Jungian Analysis No. 2-2022

Jungian Analysis Magazine, Issue 2, 2022 , “Relationships”

From the editors:

We've long focused on images of psychic destruction and now turn to the fundamental foundations of analytical psychology. Our interest centers on the figure of Carl Gustav Jung—and the significant relationship in which analytical psychology developed. We'll see Jung through the eyes of Sigmund Freud in the dramatic story of their correspondence, meticulously analyzed by Bernard Sartorius. We'll sense how Jung, "inflamed by archetypes," converted patients—from the patients' own written accounts, collected by Sonu Shamdasani. And we'll sense the careful and loving cocoon Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn created for the nurturing of Jung's ideas in Eranos—Giovanni Sorge wrote equally lovingly about her and her Opus Magnum.

Having experienced various types of love with Jung, we will better understand the value foundations of the analytic relationship and the freedoms and limitations associated with it—as they are understood in Jungian practice. With Yana Kim, we will explore the sacred and objective content of the temenos; with Alexander Malakhov, we will delve into the hidden corners of countertransference reflections of analytic boundaries; and Henry Abramovich will remind us of the humanity that underlies the analytic relationship and gives analysts the right to independently initiate the end of therapy.

A kind of “firmware” for the articles listed above will be the work of Ann Ulanov, dedicated to marriage and including the topic of relationships in the broader context of individuation and the alchemical transformations occurring within it.

And – perfectly fitting for the topic of analytical foundations – the launch of a new column in our journal on the nature of the psyche! Together with the authors of this project, we will reflect on this throughout the rest of the year, and in this reflection, we will encounter Jon Mills's work on Jung's development of the idea of ​​archetypes – a true intellectual adventure! And the work of the project's creator, Sergei Morgachev, on meanings, the fundamental substrate of the psychic world, which are born in human relationships and exist through them, in separation from another person.

Looking forward to building relationships with readers and creating meaning together with them,

MARIA LOSEVA AND ELENA PURTOVA