The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies: The Work of Andrew Samuels

269 Pages·2021·33.628 MB·English

by  Stefano Carpani

‘Of the happy moment in the I Ching that foresees a fortunate future for
work brought to completion by someone who has given a project all that it
deserves, Richard Wilhelm comments, “No one knows himself. It is only by
the consequences of his actions, by the fruit of his labors, that a man can judge
what he is to expect.” In The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post- Jungian Studies,
students from Professor Andrew Samuels’ decades at the University of Essex,
who include editor and major contributor Stefano Carpani, are given their
chance to show how much this analytic teacher has allowed post- Jungian
thought to take root in minds that have been taught by him to deploy critical
thinking and critical feeling to get to the heart of any opinion. This Festschrift
takes the long view: the harvest on display is a harbinger of the fertility of the
ideas it advances. Andrew has every reason to expect that his way of joining
the personal with the political – a poly-d irectional relational position aimed
at preserving the openness of the psyche itself – will continue to correct, for
educational generations to come, the orthodoxies that perennially threaten
both academic settings and analytic schools.’
 – John Beebe (MD), author of Integrity in Depth
‘From the creative mind of Stefano Carpani comes a brilliant and fine book
that captures in form and content the deeply relational spirit with which
Andrew Samuels has carried out his work as mentor, teacher and theorist,
through the fruitful encounter with the plurality of minds of his PhD students.
Masterfully – and mutually – cultivated, their voices express themselves in a
novel way on a wide variety of themes. Such meetings have left a profound
trace in the people and the cultural humus of analytical psychology, generating
something deeply new and peculiar, the Jungian branch of the Essex school
of psychosocial studies.’
– Monica Luci (PhD), Jungian Psychoanalyst and Scholar
‘The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post-J ungian Studies reveals the transformation
of Jungian studies by one extraordinarily creative figure, Professor Andrew
Samuels. As a distinguished analyst, innovative theorist and pioneering
teacher, he has rejuvenated the legacy of Jung and inaugurated generations
of scholars while taking psyche into politics and beyond. This book gathers
the work of his PhD students who continue to thrive in the pluralism he
proposed. By creating the critical stance of the Post- Jungian, Samuels and his
“Essex School” bring rigour and liveliness to Jungian scholarship.’
– Susan Rowland (PhD), Pacifica Graduate Institute

The Plural Turn in Jungian

and Post- Jungian Studies
This unique book showcases the cutting- edge work of researchers in Jungian
and post-J ungian studies, focusing on the advances being made at the
University of Essex, UK, and operating as a Festschrift for Professor Andrew
Samuels.
The Plural Turn in Jungian and Post- Jungian Studies includes contributions
from innovative authors who specialise in Jung but incorporate ideas from
other psychoanalytic schools and from a range of disciplines. The book
includes chapters which shed new light on concepts including alchemy,
archetypes and individuation and which examine art, relationships and pol-
itics. It both honours the work of Andrew Samuels and sets the foundations
for an ‘Essex School’ of Jungian studies.
A wide-r anging collection, this book will be essential for academics and
scholars of Jungian and post- Jungian studies. It will also be a key title for all
readers with an interest in the work of Andrew Samuels.
Stefano Carpani M.A. M.Phil., is a Psychoanalyst and a Sociologist
(graduate of the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich, Switzerland and the University
of Cambridge, respectively), and a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, UK. He works
in private practice in Berlin, Germany.

The Plural Turn in Jungian

and Post- Jungian Studies
The Work of Andrew Samuels
Edited by
Stefano Carpani
First published 2021
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Contents

Preface by Kevin Lu xi

Introduction – Andrew Samuels: Plurality, politics
and ‘the individual’ 1

STEFANO CARPANI
PART I 13
From the PhD theses
1 An enquiry into psychological aspects of recovery from
dependence on psychoactive substances 15

MARY ADDENBROOKE
2 The tabloid Trickster: a post-Jungian evaluation of early
twenty-first century popular British newspaper journalism
characterised by that of The Sun 26

JAMES ALAN ANSLOW
3 Laws of inheritance: an archetypal study of twins 38

ELIZABETH BRODERSEN
4 From emancipation to liberation: a neo- Jungian critique
of Theodor Adorno 57

STEFANO CARPANI
5 A spatial rapprochement between Jung’s technique of
active imagination and Desoille’s Rêve éveillé dirigé 71

LANER CASSAR
6 A critique of containing space in therapeutic work 86

MARTYNA CHRZESCIJANSKA