ABSTRACT
This volume calls attention to recent developments in analytical psychology along several axes, the first being the intellectual, historical background which in part formed the cultural matrix for Jung’s articulation of his model of the psyche. This perspective has been emerging in recent years with numerous journal articles on Jung’s ideas as well as a number of new biographies that have shed light on various aspects of his background, the most definitive being the recently published biography by Deirdre Bair, Jung: A Biography (2003); and the first large-scale intellectual history, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science by the historian of analytical psychology Sonu Shamdasani. The second axis includes reconsideration of core concepts and practices in the Jungian tradition, which can be corroborated, elaborated and enhanced by the influx of innovative ideas from diverse fields such as cognitive science and neuroscience, attachment theory, psychoanalysis, and complexity theory. These approaches have been increasingly employed in the recent literature; they have been the focus of multidisciplinary conferences including the international Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) in Barcelona, Spain, August 2004. Similarly, these viewpoints are variously threaded throughout the chapters. Integration of this new information offered in the present volume serves to deepen and strengthen as well as modify the Jungian position and identity while offering dialogue with psychotherapists from other schools, psychoanalysts, scientists, and scholars.
