Analytical Psychology in a Changing World: The search for self, identity and community

245 Pages·2014·2.88 MB·English

by  Lucy Huskinson

ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
IN A CHANGING WORLD
How can we make sense of ourselves within a world of change?
In Analytical Psychology in a Changing World, an international range of
contributors examine some of the common pitfalls, challenges and rewards
that we encounter in our efforts to carve out identities of a personal or
collective nature, and question the extent to which analytical psychology as
a school of thought and therapeutic approach must also adapt to meet our
changing needs.
The contributors assess contemporary concerns about our sense of who we
are and where we are going, some in light of recent social and natural disasters
and changes to our social climates, others by revisiting existential concerns
and philosophical responses to our human situation in order to assess their
validity for today. How we use our urban environment and its structures to
make sense of our pathologies and shortcomings; the relevance of images and
the dynamic forms that underpin our experience of the world; how analytical
psychology can effectively manage issues and problems of cultural, religious
and existential identity – these broad themes, and others besides, are vividly
illustrated by striking case studies and unique personal insights that give real
lucidity to the ideas and arguments presented.
Analytical Psychology in a Changing World will be essential reading for
Jungian and post-Jungian scholars and clinicians of depth psychology, as well
as sociologists, philosophers and any reader with a critical interest in the
important cultural ideas of our time.
Lucy Huskinson, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the School of Philosophy
and Religion at Bangor University, UK. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of the
International Journal of Jungian Studies, and author and editor of various
books and articles on analytical psychology and philosophy, including
Nietzsche and Jung and Dreaming the Myth Onwards: New Directions in
Jungian Therapy and Thought.
Murray Stein, Ph.D., is a training and supervising analyst with ISAPZURICH.
He was formerly president of the International Association for Analytical
Psychology and president of the International School of Analytical Psychology
in Zurich. His publications include Minding the Self: Jungian Meditations on
Contemporary Spirituality.
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ANALYTICAL
PSYCHOLOGY IN A
CHANGING WORLD
The search for self, identity and
community
Edited by Lucy Huskinson
and Murray Stein
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1. Jungian psychology. 2. Psychoanalysis. I. Huskinson, Lucy,
1976– II. Stein, Murray, 1943–
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CONTENTS
List of figures vii
List of contributors viii
Introduction 1
1 Faking individuation in the age of unreality: mass media,
identity confusion and self-objects 6
HELENA BASSIL-MOROZOW AND JAMES ALAN ANSLOW
2 Big stories and small stories in the psychological
relief work after the earthquake disaster: life and
death 23
TOSHIO KAWAI
3 Making a difference? When individuals take personal
responsibility for social and political change 42
ANDREW SAMUELS
4 The soul and pathologizing in the (multipli)city of
São Paulo 53
GUILHERME SCANDIUCCI
5 Psychodynamics of the sublime, the numinous and the
uncanny: a dialogue between architecture and
eco-psychology 72
LUCY HUSKINSON
6 Jungian conversations with feminism and society in Japan 89
KONOYU NAKAMURA
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7 Transforming consciousness as the path to end suffering:
Mahayana Buddhism and analytical psychology as
complementary traditions 104
WILLIAM E. KOTSCH
8 Jung’s atheism and the God above the God of theism 120
JOHN DOURLEY
9 Speaking with the dead: remembering James Hillman 133
ELIZABETH EOWYN NELSON
10 Practicing images: clinical implications of James Hillman’s
theory in a multicultural and changing world 147
MARTA TIBALDI
11 The Red Book and Psychological Types: a qualitative change
of Jung’s typology 161
YUKA OGISO
12 Archetypal aspects of transference at the end of life 174
ISABELLE DEARMOND
13 In consideration of disquiet and longing for our changing
world: perspectives from the poetry and prose of Fernando
Pessoa 190
CEDRUS MONTE
14 Fernando Pessoa and Alberto Caeiro’s ‘lessons in
unlearning’: living in a changing world 208
TERENCE DAWSON
Index 227
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FIGURES
2.1 Painting in February (just before the quake) 29
2.2 Painting in April (just after the quake) 30
2.3 Painting in June (three months after the quake) 30
2.4 Case 1: 10-year-old girl, No. 1 32
2.5 Case 1: 10-year-old girl, No. 2 33
2.6 Case 1: 10-year-old girl, No. 3 33
2.7 Case 1: mother’s sand play 34
2.8 Case 2: 10-year-old boy, No. 1 34
2.9 Case 2: 10-year-old boy, No. 2 35
2.10 Case 2: 10-year-old boy, No. 3 35
2.11 Case 3 by Chie Yoshinari 38
2.12 Case 4 by Akiko Sasaki 39
4.1 A building full of pixações in São Paulo 61
4.2 A wall with different letters, typical of the pixação in
São Paulo 62
4.3 Graffiti over an external wall of a house in São Paulo 63
4.4 Graffiti and pixaçãosharing the same wall in São Paulo 64
5.1 The tower of the Minster of Ulm 79
5.2 Reims Cathedral 79
5.3 Cologne Cathedral 80
5.4 Strasbourg Cathedral 81
6.1 The number of annual publications listed under ‘Jungian
psychology’ or ‘analytical psychology’ on the website of
