Quadrant: The Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation

Quadrant offers essays grounded in personal and professional experience, which focus on issues of matter and body, psyche and spirit. Major themes of Jung’s work are explored through mythological, archetypal and alchemical motifs and images, as well as through historical, scientific, clinical, and cultural observation.

Current Issue: Fall 16

Volume XLVI:2

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Front Pages

Contents

From the Editor

— Kathryn Madden

Featured Artist

— Carole Lindberg

Individuation and the Culture of Democracy

— Robert Mitchell

Inner and Outer Travels: Analytical Psychology and the Treatment of Refugees

— Monica Luci

Schleiermacher, Jung and the Rebirth of the God Image in our Time

— Donald R.Ferrell

Art as Individuation, Individuation as Art in The Unconscious Roots of Creativity

— Clifford Mayes

Book Reviews

— Beth Darlington, Review Editor
Reviews by Laurie Schapira, Maryann Barone-Chapman, and Wendy Neville Jones

See Volume XLVI:2 Details

For further information about Quadrant, and an index of issues, articles and authors, here.

In 2006, Quadrant published a paper I wrote together with James Hall, 'The Complex and the Object: Common Ground, Different Paths,' based on my book The Complex:  Path of Transformation from Archetype to Ego. 

The next issue will feature another essay of mine, 'The Human Soul (Lost?) in Transition, at the Dawn of a New Era,' which will be part of a forthcoming book of that name.

The Complex and the Object: Common Ground, Different Paths — 
Erel Shalit and James Hall

While complex and object are part of everyday psychoanalytic discourse, the meaning of the terms varies with different approaches, and the relationship between the concepts is far from apparent. Specifically, in this paper the Jungian complex and the Kleinian internal object are compared. It is the view of these authors that the internal object is primarily related to the archetypal image, and the internalized object to Jung's concept of imago. The complex is the central concept that in a well-defined model of the psyche dynamically unites the phenomena described by these concepts. Furthermore, while in neurotic conflict the struggle between the ego and autonomous complexes takes place on the battlefield of the subjective psyche, in the personality disorders the complex is projected “wholesale” onto the external object, turning the other into a “complex-object.”

The Complex is available on Amazon.