ABSTRACT
John Haule discusses something that is central to Jungian analysis but is almost entirely part of the oral tradition. For that reason alone it is a fascinating study. It concerns the questions of subjectivity, consciousness, authority, and agency in therapeutic work, and shows that the center of gravity for each of these terms is shifted-from ego to Self. What Ricoeur argued with regard to Freud’s theory is clearly illustrated here with regard to Jungian therapeutic praxis: that subjectivity, consciousness, and reflection are no longer mutually implicated. The clinical significance of Haule’s chapter therefore reaches beyond Jungian analysis, through psychotherapy more generally, to questions about anthroplogy: the structure of human self-understanding and interaction.
