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Auf den Spuren von C. G. Jung
In Search of C. G.Jung
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Mario Jacoby
My Relationship to C. G. Jung
According to the editors' wishes this illustrated book is meant to describe the roots of every participant's present relationship to Jung and his psychology. Personally I am one of the few colleagues who were trained at the institute when Jung was still alive. We had the opportunity of experiencing the presence and charisma of his personality.
At the beginning of my studies in 1956 Jung was not able to participate in any activities of the institute due to illness. All the more thrilling was the announcement some months later that Jung felt strong enough for an afternoon of discussions with the students. The candidates were asked to hand in their questions to Jung in written form before the meeting. On the day of the big event Jung was sitting on the professor's chair in the meeting room of the Psychology Club...
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Gustav Dreifuss
Artists in the Creative Process of Jungian Analysis
The analytical process is creative. The analyst and the analysand relate to the unconscious, which shows itself in symbols that appear, for instance, in dreams. The attitude to the uncon-scious is creative because it relates to forces and layers, which are beyond the conscious ego and works towards integration.
There is a common endeavor of the analysand and the analyst to transform the personality, to eliminate hindrances, i.e. neurotic disturbances that consume energy for no positive, constructive purpose.
Besides analyzing the material of the uncon-scious appearing in dreams, the analytical process can be furthered by having the analysand express himself in paintings, sculpture, dance or writing. By doing this, the analysand gives form to unconscious material that cannot be rationally expressed. This we call active imagination, a process in which one experiences oneself both as subject to and object of inner images. Thus the aim of Jungian therapy is to bring the analysand to a realization of his creative forces in the broadest sense of the word ´creative`.
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Wolfgang Giegerich
A Little Light, to Be Carried Through Night and Storm
Comments on the State of Jungian Psychology Today
The century of psychology is over. The great expectations have been shattered that the emergence of psychology, in particular therapeutic or depth psychology, had given rise to at the beginning of the 20th century. Even Freudian psychoanalysis today is faced with a hostile spirit in mainstream thinking. For psychology in the tradition of C.G. Jung the situation is, on the one hand, a little easier, but on the other much more difficult. It is easier because for the most part it operates leeward of other psychologies, hardly being taken note of; it is more difficult because its innermost substance is fundamentally threatened.
This threat comes from different directions.
It is, firstly, already inherent in the very way Jungian psychology itself is construed, inasmuch as Jung's high claim that his psychology had the status of a strictly empirical science has proven untenable, and as his hope that psychology might provide an answer to the psychological-spiritual predicament of the age failed, as we are now forced to understand (W. Giegerich, "The End of Meaning and the Birth of Man," Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2004).
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Eva Sigg
Sandplay
With half my life gone by, a grass widow and the mother of four children, the mental anguish finally drove me into the consulting room of a Jungian analyst trainer. As far as psychology and Jung were concerned, I was moving into unknown territory, but I brought my dreams along, and the sessions soon became intense and extremely satisfying. And so it was that I began a new life, one which came from within. My analyst continuously encouraged me to address Jung's ideas - advice that I was to follow with great enthusiasm. At first, I read Marie-Louise von Franz in English, as the German version had not yet been published, and then moved on to Jung's works. At the same time, I attended lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute, including the very first ones, which were given by Dr. Gilles, a gnosis specialist from Holland. I understood little or nothing of what was said but can still remember "agape" and "Eros, who was hatched from an egg." Nevertheless, I was hooked, and there soon fol-lowed a course in psychology, accompanied by, as often as possible, lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute, first of all in Zurich, and then in Kuesnacht. At that time, Marie-Louise von Franz could still be heard, and the "Jungian spirit" was very much alive and a profound source of inspiration for me.
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