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How Much Jungian Theory Is There in My Practice?
Author(s) -
CLARK GILES
Publication year - 1995
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/j.1465-5922.1995.00343.x
Subject(s) - analytical psychology , psychodynamics , psychology , psychoanalysis , acknowledgement , psyche , unconscious mind , interpersonal communication , value (mathematics) , criticism , psychotherapist , epistemology , individuation , psychoanalytic theory , social psychology , philosophy , computer security , literature , machine learning , art , computer science
This non‐clinical paper consists of the author's subjective and personal value judgements on theory and practice. He discusses nine topics: I) What is analysis and why do people seek therapy? 2) Dangers of reification and hypostatizing: reinforcement of narcissistic defences and schizoid unrelatedness. 3) The problems of archetypal psychology and amplification. 4) The cultural and political aspects of the unconscious psyche, and the value of studying the philosophical background to the psychodynamic approach. 5) Criticism of the classical Jungian over‐emphasis of the intrapsychic at the expense of the interpersonal. 6) Psychosomatic healing through experience and interpretation of psychosomatic identity in the transference/countertrans‐ference; idea of the ‘animating body’. 7) Dangers of theoretical hndamentalism and crusading among Jungian schools: envy and intolerance. 8) The need for the analyst to have enough good objects. 9) An acknowledgement of theoretical influences other than Jung on the author's practice; although Jung's ideas facilitate a personal pluralism ‐ the spirit of Jung.