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Subject to Change is a collection of essays spanning a 20-year period of theorizing and practice by the renowned Jungian analyst and academic. The diverse ideas and perspectives discussed in these essays deal with the big issues relating to how Jungian analysts and psychoanalysts understand their profession and what it teaches us about our subjective lives. The book is divided into four sections: (1) Subjectivity and Uncertainty; (2) Gender and Desire; (3) Transference and Transformation; and (4) Transcendence and Subjectivity.
‘These essays will have’, so claims the book's cover, ‘significant appeal to all those concerned with Jungian analysis, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, gender development and the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality’. This is indeed a considerable claim. Can it be justified? I think the answer is unquestionably in the affirmative as Young-Eisendrath's probing, open-minded intelligence, humanity and integrity suffuse every page where she invites the reader to engage challengingly and creatively with her ideas. Because the essays that make up this book cover around 20 years of her life it effectively serves as an autobiographical account of her intellectual and professional development as Jungian analyst, Buddhist and feminist.
Section 1: Subjectivity and Uncertainty is probably the most important of the four as it sets out most of the author's key ideas. Here she makes her plea for the increased development of the human science of subjectivity