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The Festschrift Commemorating the 21st Anniversary of
The Association of Jungian Analysts on
1 September 1998
Printed as a Limited Edition
This is copy number
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The Association of Jungian Analysts
7 Eton Avenue
London NW3 3EL
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WOOD ENGRAVINGS by Lettice Sandford
Courtesy of The Golden Cockerel Press, David Chambers and the
Sandford Family Estate
Engravings are from Sappho 1932
and the Painted Cup 1935
Photograph of 7 Eton Avenue
Courtesy of Mrs. Gloria Luck
CONTBNTS
Foreword by Hella Adler
Introduction by Jack Bierschenk
Gerhard Adler A Statement about AJA 5
Siegmund Hurwitz Letter to Gerhard Adler 9
Anne Baring In Memory of Gerhard Adler 10
A Fairy Tale for the Millennium t4
Jack Bierschenk Experiences with the Collected Works t6
Penny Broadfield An Anecdote 20
Ann Casement Gerhard Adler 2l
Jules Cashford Three Homeric Hymns 38
To Helios
To Hestia
To Selene
Knowledge as Participation 43
Adele Davide Four Poems 56
Grass Flowers
The Hours of the Day
The Moon's Song
Spring
Damien Doorley Supervising with Gerhard 60
Sasha Duddington My Tsaritsa. ... 62
Jennifer Forssander Coming of Agea 63
David Freeman Victim Power 64
In Memory of Sasha Duddington 75
Phil Goss Contribution to the Festschrift 77
Gottfried Heuer Jung's Twin Brother 80
Rita McCanhy AJA, The Early Days: A Cameo 119
Julienne Mclean Walking towards Jerusalem 127
Amelie Noack AJA - a poem r27
Fiona Palmer Barnes Reflection t28
Andrew Samuels Is Britain Going Jungian? 130
Hester Solomon The Self Made and the Self-Made Self r33
Joanne Spilios Full Circle 138
Martin Stone Splits Between Jungian Groups: Diversity and t39
Division
Gillian Stuart A Birthday Wish r57
Karin Syrett AJA Birthchart 158
Michael Whan Silenos and The Comic r62
Ruth Windle Two Poems 168
Murder at the Crossroads
Visitation while playing the 'cello
Illustrations
Frontispiece - An Etching by Adele Davide
The Four Seasons, One Year in the Life of a Jungian Analyst by Gottfried Heuer
Wood Engravings by Lettice Sandford - Contributed by Antonia Boll
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Foreword
by Hella Adler
On the 21st Anniversary of AJA I am sending you my very best wishes for a successful
future.
Once more recent events have convinced me that AJA is securely embedded in the
principles and demands of the Self, as Jung taught us and followed himself.
I also want to express my heartfelt thanks to a close friend of Gerhard's and mine, Lord
Charteris, who made it possible for AJA to secure our home at Eton Avenue.
My hope for AJA is that you will stay close to the principles and demands of the Self.
May AJA bring peace and fulfilment to the many people who are searching, who are relying
on our example, our own commitment to the Self.
Introduction
by Jack Bierschenk
To the reader:
This Festschrift celebrates the 21st Anniversary of the Association of Jungian
Analysts founded by Gerhard Adler together with like-minded colleagues and incorporated
on lst September 1977.
Since that time, many new members have joined the Association and some have left
to either form the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists or to follow their own
paths. Prior to that, the Association itself was born of members of the Society of Analytical
Psychology who sought an alternative association more centrally based on the philosophical
and psychological considerations as originally formulated by CG Jung.
The Association of Jungian Analysts is a collegiate group and the 21st Anniversary
touches also on our relationship with other societies. In recognition of its affinity with and
respect for the Jungian Section of the British Association of Psychotherapists, the
Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, and the Society of Analytical Psychology,
three members of each of these groups have been asked to make a contribution to this
publication on behalf of their institutions, thereby representing the many Jungian colleagues
whom the Association holds in high regard.
The contributions to the Festschrift celebrate both the creative forces that have
helped shape the Association into its present form and, in a wider perspective, reflect the
i collective energy inherent in the contemporary Jungian community.
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A Statement about AJA
by Gerhard Adler
4 December 1983
It has been suggested that I should formulate a short statement about what AJA stands
for. I shall try to do so, but hope it will not be understood as a programme, rather as a basis
for a discussion among members.
I think it best first to go back to the reasons why, in the first place, we found it
necessary to separate from SAP, and establish ourselves as an independent group. The idea
of this originated from quite informal discussions between a few senior members, both
inside and outside SAP. They were, apart from my Wife and I:
Vera von der Heydt, Neil Micklem, David Holt, Fay Pye
This group had originally started as a discussion group among people sharing a
critical attitude to the SAP, the work of which was felt had become more and more eclectic,
whereas we felt committed to Jung's teachings in their original form. But gradually we
reahzed the need to give expression to our commitment through expressing it as an organic
group with independent teaching. This led to an arduous confrontation with the SAP during
the year of 1975 - a confrontation which on both sides was conducted not with aggression or
hostility, but with sadness, and, in the end, mutual understanding.
We started our first training course rn 1976, even before we were accepted by the
IAAP, with five trainees:
John Costello, Ruth Miller, Carl Silverman,
Peter Mendelsohn, Dennis Payne
Then, at the Congress of 1977, we were accepted as a member group of the IAAP,
the SAP generously voting for our admission. In the following years we were joined
by:
Inge Allenby, Ean Begg, Sasha Duddington,
Linda Littman-Freeman, John Nicholas,
Bani Shorter, Gordon Starte, Molly Tuby
thus forming a group of 11 members. Perhaps it was significant that David Holt, Neil
Micklem and Bani Shorter decided not to vote with AJA but with the graduates.
But I don't want to bore you further with many historical facts which I have indicated
only because some of you may be unaware of the origins of our group. So let me now go to
the real purpose of my exploration: the question of our basic principles. Let me first quote
from a statement which I made in 1975 in our discussion with the SAP, when I said:
"We put the archetypal and prospective character of the unconcious into the centre of
our clinical and theoretical work." Here I would like to quote what Jung wrote in a letter of
1945 (to P.W. Martin, 20.8.45):