A report from the Jung Neumann Conference, April 24-26, at kibbutz Shefayim

Official launch of

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

Kibbutz Shefayim, April 24-26, 2015, Trailer FaceBook

A report by Lisbeth von Benedek.

The French is followed by the report in English.

Lisbeth von Benedek

Un congrès international en Israël à l'occasion de la sortie du livre "Analytical Psychology in Exile, The correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann"

Ce congrès était l'occasion de souligner l'importance de la relation entre Neumann et Jung, rappelée par Martin Liebscher dans son introduction au livre sur leur Correspondance. Ils se sont rencontrés pour la première fois à Berlin en 1933 ; Neumann avait alors 28 ans et finissait ses études de médecine ; Jung, à 58 ans, était reconnu sur le plan international. Neumann, l'un des plus doués parmi ses étudiants, était capable de dialoguer fermement avec son aîné - notamment sur la position de Jung à propos de la question juive. Neumann et Jung ont correspondu pendant une trentaine d'années, l'un en Palestine depuis 1934, autre à Zurich - jusqu'à la mort prématurée de Neumann en 1960. Ces lettres mettent aussi en lumière la pensée politique de Jung, son attitude face à la question juive, ainsi que sa compréhension de la psychologie et du mysticisme juif.

Près de 300 personnes de 26 pays ont participé avec enthousiasme à ce congrès. Dès l'ouverture, Erel Shalit situait l'atmosphère et le niveau de ce congrès. Vendredi soir l'ouverture du Shabbat, à laquelle tous les congressistes ont été conviées, a été célébré par Tony Woolfson et Henry Abramovitch, toujours présent avec sa générosité, son accueil et sa joie.

Tout au long de ce congrès l'atmosphère était chaleureuse, conviviale et l'organisation impressionnante - avec un respect du cadre, une autodiscipline des orateurs, un respect du temps accordé, avec donc une absence de tension et de l'espace pour les questions. Les différentes présentations étaient d'une profondeur rare et les questions posées témoignaient de la réflexion des intervenants sur les sujets en question.
De plus, la créativité des organisateurs était remarquable : des lettres échangés entre Jung et Neumann, commentées par Murray Stein, étaient lus avec talent et conviction par deux analystes : Paul Brutsche au nom de Jung et John Hill au nom de Neumann. D'autre part, des extraits du film de Bergman sur "La flute enchantée" de Mozart, étaient commentés dans l'optique de Neumann et de Jung, par Tom Kelly et Dvorah Kuchinsky. Par ailleurs des enfants et petits enfants de Jung et de Neumann ont apportés des témoignages touchants.

Deux présentations stimulantes traitaient de la position de Jung et de Neumann face au "Mal", une par Henry Abramovitch sur "La recherche d'une nouvelle éthique" et une autre par Murray Stein à propos de la "Nouvelle éthique" de Neumann et de "La réponse à Job" de Jung. De plus, a été discutée la rivalité fraternelle entre les deux leaders de la psychanalyse jungienne à Tel Aviv, Neumann et Kirsch.

L'exposé de Paul Mendes-Flohr sur "La culture allemande et la découverte de l'inconscient: la promesse et les mécontentements de l'expérience juive-allemande" était dense et impressionnant par l'étendu de la culture - y compris kabbaliste.

L'art était aussi présent à ce congrès. Pour commencer, Tamar Kron a présenté et commenté les peintures de Neumann, dont certaines avaient un "air de famille" avec quelques planches du Livre Rouge. Deux présentations, évoquant la fonction de l'art et de l'artiste selon Jung et Neumann, avaient l'honneur de clôturer ce congrès : Gideon Ofrat exposait les "Grandes Mères dans l'art d'Israël", et Christian Gaillard présentait "Jung, Neumann et l'art", insistant sur le fait que l'art, selon la lecture jungienne, incarnait bien souvent, au delà de la Grande Mère, une régression jusqu'au démembrement.

Je garde de ce congrès le souvenir d'une ferveur, d'une volonté d'accueillir, de comprendre et du désir d'aller le plus loin possible. Les points de vue différents, parfois opposés, étaient reçus d'une manière tranquille ; ainsi Murray Stein répondait à une intervention contradictoire, avec un sourire bienveillant : "votre Jung n'est pas le mien".

Lisbeth von Benedek
Paris, le15 mai 2015
Lisbeth von Benedek est psychanalyste, membre de l‘IAAP et de la SFPA ; elle vit et travaille à Paris

Lisbeth von Benedek, docteur en psychologie, est psychanalyste didacticienne de la SFPA (Institut C.-G. JUNG, France). Elle a été responsable, pendant une vingtaine d'années, de l'enseignement de la psychologie clinique et de l'introduction à la psychanalyse à l'Université Paris XIII

An international conference in Israel on the occasion of the release of the book "Analytical Psychology in Exile:The correspondence of CG Jung and Erich Neumann"

April 24-26 2015, Shefayim, Israel.

