Jung, Neumann and Art

Official launch of

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

Kibbutz Shefayim, April 24-26, 2015, Conference Website Trailer

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Prof. Christian Gaillard

In this lecture, we shall try to see how, from early childhood and at different stages of his life and work, Jung’s encounters with the arts gave sustenance to the way he lived and thought about relationships to the unconscious.

To do so, we will have to overcome some oddly persistent misunderstandings concerning his Red Book and his essays on Picasso and Joyce. We shall then focus on the advances made by Neumann in the field, especially with regard to the course of our collective history and modern and contemporary creation.

Lastly, we shall reconsider the respective insights of Jung and Neumann in light of today’s research on prehistoric art, and of the recent presentation of the Red Book at the last Contemporary Art Biennale in Venice.

Christian Gaillard is a doctor of psychology (Sorbonne and EPHE), training analyst, supervisor and former president of the SFPA and of the IAAP, professor at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris till 2007, lecturer at several universities. He is a member of the international editorial teams of many Jungian journals. His works are translated into several languages, including his Jung, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 6th edition in 2013.

Jung Neumann Letters Conference Website

Analytical Psychology in Exile: 

The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann,

edited and with an introduction by Martin Liebscher,

will be published in the Philemon Series by Princeton University Press.

The Jung Neumann Letters Conference 

International Advisory Board

Erel Shalit • Murray Stein • Batya Brosh • John Beebe • Riccardo Bernardini 

Jerome Bernstein • Ann Casement • Angela Connolly • Tom Kirsch • Patricia Michan 

Joerg Rasche • Nancy Swift Furlotti • Luigi Zoja • Liliana Wahba

  

Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann will be launched at this unique, international conference, 24-26 April, 2015, at kibbutz Shefayim, north of Tel Aviv

C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight. He had, in fact, not yet begun his training in psychotherapy. The two men struck up a correspondence that would continue until Neumann's death in 1960. A lifelong Zionist, Neumann fled Nazi Germany with his family and settled in Palestine in 1934, where he would become the founding father of analytical psychology in the future state of Israel.

Presented here in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look at the development of Jung's psychological theories from the 1930s onward as well as the emerging self-confidence of another towering twentieth-century intellectual who was often described as Jung's most talented student. Neumann was one of the few correspondence partners of Jung's who was able to challenge him intellectually and personally. These letters shed light on not only Jung's political attitude toward Nazi Germany, his alleged anti-Semitism, and his psychological theory of fascism, but also his understanding of Jewish psychology and mysticism. They affirm Neumann's importance as a leading psychologist of his time and paint a fascinating picture of the psychological impact of immigration on the German Jewish intellectuals who settled in Palestine and helped to create the state of Israel.

Featuring Martin Liebscher's authoritative introduction and annotations, this volume documents one of the most important intellectual relationships in the history of analytical psychology.

"This is an important work that presents a definitive English translation of the extant correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann. The book is clearly of very high scholarly caliber in all respects, and it will become a primary reference source for Jung scholars and researchers.”

—Graham Richards, author of Race, Racism, and Psychology: Towards a Reflexive History

"This work is a significant contribution to the field of Jung studies. It offers Neumann's unique perspectives as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany who lived first in Zurich and then settled in Palestine. Of particular interest is Neumann's dialogue with Jung concerning the archetypes of Jewish culture and Jung's involvement with psychotherapists who remained in Germany after Hitler came to power.”

—Geoffrey Campbell Cocks, author of The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany

About the Author
Martin Liebscher is senior research fellow in German and honorary senior lecturer in psychology at University College London. His books include "Thinking the Unconscious: Nineteenth-Century German Thought". Heather McCartney is a Jungian analytical psychotherapist in private practice.

Analytical Psychology in Exile: The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann, 

edited and with an introduction by Martin Liebscher, 

will be published in the Philemon Series, by Princeton University Press.

Jung Neumann Letters Conference Website

International Advisory Board 

Erel Shalit • Murray Stein • Batya Brosh • John Beebe • Riccardo Bernardini 

Jerome Bernstein • Ann Casement • Angela Connolly • Tom Kirsch • Patricia Michan

Joerg Rasche • Nancy Swift Furlotti • Luigi Zoja • Liliana Wahba

Erich Neumann and The Magic Flute

The Jung Neumann Letters

An International Conference 

in Celebration of a Creative Relationship 

At the forthcoming 

Jung Neumann Letters Conference, April 24-26, 2015 

Tom Kelly, President of the IAAP, will present on

The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute, a fairy tale put to music, recounts a story symbolic of a profound and archetypal psychological process. Mozart, both genius and iconoclast, gathered together local folk songs, combined them with the magic of fairy tale images and polished them into breathtakingly stunning and deeply moving operatic arias. The magic of this opera is that it depicts the archetypal struggles inherent in the individuation process from both a masculine and feminine perspective. It is little wonder that this opera appeals to people of all ages and from all cultures. Erich Neumann recognized the profound psychological nature of this opera and shared his insights in his article entitled “The Magic Flute”. Using Ingmar Bergman’s film version of the Magic Flute from 1975, we shall let the magic of this tale work on us as we view excerpts of the opera that highlight the psychological process recounted.

Following Tom Kelly's presentation, Dvorah Kuchinsky, the Grand Old Lady of Jungian Analysis in Israel, will offer further comments.

Tom Kelly, M.S.W., completed his analytical training at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich in 1986. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Analytical Psychology and has lectured widely in Canada, the US and Europe. He is currently President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP). Tom Kelly lives and has a private practice in Montreal, Canada.

Tom Kelly

Close to 90, Dvorah Kutzinsky, the Grand Old Lady of Jungian Analysts in Israel, is as sharp, witty and vital as ever. Coupled with her awareness of old age and death, she is full of life and energy, leaving most of us behind.

Her charismatic personality comes across in lectures and seminars, therapy and supervision, as her students, analysands and colleagues of more than fifty years will attest.

The person she is and her individual life are deeply intertwined with the history and culture of the 20th Century. She grew up in the house in which Kafka was born, with Max Brod, to whom we owe the preservation of Kafka’s manuscripts, among the weekly guests in their home. Her father, the philologist Prof. Zeckendorf, later one of the famous lecturers at Theresienstadt, predicted Kafka’s future long before his rise to fame.

After years in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, Dvorah - as everybody calls her - arrived at the shores of Israel, and met Erich Neumann. She became a close friend and his foremost disciple, making his writings accessible to generations of Jungians.

Dvorah Kuchinsky

Dvorah Kuchinsky will also participate in the session on 'Memories from my 'grand' father's house, and share memories from the life of Erich Neumann.

Jung Neumann Letters Conference Website

International Advisory Board

Erel Shalit • Murray Stein • Batya Brosh • John Beebe • Riccardo Bernardini 
Jerome Bernstein • Ann Casement • Angela Connolly • Tom Kirsch • Patricia Michan
Joerg Rasche • Nancy Swift Furlotti • Luigi Zoja • Liliana Wahba