{"title":"Urban, Elizabeth. Understanding Infants Psychoanalytically: A Post-Jungian Perspective on Michael Fordham's Model of Development. Routledge. 2022. Pp. 173. Pbk. £28.79.","authors":"Susanna Wright","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12961","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12961","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"69 1","pages":"148-151"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138601077","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 JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY INDEX FOR VOLUME 68, 2023","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12960","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12960","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"944-949"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66784463","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 Alchemical Oedipus: Re-Visioning the Myth","authors":"Reginald Ajuonuma","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12959","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12959","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Oedipus myth is foundational to depth psychology due to Freud’s use of Sophocles’ play <i>Oedipus Rex</i> in the creation of psychoanalysis. But analytical psychology’s engagement with the myth has been limited despite the importance Jung also places upon it. The absence of a developed Jungian response to Oedipus means the myth’s psychologically constructive elements have been overlooked in favour of reductive Freudian interpretations. I examine whether analytical psychology can fruitfully re-engage with Oedipus by reinterpreting his story as a paternal rebirth. This is achieved by reincorporating those parts of the myth that occur before and after the period portrayed in <i>Oedipus Rex</i>. Such a move reintegrates Oedipus’ father, King Laius, into the story and unveils important parallels with the alchemical trope of the king’s renewal by his son. Using Jung’s method of amplification, Oedipus is recast as Laius’ redeemer and identified with the archetype of psychological wholeness, the Self. The contention is that such an understanding of Oedipus supports a clearer recognition of the potentially generative quality of human suffering, restoring to the myth the quality of moral instruction it possessed in antiquity.</p>","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"807-827"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41215604","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 I Ching as a Potential Jungian Application: History and Practice","authors":"Jingchao Zeng","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12958","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12958","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung had a lifelong interest in the <i>I Ching</i> after discovering it in 1919. Jung’s interest in the <i>I Ching</i> is arguably more practical than purely theoretical or intellectual, and references to <i>I Ching</i> divination appear frequently in his various publications, seminars, letters and clinical practice records. After a few observations on the history of the study of the <i>I Ching</i> in China, the author categorizes Jung’s three uses of the <i>I Ching</i> as physical use (to preview future potentials of outer reality), psychological use (to reveal one’s psychological state), and psychical approach (to engage with the divine through “神”[“shen”, spiritual agencies]). Finally, the author discusses the current Jungian engagement by demonstrating clinical cases in contemporary times. Some Jungian analysts practise <i>I Ching</i> divination to obtain insights into the physical and psychological state of therapeutic relationships and for personal development. This paper is a historical and critical engagement of the Jungian practice of <i>I Ching</i> divination.</p>","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"913-932"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41137122","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":"Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing","authors":"Jessica Whitesel","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12956","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12956","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.</p><p>Dans cet article, j'explorerai le rôle de la création artistique, l'expérience du traumatisme et de la dissociation, et le processus de travail avec les états liés au soi, ceci à partir d'un cadre analytique et créatif. La littérature se rapportant à la dissociation, au traumatisme et à l'utilisation de l'art sera étudiée. Un cas concernant mon travail avec une adolescente qui a été victime d'abus sexuels par une personne de sa famille sera partagé, en mettant l'accent sur le rôle significatif que les images ont joué au cours du processus thérapeutique. Les modèles jungiens et psychanalytiques de conceptualisation et de travail avec la dissociation sont pris en compte, suivant la recommandation de Donald Kalsched (2013) pour une « position binoculaire » dans le traitement - mettre l’accent à la fois sur le monde intérieur et intrapsychique et sur le domaine relationnel interpersonnel - et comment les images issues de l’art ont à la fois éclairé et exprimé ces domaines. Dans le processus thérapeutique, les images artistiques ont donné au thérapeute un accès au processus inconscient du client et ont créé un terrain de rencontre pour que les barrières dissociatives soient progressivement vues, ressenties et connues par le thérapeute et le client. L'expérience de la dissociation, en images et en séance, a fourni un point de référence pour mon client, « Taylor », et pour moi-même afin de développer une compréhension commune et un cadre de travail pour la croissance.