PA973-7-FY 2012 - University of Essex

UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX
Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies
MASTERS IN JUNGIAN AND POST-JUNGIAN STUDIES
Module Co-ordinator: Professor Andrew Samuels
2012-13
Course: PA973-7-FY: Key Concepts in Jungian and Post-Jungian Psychology
(PA973-7-AU Archetype, Gender, Shadow, Soul, Individuation: Some Key Concepts
in Jungian & Post-Jungian Studies)
(PA907-7-SP What happens in Jungian Analysis? – A series of Seminars on the Analytic
Encounter)
The course introduces the central theoretical concepts of analytical psychology which
will be located within critical, comparative and experiential perspectives. A further
aim is to introduce students to the general field of contemporary post-Jungian
psychology and familiarise them with the relevant literature. The interface between
analytical psychology and psychoanalysis will be foregrounded. In addition,
opportunities will be provided for the theoretical exploration of the connection
between these key concepts and their clinical use.
The course will be taught by sixteen analytical psychologists from a variety of
backgrounds, groups, and theoretical perspectives (biographical notes are provided
with the course pack). Essay titles are to be agreed with the Course Co-ordinator,
Professor Andrew Samuels. Details of the essay assignment are given at the end of
this course outline and reading list.
Except where indicated, all the reading is essential and required reading and the
course pack includes everything except extracts from Jung’s Collected Works or
from Jung and the Post-Jungians (Samuels, A [1985], London and Boston: Routledge
and Kegan Paul).
TERM I: Archetype, Gender, Shadow, Soul, Individuation
1. October 10 th 2012: ANDREW SAMUELS Introduction to the course
2. October 17 th 2012: NANCY KRIEGER Archetypes and neuroscience
Reading:
Schore, A. (2007) 'Psychoanalytic research: progress and process – developmental
affective neuroscience and clinical practice'. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst,
Summer 2007, pp. 6-15.
Wilkinson, M. (2007) 'Jung and neuroscience'. In A. Casement (Ed), Who Owns
Jung? London and New York: Karnac. (Typescript provided.)
3. October 24 th 2012: DEIRDRE JOHNSON Gender in analytical psychology:
social construction or innate?
Reading:
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Jung, C.G. (1928). Anima and Animus in CW7, paras. 296-340.
Young-Eisendrath, P. (1988) ‘Contrasexuality and the dialectic of desire’ in Post
Jungians Today, Ed. A. Casement. London: Routledge, pp.198-211.
Roesler, C (2012) ‘A revision of Jung’s theory of archetypes in light of contemporary
research: neurosciences, genetics and cultural theory – a reformulation’ in Montreal
2010, Facing Multiplicity: Psyche, Nature, Culture Proceedings of the XVII th
Congress of the IAAP, Ed. P. Bennett. Switzerland: Daimon Verlag.
4. October 31 st 2012: ANN CASEMENT The Shadow
Reading:
Casement, A. (2006). The shadow. From The Handbook of Jungian Psychology:
Theory, Practice and Application, edited by Renos Papadopoulos. London &
New York: Routledge.
-----. (2010). “Persona” in David Leeming, Kathryn Madden and Stanton Marlan
(Eds), The Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. New York: Springer.
Jung, C.G, The shadow in Aion, Part 2 of The Archetypes and the Collective
Unconscious. CW 9 ii paras 13-19.
Samuels, A., Shorter, B., Plaut. A. Shadow. In A Critical Dictionary of Jungian
Analysis. London & New York, Routledge.
Reading Week: November 7 th 2012
5. November 14 th 2012: MICHAEL WHAN The question of the subject and
world soul in archetypal psychology.
Reading:
Hillman, J. (1982). Anima Mundi: The return of the soul to he world. Spring:
Archetypal Psychology and Jungian Thought. pp 71-93.
Hillman, J. (1983). The pandemonium of images: Jung’s contribution to “Know
Thyself”. In Hearing Fictions. New York: Station Press, pp 53-81.
Hillman, J. (1994). Once more into the fray. Spring: 56, Fall 1994, pp 5-18.
Giegerich, W. (1993). Killings: Psychology’s Platonism and the Missing Link
to Reality. Spring: 54, June 1993, pp 5-18.
Suggested Reading:
Heller, Sophia. (2006). The Absence of Myth. New York: State University of New
York Press.
6. November 21 st 2012: JEAN THOMSON Archetypes: The Imagined and the
Whole System.
Reading:
Edelman, G. (1992). Consciousness: The Remembered Present, in Bright Air,
Brilliant Fire. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Grant, M. (1995). The story of Cupid and Psyche in Myths of the Greeks and
Romans. Harmondsworth: Penguin.
Spielrein, S. (1910). Destruction as a cause of coming into Being. Journal of
Analytical Psychology, 39:2, (1994).
Zinkin, L. (1998). The hologram as a model for analytical psychology. In Dialogue
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in the Analytic Setting. London: Jessica Kingsley.
7. November 28 th 2012: JIM FITZGERALD Psychological Types.
Reading
von Franz, M-L. (1971). The inferior function. In Jung’s Typology. New York:
Spring pp 12-72.
Jung, C.G. (1926), General description of the types. CW 6, pp 330-407.
8. December 5 th 2012: PETER ADDENBROOKE Analytical psychology and
religion: the enquiring mind and the blinkers of doctrine.
Reading:
Fordham, M. (1985). Is God supernatural? In Explorations into the self. London:
Academic Press. pp 174-184.
Jung, C.G. (1938). The autonomy of the unconscious. CW 11, pp 5-33.
9. December 12 th 2012: ANN SHEARER Myth as methodology.
Reading:
Giegerich, W. (2004) 'The end of meaning and the birth of man'. Guild of Pastoral
Psychology pamphlet.
