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This book contains an edited collection of the papers from the International Paris Congress in 1989. It includes the morning papers with their individual responses, and the afternoon lectures and workshops, some given by several presenters over
more than one session. The longer papers reflect the varied approaches of the authors; classical, archetypal and developmental. Topics covered in the workshops include: analytical psychology and art, analytical psychology and culture, analytical psychology and women, and last, but far from least, Jung and anti-semitism.
I found the review difficult to write, partly, I realized, because it was almost impossible to separate my thoughts and feelings about the edited, written papers from my more personal impressions and memories of the Congress itself, which were inevitably coloured by the atmosphere in which the papers were given and the subsequent discussion about them. Also problematic for me was the umbrella theme of the Congress: ‘Personal and archetypal dynamics in analytical psychology’. While undoubtedly most appropriate as a topic to encompass the many similarities and differences between Jungians in different parts of the world, the title seemed almost too broad, too elusive to hold in mind and think about the full range of disparate content and points of view at any one time.
The papers and workshop I mention seem in themselves to embody most dramatically what might be seen as the relationship between the personal and the archetypal! James Hillman's paper ‘The yellowing of the work’ is provocative and pessimistic in that he talks about his sense of disillusion with analytic work: ‘what I hoped to do in this paper, I feel is done: to disclose the yellow light within a process we ourselves are in and to leave on it an indelible yellow stain’. He has given up private analytic work in favour of: ‘the practice of psychology with large groups, public speaking and teaching, publishing and writing’. Andrew Samuels is equally s