The Martin Buber‐Carl Jung disputations: protecting the sacred in the battle for the boundaries of analytical psychology

2001 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara D. Stephens
2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 653-675 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eben Scheffler

This article reflects on the contribution  that can  be made to the interpretation of the Bible by employing the analytical psychology of Carl Jung. After some relevant biographical considerations on Jung, his view of religion and the Bible is briefly considered, followed by a look into Genesis 1-3 in terms of his distinction of archetypes. It is suggested in the conclusion that Jungian psychological Biblical criticism can lead to a changed, but fresh view on the ‘authority’ or influence of the Bible in the lives of (post)modern human beings and their (ethical) behaviour.


2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Miroslav Bachev ◽  

The relationship between metaphysics and psychology has different dimensions. An emblematic example of this relationship is the literary polemics between Martin Buber and Carl Jung about boundaries between the two areas of scientific knowledge. According to Buber, Jung allows himself to cross the border of psychology and psychiatry through metaphysical assertions, while Yung claims he doesn’t go beyond that, and all his speeches, even about transcendent objects, don’t leave the sphere of empiricism. The purpose of this article is to reconstruct this dialogue and critically analyze it in view of the possibilities of thinking of the transcendence.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-30
Author(s):  
Peter Westoby

The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber talked about, living under the shadow of Auschwitz, that humanity lived with the ‘eclipse of God’. I now wonder if we have moved beyond this ‘eclipse of God’ to a time of the ‘eclipse of relationality’. This article argues that the eclipse of relationality is enabled through a predominant worldview in which the world is understood as mechanical and dead – observed and experienced in increasingly abstract form. In this way of being, the world and the ‘other’, cannot be loved. In light of this eclipse, this article offers two pathways back to life, particularly for practitioners concerned with healing culture. The first is ontological – a new way of being that is experienced through a living polarity between the ideas enfolded within Jung’s theory of individuation and Buber’s dialogical theorising. The second is phenomenological – a new kind of social and ecological practice linked to a perceptivity of living process, traced from Carl Jung and James Hillman, to Mary Watkins, Henri Bortoft and Allan Kaplan. The key wisdom from this article, from travelling down these two pathways - the key theorising of a way forward for cultural healers - is that people increasingly spend so much of their life separated, a-part, lacking intimacy with another, or with the world, or the manifestations of the world that are all around them, and within them. Something is then missing – call it connection, which ensouls the world – the aliveness that invites an anticipatory and participatory relationship with the world, and importantly, a world experienced as both profound Otherness, as well as deeply Oneness. The consequences for people and the world are profound – for the experience of alienation enables abstractions to flourish, exclusions to expand, and rushed interventions to proliferate – the ‘eclipse of relationality’ beckons.


2021 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-85
Author(s):  
João Victor Sant’Anna Silva ◽  
Vitor Chaves De Souza

O artigo apresenta histórica e teoricamente o Círculo de Éranos como um modelo interpretativo para as Ciências da Religião. Trata-se, a rigor, de uma aproximação ao mesmo tempo histórica e temática ao Círculo de Éranos buscando as pluralidades nos encontros que pudessem contribuir à uma hermenêutica para as Ciências da Religião. Sabe-se que os encontros, inaugurados por Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn, colocou em conversa variados pensadores de áreas distintas, como Rudolf Otto, Carl Jung, Martin Buber, Paul Tillich, Jakob Hauer, Heinrich Zimmer, Karoly Kerenyi, Gershom Scholem, Henry Corbin e Mircea Eliade. Em uma tentativa incansável de aproximar Ocidente e Oriente, Jung, a título de contextualização, teve a oportunidade de modificar parte de suas teorias devido a convivência com os participantes, atribuindo, assim, uma renovada significação religiosa às suas reflexões. Além de Jung, Mircea Eliade, como um dos principais interlocutores com Jung, também contribuiu a respeito do significado da vida religiosa. Este artigo, portanto, busca recuperar a história do Círculo de Éranos e, ao invés de vasculhar o valor do Círculo de Éranos em si, pretende trabalhar a contribuição do Círculo de Éranos para a constituição da área das Ciências da Religião e Teologia pelo viés da linha de pesquisa Linguagens da Religião propondo uma base hermenêutica da pluralidade a partir de uma reinterpretação do significado da pesquisa em Ciências da Religião tendo no Éranos uma forma de spiritus rector original.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-158
Author(s):  
Gary Clark

Abstract In this article I discuss the relationship between analytical psychology and theories of human social evolution. More specifically I look at debates in evolutionary studies and anthropology regarding the priority of matrilineal social structure in the emergence of Homo sapiens. These debates were occurring in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and they provide the context for many of the assumptions of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. In this essay I will explore these issues in relation to analytical psychology. I will also discuss the work of anthropologist John Layard who proposed matriliny was humanity’s original form of social organisation. Interestingly, Layard’s field work had significant impact on Jung. I will also compare the work of Layard, and other theorists who adopt matrilineal theories of human social evolution, with the theories of Jordan Peterson. Peterson has developed an idiosyncratic evolutionary conception of analytical psychology, one in which he explicitly rejects the notion of matrilineal priority in human evolution. He also adopts certain assumptions about the evolutionary origins of contemporary socio-political hierarchy, assumptions I argue are not supported by data from numerous fields of scientific enquiry.


Author(s):  
Gary Clark

Abstract In this essay, I outline an approach to analytical psychology based on the emerging disciplines of psychedelic neuroscience and psychedelic assisted therapies. During the 1950s Jung made brief comments on the use of psychedelics in traditional cultures and therapeutic contexts. I analyse these comments in the light of consequent research in the field. Contemporary psychedelic researchers are achieving impressive results in the treatment of mental illness and various forms of existential distress. A number of theories have been proposed to explain these results. In this essay, I will explore the idea that psychedelics facilitate a transition from our recently evolved secondary consciousness associated with the default mode network, to a more affect-based form of primary consciousness. I will also apply these findings to ethnographic accounts of traditional psychedelic use in Africa and Latin America, highlighting the usefulness of a Jungian approach to this material informed by psychedelic and evolutionary neuroscience.


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