Depth Psychology Research Articles

Католицьке відродження в англійській літературі

The article deals with research of the Catholic revival as a remarkable literary movement that amalgamated a number of authors who discussed problems of the Roman Catholicism in the works of various forms – from serious theological apologies to the popular genres like G.K. Chesterton's detective stories. Such Catholic novelists like Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene appeal to the wide readership and interpret the problem of faith in its complex ambivalence, actuality, psychological depth. Whilst Evelyn Waugh is in search for a solid ground in the Old Faith as an alternative to the modern anarchy and chaos, Graham Greene emphasizes on the faith's conflicting ambiguities and contradictions.

A post-Jungian reading of the Book of Baruch

It is often claimed that the use of depth psychology in the interpretation of ancient texts is irrelevant and methodologically unsound. Several typical Jungian archetypes, such as the shadow, the primordial mother, and the hero, were identified, interpreted and commented on from a post-Jungian perspective. The apocryphal Book of Baruch has typically been studied as a prime example of penitential prayer in the late Second Temple Period. In this study, the book was approached from the perspective of post-Jungian literary criticism. While Jungian literary criticism has become unfashionable as a result of Jung’s anti-feminist and anti-Semitic ideas, the usefulness of his theory to criticise itself was demonstrated. Although Jung’s work is haunted by racism, anti-feminism, and antisemitism, his work may still be useful for literary criticism from a psychological perspective. Contribution: The article demonstrated the value of the depth psychological approach to the interpretation of biblical material.

After Eighty Years of Slumber: The Rediscovery of Erich Neumann’s Jewish Corpus

Abstract While Erich Neumann’s contributions to depth psychology and his celebrated Eranos lectures are well known, his Jewish writings from the 1930s have been hidden from public view for eighty years until their recent publication. This paper introduces three works that have sparked a renaissance of interest in Neumann as a Jewish thinker. These include a monograph, Jacob and Esau: On the Collective Symbolism of the Brother Motif (2015), a two-volume opus, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness (2019), and the correspondence between Neumann and Jung, Analytical Psychology in Exile (2105). Neumann asserts that Hasidism was a forerunner to modern depth psychology and claims that both disciplines affirm the primacy of the individual and the integration of masculine and feminine modes of being in a fully-realized, individuated personality.

Exploring the Psychological Aspects of Palliative Care: Lessons Learned from an Interdisciplinary Seminar of Experts.

Palliative care has been shown to help patients live well with serious illness, but the specific psychological factors that contribute to this benefit remain investigational. Although support of patient coping has emerged as a likely factor, it is unclear how palliative care helps patients to cope with serious illness. The therapeutic relationship has been proposed as a key element in beneficial patient outcomes, possibly undergirding effective patient and family coping. Understanding the distress of our patients with psychological depth requires the input of varied clinicians and thinkers. The complex conceptual model we developed draws upon the contributions of medicine, nursing, psychology, spiritual care, and social work disciplines. To elucidate these issues, we convened an interdisciplinary seminar of content experts to explore the psychological components of palliative care practice. "Healing Beyond the Cure: Exploring the Psychodynamic Aspects of Palliative Care" was held in May 2019 at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Over two days, the working group explored these essential elements of successful palliative care encounters through lecture and open discussion. This special report describes the key psychological aspects of palliative care that we believe underlie optimal adaptive coping in palliative care patients. We also outline key areas for further development in palliative care research, education, and clinical practice. The discussion held at this meeting became the basis for a planned series of articles on the psychological elements of palliative care that will be published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine on a monthly basis during the fall and winter of 2021-2022.

The Holonic Christ: Catholicity as Individuation and Integration

The paradigm shift ushered in by the new science of the early twentieth century discloses the universe as a dynamic, energetic, and complex web of relationality. In view of this renewed sense of undivided wholeness, this article seeks to advance the growing synthesis of theology and depth psychology by way of a revised meaning of catholicity. Specifically, the article utilizes Carl Jung’s theory of individuation to suggest that catholicity is the conscious movement of the psyche toward wholeness, an outcome that Jung associated with Christ. The article introduces the term “Holonic Christ” to describe Christ as both the regulating principle of wholeness in nature and the co-recipient of the activity of deepening wholeness through the psychological development of the self-reflective individual. In this way, the article contends that catholicity is the process of individuation in its fullest form: a dynamic energy of the psyche that urges us in the direction of a more integrated personality, an ever-expanding community, and an eschatological remediation of divine self-contradiction made possible by human self-actualization. The article concludes with a discussion of the far-reaching religious implications of this study and explains why this new understanding of Christ is valuable to theological discourse.

