LQP 802: Winter 2019-2020 M. Klenck/M. Stebbins Second Trimester Major first generation Jungians and their theoretical and clinical contributions to the Jungian analytic project
Week 11. Archetypes and Symbols, and the six core Jungian ideas
Class Reading:
1. Jolande Jacobi, Complex, Archetype, Symbol, Chapters 2, 3, 4 pps. 31-124 2. Stebbins, The Six Core Jungian Ideas (handout)
Questions: How do you understand the relationship between complex, symbol and archetype – and can you give an example of how this emerges in analysis?
Key Word: Symbol
Week 12. Projection and Re-collection
Class Reading:
1. Von Franz, M.L. Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology. Forward and chapters 1 and 4 2. See the movie Lars and the Real Girl. Also look at the 1st episode of the television show In treatment and compare methods, assumptions, and outcomes.
Questions: 1. How is projection both a problem and an aspect of all perception? 2. What are the assumptions about compassion and the analytic frame in the In Treatment episode? Between it and Lars, which is a better symbolic stance and why? On page 16, Von Franz discusses the negative aspects of empathy – what do you think about this?
Key word: Projection
Week 13. Projection continued
Class Reading:
1. Review the von Franz from last week 2. Jung, Vol. 6, par. 783, Vol 11, para. 93 and 141, Vol 8, 507ff.
Assignment: Prepare short presentations of examples of projection from your clinical work and/or lived life.
Week 14: Neuman-- History as Psyche
Class Reading: Erich Neumann, Origins and History of Consciousness Chapters 1, 2 , 3, pps. 5-130
Questions: What is your response to Neumann’s particular genre? What clinical situations correspond to what he is describing?
Week 15 Hillman.-- Fantasy and/as history in analytic discourse
Class Reading:
James Hillman, Healing Fiction, Chapters 1 and 2, pps 3--81
Questions: How do these two modes of understanding psyche contradict and /or complement each other? What do you imagine are the clinical outcomes for each?
Week 16 Edinger
Class Reading:
Edward Edinger: Ego and Archetype Part I, Section 2: The Alienated Ego, pps. 37-61 Part II, Section 1: The Search for Meaning, pps. 105-130
Questions: Edinger has a clear map of the psyche. What are the strengths and weaknesses of his approach? When clinically might you reach for Edinger’s approach?
Week 17 Whitmont
Class Reading:
Edward (Christopher) Whitmont, The Symbolic Quest, Preface, Introduction, ch1-3 pps 15-56
Questions: How do you understand Whitmont’s clinical emphasis on the Self, in such statements as “I see transformation and healing brought about through actualizing the guiding impulses from the archetypal world and the Self.” (preface p.ix)
Week 18 Jung : Anima/Animus
Class Reading:
Jung, CW7 , Part II, Ch. 2 pps. 186-209
Assignment: Read this essay carefully, sifting through the cultural context of Jung as a Swiss man in the early part of the 20th century to discern the essential psychological aspects of the concept of Anima and animus. Imagine how this part of the theory looks clinically.
Week 19. Jung and the Transcendent Function
Class Reading:
Jung, CW8, The Transcendent Function pps 67—91
Questions: 1) What does the transcendent function look like—feel like—clinically. 2) How would you put this concept into conversation with all the major Jungian theorists/analysts we have studied this trimester?
Exam handed out: Due next week
Week 20. Exam due: discussion of exam
Bibliography 2nd Trimester
Edinger, Edward, Ego and Archetype, Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1972 Hillman, James, Healing Fiction, Spring Publications, Dallas Texas, 1983 Jung, C.G., CW7 Bollingen Series XX, Pantheon Books, 1953 ---- CW8 Bollingen Series XX, Pantheon Books, 1960 Jacobi, Jolande, Complex, Archetype, Symbol, Bollingen Series, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1953 Neumann, Erich, The Origins and History of Consciousness, Bollingen Series XLII, Princeton University Press, 1954 Von Franz, Marie-Louise, Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology, Open Court Publishing Company, La Salle and London, 1980
Key Words Second Trimester: Symbol, projection, mythology, archetype, prospective, transference