ABSTRACT

The chapter focuses on the development of the Jungian professional analytic community from the time of the Freud/Jung split in 1913 until the present. He discusses where the state of Jung scholarship is today. The author begins with Jung the person and those who were in analysis with him. Their extremely strong positive transferences influenced many of us who came in contact with Jungian psychology shortly after World War II. The formation of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) in 1955 established an accreditation procedure for Jungian analysts throughout the world, which has only grown since then. The author describes the influence of the IAAP and of Jungian analysts. He presents his own assessment of "who owns Jung" at this time. As with documents pertaining to the life and work of Freud and psychoanalysis, a similar pattern is emerging with regard to accessing material about the historical Jung.