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INTRODUCTION to Special Edition of JAP on the ‘Who is My Jung?’ conference held at the British Library in October 2017 to mark the 40 th Anniversary of the foundation of the Association of Jungian Analysts (AJA)
Author(s) -
Williams Ruth
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12407
Subject(s) - foundation (evidence) , library science , analytical psychology , space (punctuation) , psychoanalysis , psychology , art history , media studies , sociology , history , philosophy , computer science , linguistics , archaeology
Abstract The paper reviews the processes which went into the creation of an exceptionally comprehensive conference on Jungian analysis and psychology. The conference brought together all five of the constituent societies based in London of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). The personal nature of the conference contributions is highlighted together with observations about the passage from spoken to written modes. The idea of ‘conference space’ is reviewed and this leads to a discussion of the often overlooked benign role of conferences in professional life.