ABSTRACT
The topic of this second lecture at the 2011 Conference of the Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology is change in myth and psyche. “To the extent that ‘cure’ means turning a sick man into a healthy one,” Jung says, “cure is change” (1935, CW 16: par. 11). Ultimately, however, in Jungian psychoanalysis change is not so much about the cure of illness as it is about the transformation of consciousness. In contrast to Freudians, who emphasize “cure,” Jungians emphasize “transformation.” In this respect, Jung says that Jungian psychoanalysis comprises “four stages, namely, confession, elucidation, education, and transformation” (1929, CW 16: par. 122). The fourth and final stage is not just a transformation of the patient but, Jung says, “a mutual transformation” of both the analyst and the patient (1929, CW 16: par. 164).
