Introduction

“Who exactly are today’s Jungian ancestors?” asked Andrew Samuels, when endorsing my book titled Breakfast at Küsnacht (Carpani, 2020). “Not really Jung, von Franz, Wolff, Neumann, Jacobi, Hillman, Fordham, etc., etc.,” he answered, and continued: “well, of course we all read them, but ancestors change. The analysts who studied under those giants are, if not today’s giants, at least already ancestors in their own right.”