Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2153520
D. Merritt, Kevin Lu, Frazer Merritt
The publication of Robert Lewis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in January of 1886 created a shock wave in the consciousness of its readers. It was an instant success in and beyond the literary world as people were confronted with the uneasy thought that evil originated within the individual and not from an external source like the Devil. This was nine years before Freud conducted his first psychoanalysis, and decades before Jung introduced the concept of the shadow. Stevenson was known as the author of Treasure Island and children’s poetry, but had long been looking for a vehicle to write about the strange “Other” he had been aware of since his childhood nightmares. The inspiration for Jekyll and Hyde came directly from a dream, and he attributed most of his literary success to help from the “Brownies,” the “little people,” in his interior world and dreamland. The novel can be viewed in relation to the love-hate relationship with his father, whom he depended upon for financial support during his lifelong struggles with severe respiratory illness, which led to drug addiction from his attempts to cope with the illness. For Stevenson, the Other was primarily the dark side of the strict Calvinistic religion of his father and proper late 19th century Scottish culture, yet the concept is even more relevant today as we face the evils of terrorism, racism, white-collar crime, Putin and rising authoritarianism, and intolerable levels of polarization in many modern societies.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2153524
David Potik
Evidence-based psychological treatments of combat posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) focus on well-organized protocols whose aim is symptom resolution. However, these protocols do not address either the patient’s subjective experience or to the therapist’s role during such treatments. According to the depth psychology perspective presented herein, combat PTSD patients are heroes whose quest was to serve their country, but their encounter with the dragon left them with psychic and spiritual deadness. During the treatment of such patients, the therapist the therapist embodies, or personifies, the ancient Greek god, Hermes, who helps the patient to acquire the necessary skills for the therapeutic quest. In this quest, the therapist symbolizes aliveness and is the generator of an alchemical change.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2138216
S. Knittel
Following a spark ignited by witnessing a Sabar dancer and drummer as a young woman in Senegal, this first draft of a filmscript follows the author back to Senegal many decades later. She must get to the bottom of this initiatory eros experience. A synchronicity leads her to the same city where she worked a long time ago, now a guest of a well-known drummer family. She starts filming their traditional Sabar rehearsals as well as a Sabar in a circle for women only. But it does not satisfy the inner image ingrained in her psyche. An encounter at the village well brings her face-to-face with the dire situation of many women confronting a lack of water. Following more synchronistic events, she ends up filming experimental Sabar around a well in another town with a choreographer she hires, along with his drummers and dancers. The dance turns into a joy-filled start of the day for the girls before their Sunday washing, captured on camera.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154581
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
In the wake of Margi Johnson-Gaddis’ sudden, unexpected death, I feel bleak—at the edge of a black hole—in an agony beyond words. When I ask Psyche to speak, she shows me a path into dark woods marked by the tombstones of dearly beloved friends who were on the Psychological Perspectives Editorial Board. Psyche Speaks: “This is the fourth death in as many years of people you’ve worked with for decades—Jungian kin, fellow devotees to the mission to be a journal of global consciousness integrating psyche, soul, and nature. First there was Margaret Ryan, loving editor, with her keen eye for language, her generous ear for poetry, her big heart, and skilled hands. Then Gilda Frantz, who, with Margi Johnson, was coeditor-in-chief from the mid 1990s until her retirement. Gilda was your soul sister. She called your husband Dan ‘cuz’ because their ancestors came from the same shtetel in what’s now Poland. You visited with her every time you were in L.A. You miss her deeply. Then, in the midst of the pandemic, you lost Robin Robertson. He had written many books about Jungian psychology and science, was a frequent contributor to Psychological Perspectives, and its general editor. He guided the journal’s development and was a good friend and support to the editors. He was your mentor—he believed in your writing even as your Sister from Below wandered the publishing wilderness for years.”
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2157142
Russell C. Huff
This article considers images derived from the collective unconscious. It tells the story of a lifetime’s journey, which brought Russell B. Huff, an art teacher, into contact with Clifford Rollins, a man who had been institutionalized since childhood. Initially, it was the dynamic power of Clifford’s work that interested Huff, but over time he began to suspect the symbolism in Clifford’s paintings pointed to something much deeper. Photographs of some of the paintings were sent to Edward Edinger, who confirmed the collective unconscious as the source of this striking imagery. Following this contact, Huff began an extended period of study and reflection in his efforts to better understand Clifford’s work. He also organized public showings of the paintings, which Clifford attended. Their story is conveyed by Mr. Huff’s oldest son, Russell C. Huff, who relied on material contained in his father’s notebooks to tell their story.
这篇文章考虑了来自集体无意识的图像。它讲述了艺术老师罗素·b·赫夫(Russell B. Huff)与克利福德·罗林斯(Clifford Rollins)的一生之旅，后者从小就被收容在精神病院。最初，是克利福德作品的动态力量引起了赫夫的兴趣，但随着时间的推移，他开始怀疑克利福德画作中的象征主义指向了更深层次的东西。其中一些画作的照片被寄给了爱德华·艾丁格，他证实了集体无意识是这些惊人图像的来源。在这次接触之后，赫夫开始了一段时间的研究和反思，努力更好地理解克利福德的作品。他还组织了画展，克利福德也参加了。他们的故事是由赫夫的大儿子拉塞尔·c·赫夫(Russell C. Huff)讲述的，他依靠父亲笔记本上的材料讲述了他们的故事。
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154586
Thom F. Cavalli
Research is just that—looking back over and over again at material through fresh eyes. In preparing for a workshop, I was drawn once more to the ancient Sumerian myth of Inanna, especially her descent into the underworld where she is murdered and her skin flayed. This archetypal story represents an important dynamic in the individuation process that involves persona and shadow. The Egyptian myth of Osiris, God of the dead and regeneration, also shows how consciousness is processed in the making of an individuated personality. Osiris is not flayed but meets his demise by being killed and dismembered. Viewed through an alchemical lens, these myths portray two operations, solve et coagula (dissolution and reconstitution), that play a critical role in the individuation process. These processes go into the making of the One Thing, a term used by alchemists to symbolize the Philosopher’s Stone, and by Jungians to describe the individuated self.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154587
Hina Khan
This essay recounts the author’s experience of growing up in a traditional Pakistani home, centered around a patriarchal culture in which men are the protectors and providers of the home and women are the caretakers. The reader is taken on a journey in which the writer moves to the United States, undergoes a drastic individuation process, and finds herself in a relationship with someone who embodies the shadow elements of the Dark Mother archetype. This relationship is crippling in many respects, and yet the writer triumphs by learning how to cook for herself—the alchemy of this act ultimately helps heal and nurture her soul as she finds her way back to Self.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154584
Naomi Ruth Lowinsky
There are stories long told that have never been understood… There are moments when the gold sun in Lisbon is gone. We see houses in our dreams that need to be repaired And horses that no one has fed for three weeks… –Robert Bly (1994, pp. 7–8)
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