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As the 2019 Zurich Lecture Series is currently underway, Chiron Publications is pleased to announce the release of the 2019 Zurich Lecture Series Book, ‘Two Souls Alas:’ Jung’s Two Personalities And The Making Of Analytical Psychology by Mark Saban.
In his memoir, Memories Dreams Reflections, Carl Jung tells us that, as a child, he had the experience of possessing two personalities. Two Souls Alas is the first book to suggest that Jung’s experience of the difficult dynamic between these two personalities not only informs basic principles behind the development of Jung’s psychological model but underscores the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology as a whole.
Mark Saban suggested that what Jung took from his experience of inner division was the principle that psychological health depends upon the avoidance of one-sidedness—a precept that underpins Jung’s seminal notion of individuation. In practice, this process requires again and again that any one-sided position, approach or belief is brought into tension with a conflicting "opposite" position, in order that a third position can be achieved which transcends both of the earlier positions.
In the second part of the book, Saban takes up this principle and uses it to perform an internal critique on Analytical Psychology as enshrined in Jung’s Collected Works. He suggests that in certain arenas Jung’s personal one-sidedness—specifically his persistent tendency to prioritise the inner dimension of psychological work, and to downplay or ignore the outer dimension—undermined Jung’s capacity to fully follow through the "logic" of the two personalities.
Saban argues that, as a result, Analytical Psychology has failed to find a stance from which it can creatively engage with political, social and historical matters.
This book opens up a new direction for post-Jungian psychology, and indicates some ways in which, by following the logic of the two personalities, the one-side |
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| Mark Saban is a senior analyst with the Independent Group of
Analytical Psychologists and a lecturer at the Department of
Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. He
co-edited Analysis and Activism – Social and Political Contributions of
Jungian Psychology with Emilija Kiehl and Andrew Samuels (Routledge
2016) (Finalist American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book
Prize, Nominated Gradiva Award for Best Edited Book). |
| T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S
Acknowledgements viii
Introduction 1
Chapter One: Jung’s ‘Personal Myth’ and the Two Personalities 5
Jung’s Personal Myth 7
Jung and the Personal 8
The Split 11
The Two Personalities 12
Personality No. 1 13
Personality No. 2 14
The Interactional Process 17
The Storm Lantern Dream 21
A United Stream 24
Return to the Personal Myth… 26
...And Its Problems 27
Endnotes 29
Chapter Two: Jung and the Dissociated Psyche 31
Winnicott’s Review of Memories Dreams Reflections 33
The Dissociationist Tradition 35
Freud and Dissociation 43
Jung 47
Complex and Personification 51
Endnotes 55
Chapter Three: Secrets and Lies 59
Jung’s Secret 59
Jung and Freud 66
Jung’s Love for Freud 68
1909—a Turning Point 72
Secrets, Dreams and Lies 73
Father and Son 75
The Lie 76
A Dream of Dis/enchantment 78
Conclusion 83
Endnotes 85
Chapter Four: Erasure and Interiorisation 89
Intimate Relationships 92
Mother – Wife 94
Anima – Soul 95
Ghostly Analysis 98
Four Women 100
Helene Preiswerk 101
Sabina Spielrein 105
Maria Moltzer 111
Toni Wolff 114
Anima Figures 121
Inner and Outer 125
Analysis—Inner or Outer? 126
Jung’s Interiorisations 127
Endnotes 129
Chapter Five: Inner and Outer 133
Jung and Interiority 134
1913-1917: Four Texts 138
The Red Book 139
The Two Spirits and Enantiodromia 140
Midlife? 141
Psyche and History 142
The Killing of the Hero 145
A Typological Interpretation 146
Introversion and Extraversion 147
An Extraverted Hero 151
The Introversion of Jung’s Psychology 154
Two Kinds of Balance 155
The Schmid-Guisan Dialogue 160
The Transcendent Function 165
Inner and Outer in 1916 167
Adaptation and Collectivity 168
Soul 170
Endnotes 175
Chapter Six: From Wotan to Christiana Morgan and Back Again:
The Limits of the Archetypal/Personal Split 179
Jung’s Two Models of Psychotherapy 180
Therapy and Synchronicity 185
Jung’s Countertransferences 189
Universal and Particular 192
Pauli 193
The Need to Compartmentalise 197
Alchemy, etc 198
The Yellowing 200
Wotan 207
Jung and His Patients 209
For Example, Christiana Morgan 211
The Visions 213
The Climax of a folie-à-deux 215
The Limits of Interpretation 217
Anonymity 219
Back to the Split 220
What is Active Imagination? 221
And Back to Wotan 222
Endnotes 225
A Conclusion 231
References 237
About the Author 254
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