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Cry, The Beloved Country Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Brian Feldman
Utilizing the classic South African novel by Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country, postcolonial ideas are explored as they relate to the development of the theory and practice of analytical psychol...
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Interpreting the Infanticidal Mother’s Act Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Brooke Laufer
The reasons for maternal infanticide have rarely been approached. The absence of analysis leaves plenty of opportunity to maintain the assumption that the infanticidal mother is a mad or bad mother...
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In Film & Video Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 John Beebe
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Panic to Truth Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Susan E. Schwartz
Henry Abramovitch has written a mystery that astonishingly replicates the process of individuation in Jungian analytical treatment. Like any mystery it focuses on uncovering clues to the problem an...
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From the Editor Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Audrey Punnett Editor
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Borges Reading Jung Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Craig E. Stephenson
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote as he read. He made note of important passages in his books to which he might refer later, listing page numbers and ideas in the endpaper pages. As director...
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COVID-19 Lockdowns and Jung’s Personality Types Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Marina Cano
This essay proposes a return to C. G. Jung’s personality theories and argues in favor of their relevancies in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the unprecedented changes it produced to forms...
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Living the Individual Journey: The Mystical Life Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Audrey Punnett
Audrey Punnett interviews Sheila O’Handley about the mystical experience she had at the age of fifteen that began her journey into the religious life, first as a Sister of St. Martha, and later as ...
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Frida Kahlo Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Kathrin Asper
In this article translated from the German original, author Kathrin Asper explores Frida Kahlo’s life and art—the scars and cuts of life, both physical and emotional, that were balanced by the ligh...
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Looking at Vermeer Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Robert Tyminski
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam held a major exhibition of the artwork of Johannes Vermeer from February 10 to June 4, 2023. Twenty-eight of his paintings were gathered in one place, the largest exhib...
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Four Poems Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 A.D. Lauren-Abunassar
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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Life, A Mystery to Be Lived Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Stacy Hassen
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2024)
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The Kabbalah and Jung’s Final Metanoia Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Michael Flanagin
Sanford Drob’s Kabbalistic Visions: C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism examines the parallels between Kabbalistic spiritual practice and Jungian analytic work, including the conjunction of such opposi...
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Dualism and Monism in Science and Jung Jung Journal Pub Date : 2024-02-16 J. Linn Mackey
The One, by theoretical physicist Heinrich Pas, reviews the history of monism from the Greeks to the modern period. Pas proposes a monism he calls “the One.” His One follows from quantum mechanics....
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Believe in Miracles Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Katherine Olivetti
In Katherine Olivetti’s interview with Pamela Eakins, they explore her path from Stanford academic to Tarot and visionary cosmologist. Eakins describes the creation of the Tarot of the Spirit deck,...
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Four Poems and Two Translations Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Matthew Zapruder
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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To Our Readers Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Katherine Olivetti Interim Editor
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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Music Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Nickie Amerius-Sargeant
From the very beginning there was sound, be it bang, Om, or Logos. Research reveals that plants as well as animals use sound to communicate. We live in a world of sound, be it from earth or sky, ti...
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The Rubedo of Beauty and Grief Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Mary Wells Barron
This paper centers around the “redness” of seven works of art from Roman times to our contemporary world. These include representational and abstract paintings that are linked by the primal, archet...
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Addiction vs. Poetry Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Suzanne Greenberg
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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Museum Sage Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Katherine Olivetti
Katherine Olivetti has a conversation with Museum Sage Laurie Phillips about the origin of Museum Sage, a game of psychological imagination she created, and the process of intuitively dialoging wit...
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The Other Side of Jungian Psychoanalysis Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Vineet Gairola
This review discusses The Spectre of the Other in Jungian Psychoanalysis: Political, Psychological and Sociological Perspectives, edited by Marybeth Carter and Stephen Anthony Farah. The book highl...
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The Intersection of Systems in the Infanticidal Mother Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Brooke Laufer
The infanticidal mother is not a singular event but a person affected and constructed by intersecting systems. Mothers who commit infanticide often have disadvantaged socioeconomic backgrounds, are...
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Roundabouts—Navigating Interiority Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Pacia Sallomi
This article explores the nonlinear, creative process of Pacia Sallomi’s paintings from the perspective of one series called Roundabouts. The series is inspired by indigenous artistic practices, Ti...
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Democracy in Peril Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Mary Y. Ayers
Similar to the volatile, divisive times that Jung found himself in when he created The Red Book over a century ago, democracy today is under siege by a worldwide neo-fascist movement. This dire mom...
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Sheltering in Place—Painting My Way Through COVID Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Barbara D. Barry
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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Dreaming in the Theater of Psychodrama Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Brigid Mosher
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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A Houseful of Boxes, a Defeated Ship, and Two Life-Changing Insights Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Laurie Phillips
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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A Chandelier’s Tale Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kathleen Russ
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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Myths We Live By Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Patrick J. Mahaffey
Dennis Patrick Slattery’s The Fictions of Our Convictions: Essays on the Cultural Imagination (2023) investigates how beliefs, expressed through personal and cultural stories or myths, construct ou...