</p><p>In diesem Artikel werde ich die Rolle des Kunstschaffens, die Erfahrung von Trauma und Dissoziation und den Prozeß der Arbeit mit Zuständen des Selbst in einem analytischen und kreativen Rahmen untersuchen. Es wird relevante Literatur zu Dissoziation, Trauma und dem","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"869-893"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41157848","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":"Film Review: Chaos Dragon and the Light","authors":"Catriona Wrottesley","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12951","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12951","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"933-937"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41133184","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":"Mythological Underpinnings of Feminine Development","authors":"Diana Oxley","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12953","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12953","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the manner of Oedipus Rex, the myth of Myrrha—a story about a daughter's initiation of sex with her father—promises to divulge insights about feminine development. Given parallels between these two myths, the author asks why Jung identified Electra rather than Myrrha as the feminine counterpart to Oedipus, and revisits Freud's and Jung's differing interpretations of the incest theme in personality development. To break open the metaphor of Myrrha's incest, the author analyzes a similar account of incest in the Old Testament story of Lot and his wife and finds that they share a theme of female bitterness related to wounding of the mother and its arresting effect on the daughter's maturation. The article then considers the Demeter-Persephone myth, a tale not of incest but rape in Persephone's initiation into womanhood. In contrast to Myrrha, Persephone's development unfolds with strong maternal support tempered by the opposing claims on her by the masculine. The article draws these stories together to illuminate the archetypal forces that drive feminine development as well as the human affairs that resist and complicate them. The article concludes with a case study of a client whose developmental “stuckness” follows the contours of the Myrrha myth.</p><p>À la manière d'Oedipe Roi, le mythe de Myrrha, une histoire sur l'initiation sexuelle d'une fille avec son père promet de divulguer des éclairages concernant le développement féminin. Compte tenu des parallèles entre ces deux mythes, l'auteur se demande pourquoi Jung a identifié Électre plutôt que Myrrha comme la contrepartie féminine d'Œdipe. Il revisite les interprétations différentes de Freud et Jung sur le thème de l'inceste dans le développement de la personnalité. Pour ouvrir la métaphore de l'inceste de Myrrha, l'auteur analyse un récit similaire d'inceste dans l'histoire de Lot et de sa femme dans l'Ancien Testament et constate qu'ils ont en commun le thème de l'amertume féminine lié à la blessure de la mère et à son effet saisissant sur la maturation de la fille. L'article examine ensuite le mythe de Déméter-Perséphone, qui est non pas une histoire d'inceste mais de viol dans l'initiation de Perséphone à la féminité. Contrairement à Myrrha, le développement de Perséphone se déroule avec un fort soutien maternel tempéré par les revendications que le masculin lui oppose. L'article rassemble ces histoires pour éclairer les forces archétypales qui animent le développement féminin ainsi que les affaires humaines qui y résistent et les compliquent. L'article se termine par l'étude d'un cas clinique dont le « blocage » développemental suit les contours du mythe de Myrrha.</p><p>In der Art von Ödipus Rex verspricht der Mythos der Myrrha, eine Geschichte über die Initiation einer Tochter in die Sexualität durch ihren Vater, Einblicke in die weibliche Entwicklung. Angesichts der Parallelen zwischen diesen beiden Mythen fragt die Autorin, warum Jung Elektra und nicht Myrrha als weibliches Gegen","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"828-848"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41153405","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":"Sacred Circle: Symbol of Wholeness in Traditional Persian Art and Architecture","authors":"Fariba Darabimanesh","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12954","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12954","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Jung wrote extensively about the archetypal mandala symbol as an expression in many cultures of the centrality and nature of the interplay between human consciousness and divine consciousness. This article investigates—how in Persia, for millennia—the archetypal symbol of the mandala has been widespread in many expressions of the sacred arts. My research outlines the importance of the archetypal mandala symbol in Persian religio-aesthetic history from the first unearthed stone carvings of Persia's ancient foundations until the more recent, breathtakingly marvellous ceilings of traditional Persian architecture today. From the artistic expressions of first religious beliefs of ancient Persia—Mithraism—and through the development of the Zoroastrian faith until the subsequent rise of Christianity and then Islam, Persian sacred art illustrates the Jungian idea that wholeness sought in the journey of individuation is often expressed through archetypal symbols of circles that articulate basic truths about the divine interplay with humanity.