Shearer A. (2004) On the making of myths: mythology in training. Journal of Jungian
Theory and Practice, 6: 2, pp. 2-14.
Segal, R. (1998). Introduction to Jung on Mythology (London: Routledge), pp. 4-45.
Please Google and read up on the myth of Perseus, or look it up in e.g. Robert
Graves Penguin book on Greek Myths, Volume 1.
TERM II: What happens in Jungian Analysis? – a series of seminars on The
Analytic Encounter
10. January 16 th 2013: ANDREW SAMUELS Introduction to the second term of
the course
11. January 23 rd 2013: DR. GOTTFRIED HEUER The Self and individuation
Reading
Samuels, A, Shorter, B., Plaut, A. A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis. London :
Routledge. Entries on ‘individuation’ and ‘self’.
von Franz, M-L. (1964) The process of individuation. In Man and His Symbols,
edited by John Freeman. London: Picador (1978)
12. January 30 th 2013: BIRGIT HEUER Aims and objectives of Jungian analysis.
Reading:
Stein, M. (1982). The aims and goal of Jungian analysis. In Jungian Analysis, edited
by M. Stein. La Salle: Open Court. pp 28-43.
Hillman, J. (1972). Three ways of failure and analysis. In The Myth of Analysis.
Evanston: Northwestern University Press, pp 98-104.
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13. February 6 th 2013: NICOLA GLUCKSMANN The analytical relationship:
transference and counter-transference.
Reading:
Astor, J. (2001) Is transference the total situation? Journal of Analytical Psychology,
46:3.
Joseph, B. (1989). Transference: the total situation. In Psychic Equilibrium and
Psychic Change. London: Tavistock/Routledge. pp 156-167.
Jung, C.G. (1946) The Psychology of the Transference. Collected Works, Vol. 16.
Lambert, K. (1981) Transference, counter-transference and interpersonal relations.
Chapter 7 of Analysis, repair and Individuation. London: Academic Press.
Recommended further reading:
Note from lecturer: If you have time, start with these more accessible papers and
only then follow with the four classic papers above.
Alister, Ian and Hauke, Christopher. (1998). Contemporary Jungian Analysis.
London and New York. (See especially the chapters by Jean Knox, Fred Plaut
and Christopher Hauke).
Casement, Ann (Ed). (1998). Post-Jungians Today. London and New York:
Routledge.
Mann, David (Ed). Erotic Transference and Counter-Transference. London and
New York: Routledge.
Samuels, Andrew. (1989). The Plural Psyche. London and New York, Routledge.
(See especially chapters 9 and 10).
Yalom, Irvin. (1989/1991). Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy.
London and New York: Penguin Books.
Reading Week: February 13 th , 2013
14. February 20 th 2013: ANDREW SAMUELS The imaginal field
Reading:
Field, N. (1991). Projective identification: mechanism or mystery? Journal of
Analytical Psychology, 36, 93-109.
Samuels, A. (1989). Counter-transference and the “mundus imaginalis” and The
alchemical metaphor. Two chapters in The Plural Psyche: Personality,
Morality and the Father. London and New York: Routledge.
15. February 27 th , 2013: MARTIN STONE A Jungian approach to dreams.
Reading
Jung, C.G. (1916). General aspects of dream psychology. CW8.
Jung, C.G. (1945). On the nature of dreams. CW8.
16. March 6 th 2013: MARK SABAN The Question of Opposites in Jungian
Psychology.
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Reading:
Samuels, Andrew. (1985). Jung and the Post-Jungians. London: Routledge &
Kegan Paul, pp. 92-94 and 113-16.
Huskinson, Lucy. (2004). Nietzsche and Jung: The Whole Self in the Union of
Opposites. New York and Hove: Brunner-Routledge, pp. 35-65.
Hillman, James. (1968). Senex and Puer: An Aspect of the Historical and
Psychological Present. Zurich: Rhein-Verlag, pp. 303-16.
Jung, C. G. Collected Works vol. 7, paragraphs 78-92 and 111-20.
-----. Collected Works vol. 14, paragraphs 200-13, 654-62 and 676-80.
17. March 13 th 2013: IAN WILLIAMSON A Post-Jungian Understanding of
Working with Children
Reading:
Knox, J. , Self-agency and the coercive use of language, Journal of Analytical
Psychology 2009, 54, 25-41.
Plaut, A. (1956) The transference in analytical psychology. In Technique in Jungian
Analysis. Heinemann, London, 1974.
18. March 20 th 2013: CHRISTOPHER HAUKE Development, archetype and
analytic practice: a critical perspective.
Reading:
Hauke, C. (1996). The child: development, archetype, and analytic practice. San
Francisco, Jung Institute Library Journal, 15, 1, pp 17-38.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ESSAY ASSIGNMENT
The essay title for this course is as follows:
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“Write a critical account of one concept or theme in analytical psychology that has
been or will be covered on the course.”
Guideline: We expect a definition of the concept or delineation of the theme, an
assessment of its importance, an account of its history and development in Jungian
and post-Jungian thought. Comment upon its applicability both clinically and nonclinically
(i.e., in the context of therapy and in other contexts). Give your critical
assessment of your chosen concept or theme. Parallels with psychoanalysis (or any
other school of psychotherapy) should be given where appropriate. Finally, locate the
concept or theme within its wider intellectual and cultural context, making use of the
approaches you have encountered in the seminar series “Jung in Contexts”.
The deadline for this essay is Wednesday of Week 16 (Year 2, Term 2). The exact
date can be obtained from the Graduate Secretary or Scheme Director, Dr. Kevin Lu.
The length should be not more than 5,000 words.
If you are in any doubt about any aspect of the essay assignment, please contact the
Course Co-ordinator, Professor Andrew Samuels.
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