ABSTRACT
I am delighted to contribute to this collection in honour of Professor Andrew Samuels’ Festschrift. As one of his former PhD students from 2008–2014, my thesis topic on twins describes well the relationship with Andrew as my ‘self-regulating other.’ My thesis topic, called Laws of Inheritance: On the Psychology of the Relationship between the First and Other(s) – A Post-Jungian Perspective, was published by Routledge in 2016 under the slightly different title: Laws of Inheritance: A Post-Jungian Study of Twins and the Relationship between the First and Other(s). For the research on twins, I used an archetypal perspective, which opened up new channels to explore the phenomena of twin-ship on both micro and macro levels. Andrew and I share a ‘twinning’ relationship: Andrew’s birthdate is near mine and we are the same age; I come from Wales and Andrew spent time in Wales as a social worker. We attended The London School of Economics at the same time and studied similar courses. Like Andrew, I have a social work background and we are both Jungian analysts, albeit from different training schools. But prior to 2008, we had never met.