</p><p>Jung a beaucoup écrit sur le symbole archétypal du mandala en tant qu'expression dans de nombreuses cultures de la centralité de l'interaction entre la conscience humaine et la conscience divine. Cet article examine comment en Perse – depuis des millénaires – on trouve le symbole archétypal du mandala de manière très répandue dans de nombreuses expressions des arts sacrés. Ma recherche souligne l'importance du symbole archétypal du mandala dans l'histoire religieuse et esthétique persane depuis les premières sculptures en pierre qu'on a pu découvrir (qui font partie des fondations anciennes de la Perse) jusqu'aux magnifiques plafonds de l'architecture persane traditionnelle d'aujourd'hui. Depuis les expressions artistiques des premières croyances religieuses de la Perse antique – le mithraïsme – et tout au long du développement de la foi zoroastrienne jusqu'à l'essor ultérieur du christianisme puis de l'islam, l'art sacré persan illustre l'idée jungienne selon laquelle l'unité recherchée dans le chemin de l'individuation s'exprime souvent à travers des symboles archétypaux de cercles qui expriment des vérités fondamentales sur l'interaction divine avec l'humanité.</p><p>Jung schrieb ausführlich über das archetypische Mandala-Symbol als Ausdruck der Zentralität und Natur des Zusammenspiels zwischen menschlichem und göttlichem Bewußtsein in vielen Kulturen. In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, wie in Persien das archetypische Symbol des Mandalas seit Jahrtausenden in vielen Ausdrucksformen der sakralen Künste verbreitet ist. Meine Forschung skizziert die Bedeutung des archetypischen Mandala-Symbols in der religiös-ästhetischen Geschichte Persiens, von den ersten ausgegrabenen Steinschnitzereien der antiken Fundamente Persiens bis zu den neueren, atemberaubend wunderbaren Decken der traditionellen persischen Architektur heute. Von den künstlerischen Ausdrucksformen der ersten religiösen Überzeugungen des alten Pe","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"894-912"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41133185","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":"Thinking Childbirth from an Emancipatory Perspective? Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis1","authors":"Clarisse Picard","doi":"10.1111/1468-5922.12950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5922.12950","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Feminist thought, despite the importance of its work, has not resolved the phenomenon of women's subordination in the care and education of children, and in society as a whole. Meanwhile, we are witnessing a gradual but continuous process of disconnection between women's bodies and subjectivity, and the conception, pregnancy and birth of children, due to developments in reproductive techniques. Considering this paradoxical tension, the author proposes to return to the very place where this subordination and anticipated rupture occur, to consider whether mothers could find there both the means to reclaim their childbirth experiences and potential levers for emancipation and rebirth, on both a personal and societal level. To this end, she describes, from the point of view of a singular woman, and from an emancipatory perspective, the phenomenological and psychoanalytical itinerary of childbirth by which this woman, in becoming a mother, is born to herself by giving birth to her child. By co-constituting the universal meaning of childbirth and becoming a philosophical mother, this singular woman operates a real paradigm shift in our representations of the mother and the metaphysical structure of the sexes.</p><p>Les pensées féministes, malgré l'importance de leurs travaux, ne sont pas venues à bout du phénomène de la subordination des femmes dans les tâches de soin et d’éducation des enfants, et dans l'ensemble de la société. Dans le même temps, nous assistons à un processus progressif mais continu de rupture entre le corps et la subjectivité des femmes, et la conception, la grossesse et la naissance des enfants, en raison des développements des techniques reproductives. Considérant cette tension paradoxale, l'autrice propose de revenir à l'endroit même où s'exercent cette subordination en même temps que cette rupture annoncée afin de considérer si les femmes mères ne pourraient pas y trouver, à la fois, des moyens de se réapproprier leurs enfantements et des leviers potentiels d’émancipation et de renaissance, sur le plan personnel comme sociétal. À cette fin, elle décrit, du point de vue d'une femme singulière, et dans une perspective émancipatrice, l'itinéraire phénoménologique et psychanalytique de l'enfantement par lequel cette femme devenant mère naît à soi-même en donnant naissance à son enfant. En co-constituant le sens universel de l'enfantement et son devenir mère philosophe, cette femme singulière opère un véritable changement de paradigme de nos représentations de la mère et de la structure métaphysique des sexes.</p><p>Das feministische Denken hat, trotz der Bedeutung seiner Arbeit, das Phänomen der Unterordnung von Frauen bei der Betreuung und Erziehung von Kindern sowie in der Gesellschaft insgesamt noch nicht überwunden. Gleichzeitig erleben wir aufgrund der Weiterentwicklung der Reproduktionstechniken einen allmählichen, aber kontinuierlichen Prozeß des Bruchs zwischen dem Körper und der Subjektivität der Frau und der Empfängnis,","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"849-868"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71973764","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":"10.1111/1468-5922.12957","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1468-5922.12957","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45420,"journal":{"name":"JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY","volume":"68 5","pages":"942-943"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2023-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10243784","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}