{"title":"What Sort of a Thing is an Archetype? Archetypes, Complexes and Self-Organization Revisited","authors":"Patricia Skar","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13060","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A core group of mainly Jungian analysts have contributed to an ongoing archetype debate in the <i>Journal of Analytical Psychology</i> since the 1990s. Most of the participants have provided some sort of scientific definition for Jung’s archetype-as-such. However, to view the archetype as a property of the dynamic inherent in complex formation, as in Saunders & Skar (2001), is quite different from what others have proposed. This has led to misunderstandings of our theory. The current paper examines some of these misunderstandings alongside other issues that have arisen in the debate. For example, some writers have suggested that we could get rid of the term archetype altogether and still retain the important aspects of Jung’s psychology. While this may be true, for some Jungians archetypes may serve symbolically as progenitor gods acting within a system that is a good substitute for traditional religions. Others may simply consider the term useful for their clinical work. A key feature of Saunders and Skar’s theory is that it requires no progenitor archetypes for complexes to form. It permits us to keep the concept of the archetype firmly within the Jungian canon while at the same time respecting the findings of modern science.</p><p>Un groupe défini d’analystes jungiens ont contribué depuis les années 1990 au débat continu sur les archétypes dans le <i>JAP</i>. La plupart des participants ont suggéré une définition scientifique de l’archétype tel quel de Jung. Or considérer l’archétype en tant qu’un attribut inhérent dans la dynamique de la formation d’un complexe, par exemple Saunders & Skar (2001), diffère complètement de la proposition des autres. Ceci a mené à des malentendus concernant notre théorie. Cet article se penche donc sur certains de ces malentendus, ainsi qu’à d’autres problèmes issus du débat. Par exemple, certains auteurs ont suggéré de complètement abandonner la notion de l’archétype tout en gardant les aspects importants de la psychologie de Jung. Alors que cela peut être vrai, pour certains Jungiens, les archétypes serviraient symboliquement de dieux progéniteurs au centre d’un système qui pour eux prend la place des religions traditionnelles. D’autres encore considèrent tout simplement que ce terme est utile dans la clinique. Par contre un déterminant de la théorie de Saunders & Skar veut qu’aucun progéniteur archétypique ne soit nécessaire pour la formation d’un complexe. Ceci permet de garder la notion de l’archétype dans le canon jungien tout en respectant les résultats scientifiques récents.</p><p>Eine Kerngruppe hauptsächlich jungianischer Analytiker beteiligt sich seit den 1990-er Jahren an einer anhaltenden Archetypendebatte im <i>Journal of Analytical Psychology</i>. Die meisten Teilnehmer haben eine Art wissenschaftliche Definition für Jungs Archetyp-per-se geliefert. Den Archetyp jedoch als Eigenschaft der der Komplexbildung innewohnenden Dynamik zu betrachten, wie Saunders & Skar (2001), ist etw","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 1","pages":"69-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438857","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":"List of Contributors","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13071","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 1","pages":"164-166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143438858","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":"Jung’s Koan of the Self and a Zen Buddhist Solution","authors":"Daniel Anderson","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13083","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13083","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“God is a circle, whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere.” Jung repeats this ancient saying often when describing the Self. This article frames the saying as a type of koan and uses Zen Buddhism’s conception of the Buddha-nature to unlock the psychological meaning of Jung’s saying and to suggest new perspectives on Jung’s notion of the Self. Parallels between Jung’s notion of the Self and Zen’s Buddha-nature emerge with particular clarity in <i>Mysterium Coniunctionis</i> in connection with Jung’s discussion of the alchemical <i>unus mundus</i> and <i>caelum</i>. The essay further delves into the relationship between Zen teachings on enlightenment and Jung’s notion of individuation and explores how these insights can inform Jungian theory and practice. By addressing the implications of Zen concepts for understanding the Self, the essay ultimately seeks to illuminate the shared spiritual dimensions of Jungian psychology and Zen Buddhism and to provide new perspectives on both.</p><p><b>«</b>Dieu est un cercle dont le centre est partout et la circonférence nulle part ». Jung répète souvent cet ancien dicton lorsqu’il décrit le Soi. L’article présente ce dicton en tant qu’un type de koan et se sert de l’idée de la nature du Bouddha tel qu’il est conçu dans le bouddhisme Zen pour en dégager la signification psychologique et pour suggérer de nouvelles perspectives sur la notion du Soi de Jung. Les parallèles entre la notion du Soi de Jung et la nature de Bouddha du Zen apparaissent avec une clarté particulière dans le <i>Mysterium Coniunctionis</i>, en relation avec la discussion de Jung sur <i>l’unus mundus</i> et le <i>caelum</i> alchimique. L’essai approfondit la relation entre les enseignements zen sur l’illumination d’une part et la notion jungienne de l’individuation de l’autre et explore la manière dont ces idées peuvent informer la théorie et la pratique jungiennes. En abordant les implications des concepts du Zen pour la compréhension du Soi, l’article cherche finalement à éclairer les dimensions spirituelles communes de la psychologie analytique et du bouddhisme Zen et à fournir de nouvelles perspectives sur les deux.