The World Broke Up into Splinters

Abstract

ABSTRACT In Part Two of “The World Broken into Splinters: Naomi Nir’s Accounts of Her Analyses with Erich Neumann and Emma Jung” the author describes Naomi Nir’s analysis with Mrs. Jung via her intense journal or Notes. She is tormented by her resistance to Jungian psychology, which she relates to more as a dogma than a theory, but her conflict may have been an animus defense against a deeper connection with her analyst. In addition to her analysis, she remained in intense contact with her “inner Neumann”; with “she,” an inner wise old woman; and her creative artwork as a kind of art therapy. Ultimately, she was able to return home to gather the splinters of her life into a restored vessel, working at archaeological sites and ultimately becoming a wounded healer using art and play therapy with disturbed children in a children’s home in Jerusalem.