The Detective Function of the Psyche

This article is born from my interest in understanding those aspects in the psyche that activate an urge to discover the scattered and broken pieces that complete the whole. The movement toward completion does not follow a lineal or progressive drive but pertains to the archetypal movements of the psyche that procure wholeness within the mystery of the psyche’s dismembered nature. In its necessary fragmentation, there are aspects of the psyche that solar consciousness cannot realize. The detective function of the psyche is lunar because it is associated with death, darkness, and mystery. Thus, this article argues that there is a detective function intimately related to the symbolism of the moon, and through which depth psychology has illuminated the unconscious. This function works in a regressive motion and is awakened when one needs to pull together the pieces of personal stories. If a bizarre emotion is haunting one, one may feel the urge to place it somewhere, as if by doing so one would be restoring a whole. However, when one has lodged the matter in the dark—the unconscious—something comes back from there, demanding different treatment. It is as if a crime scene continues to surface through haunting details, narrating the story of a dismembered whole that calls for a specific type of attention. It is important to mention that even while there are various kinds of mysteries (hard-boiled, and soft-boiled), this article is a survey of one type of detective story.

The Jaguar, The Fire, The Man: A Jungian Interpretation of a Brazilian Indigenous Tale

Fairy tale interpretation is a common practice among Jungian analysts, although tales originating from early societies in which the level of culture achievement is still in its primordial wrapping are less often analyzed. The objective of this paper, therefore, was to investigate a tale from the depth psychology point of view, which was originally collected from a group of indigenous Brazilian tribes. Several versions of this tale deal with the motif of the theft of fire. In this narrative, the owner of fire is the most prominent being of the forest: the Jaguar. The Jungian interpretation demonstrates the ordeals of a young fellow who, after serendipitously venturing into the jungle, ends up stealing fire from the god. In this tale, one will recognize the archetypal disposition that creates and fosters human consciousness, represented by the acquisition of cultural goods and progressive differentiation from nature. The archetypal motifs present in this Amerindian tale are also contrasted with dreams of modern individuals so as to demonstrate the pertinence of the theme for psychological development.

The Rebirth and Renewal of Psychological Types

This year heralds the centenary of the landmark publication of Psychological Types, a text that is arguably the most recognizable of all Jung’s works. The groundbreaking theory he expounded in that book has led to a wide spectrum of reactions, ranging from scorn to enthusiastic acceptance. This paper examines the influence of popular psychological assessments as well as the opinions of Jungians whose attitudes toward typology are many and varied. The author proposes a means of viewing typology that is complementary to the Jungian notions of complex and archetype, citing a real-life example that utilizes all three to analyze a presenting problem. A path forward is suggested that revitalizes psychological type theory by demonstrating its relevance to the study and practice of depth psychology.

Психоанализ трансформации и смены логоса в условиях метамодерна

The article is devoted to the actual problem of mental transformation in the psychoanalytic process of changing the logos in the metamodernism logic, which determined its novelty. The work objective is to conceptualize the “logos” notion within frameworks of the metamodern “psychology of depths”, to identify the process of its change at a fragmentary level in crisis conditions. To achieve the goal the author solves a number of tasks: (a) to clarify the conceptualization of the key “logos” notion in relation to research; (b) to reveal the peculiarities of manifesting logos in modern conditions by means of the imaginer as an actor of transformation and overcoming the crisis; (c) to designate the author’s paradigm model of changeability. The study methodological base is the psychoanalytic approach and rich scientific heritage of Gilbert Durand, whose 100 th anniversary is celebrated on May 1, 2021 by the world scientific community. All over the world he is known as a sociologist, anthropologist, religious scholar and researcher of imagination forms and functions, the author of the deep sociology concept, theory and research tool. Therefore, the study applies general scientific and psychoanalytic methods of cognition, as well as an interdisciplinary approach, which made it possible to use culturological and hermeneutic analysis methods. At the same time, the author adopts elements of the culturological and sociological base methodology with borrowing of concepts and prospects to explain socio-psychological phenomena (metamodern, logos, imaginer, etc.) having a complex psychological nature. Based on the results of the theoretical analysis, the article demonstrated a generalized characteristic of the logos within frameworks of its conceptualization in the depth psychology topic, revealing the concept psychological nature and meanings to a certain extent. The author proposes the paradigmatic model modification of the logos changeability on J. Durand’s construction basis, investigates the psychological process of its transformation. Based on the analysis results of the logos state in crisis conditions, the paper represents fragments of its varieties and change probabilistic mechanisms. An uncertain geopolitical future creates a background to press a two-story topic, where the problem of synchronism of its development vertical axis will become a specific feature of scientific research, which implies further research.

