Harper’s Weekly October 19, 2009 What the text presents is a series of fantasies in which dramatic dialogues occur. Jung enters into discussion with the figures that emerge, and then attempts to draw lessons from their exchange. He viewed these characters as different aspects of his personality. The text describes his attempt to recognise and…
Psychology Today Guest Blogger: Dave Levitan November 16, 2090 I call up Dr. Stephen Martin, a Jungian analyst and co-founder and President of the Philemon Foundation.. “You’re not going to buy the book and say ‘oh now I understand everything,’” Martin says. “If you want to have an intelligent discussion about the depth of the…
Wall Street Journal May 12, 2010 Arnie Cooper One of the more stunning works on display (image 125) depicts one of Jung’s childhood daydreams “in which,” writes Mr. Shamdasani, “Alsace is submerged by water, [and] Basel is turned into a port” in the bottom third of the picture. Hovering above is a human figure—legs in…
From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…