ABSTRACT
Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice is the first book to discuss Erich Neumann’s life, work and relationship with C.G. Jung. Neumann (1905–1960) is considered Jung’s most important student, and in this deeply personal and unique volume, Angelica Löwe casts Neumann's comprehensive work in a completely new light.
Based on conversations with Neumann’s children, Rali Loewenthal-Neumann and Professor Micha Neumann, Löwe explores Neumann’s childhood and adolescent years in Part I, including how he met his wife and muse Julie Blumenfeld. In Part II the book traces their life and work in Tel Aviv, where they moved in the early 1930s amid growing anti-Jewish tensions in Hitler’s Germany. Finally, in Part III, Löwe analyses Neumann’s most famous works.
This is the first book-length discussion of the existential questions motivating Neumann’s work, as well as the socio-historical circumstances pertaining to the problem of Jewish identity formation against rising anti-Semitism in the early 20th century. It will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and Jewish studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|60 pages
Germany
chapter Chapter 1|24 pages
“I am a Jew and hold Prussian citizenship”
part II|92 pages
Zurich; Tel Aviv; Moscia–Ascona, Lago Maggiore
chapter Chapter 4|14 pages
“… The Jews must go to the tzaddikim”
chapter Chapter 5|9 pages
Excursus: “Motherly Soil” and “Renewal”
chapter Chapter 6|11 pages
“I must learn to distinguish myself” 1
chapter Chapter 7|13 pages
“… A general and identical revolution of minds” 1
chapter Chapter 8|24 pages
“… Yet still have the feeling of being in the right place” 1
chapter Chapter 9|19 pages
“…Belonging to this island as if to a plot of land” 1
part III|108 pages
Reading Neumann’s works