From Career to Calling: A Depth Psychology Guide to Soul-Making Work in Darkening Times., Suzanne Cremen

<b>From Career to Calling: A Depth Psychology Guide to Soul-Making Work in Darkening Times.</b>, Suzanne Cremen

THE PERILS OF BEING A SPY: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CASINO ROYALE (2006) THEME SONG YOU KNOW MY NAME

The present article offers a critical analysis of the Theme Song You Know My Name that accompanies and serves as the title song for the 21st James Bond film Casino Royale (2006). A reboot of the Bond franchise, Casino is credited with introducing more physical and psychological realism to the series compared to previous instalments. As such, the song paints a picture of the constant perils that characterize the life of a secret agent along with the personal sacrifices (s)he needs to make in service of country and the greater good. Moreover, it raises pertinent questions regarding the psychological effects of taking lives, whether in self-defense or for safety and security of the country. The themes of death, killing, failure, betrayal, and the need of sacrifices on part of the agent are explored through an interesting blending or interweaving of ‘voices’ of past and prospective secret agents along with warnings from Fate and Bond’s own reply. The analysis goes on to reveal the depth and richness of meaning in lyrics which at first sight or hearing might be considered devoid of emotional or psychological depth and realism.

Jung’s and Groddeck’s Analytic Practice

Abstract This paper shows that Georg Groddeck and Carl Gustav Jung shared a common cultural background, in which Carl Gustav Carus’s theory of the psyche was preeminent. Accordingly, they emphasized symbolization and unconscious creativity. These aspects affected their clinical work, aimed at pioneering therapies: Jung with schizophrenics, Groddeck treating physical diseases. They overcame the limits of the psychoanalysis of their time and, going beyond neurosis, discovered the pre-Oedipal period and the fundamental role of mother-child relationship. While Freud’s technique was based on a one-person paradigm, both Jung and Groddeck considered analytic therapy as a dialectical process, ushering in a two-person paradigm. Therefore, they did not use the couch; a setting that is assessed in the light of recent research on mirror neurons. It is also highlighted that the analytic groups influenced by Groddeck and Jung have developed similar ideas in both theory and technique; a fact that may induce further studies on the history of depth psychology.

Teaching Heart of Darkness Now

Why should we teach Heart of Darkness today? For decades, the question was not necessary. A longstanding fixture in the canon of greatest works written in the English language, the novella was read by high school and college students alike, and celebrated for its psychological depth and aesthetic complexity. Then came Chinua Achebe—who in 1975 called Conrad a “bloody racist”1 and offered passages to prove it. He spent the last thirty years of his life calling for the book to be struck from curricula—a call recently echoed by Michael Eric Dyson (New York Times Book Review, June 7, 2020). The passages that offended Achebe are all the more offensive in an age of George Floyd, all the more offensive to a generation increasingly sensitized to racial injustice. What else but offence—and pain—could be the response to a line that describes the humanity of Africans as a “remote kinship”...

The Mediocre Growth of a Grandiose Simpleton: An Analysis of Howard Jackobson’s The Mighty Walzer.

