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The internet discussion of F. X. Charet's paper was slow to take off until I reminded subscribers that their comments had to be neither erudite nor long - indeed, we aim for a maximum of 500 words for a comment. I asked a couple of simple questions to encourage responses - e.g. about Jung's time at the Burghölzli, his relation to anti-Semitism, and what ‘the new Jung scholarship’ is. This gave rise to a number of responses - primarily about references for new work on Jung, as follows.
Raya Jones suggested there is a category for ‘alternative Jung scholarship’ - which can be thought of as people in fields outside analytical psychology investigating Jung in the context of the history-of-ideas of their own field. Hers is mainstream psychology. She suggested Pietikainen's ‘C. G. Jung and the Psychology of Symbolic Forms’, and a paper of her own looking at Jung's ‘On psychic energy’, entitled ‘Psychological Value and Symbol Forming’ to be published later this year in the journal ‘Theory & Psychology’.
Thomas Kirsch pointed out that in his new book The Jungians he has some new material about Jung in relationship to the Jungians in Germany in the 1930s, having been able to obtain some documents from Nazi archives in Coblenz and Berlin.
Beverly Martin felt that the work of Jean Shinoda Bolem is of interest as it relates to the whole-person approach to consciousness and analysis, including spiritual dimensions and Celtic influences. She informed us that the Society for Psychology & Healing (the training division of The Marian Association) is developing this theme in its new journal ‘Stella Maris’ which explores Jungian and Marian themes in relation to embodiment. The journal apparently encourages debate on ways in which the ‘feminine’ as the fourth element completes the ‘masculine’ trinity in the creaturely world of matter. Contributors have included Tessa Adams, Benig Mauger, and Nicole Ward Jouve.
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