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‘The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it’
I arrived in Zurich in the summer of 1969 having met JH2 at the University of Chicago in 1968. He was then a visiting professor lecturing on alchemy. At the time, I was teaching a ‘great books’ seminar while studying law at the University of Notre Dame. JH's innovative ideas and remarkable literary style attracted me to Zurich, initially to research analytical psychology and to develop my ‘great books’ teaching from an archetypal perspective, then to continue analysis and, eventually, to train as an analyst. Thus, my reading of JH is from the vertices of training as a Jungian analyst in Zurich and training in object relations psychoanalysis in the US and UK.
Wolfgang Giegerich writes: ‘Archetypal Psychology…with…its ideas of psychology as soul-making, of the fiction of case histories, of the poetic basis of mind, and of the archetypal perspectives governing our viewing of and thinking about psychological material…[is]…self-reflective structure at work’ (Giegerich 2005, p. 7). JH's work returned again and again to the importance and outer limits of the self-reflexive psyche. When I read DT's essay on