</p><p>\"Gott ist ein Kreis, dessen Mittelpunkt überall und dessen Umfang nirgends ist.\" Jung wiederholt dieses alte Sprichwort oft, wenn er das Selbst beschreibt. Dieser Artikel faßt das Sprichwort als eine Art Koan zusammen und verwendet die Vorstellung der Buddha-Natur des Zen-Buddhismus, um die psychologische Bedeutung von Jungs Ausspruch zu entschlüsseln und neue Perspektiven auf Jungs Vorstellung des Selbst zu eröffnen. Parallelen zwischen Jungs Vorstellung des Selbst und der Buddha-Natur des Zen treten mit besonderer Deutlichkeit in <i>Mysterium Coniunctionis</i> im Zusammenhang mit Jungs Diskussion des alchemistischen <i>unus mundus</i> und <i>caelum</i> zutage. Der Aufsatz befaßt sich weiter mit der Beziehung zwischen Lehren des Zen über Erleuchtung und Jungs Begriff der Individuation und untersuch","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"174-193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442408","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":"Community with the Dead: Jung’s Black Books Epiphany and the Role of Toni Wolff","authors":"Ginny Hill","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13082","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13082","url":null,"abstract":"<p>During December 1915, C. G. Jung recorded a series of fantasy dialogues in <i>The Black Books</i> with a female shade who instructed him to seek “community with the dead” (2020, Vol. 5, p. 255). The female shade also taught Jung a prayer for the redemption of the dead and she indicated the defining tasks of the second half of Jung’s life—namely, the creation of <i>Liber Novus</i>, or <i>The Red Book,</i> and the foundation of the community of analytical psychology. In this paper, the author explores the significance of these key passages in the context of Jung’s emerging “theology of the dead”, as documented in the initial volumes of <i>The Black Books</i> (Shamdasani, 2024, p. 118). She considers Jung’s interrogation of his own dream history as part of this creative writing process, including several significant dreams about the dead, and she explores the extent to which Jung regarded one of these dreams as prompting him to start an extra-marital relationship with Toni Wolff.</p><p>En décembre 1915, C. G. Jung consigna dans ses cahiers, connus depuis comme <i>Les Livres Noirs</i>, une série de dialogues fantasmiques avec une ombre féminine qui lui conseilla de chercher « la communion parmi les morts » (2020, V, p. 255). L’ombre féminine lui enseigna également une prière pour la rédemption des décédés et indiqua à Jung les tâches déterminantes de la seconde moitié de sa vie, à savoir la création du <i>Liber Novus</i>, ou <i>Livre rouge</i>, ainsi que la fondation d’une communauté dédiée à la psychologie analytique. Dans cet article j’explore la signification de certains passages clés dans le contexte d’une théologie des morts émergente de Jung, telle qu’elle est documentée dans les premiers volumes des <i>Livres Noirs</i> (Shamdasani, 2024, p. 118). Je considère l’interrogation de Jung sur sa propre histoire onirique dans le cadre de ce processus d’écriture créative, y compris plusieurs rêves significatifs ayant pour thème les morts, et j’explore la mesure dans laquelle Jung a perçu un de ces rêves comme l’incitant à entamer une relation extra-conjugale avec une de ses patientes, Toni Wolff.</p><p>Im Dezember 1915 zeichnete C. G. Jung in den <i>Schwarzen Büchern</i> eine Reihe von Fantasiedialogen mit einer weiblichen Schattenfigur auf, die ihn anwies, \"Gemeinschaft mit den Toten\" zu suchen (2020, Band 5, S. 255). Die weibliche Schattenfigur lehrte Jung auch ein Gebet für die Erlösung der Toten und wies auf die entscheidenden Aufgaben der zweiten Hälfte von Jungs Leben hin – namentlich die Schaffung des <i>Liber Novus</i> oder des <i>Roten Buches</i> und die Gründung der Gemeinschaft der Analytischen Psychologie. In diesem Artikel untersuche ich die Bedeutung dieser Schlüsselpassagen im Kontext von Jungs sich entwickelnder \"Theologie der Toten\", wie sie in den ersten Bänden der <i>Schwarzen Bücher</i> dokumentiert ist (Shamdasani, 2024, S. 118). Ich betrachte Jungs Befragung seiner eigenen Traumgeschichte als Teil dieses kreativen Schreibproze","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"257-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442402","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":"Emotional Intelligence and Transformation in Analytical Psychology: A Case Study","authors":"John Pellitteri","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13085","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13085","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Emotions are evident in Jung’s work with regard to feeling-toned complexes and the feeling function in psychological types as well as in the clinical processes of therapeutic change and transformation. Emotional Intelligence (EI) is an empirically-grounded theory that involves a set of abilities for working with emotions, allowing the patient to unlock the inherent wisdom and meaning that emotions convey. EI can be embedded in analytical psychology and other dynamic-oriented therapies as an approach for engaging with emotionally charged material. The four EI abilities include the perception, facilitation, understanding and management of emotions. The emotion-management ability is particularly necessary during a client’s confrontations with the unconscious. The case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder in Jungian psychotherapy is examined from an EI perspective. A series of active imagination activities in the clinical encounter is presented, outlining the transformation of imagery that accompanies the individuation process. The case illustrates the use of EI strategies to attenuate the over-powering effect of complexes in the service of building ego strength. There is also emphasis on the importance of transference and the therapeutic container in this process of building EI capacity.