This chapter describes what the reader will find in the volume. Beginning with the colorful story of the bi-monthly Jung reading group meetings which started in 2018 and continue to this day, the chapter details the profound effects Jung can have on the reader if he is taken up in a particular way. A short synopsis of chapters follows, including a description of the two major parts of the work: complexes and case analyses. Complexes, or feeling-toned clusters of associations, manifest in our lives in numerous ways, including projections, dreams, parapraxes, and symptoms. Though they are shrouded by our personal experiences, the core of each complex contains an archetype, a numinous image with the power to heal or possess. By examining how complexes constellate in the particulars of our lives, this work illustrates how analytical psychology can address the problems and questions of today’s scholars, practitioners, and lay readers.

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Confronting Archetypes Through the Complex

  • James J. Dillon

摘要

This chapter describes what the reader will find in the volume. Beginning with the colorful story of the bi-monthly Jung reading group meetings which started in 2018 and continue to this day, the chapter details the profound effects Jung can have on the reader if he is taken up in a particular way. A short synopsis of chapters follows, including a description of the two major parts of the work: complexes and case analyses. Complexes, or feeling-toned clusters of associations, manifest in our lives in numerous ways, including projections, dreams, parapraxes, and symptoms. Though they are shrouded by our personal experiences, the core of each complex contains an archetype, a numinous image with the power to heal or possess. By examining how complexes constellate in the particulars of our lives, this work illustrates how analytical psychology can address the problems and questions of today’s scholars, practitioners, and lay readers.