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ISAPZURICH and CHIRON PUBLICATIONS present
Mark Saban, MA
“Two Souls Alas…”
Jung’s two personalities and the creation of analytical psychology
Oct 4 & Oct 5, 2019 | Zurich, Switzerland
Friday, October 4, 2019 5:30pm – 9:00pm: Reception, Lecture & Dinner, Zunfthaus zur Schmiden, Marktgasse 20, Zurich
Saturday, October 5, 2019 10:00am – 3:30pm: Lectures & Discussion, Zentrum Karl der Grosse, Kirchgasse 14, 8001 Zurich
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| | Jung’s difficulties with what he describes as his ‘two personalities’
dominate the first few chapters of MDR. As a child, Jung tried to
alleviate his feeling of inner division by repressing one or other of
his two personalities, but he eventually realised that in order to live a
full and fulfilled life he had to, first, maintain contact with bothpersonalities
(even though they conflicted), and, second, find ways to enable each
personality to engage dialectically with the other.
This experience constellated an important insight: that psychological
transformation – and therefore the process of individuation – depends
upon a dynamic engagement with the opposites and the tension between
them. Only in this way can a continuous process of psychic balancing be
enabled, and one-sidedness avoided.
This idea runs like a red thread through every period and every
aspect of Jung’s psychology. We see it in his early work on the
complexes, and we see it played out in that dialogical meeting between
personality 1 and personality 2 which Jung describes in MDR as his
‘confrontation with the unconscious’. Central to individuation, it runs
through Jung’s ideas on the ‘transcendent function’ and on typology and
achieves fruition in Jung’s magnum opus, Mysterium Coniunctionis..
Because the logic of the two personalities is fundamental to
analytical psychology it has the capacity to provide a unique critical
tool when turned back toward Jung’s psychology itself. Applied in this
way, the reflexive critique immediately shows up an endemic
one-sidedness in Jung’s psychology whereby the themes, motifs and ideas
associated with personality no 2 dominate, while the themes motifs and
ideas that come with personality no 1 are persistently ignored or
rejected.
For example, when we focus on the particular opposites, inner vs
outer, and look at the ways in which Jung dealt with them in his life
and in his work, what becomes apparent is a striking failure to maintain
the logic of the creative and transformative dynamic he had developed.
Instead, Jung one-sidedly identifies the inner realm with psychology
itself, and thereby eliminates the outer as proper object for
psychological attention.
This has meant that, despite Jung’s own pioneering work with
transference and counter-transference (work that depends upon a
relational – inner/outer – dynamic), analytical psychology has, on the
whole, been marred by a persistent and problematic reluctance to engage
with the outer other. This has led, among other things, to a
long-lasting difficulty in dealing with, or even properly acknowledging,
the psychosocial dimension.
This problem has become increasingly apparent as the relational,
social and political realm becomes recognised more and more as active
within, and critical to, depth psychology. By properly highlighting the
logic of the two personalities we can begin to redress this imbalance
with an acknowledgment that the collective unconscious may be
encountered not only through intrapsychic relations with inner others,
but also through extra-psychic engagement with the outer collective and
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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). |
| | ZURICH LECTURE SERIES - Postlude 6 - 8 October, 2019
Sun. 6 Oct.; 9:15-17:30 Paul Brutsche, Dr. phil.
Excursion to the Historic Swiss Town of St. Gallen
An opportunity to visit with Paul the interesting Swiss town of St. Gallen and its treasures, including the oldest library in Europe, now a designated UNESCO World Heritage Site, the adjacent abbey Cathedral, St. Gallen’s collection of Outsider Art, and the unique architecture of Old Town. The excursion fee of CHF 90 (CHF 60 for ISAP students and analysts with half fare Abo) includes round trip group travel, audio-guide and admissionto the library and museum, and a coee. Lunch is self-pay. Sign up and payment in cash will take place at the Zurich Lecture Series opening reception on Friday, 4 October.
For more information, contact penelope.yungblut@zurichlectureseries.com
Mon. 7 Oct.; Brigitte Egger, Dr.sc.nat.ETH
Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Thorough and Exquisite Guide to Soul and Individuation Centered on Love
John Hill, MA
Estranged from Self and the World: What Can We Do?
Tues. 8 Oct.; Gunilla Midbøe, MSW
Visit from the Minotaur: A Myth and a Case Exploring the Boundaries and Limits of Ego-consciousness and Archetypal Powers
Civilization in Transition: Racism – A Jungian View
Panel discussion with Deborah Egger, MSW; Nancy Krieger, PhD; Bernard Sartorius, lic.theol; and Murray Stein, PhD, moderator
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The 2018 Zurich Lecture Series Book:
Where Soul Meets Matter: Clinical and Social Applications of Jungian Sandplay Therarpy
by Eva Pattis Zoja.
The theme of this book is the psyche’s astonishing capacity and determination to regulate itself by creating images and narratives as soon as a free and protected space for expression is provided. This is true for individuals—children and adults—who struggle with adverse experiences as well as for those who seek a deeper meaning in life. This capacity for psychic self‐regulation becomes clearly visible and tangible in the well-known therapeutic practice of sandplay.
Eva Pattis Zoja describes two different applications of sandplay that she has developed over the course of two decades. They are oriented towards two different target groups and expand the same basic principles in two different directions.
While the hands explore the sand’s consistency, its smoothness, and its readiness to respond to the slightest touch, all sorts of perceptions and emotions go through the clients’ state of mind, and they cannot say whether they came from inside or out. It appears to be a circular process, a very subtle but also very persistent and concrete dialogue between the inner and outer worlds, between body and psyche, and more generally, between psyche and matter.
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| | | Eva Pattis Zoja, Jungian Analyst (IAAP) and Sandplay Therapist (ISST) works in private practice in Milan, Italy. She has founded the International Association of Expressive Sandwork (IAES), has offered Jungian Analysis and Sandplay Therapy and has initiated projects of Expressive Sandwork in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. |
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