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Beyond Borders: Where the Two Seas Meet Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Stacy Hassen
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 4, 2023)
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To Our Readers Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Steven M. Joseph Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Diva Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Robert Tyminski
ABSTRACT Diva was a French film released to European audiences in 1981 and American ones in 1982. Directed by Jean-Jacques Beineix, this film comes from the 1970s cinéma du look movement that used striking imagery to portray social outsiders and express their alienation from society. This article summarizes the film, its characters, cinematography, and innovative musical score by Vladimir Cosma. Recurring
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Rethinking the Cassandra Complex Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Naomi Azriel
ABSTRACT The classical figure of Cassandra represents a person with an unusual capacity to recognize that which the collective has repressed or denied. The Cassandra complex is a Jungian concept that emphasizes the problematic aspects of such a person’s psychology. Seen from a broader perspective, this complex has another side. The collective who is unable to hear the “Cassandra” individual might be
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The Infanticidal Mother as the Speaking Subject Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Brooke Laufer
ABSTRACT The infanticidal mother has been represented in culture and in our psyches in various forms, but consistently as monstrous or mad. She has become the object and the catchall for our bad mother or Death Mother complexes and drives. In her work with such women the author hears their stories, not as monstrous, evil, or crazy, but as subjects with stories to tell, of which we know only the ending
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Jung on Transcendence Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Jon Mills
ABSTRACT Throughout this essay the author analyzes the concept of transcendence in Jung’s theoretical corpus with a focus on its philosophical parameters and therapeutic efficacy in promoting a category of value. Although Jung did not precisely define the terms transcendence, transcendent, and transcendental, it is necessary to tease out these features in order to illuminate the varieties of transcendence
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Cinderella Longs for the Fairy Godmother Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Margaret Klenck
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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The Fox Wedding (Kistune no Yomeiri) Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Tákako J. Ainsworth
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Final Analysis of Therapy Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Linda Ford Ayres
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Goldilocks Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Ann Strack
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Fairy Tale as Transformation Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Linda Hennessey Roth
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Nun te scurdà, maje ‘e te – Non Dimenticarti mai di te – Never Forget about Yourself Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Caterina Vezzoli
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Sleeping Beauty Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katherine Olivetti
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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Three Poems Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 David Swanger
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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When the Dawn Sings You Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Stacy Hassen
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 3, 2023)
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The Magic of Alchemy Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Thom F. Cavalli
ABSTRACT Catherine MacCoun’s book On Becoming an Alchemist offers practical guidance to anyone wanting to learn and apply alchemical principles. She enlightens and surprises us by sharing how alchemy isn’t something left to the past but is, instead, a treasure-trove of knowledge that can help in our daily struggles. Her book brings Jung’s alchemical work into the everyday world. Readable, engaging
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The Medial Archetype: Retrieving the Feeling Soul Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Dennis Patrick Slattery
ABSTRACT Roberta Bassett Corson’s Stepping Out of the Shadows: Naming and Claiming the Medial Woman Today is a study in discovering, recovering, and reclaiming a part of the soul that has been forgotten or neglected. By using the power of stories as vehicles through four companions as well as her own experiences of being wounded, ignored, and dismembered, Corson leads us initiates through the narrative
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Cultural Creativity Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katherine Olivetti
ABSTRACT Interim Editor Katherine Olivetti interviews John Beebe, founding editor of what was originally The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, on his motivations for creating the journal and the gifts it has brought to both the Institute and wider Jungian community over the years. They also discuss his hopes and vision for the future of Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.
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Kintsugi—Art of Repair Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Katherine Olivetti
ABSTRACT Katherine Olivetti interviews potter Morty Bachar who specializes in kintsugi, the Japanese art of mending broken pieces with gold, using his own process. He describes how he moved from being an executive to being a potter and recounts the stories behind some of the pieces he has fixed, including the piece on the cover of this issue of Jung Journal, which was made for the Japanese Prime Minister
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To Our Readers Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Jeffrey Moulton Benevedes Editor
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Borders Shaped Like a Gun Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Frances Hatfield
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Borders Shaped Like a Gun: Poems of Immigration Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Blas Manuel De Luna
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Borders Shaped Like a Gun: Poems of Immigration Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Ubaldo Teque Jr.
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Borders Shaped Like a Gun: Poems of Immigration Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Wang Ping
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Borders Shaped Like a Gun: Poems of Immigration Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Robert Pesich
Published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche (Vol. 17, No. 1-2, 2023)
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Introduction Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Shoshana Fershtman
ABSTRACT The author provides a summary of articles from “Leaving, Crossing, Landing: Immigration, Liminality, Individuation,” a program presented at the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, contextualized within the larger perspective of the American history of immigration and racism. She also examines the effect of climate change on immigration.
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First Flight Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Rusa Chiu
ABSTRACT This is a personal account of the author’s first immigration/refugee experience as a young child along with her extended family in the wake of war. It relates the long-lasting effects of forced and traumatic displacement, specifically in the experiences of chronic uprootedness, social alienation, and the presence of a potent absence and haunting in the unconscious psyche.
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From 고향 (Go-Hyaang) to Home Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 James 종훈 Bae
ABSTRACT Immigration narratives are as unique and individual as the individuals involved. Phantom narratives may be an unconscious force affecting one’s choice to emigrate. The archetype of a human moving from one place to reside in another may be better represented by a word other than immigrant, such as newcomer or transplant, because the words immigration, immigrant, and migrant are used today almost
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Awakened by a Fist Jung Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-05 Lynn Alicia Franco
ABSTRACT “Awakened by a Fist: An Immigrant Narrative of Psychocultural Integration” describes the author’s reflections on the symbolic, psychocultural meaning of her immigration experiences. She focuses on a dream image that emerged decades after immigration upon crossing into a third cultural group—that of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco as a candidate—and describes how cultural complexes