Studies in Analytical Psychology

Adler, Gerhard

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“…I am just as grateful to all the trainees with whom I have worked in Italy, Hungary and Serbia, for the trust, courage and acquiescence with which they agreed to try different workshops in active imagination with me. I also feel, in the same way, gratitude towards my patients, with whom I work mainly with an attitude (Adler ) of active imagination. My trainees, patients and I all know well how shocking and sometimes painful this type of approach is, as well as how much commitment it requires.…”

Section: The Reassuring Image Of a Strong Ego Collective Horrors Andmentioning

confidence: 67%

From horror to ethical responsibility: Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King encounter the dark half within us, between us and in the world

Tozzi¹

2020

J Analytical Psychology

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This paper explores the experience of horror. The term is usually understood collectively to refer to experiences of terrorism, racism and other conflicts; however, the paper explores the equal horror for the individual of facing deep and painful psychic contents and traumatic experiences. The paper explores the way that both C.G. Jung, through analysis of the psyche, and the author Stephen King, through his horror novels, have accepted and explored the experience of encountering 'the dark half' or 'It' that is the other within themselves, forming images and symbols capable of linking their personal experience to that of the collective. This encounter is transformed, as far as Jung is concerned by analytical psychology and for King by fiction, through an attitude of active imagination. This led both men to developing an ethical responsibility towards the images of the unconscious, as well as the personal and collective contents of human life. The paper depicts how encountering the 'dark half', through Jung and King can provide a Jungian analyst with a special attitude with which to deeply explore and ethically process the experience of horror in different fields, including therapeutic practice, analytical training and in the traumatic and conflictual facing of the other, with which, today as always, the world presents us.

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Section: The Reassuring Image Of a Strong Ego Collective Horrors Andmentioning

confidence: 67%

From horror to ethical responsibility: Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King encounter the dark half within us, between us and in the world

Tozzi¹

2020

J Analytical Psychology

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“…In the therapeutic situation, art has been shown to provide a useful medium to express and transform unconscious contents. 8 There are many examples in the analytical psychology literature that demonstrate the usefulness of art in the therapeutic process (see, for example, Adler [1969]) and in the individuation process (the most developed example would be Jung's Red Book [2009]); so there is reason to suggest that Jung's psychology could assist the artistic life. However there is only one developed example that I know of.…”

Section: The Fragmented Canon the Wasteland And The Modern Artistmentioning

confidence: 99%

An analytical psychology view of wholeness in art

Matthews

2015

International Journal of Jungian Studies

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This paper examines the creative practice and product of the visionary artist, the artist who brings forth a new vision of wholeness for the social group. A description of the general creative process is provided according to Jung's view of the transcendent function. It is by this process that a new vision may be understood to arise. The activity and product of the visionary artist is then reified by situating it within an historical conception of the God-image and as a cultural canon. Drawing from Neumann, three phases or roles of the visionary artist are discussed: the establishment of a culture's new vision, the maintaining of the culture's existing vision, and the enduring of the fragmentation of a culture's 'exhausted' vision. A more detailed account, including examples, is then given for the role of the visionary artist within the present state of the West's cultural cannon -a state of fragmentation or, as it often known, the wasteland; a time when the spiritual wholeness has broken down. Finally the artist Peter Birkhäuser is briefly discussed to query the role that analytical psychology may explicitly play in supporting the visionary artist.

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“…Adler (, p. 64) described active imagination as an ‘attitude of paradoxical “active passivity”’ similar to that experienced by a film audience or listeners to music. So I think of clinical practice as requiring the attitude of a patient screenwriter (Tozzi ) in which waiting, curiosity, patience, creativity and symbolic thinking bring us to identify the double meaning of images, experiences and communication, leading to a different way of being in the world.…”

Section: The Attitude Of the Patient Screenwritermentioning

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A different way of being in the world: the attitude of the patient screenwriter

Tozzi¹

2017

J Analytical Psychology

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Studies in Analytical Psychology

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From horror to ethical responsibility: Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King encounter the dark half within us, between us and in the world

From horror to ethical responsibility: Carl Gustav Jung and Stephen King encounter the dark half within us, between us and in the world

An analytical psychology view of wholeness in art

A different way of being in the world: the attitude of the patient screenwriter

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