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The editorial team is looking forward to the forthcoming April 2024 conference of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and excited about the range of distinguished speakers. We hope to meet many of you there, either in person or online. You may learn more about the conference here: thejap.org and essex.ac.uk
Before that, however, we are pleased to present the February 2024 issue and introduce you to the stimulating papers herein.
Silvia Presciuttini's paper, “Masks and Faces in the Setting at the Time of Coronavirus”, introduces the reader to a clinical study in which the use of masks in the treatment setting obstructs the communication of affect and how this can contribute to moments of confusion in the analytic field. The resulting unconscious identification may have deleterious effects on the analyst, who simultaneously works with the masking and unmasking over the course of a pandemic, and the psychological masking and unmasking of one's psyche.
Wes Wallace's paper titled “Jung's Erotic Phenomenology” takes a closer look at Jung's paper “The Psychology of the Transference” (CW 16). He begins with a focus on the ambiguities and inaccuracies in the standard translation and proposes a new translation to make Jung's meaning clearer. His paper includes a fascinating exposition of how the concept of the word “instinct” changed over the centuries, and how in Germany the word “Trieb” came into use to replace “instinctus”. English translations, however, use the word “instinct”. Wallace then goes on to explain that, according to Jung, by invoking the concepts of instinct, mind, and Eros, male sexual desire can be cultivated or repressed in four distinct ways, each associated with a female symbolic figure or anima image: Eve, Helen, Mary and Sophia.
In her paper, “Therapy for the Dead: Working Clinically with Jung's Black Books and The Red Book”,