the National Diet Library of Japan 90
6.2 The number of annual studies related to analytical psychology
published in the Journal of Japanese Clinical Psychology 91
13.1 Fernando Pessoa 191
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CONTRIBUTORS
James Alan Anslow is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centre for Psychoanalytic
Studies, University of Essex, UK, researching UK tabloid journalism from
a post-Jungian perspective. For many years he was a national newspaper
journalist and media educator, lecturing in journalism at City University
London and the University of Bedfordshire. In the 1990s he was Chief
Production Editor of the News of the World – later controversially dis -
continued – and oversaw its editorial output the night Diana, Princess of
Wales died. He has an M.A. in Media from Nottingham Trent University.
Helena Bassil-Morozow, Ph.D., is a cultural philosopher and film scholar.
Her principal interest is the dynamic between individual personality and
socio-cultural systems in industrialised and post-industrial societies. She
is an honorary research fellow of the Research Institute for Media Art and
Design, University of Bedfordshire, UK. She edits the film section of
Spring: the Journal of Archetype and Culture. Helena’s books include Tim
Burton: the Monster and the Crowd (Routledge, 2010) and The Trickster
in Contemporary Film (Routledge, 2011).
Terence Dawson, Ph.D., teaches English and European literature at Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore. With Polly Young-Eisendrath, he co-
edited The Cambridge Companion to Jung (Cambridge University Press,
1997; 2nd edn 2008) and he is the author of The Effective Protagonist in
the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Brontë, Eliot, Wilde(Ashgate,
2004) and articles on wide-ranging literary subjects.
Isabelle DeArmond, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician specialised in immunology/
allergy, trained at the University of Paris, France. After spending most of
her career in clinical research, she recently obtained a Ph.D. in clinical
psychology at Saybrook University, California. Her main interests in Jungian
psychology are spirituality and the psychological aspects of end-of-life.
John Dourley, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst (Zurich, 1980). He is Professor
Emeritus, Department of Religion, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
He has written widely on Jung and religion. He is a Catholic priest and
member of the religious order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
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CONTRIBUTORS
Lucy Huskinson, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer at Bangor University, UK. She is
co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Jungian Studies, and
author of Nietzsche and Jung (Routledge, 2004), and Introduction to
Nietzsche(SPCK, 2010). She is editor of, and contributor to, Dreaming the
Myth Onwards: New Interpretations of Jungian Therapy and Thought
(Routledge, 2009), and New Interpretations of Spirit Possession and Trance
(Continuum, 2010). She has also authored numerous papers on analytical
psychology and philosophy.
Toshio Kawai, Ph.D., is a professor at the Kokoro Research Center, Kyoto
University, Japan, and a Jungian analyst in private practice. He was educated
in clinical psychology at Kyoto University, and in philosophical psychology
at Zurich University. He also has a diploma from the C.G. Jung Institute,
Zurich. He is author of several papers in analytical psychology, published
in the Journal of Analytical Psychology and various Jungian anthologies.
William E. Kotsch, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist (Vanderbilt, 1976) and
Jungian analyst (Chicago, 1995) practising in Taos and Santa Fe, New
Mexico, USA. A practising Buddhist, he is currently in a three-year retreat
at the Vajra Vidya Center in Crestone, Colorado, under the direction of The
Venerable Thrangu Rinpoche and Khenpo Jigme.
Cedrus Monte, Ph.D., is a Jungian analyst, graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute
in Zurich, Switzerland. She currently resides and practises in Zurich but is
a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, with both paternal and maternal
Portuguese roots (Azores and Madeira). Her professional focus is on body-
centred analysis, the creative process and the relationship between psyche,
land and culture. For further information about Cedrus Monte, visit
www.cedrusmonte.org.
Konoyu Nakamura, Ph.D., is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Otemon
Gakuin University, Japan, and a Jungian-oriented psychotherapist. She has
authored chapters in several books, including: Dreaming the Myth Onwards:
New Directions in Jungian Therapy and Thought(Routledge,2008); Sacral
Revolutions(Routledge, 2010); Body, Mind and Healing After Jung: A Space
of Questions(Routledge, 2010); Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson, Ph.D., is core faculty and Dissertation Policy
Director at Pacifica Graduate Institute, USA, where she has been teaching
courses in research design, methodology and dissertation development for
more than a decade. She is co-author of The Art of Inquiry (Spring
Publications, 2005) and author of Psyche’s Knife:Archetypal Explorations
of Love and Power (Chiron, 2012).
Yuka Ogiso, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the Kokoro Research Center,
Kyoto University, Japan. She also works as a clinical psychologist. She
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