The Mighty Walzer is the story of a boy who dreams of winning fame, fortune and the adoration of beautiful women, as a table tennis player. He wants to make his life grandiose like all of us. However, it is a pity that he fails. Oliver, the protagonist is not disheartened. Even though he has not struck his fortune, life gives him other riches- the riches of life and growing up itself. Thus, the novel can be seen as the celebration of the trivial processes of growing up. The more we read, the more we realise that the mediocre lives presented in the novel are grandiose in their own ways. Thus, the author is examining the grandiosities of our mediocre lives. The novel is the life story of each and every one of us. It is the celebration of the simple life of a commoner with its trivialities and mediocrities. However, there is an exuberant grandiosity in this existence. It is this grandiose process of life which is emphasised in this study.&#x0D; Set in the1950s England, The Mighty Walzer is semi-autobiographical. Howard Jacobson in the veil of the character Oliver,Walzer depicts his own self as a confused Jewish boy growing up in Manchester. When it comes to home, nothing is closer to heart than the childhood memories. Jacobson’s the Mighty Walzer is indeed a childhood memoir. The novel is a bildungs roman narrative. It is absolutely hilarious, comic and sublime. It has the grace and charm of a childhood dream. Jacobson’s wit was lauded from all quarters, when the novel was first published. Sunday Times observes: “Jacobson writes with agility that gives pleasure akin to humour even when it isn’t actually funny. It is the sheer charm of his intelligence that feels like wit.” The Independent in its review quotes: “This mature novel has the sustained exuberance and passion of his youthful writing but within an epic…. An achingly funny book….An amazing achievement….There is few novelists today who can imbue the trifles of life with such poetry.”&#x0D; Jacobson wrote this rollicking, loose limbed, semi-autobiographical novel in Australia at the end of 90s, having finally put enough distance between events to revisit the humiliation. He puts before us a number of childhood milieus in a straight forward and grandiose fashion. There is no holding back when it comes to a number of intimate sexual and mental give and takes. It is these truthful ejaculations that make the novel hilarious. One can really denominate the novel in Mario Vargas Illosa’s terms as a piece of ‘mental masturbation.’Howard Jacobson amuses his readers in The Mighty Walzer. The characters and milieus in the novel are regular, common and mediocre. We can connect ourselves with the various characters and their eccentricities. The more we go into the novel, the more we realize that the desires, anxieties, failures, successes, sufferings and frailties of the characters are in fact the mirror reflections of our own milieus. Thus, when we look at with disdain the ‘jacking off’ –of Oliver, Sheeney’s women hunting, Sabine’s promiscuity, Aunt Fay’s mid 30’s love affair etc., we are pitying our own repressed desires and inhibitions. Such is the psychological depth with which each of the characters are handled.

Poza psychologię głębi – dyskurs biblijny w świetle social-scientific criticism

Artykuł prezentuje najważniejsze trendy i osiągnięcia dynamicznie rozwijającej się w ostatnich latach psychologicznej interpretacji tekstu biblijnego. Głównym celem jest jednak propozycja wyjścia poza kontrowersyjny, choć niezwykle ciekawy, nurt badań z perspektywy psychologii głębi, który całkowicie zdominował psychological biblical criticism w XX w. Punkt ciężkości pada więc na dobrze zweryfikowane teorie psychologiczne (szczególnie psychologii społecznej i poznania społecznego), które cieszą się powszechnym uznaniem wśród psychologów, a które wydają się istotnie wzbogacać warsztat pojęciowy współczesnego biblisty i pozwalają lepiej zrozumieć specyfikę świata społecznego autorów ksiąg biblijnych. Psychological biblical criticism może stanowić wartościową i użyteczną metodę we współczesnej biblistyce, musi jednak wyjść poza ograniczenia wynikające z zastosowania samej psychologii głębi.

Powrót do Lalki i perły. O wartości eseju Olgi Tokarczuk w ujęciu komparatystycznym

The Doll and The Pearl by Olga Tokarczuk, published by Wydawnictwo Literackie in 2002, is an essay on reading The Doll by Bolesław Prus. The author of the article investigates how and for what purpose the writer connected two literary works vastly distant in time and genetically unrelated: the novel written in nineteenth-century Warsaw and The Hymn of the Pearl (translated by Czesław Miłosz) – the song written in a Gnostic environment in Syria not later than in the first half of the 3rd century. In the course of the analysis, the following were revealed: Tokarczuk’s creative assumption, the sense of the selection of the Gnostic key to interpret Prus’s masterpiece; the method of combining various plots with the plot of this novel; the technique of deepening Prus’s characters; and the purposefulness of reading the main plot. On this basis, the author defined the type of cognition of Prus’s masterpiece presented in The Doll and the Pearl, and recognized reading The Doll by Tokarczuk was prompted by her fascination with Carl Gustav Jung’s depth psychology. The study of Tokarczuk’s essay is accompanied by general reflections on the tasks of comparative literary studies.

