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This is Zabriskie's wake-up call to Jungians: her keynote address at the IAAP Congress in Cambridge, 2001. The call is a call to speak out, to voice our work, to stay true to our own language: the language of the authentic clinical work; and to be fluent in other tongues: the languages of discourse.
It is also a call to be realistic: to stay with the realities of today's world, and take on board current discoveries in neuroscience, molecular physics, computer technology: to move on from the mire of fundamentalism and a preoccupation with Jung the man and his words, into a multi-theory interchange and interfertilization: to create a vibrant, modern animated being, not a dinosaur.
She asks tough questions:
Can Jungian practice remain an applied depth psychology if we do not tell it from the ‘inside’? Can we have a viable voice, and make a vital contribution to the life of mind and psyche, without
Page 538a recognizable, professional tongue?.… If we cannot transmit the relevance of our theories and the efficacy of our perspective, what we have to offer will not be heard, nor made available to those who would benefit.
She addresses ‘Language’, ‘Practice’, ‘Pop Jung’ and ‘Image’ (pp. 7-12), and examines Jungian practice in the larger context, urging us to move on and to voice the dynamic. She begins by observing that destructive devotion restricts the use of language to communicate and describe our practice and our understanding. It obstructs discourse and feeds secrecy. Our identity as Jungians depends not only on our in-house talk, but on our ability to communicate in and with the outer world. Otherwise we mummify a secret code which excludes non-believers and avoids accountability. Jung said that ‘speech is a dance’ (Jung 1997, p. 1075). A dance that is performed without being seen risks becoming moribund: perhaps an obsessive ritual, a defensive perversion.
Zabriskie alerts us to the paucity of published contemporary Jungian case process, of the scarcity of texts which c