healing: Jung said “… the process of coming to terms with the Other in us … [helps us] to know aspects of our nature” (1955–1956, para. 706), and this is particularly true in our work with the child, as we enter the relationship going from non-understandable to understandable—a courageous journey.</p><p>La citation gravée sur la pierre de Bollingen commence ainsi: « Le temps est un enfant qui joue, comme un enfant jouant à un jeu de table; le royaume de l'enfant. » Elle revêt une grande valeur pour ceux d'entre nous qui travaillent avec les enfants: nous pénétrons dans leur monde, leur « royaume », pour les comprendre et les aider à se développer afin qu'ils puissent s'épanouir dans ce monde. Le cas d'une famille immigrée d'Asie du Sud, s'efforçant de s'assimiler à la culture américaine tout en préservant ses traditions, a exercé une pression considérable sur le fils aîné pour qu'il réussisse. À l'instar de la citation <i>orphanus sum</i> (« je suis un orphelin ») figurant sur une autre face de la pierre de Bollingen, il se sentait orphelin et seul face aux déceptions vécues avec ses parents. L'analyse de huit ans présentée dans cet article suit son parcours de l'orphelin au guerrier. Entrer en relation et se connaître soi-même est la clé de toute guérison: Jung affirmait que « …le processus de confrontation avec l'Autre en nous… [nous aide] à connaître des aspects de notre nature » (1955-1956, para. 706). Cela est particulièrement vrai dans notre travail avec l'enfant, alors que nous nous engageons dans une relation passant du non-compréhensible au compréhensible — un voyage courageux.</p><p>Die Inschrift auf dem Stein in Bollingen beginnt mit den Worten: “Die Zeit ist ein Kind, das spielt wie ein Kind ein Brettspiel; das Reich des Kindes.“ Sie ist für uns, die wir mit Kindern arbeiten, von großer Bedeutung: wir betreten ihre Welt, ihr “Reich“, um sie zu verstehen und ihnen bei ihrer Entwicklung zu helfen, damit sie in dieser Welt gedeihen können. Der Fall einer Einwandererfamilie südasiatischer Herkunft, die sich in die amerikanische Kultur integrieren und gleichzeitig ihre wertvollen Traditionen bewahren wol","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"340-355"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148533303","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":"Interview with Dr. Fanny Brewster: Reflections on Her Life1","authors":"Deborah Stewart","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"485-494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148522909","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":"The Non-Understandable World of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Therapist's Implicit Understanding and Subsequent Deepened Understanding1","authors":"Toshio Kawai","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines the concept of non-understandable in psychotherapy, based on the author's own play therapy with a boy with mild ASD (autism spectrum disorder). ASD is considered to belong to an area beyond comprehension, as psychotherapy is often deemed ineffective for it. In this case too, the client's play shifted constantly, scattering sand on the floor, and was highly incomprehensible. However, by the therapist not merely pursuing differentiation or growth, but acknowledging the necessity of chaos and destruction and striving to meet the client at his level, he began to construct himself from a deeper level. Furthermore, the therapist's understanding at the time was that entering the client's world meant the therapist must also enter the realm of the dead where the client resided. More than 20 years later, after ASD became more widely recognized, it became clear that this therapy actually produced a “unity of unity and difference” (Jung/Giegerich, 1998, p.120). This understanding later aided the comprehension of ASD psychotherapy in supervision. Furthermore, the theme of female death and its redemption, present from the very first session of this therapy, was thought to have been realized through the therapist's dreams—an understanding that emerged over 40 years later.</p>","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"356-378"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-5922.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70062","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"505-508"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148532862","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":"A Late Confirmation? Review of C. G. Jung’s Understanding of Dreams in the Light of Modern Dream Research1","authors":"Konstantin Rößler","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The publication of Sigmund Freud’s <i>The Interpretation of Dreams</i> (1900/2000) marked the birth of psychoanalysis in the public consciousness. Since then, therapeutic work with dreams has formed a central element for the practice and teaching of all schools in the tradition of psychoanalysis and depth psychology. Nevertheless, it is precisely this core element of work with unconscious contents that has faced massive opposition from scientifically oriented dream research in recent decades. Originally proposed in the 1970s, Allan Hobson’s (2002) paradigm of dreams as simply a meaningless epiphenomenon of matter has held currency. But in recent years, a fundamental change has taken place in the scientific mainstream. With the discovery of the default mode network, the emergence of the continuity hypothesis of dreaming and a new understanding of the phenomenon of consciousness, current dream research is approaching positions that seemed unthinkable before the turn of the millennium. In particular, C. G. Jung’s understanding of the dream proves to be surprisingly adaptable to this new view. This paper gives an overview of the development of the understanding of dreams and shows the points of connection with analytical psychology on the basis of the current hypotheses of dream research. These give reason to represent therapeutic work with dreams in teaching and practice with greater confidence.