Touching: Body Therapy and Depth Psychology (Studies in Jungian Psychology, No 30)

1987·0.43 MB·english

by  Deldon Anne McNeely

title: Touching : Body Therapy and Depth Psychology Studies in Jungian Psychology ; 30
author: McNeely, Deldon Anne.
publisher: Inner City Books
isbn10 | asin: 0919123295
print isbn13: 9780919123298
ebook isbn13: 9780585116594
language: English
subject Mind and body therapies, Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology.
publication date: 1987
lcc: RC489.M53M38 1987eb
ddc: 616.89/17
subject: Mind and body therapies, Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology.
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Touching
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Marie-Louise von Franz, Honorary Patron
Studies in Jungian Psychology
by Jungian Analysts
Daryl Sharp, General Editor
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Touching
Body Therapy and Depth Psychology
Deldon Anne McNeely
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To my patients and my childrenRomany,
Jonathan and Yseultewho teach me so much and
indulge my absences to write.
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
McNeely, Deldon Anne
Touching: body therapy and depth psychology
(Studies in Jungian psychology by Jungian analysts; 30)
Bibliography: p.
Includes index
ISBN 0-919123-29-5
1. Psychoanalysis. 2. Mind and body therapies.
3. Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961. I. Title.
II. Series.
BF175.M26 1987 150.19'54 C87-094477-0
Copyright © 1987 by Deldon Anne McNeely
All rights reserved.
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INNER CITY BOOKS was founded in 1980 to promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung.
Cover: William Blake, The Reunion of the Soul and the Body. (See illustration, page 104, and text, pages 107-108.)
Index by Daryl Sharp
Printed and bound in Canada by University of Toronto Press Incorporated
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Contents
Introduction 9
1
15
Physiological Origins of Depth Psychology
Freudian Psychoanalysis 15
Jungian Complex Theory 16
2
21
Body Therapy in Historical Perspective
The Cultural Background 21
Pioneers in Body Therapy 27
Therapists of Later Influence 43
The Contributions of Dance Movement 44
Contemporary Body Therapists 49
Personal Influences 51
3
59
Integrating Body Therapy and Depth Psychology
Introduction 59
Touch and the Analytic Model 62
The Meaning of Touch 67
Gratification in Analysis 69
Touch and Transference 76
Touch and Timing in Analysis 80
Body Therapy and Dream Interpretation 86
Touching and Analytic Training 93
Body Therapy and Jungian Typology 99
4
105
Experiencing the Unus Mundus
Notes 109
Glossary of Jungian Terms 115
Bibliography 117
Index 121
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Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Bill Walker and Ann Mankowitz for their careful contributions to the articulation of Her message. I am grateful also to
Tom Lavin, Marcel Gaumond, Arnold Mindell, Malcolm Brown, Clarisse Estes and Curtis Brooks for their support and suggestions, and to
Eugene Monick and Gary Hartman for helpful critiques of the original manuscript.
I especially thank Lee and Joan for permission to use their material.
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In 1925, D.H. Lawrence, poetic prophet, has the risen Christ say:
Dare I come into touch? For this is further than death.
I have dared to let them lay
hands on me and put me to death. But dare I
come into this tender touch of life? Oh,
this is harder. . . .
"The Man Who Died."
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The Loving Touch.
(Eros and Psyche, antique sculpture. Capitoline Museum, Rome)
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Introduction
In D.H. Lawrence's short story, "The Man Who Died," Christ awakens, bruised and emaciated, and is found by a young priestess of Isis.
As she cares for his bodily and psychological wounds and nurtures him back to health, he comes to realize a whole new relationship to his
physical body. At the decisive moment Christ must either acknowledge his bodily needs as his vitality returns, or turn away from this
opportunity for relatedness . . . "Dare I come into touch?" 1 I take this to be a crucial question at this point in the evolution of
psychotherapy.
Lawrence could be considered a prophet inasmuch as he envisions and anticipates in this metaphorical piecewritten long before sensitivity-
training, the women's movement and the self-examination going on now in the Christian churchissues of which psychotherapy has only
recently become aware. He shows us a holy approach to the body; he gives us images for a healthy embodied spirit. He provides in this
story a fantasy that leads us to wonder what our world would be like if the early church "fathers" had included some mothers.
Through the development and advancement of Logosthe logical mindwhich Western man has accomplished through a progression of
articulate and brilliant thinkers, we have sharpened our discriminative powers to analyze and dissect. We have taken the scientific spirit to
its ultimate and now are in the throes of what Carl Jung called "enantiodromia." This term, borrowed from Greek philosophy, describes the
moment when a force has reached its extreme and turns back on itself to become its opposite. We are seeing the great turning around from
the dominance of the masculine values of Logos, the great analyzer and divider, toward the feminine principle with its values based on Eros,
the great unifier and connector. Maternal religions are creation oriented, not achievement oriented. This emphasis on life-giving forces is
necessary to maintain our planet. We are all agents bringing life into this analytic world.