This conference was an opportunity to highlight the importance of the relationship between Neumann and Jung, as recalled by Martin Liebscher in his introduction of the book on their correspondence. They first met in Berlin in 1933; Neumann was then 28 years and finished his medical studies; Jung, at 58, was internationally renowned. Neumann, one of the most gifted among his students, was able to firmly confront Jung - including his inner attitude in regards to the Jews. Neumann and Jung corresponded for thirty years, one living in Palestine since 1934, the other one in Zurich - until Neumann’s premature death in 1960. These letters also highlight political thoughts of Jung, as well as his understanding of Jewish psychology and mysticism.

Nearly 300 people from 26 countries participated with enthusiasm in this conference. In his opening welcome, Erel Shalit set the tone of the atmosphere and announced the challenging level of the presentations. Friday night, all participants were invited to the opening of Shabbat which was celebrated by Tony Woolfson and Henry Abramovich, always present with his generosity, hospitality and joy.

Throughout the conference the atmosphere was warm and friendly; besides that the organization impressive - with precise respect for the setting and the time allowed for the speakers, which prohibited tension and gave enough space for the questions. The presentations were of a rare depth and questions from the participants witnessed their own thoughtful reflections upon the topics in question.

In addition, the creativity of the organizers was remarkable: significant letters exchanged between Jung and Neumann emphasized by Murray Stein, were read with talent and conviction by two analysts: Paul Brutsche on behalf of Jung and John Hill on behalf of Neumann. Moreover, film excerpts of Bergman’s "Magic Flute" by Mozart were commented upon by Tom Kelly and Dvorah Kuchinsky, according to Jung’s and Neumann’s conceptions of the psyche. Furthermore, Jung’s and Neumann’s children and grandchildren gave moving testimonies of their respective fathers and families.

Two stimulating presentations gave an account of Jung’s and Neumann’s points of view in regards to the "Evil", one by Henry Abramovich on "The search for a new ethic" and another by Murray Stein discussing Neumann’s "New ethics" and Jung’s "The answer to Job". Additionally, there was room to discuss the sibling rivalry between the two leaders of Jungian psychoanalysis - Neumann and Kirsch - in Tel Aviv.

The presentation by Paul Mendes-Flohr on "German culture and the discovery of the unconscious: the promise and the discontent of the German-Jewish experience" highlighted the speaker’s widespread cultural knowledge, including that of the Kabbala, in relation to the Jungian perspective.

Art was also present at this conference. To start with, Tamar Kron presented and commented on paintings of Neumann, some of which had a "familiar resemblance" with some illustrations of the Red Book. Two presentations, evoking the function of art and the artist according to Jung and Neumann, had the honor of closing the conference: Gideon Ofrat exposed the "Great Mothers in Israeli art", and Christian Gaillard presented "Jung, Neumann and Art", insisting that art, according to Jungian reading, often embodies, beyond the Great Mother, a regression towards bodily disintegration and dismemberment.

I will always remember the ardor, the willingness to welcome, to understand and the desire to go as far as possible that I witnessed during this conference. The different, sometimes opposing point of views, were received with tranquility; thus, Murray Stein responded to a contradictory comment from one of the participants, with a warm smile: "Your Jung is not mine."

Paris, May 15TH 2015

Lisbeth von Benedek, Doctor of Psychology and Psychoanalyst, is a member of the IAAP and SFPA, Institute C.G. Jung, France. She was responsible, for more than twenty years, for teaching clinical psychology and the introduction of psychoanalysis at the University Paris XIII.

The lectures from the conference will be published in a volume edited by Erel Shalit and Murray Stein,
A Creative Relationship – C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann.

The photos from the conference by Odeliya Harel.

Jung Neumann Conference - THANK YOU ALL!!!!

The time has come to say THANK YOU!! - to all of you who attended, from near and afar. More than 260 attendees from 25 countries participated in the Jung Neumann Conference. We continue to receive wonderful responses, and we are grateful to all of you. All of you together created an atmosphere of creativity, warmth and reflection.

24 April 2015

Erel Shalit: Introductory greetings:

Dear friends and colleagues,

It is with the greatest pleasure that I welcome you all, who have gathered here at the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Jung anchored here 82 years ago, in the spring of 1933, and Neumann lived here, close to the sea, from the time he stepped ashore, in the spring of 1934.

One of the more intriguing passages in Israel's Declaration of Independence says, as is commonly known, that the pioneers came here from all over the world to make deserts bloom. But if you read carefully, in Hebrew it is not written that they made deserts bloom, but that they came to make souls blossom. This remarkable interchange between soul, spirit, land and desert has its source in the book of Ezekiel.

I believe we have, indeed, arrived from around the world, gathering here to let the souls blossom, to kindle a light in our hearts and in the soul, especially, perhaps, at a time when unruly winds sweep across a sky that lends itself to all too concrete shadows of projection, and to the evils of the psyche.

And we have gathered to gain further insights into the pioneering work carried out respectively by Jung and Neumann, into the fields and the forests, the mountains and the depths of the mind.