</p><p>La publication de <i>L'Interprétation des rêves</i> (1900/2000) de Sigmund Freud a marqué la naissance de la psychanalyse dans la conscience collective. Depuis lors, le travail thérapeutique sur les rêves constitue un élément central de la pratique et de l'enseignement de toutes les écoles issues de la tradition psychanalytique et de la psychologie des profondeurs. Néanmoins, c'est précisément cet élément central du travail sur les contenus inconscients qui a fait l'objet d'une opposition massive de la part de la recherche scientifique sur le rêve ces dernières décennies. Le paradigme d'Allan Hobson (2002), proposé à l'origine dans les années 1970, selon lequel le rêve n'est qu'un épiphénomène matériel dénué de sens, a longtemps prévalu. Mais ces dernières années, un changement fondamental s'est opéré au sein du courant scientifique dominant. Avec la découverte du réseau du mode par défaut (<i>default mode network</i>), l'émergence de l'hypothèse de continuité du rêve et une nouvelle compréhension du phénomène de la conscience, la recherche actuelle sur le rêve se rapproche de positions qui semblaient impensables avant le tournant du millénaire. En particulier, la compréhension du rêve de C. G. Jung s'avère étonnamment compatible avec cette nouvelle vision. Cet article présente un aperçu de l'évolution de la compréhension des rêves et montre les points de connexion avec la psychologie analytique sur la base des hypothèses actuelles de la recherche. Celles-ci donnent des raisons de défendre le travail thérapeutique sur les rêves, tant dans l'enseigne","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"379-398"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534130","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":"From Individuation, through Synchronicity to the Psychoid Imagination and the Re-Enchantment of the World1","authors":"Joe Cambray","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.70059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.70059","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the success of the scientific method of the past 350 or so years, the animated, enchanted world of our ancestors has been overtaken by a reductive, mechanistic, technologically powerful description of reality. Early attempts to challenge this disenchantment were only partially successful but swept aside by “progress.” Depth psychology emerged out of the tensions between these worldviews. As a part of this, Jung’s experiences chronicled in <i>The Red Book</i> offer a renewed challenge. Along the way towards revitalization, Jung articulated a model of individuation, focused on a realization of the self. Here, I suggest he implicitly extended this to the external world through the notion of synchronicity and later based on the psychoid nature of the archetypes I have reconsidered this through the lens of complexity theory. Further, evidence is offered for the functioning of a previously unacknowledged psychoid level of imagination. This in turn allows a reconsideration of reveries, noting synchronistic aspects to their appearance. Suggestions for working both clinically and ecologically with reveries are offered here as a part of larger project of re-enchantment, including the work of some surrealist painters.</p><p>Avec le succès de la méthode scientifique au cours des quelque 350 dernières années, le monde animé et enchanté de nos ancêtres a été supplanté par une description de la réalité réductrice, mécaniste et technologiquement puissante. Les premières tentatives pour contester ce désenchantement n'ont été que partiellement fructueuses et ont été balayées par le « progrès ». La psychologie des profondeurs est née des tensions entre ces visions du monde. Dans ce contexte, les expériences de Jung relatées dans <i>Le Livre Rouge</i> offrent un nouveau défi. Sur le chemin de cette revitalisation, Jung a articulé un modèle d'individuation centré sur la réalisation du soi. Je suggère qu’il a implicitement étendu cela au monde extérieur par la notion de synchronicité; plus tard, en me fondant sur la nature psychoïde des archétypes, j'ai reconsidéré cette approche sous l'angle de la théorie de la complexité. De plus, des preuves sont apportées quant au fonctionnement d'un niveau d'imagination psychoïde jusqu'alors méconnu. Cela permet à son tour une reconsidération des rêveries, en notant les aspects synchronistiques de leur apparition. Des suggestions pour travailler avec les rêveries, tant sur le plan clinique qu'écologique, sont proposées ici dans le cadre d'un projet plus vaste de réenchantement, incluant le travail de certains peintres surréalistes.</p><p>Mit dem Erfolg der wissenschaftlichen Methodik in den letzten rund 350 Jahren wurde die lebendige, verzauberte Welt unserer Vorfahren von einer reduktionistischen, mechanistischen und technologisch hochentwickelten Beschreibung der Realität abgelöst. Frühe Versuche, dieser Ernüchterung entgegenzuwirken, waren nur teilweise erfolgreich und wurden vom \"Fortschritt\" hinweggefegt. Die Tiefenp","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"71 2","pages":"283-302"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148534097","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}