</p><p>Les émotions figurent bien entendu dans les travaux de Jung traitant de la personnalité, telles que dans les manifestations de complexes de tonalité du sentiment et la fonction du sentiment dans les types psychologiques, ainsi que dans le processus clinique de changement et de transformation thérapeutiques. L’intelligence émotionnelle (IE) est une théorie fondée sur des données empiriques qui suggère un ensemble d’aptitudes à travailler avec les émotions, permettant au patient de libérer sa sagesse inhérente et le sens que les émotions véhiculent. Il est possible d’intégrer l’IE à la psychologie analytique et à d’autres thérapies axées sur la dynamique, en tant qu’une approche utile pour aborder le matériel chargé d’émotions. Les quatre capacités de l’IE comprennent la perception, la facilitation, la compréhension et la gestion des émotions. La capacité de gérer les émotions est particulièrement nécessaire lors des confrontations du patient avec son inconscient. Le cas d’une femme souffrante d’un trouble dissociatif de l’identité dans le cadre d’un traitement jungien est examiné sous l’angle de l’IE. La série d’instances d’imagination active durant la rencontre clinique est présentée tout en décrivant la transformation des images qui accompagnent ce processus d’individuation présumée. Le cas tend à illustrer l’utilisation des stratégies de l’IE dans une tentative d’atténuer l’effet de surpuissance des complexes au service de la construction d’un ego efficace. L’accent est également mis sur l’importance du transfert et du vaisseau thérapeutique dans ce processus de renforcement des capacités, dites associées au IE, du patient.</p><p>Emotionen sind ","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"217-234"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143442405","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":"Dreaming Ubuntu: Jungian Studies, Forgiveness, and Jung’s Recalcitrant Fourth","authors":"Barbara Cerminara","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13079","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13079","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Jung’s recalcitrant fourth comes in from a place of opposition, demanding that what has been neglected be considered. It is in the spirit of the fourth that the author examines the use of Ubuntu in Jungian literature, cautioning against a decontextualized appropriation of the notion that overlooks its diverse interpretations and usages, particularly in terms of its role in shaping the new South Africa. The author notes a tendency among Jungian scholars to view Ubuntu as the <i>exotic Other</i>, inadvertently perpetuating the same colonial mindset that Jung held towards non-European cultures. Moreover, she suggests that the Jungian viewpoint on Ubuntu has been heavily influenced by Desmond Tutu’s Christianized version of the notion, and that this assimilation holds significant implications. As chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the archbishop employed the idea of Ubuntu in the service of nation building. Ubuntu was part of a political strategy designed to reconcile the South African people, whilst also silencing critics of a process that failed to fully address structural injustices. Now assimilated into Jungian literature, <i>this</i> version of Ubuntu took on aspects of a punitive cultural superego, thereby undermining its original appeal as an autochthonous form of humanism invoked to liberate the oppressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"235-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1468-5922.13079","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143392177","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":"Shari Thurer (Ed). Beyond the Binary: Essays on Gender. Phoenix. Pp. ix–xvi, pp. 108. £15.99.","authors":"Leigh Money","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"339-341"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770298","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":"Soreanu, Raluca; Staberg, Jakob & Willner, Jenny. Ferenczi Dialogues on Trauma and Catastrophe. Leuven University Press. (2023). Pp. 256. Pbk. £45.","authors":"John Pellitteri","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.13073","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"336-339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143770452","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":"Harold and Maude in the Clinical Hour","authors":"Michelle Cooper","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.13074","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.13074","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"70 2","pages":"327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143081022","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}