Pathways into the Jungian World: Phenomenology and Analytical Psychology

292 Pages·1999·2.38 MB·English

by  Roger Brooke

PATHWAYS INTO THE JUNGIAN
WORLD
In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of
medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of
commonality and difference in phenomenology and analytical psychology.
The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and
analytical psychology have been involved in the same fundamental cultural
and therapeutic projects—both legitimize the subtlety, complexity and
depth of experience in an age when the meaning of experience has been
abandoned to the dictates of pharmaceutical technology, economics and
medical psychiatry. The contributors reveal how Jung’s relationship to the
phenomenological tradition can be, and is being, developed, and they
rigorously show that the psychological resonance of the world is
immediately available for phenomenological description.
Roger Brooke is Professor of Psychology at Duquesne University,
Pittsburgh. He is the author of Jung and Phenomenology (Routledge,
1991).
Contributors: Lionel Corbett; Veronica Goodchild; John Haule; David
Michael Levin; Stanton Marian; Bertha Mook; Robert D.Romanyshyn;
Ronald Schenk; Charles E.Scott; Eva-Maria Simms; Michael P.Sipiora;
Mary Watkins; Mark Welman.
PATHWAYS INTO THE
JUNGIAN WORLD
Phenomenology and analytical
psychology
Edited by Roger Brooke
London and New York
First published 2000
by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Pathways into the Jungian world: phenomenology and analytical
psychology/edited by Roger Brooke.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Jungian psychology. 3. Existential
phenomenology. I. Brooke, Roger, 1953–.
BF175.P29 1999
150.19'54–dc21 98–56540
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FOR MY FATHER, KENDALL
…Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the World offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things,
Mary Oliver (1986) Dream Work,
New York: Grove Atlantic Inc.
CONTENTS
List of figures viii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1
PART 1 The Jungian world 10
1 Jung’s recollection of the life-world 11
ROGER BROOKE
2 Alchemy and the subtle body of metaphor: soul and 24
cosmos
ROBERT D.ROMANYSHYN
3 In destitute times: archetype and existence in Rilke’s 46
Duino Elegies
EVA-MARIA SIMMS
4 The anima mundi and the fourfold: Hillman and 64
Heidegger on the “idea” of the world
MICHAEL P.SIPIORA
5 Spirit in the tube: the life of television 83
RONALD SCHENK
PART 2 The Jungian imagination 101
6 Jung’s approach to the phenomenology of religious 103
experience: a view from the consulting room
LIONEL CORBETT
7 Thanatos and existence: towards a Jungian 121
phenomenology of the death instinct
MARK WELMAN
8 Mnemosyne and Lethe: memory, Jung, 139
phenomenology
vii
CHARLES E.SCOTT
9 Eros and Psyche: a reading of Neumann and Merleau- 158
Ponty
DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN
10 The metaphor of light and its deconstruction in Jung's 178
alchemical vision
STANTON MARLAN
PART 3 Therapeutic issues 194
11 Eros and Chaos: the mysteries and shadows of love 196
VERONICA GOODCHILD
12 Depth psychology and the liberation of being 214
MARY WATKINS
13 Phenomenology, analytical psychology, and play 233
therapy
BERTHA MOOK
14 Analyzing from the Self: an empirical phenomenology 253
of the “third” in analysis
JOHN RYAN HAULE
Index 271
FIGURES
1.1 View of Florence, detail from the fresco, “Madonna della 14
Misericordia”
1.2 Map of Florence, copy of the Carta della Catena, 1490 15
1.3 Johann II of Bavaria and Hieronymous Rodler, woodcut 17
illustration
5.1 The visual pyramid 91
5.2 Vision and proportion 92
5.3 The visual plane of linear perspective 92
5.4 The vanishing point of linear perspective 92
5.5 The detached eye and the divine eye 93
5.6 “Peep Show” 94
CONTRIBUTORS
Roger Brooke, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Director of
Training in Clinical Psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.
Since the start of his undergraduate training at the University of Cape
Town he has been steeped in the issue of Jung’s relationship to
existential phenomenology. His doctoral dissertation at Rhodes
University, South Africa, was worked into the book, Jung and
Phenomenology (Routledge 1991). He is in private practice in Pittsburgh,
where he is also Adjunct Faculty at The C.G.Jung Institute Analyst
Training Program in Pittsburgh. As well as publishing in the areas of
analytical psychology and phenomenology, he has written several papers
on psychotherapeutic issues.
Lionel Corbett, MD, trained in medicine and psychiatry in Britain, and
graduated from the C.G.Jung Institute of Chicago. He is a Professor of
Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara,
California. He is the author of numerous articles in analytical
psychology, and a recent book, The Religious Function of the Psyche
(Routledge 1998).
Veronica Goodchild, Ph.D., studied theology and philosophy at London
University in England, and completed her Masters in Clinical Social
Work at Columbia University, New York. She practiced as a Jungian
psychotherapist for more than fifteen years, and recently completed her
doctoral degree in Clinical Depth Psychology at Pacifica Graduate
Institute. She has taught Jungian psychology extensively on the East
coast of the USA, and in South Africa at Rhodes University in 1995. She
is married to Robert Romanyshyn, and they are the parents of four
children.
John Ryan Haule, Ph.D., is a certified psychoanalyst, and training
analyst in the New England Society of Jungian Analysts, of which he is a
past President. Since his dissertation in the area of Jungian psychology
and phenomenology at Temple University, he has many publications to
his credit, including several books. Divine Madness, has been published
also in German.