ИМЯ СОБСТВЕННОЕ В СИНХРОНИСТИЧЕСКИХ СОВПАДЕНИЯХ

The article launches a new approach to studying coincident proper names in different cultural conditions - names viewed in a synchronistic perspective, in the Jungian sense. The paper purports to answer a number of questions adding to the theory of language, depth psychology and cognitive science. The main research methods, such as cognitive analysis and reconstruction, allow recovering data on deep cognitive attitudes of a person and possible connections of his/her mental sphere with physical reality. In this regard, the functional and cognitive nature of proper names is analyzed. It is determined by a number of characteristics that form the basis for further research. The paper further elaborates on the conditions and models of synchronistic coincidences of proper nouns (mostly personal names). The identified conditions and models are as follows: a) thematic seriality of personal names; b) their cross-matching; c) their systemic parallel matching; d) their complete coincidence in space and time; e) their promising coincidences in fortune telling; f) coincidence of ideal and real personal names; g) coincidences of personal names “framing” certain historical epochs; h) coincidences of proper names, removing the referential certainty of the named subjects. The data presented in the article made it possible to make some generalizations and to outline research prospects in this area. First of all, researching proper names from the point of view of synchronistic coincidences allows us to have an insight into human cognition and shed light on its deep structure. In addition, such studies have interdisciplinary significance bringing cognitive linguistics and the fundamental sciences closer together. Finally, the analysis of synchronistic coincidences of proper names allows us to reconstruct some deep cognitive attitudes in the human psyche, demonstrating the unity of mental and physical realities. Even more promising in this regard is the unification of cognitive linguistics with other advanced scientific disciplines engaged in this issue.

Personality in the Light of Identity, Reputation and Role Taking: A Review of Socioanalytic Theory

This paper reviews Hogan’s socioanalytic theory of personality which is an integration of evolutionary psychology, depth psychology and role theory. Personality is defined both from the actor’s and the observer’s points of view: Identity is how an actor sees themselves and believes that others will perceive them; while reputation, is essentially how others evaluate a person’s behavior, summing up both collective observations. The paper describes the various Hogan tests. It also looks at the concept of mentalizing and how that may be integrated with socioanalytic theory. Finally, it considers issues around personality change.

НЕПОВТОРИМЫЕ СКАЗОЧНИКИ: С. ПРОКОФЬЕВ И Н. МЕТНЕР

This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of S. S. Prokofiev and the 70th anniversary of the death of N. K. Medtner. The article provides a socio-cultural background to the similar circumstances of the lives of these two great musicians. Both were forced to leave Russia during the October events, learning all the difficulties of emigration. Their joint tour in the USSR in 1927 was for Medtner a last meeting with his beloved Moscow, where he had studied and taught at the Conservatory, while Prokofiev's emigration ended with his return home. The author wonders what brought together such different personalities as Sergey Prokofiev and Nikolay Medtner. The composers were united, among other things, by a special interest in narrative genres derived from folk epic poetry. However, each musician interpreted them differently — while the composer of "Tales of an Old Grandmother" was more interested in the representational aspect, Medtner wrote works with a more psychological depth.

ХУДОЖНЬО-ПУБЛІЦИСТИЧНА СПАДЩИНА СОФІЇ ПАРФАНОВИЧ: СЛОВО – ЛЮДИНА – ДОБА

The article focuses on the journalistic and literary achievements of Sofia Parfanovych – a doctor, writer, opinion journalist, editor, and a public figure – in the context of interdisciplinarity. Her active public stance as one of the leaders of the Ukrainian temperance society Vidrodzhennia, a member of the Ukrainian Medical and Hygienic Society, and Shevchenko Scientific Society encouraged educational activities in the Galician interwar press. She collaborated with periodicals such as Vidrodzhennia, Zhinocha Dolia, Likarskyi Vistnyk, Narodnie Zdorovlia, Nova Khata, etc. They published articles, stories, and discussions on a healthy lifestyle, healthy eating and threats posed by tobacco and alcohol, special attention was given to women’s health and child care. Many publications combined journalism and literature. For purely literary works – short stories and essays – O. Parfanovych used her experience as a medical practitioner. They were first published in the press (Nazustrich, Dilo, etc.), and later were included in the collections Tsina Zhyttia (Lviv, 1937) and Inshi Dni (Augsburg, 1948), producing strong reverberations in the Ukrainian literary environment. The article elaborates on a broad panorama of reception – i.e., reviews published in 1937 in the periodicals such as Dzvony, Zhinocha Dolia, Nova Zoria, Nova Khata, and Ukrayinska Knyha, written by by M. Hnatyshak, O. Duchyminska, O. Mokh, M. Rudnytskyi, as well as reviews by Yu. Sherekh and V. Nesterovych of the MUR (Artistic Ukrainian Movement) era. Critics argued that the first collection mostly includes «observations of life», and the second focuses on studying the laws of life with greater philosophical and psychological depth. The reviewers’ debates are analysed on a comparative basis, factors associated with mentality and gender are shown to account for differences in approaches while emphasizing the clear-cut national principles of the writer’s creative work. Keywords: Sofia Parfanovych, Galician interwar press, medicine, abstinence, literary criticism, interdisciplinarity.