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Of texts and contexts: reflections upon the publication of The Jung‐White Letters
Author(s) -
Stein Murray
Publication year - 2007
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.1468-5922.2007.00664.x
Subject(s) - white (mutation) , psychoanalysis , psychology , art , chemistry , biochemistry , gene
Abstract : In addition to his many other personae, Jung was a writer and an author, which means a creator, whose written works underlie and authorize a field of thought and clinical work, i.e., analytical psychology. Not widely recognized is that many of his authored texts were stimulated by important and intense personal relationships. Freud and Victor White loom large, the first standing behind major early analytical texts like Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido and Psychological Types , the second behind later texts on culture, religion, and Christian theology. The publication of The Jung‐White Letters reveals the significance of his relationship with Victor White for the authoring of Answer to Job .