ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a clinical study which discusses some concrete realities of psychotherapy. It shows how the realities lend evidence to support the move to a phenomenological interpretation of analytical psychology. The example also shows that a phenomenological and archetypal epistemology can be integrated with some of the clinical insights of the developmental analytical psychologists. Where Samuels suggests the possibility of Hillman's vision with Fordham's clinical practice, the chapter suggests that existential phenomenology provides the necessary conceptual ground for such an integration to occur. The case presentation is an attempt to bring these elevated ideas down to earth for, despite the philosophical formality, and plain difficulty, of phenomenology, its aim is to speak the concrete particulars of incarnate lives. The same sort of point could be made for Jungian psychology.
