JUNGIAN ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Analytical (or Jungian) Psychology refers to a school of psychology originating in the ideas of Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and advanced by many other thinkers who followed in his tradition.  Though distinct from Freudian psychoanalysis, it shares many similarities.  Its aim is the personal experience of the deep forces and motivations underlying human behaviour.  The overarching goal of Jungian psychology is the reconciliation of the life of the individual with the world of the supra-personal archetypes. Central to this process is the individual's encounter with the unconscious.  The human experiences the unconscious through symbols encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life pursuits.  Essential to the encounter with the unconscious, and the reconciliation of the individual's consciousness with this broader world, is learning this symbolic language.  Only through attention and openness to this world is the individual able to harmonize their life with these suprapersonal archetypal forces.

Archetypes are innate, universal prototypes of ideas.  A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype are a complex (what Jung described as a 'node' in the unconscious, a knot of unconscious feelings and beliefs, detectable indirectly through behaviour that is puzzling or hard to account for; an example of a complex is the mother complex associated with the mother archetype).  Jung treated the archetypes as psychological organs, analogous to physical ones in that both are morphological givens that arose through evolution.  Jung listed four main forms of archetypes: the Self, the Shadow, the Anima, and the Animus. 

Collective Unconscious refers to that part of a person's unconscious which is common to all human beings.  It contains archetypes, which are forms or symbols that are manifested by all people in all cultures.  They are said to exist prior to experience, and are in this sense instinctual. 

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Philosophers / Theorists:

• Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

• Henri Corbin (1903 - 1978)

• Joseph Campbell (1904 - 1987)

• Erich Neumann (1905 - 1960)

• James Hillman (1926 - )

Topics:

• Jungian Archetypal Literary Theory

Feminist:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Feminist Theory

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Feminist Literary Theory

Post-colonial:

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Post-colonial Theory

• Psychoanalytic and Archetypal Post-colonial Literary Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• Association of Jungian Analysts (UK)

• Australian and New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Analytische Psychologie

• International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)

• International Association for Jungian Studies

• Jungian Society (jungsoc2003@aol.com)

• Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Analytische Psychologie (Switzerland)

• Societe Francaise de Psychologie Analytique

CONFERENCES

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2004:

• XVI International Congress for Analytical Psychology, Barcelona, August 29-September 3, 2004

• 2004 Conference, Jungian Society, Salve Regina University, August 5-7, 2004

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Annual:

• IAAP Conferences

COURSES

• University of Essex:
  • Jung in Contexts (Main)
  • Key Concepts in Jungian and Post-Jungian Analytical Psychology (Samuels)
  • Selected Applications of Analytical Psychology (Samuels)
• Monash University: Reading Freud and Jung (Weller)
• La Trobe University: Jung's Cultural Psychology

JOURNALS

• Journal of Analytical Psychology

• Spring: a Journal of Archetype and Culture (formerly Spring: an Annual of Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought)

• Trickster's Way

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Adler, Gerhard.  Studies in Analytical Psychology.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1948.

  • Fordham, M.  Jungian Psychotherapy: a Study in Analytical Psychology.  Chichester: Wiley, 1978.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hall, Calvin S., and Vernon J. Nordby.  A Primer of Jungian Psychology.  Plume, 1999.

  • Maduro, Renaldo J., and Joseph B. Wheelwright.  "Analytical Psychology."  Current Personality Theories.  Ed. Raymond J. Corsini.  Itasca, Ill.: F. E. Peacock, 1977.  Rpt. in Jungian Literary Criticism.  Ed. Richard P. Sugg.  Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern UP, 1992.  181-186.

  • Samuels, Andrew.  Jung and the Post-Jungians.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1985.

  • Samuels, Andrew, Bani Shorter, and Fred Plaut.  Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis.  London: Routledge, 1986.

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On-Line:

• Edinger, Edward R.: An Outline of Analytical Psychology

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Analytical Psychology

  • Archetype

  • Collective Unconscious

  • Complex

  • Jungian Psychology

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROGRAMMES

Europe:

• Switzerland:

  • C. G. Jung Institut

• UK:

  • University of Essex: Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies:

    • MA in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies

    • MA in Jungian and Psychoanalytic Studies

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