The seed of this conference was planted by Mr. Ulrich Hoerni, who at the signing of the agreement to prepare the correspondence, suggested it be officially launched in Israel. I wish to thank the Philemon Foundation who under the presidency of Steve Martin and later Nancy Furlotti pursued and enabled the preparation of the correspondence, and, under Judith Harris, its publication, and Martin Liebscher who has brought this exchange into the light of day.

The letters were written at a time when writing went beyond the short message service, the SMS, or the senseless twitter of 140 characters; they were written when character was singular and individual, and made its soulful imprint on a meaningful dialogue of creative minds.

I want to greet and thank our sponsors, the Swiss Embassy and His Excellency, Ambassador Dr. Andreas Baum; the Philemon Foundation; Princeton and Fred Appel who has made this possible; the IAAP and its Presidents: Tom Kelly in the present, past presidents Thomas Kirsch, Christian Gaillard and Murray Stein, and President elect Marianne Mueller; the IIJP and Avi Baumann, FAJP; Recollections and Nancy Furlotti; Digital Fusion with Hugh Milstein, and the Jung Stiftung and the Neumann Heirs.

A very big THANK YOU goes to the people who have worked for more than a year to arrange this - the program and organizing committee: Batya, Yehuda, Tamar, Henry and Avi; and to the conference organizers, with Liron, Naama, Adi and Anat.

And a very, very special THANK YOU to Murray Stein, for the enormous work and your decisive contribution to this conference – you have firmly stretched out your hand, and kept the flame burning.

All speakers have been enthusiastic in their/your undertaking, and I know that you will bring us the fruits and the passion of your creativity, and I know that the fruit is very good.

And we have received tremendous support from the international advisory board, thank you!

We also want to greet the Grand Old Lady of Jungian Analysis in Israel, Dvorah Kuchinsky, an inspiration to all of us, who has carried the torch of life through the darkest chambers of evil, who continues to teach generation after generation the works of her friend and mentor, Erich Neumann.

And we mourn and are saddened by the loss of Eli Weisstub, past President of the Israel Association of Analytical Psychology, and past vice-President of the IAAP, who passed away only a few weeks ago after a long illness.

Israel, the land and the people, easily swings between hope and despair, between the soul that sinks deep into the swamps, and the spirit that rises high. Those of you who have been here for a few days have noticed how the sounding of the air raid sirens and the flames of Remembrance Day turn into the fireworks of Independence Day.

The close proximity between the individual and archetypal forces is ever-present. Few describe it better than Yehuda Amichai, the poet of Jerusalem, who writes:

I and Jerusalem are like a blind man and a cripple.
She sees for me
out to the Dead Sea, to the End of Days,
And I hoist her up on my shoulders
And walk blind in my darkness underneath.

And this particular proximity, and as a bond between people, peoples, cultures and nations, Yehuda Amichai was delivered into this world by the grandfather of Joerg Rasche.

I want to thank you all for coming, to make this a true celebration, a creative and fruitful gathering. We have truly gathered from the continents of the world, from North and South America, Europe East and West, from Africa, Australia, Asia and China.

I pray that with all the energy gathered here, the human spirit will rise up high, while firmly anchored in the landscape of the soul - Welcome!

I would now like to invite His Excellency Dr. Andreas Baum, Ambassador of Switzerland to Israel, to open the Conference –your presence, and hosting this event, is an honor to us:

The following are photographs by Odeliya Harel 

26 April 2015

Erel Shalit: Endnotes:

Dear friends and colleagues,

What a gathering! What a weekend!

At least I do not know the whereabouts of the original Jung-Neumann letters, in what cave, or in what library they are hiding. However, fifty years after the passing of Jung and Neumann the contents of the correspondence between them could emerge from the shadows and begin their journey into the public sphere. I believe we have held the infant, and guided the newborn into its life.

I believe we have here, together, helped this book in its first weeks of infancy; with careful hands we have held its essence, so that the body of the book shall live.

We live in an unruly world: oceans are poisoned. Mother Earth shakes, and our thoughts go to the victims in Nepal.

We live in a world of cataclysmic clashes, flooded by information to the extent that we get desensitized, and with the loss of our senses, we often fail being compassionate. Thus, evil becomes such an everyday commodity that we fail to see how unintegrated evil must be in order for us to realize its otherness and archetypal reality.

We live in an era in which we are flooded by information, easily confusing information with knowledge, knowledge with understanding and understanding with wisdom. We have gathered here in this kibbutz – which means ‘gathering,’ and spent fifty hours together on this island of apparent tranquility, drawing from the wells of wisdom that you have all brought here, mediated by the wealth of thoughts and reflections that our wonderful, incredible speakers – and actors, singers, and composers of challenging works – have so graciously shared with us.

Jung and Neumann, the young and the new, the old and the wise, may serve as profound inspiration not merely because of their extra-ordinary depth and creativity and their admirable traits, but perhaps no less because of their all too human weaknesses, as these come across in their conversations and controversies –in what is written, and perhaps no less in what unregistered by the written word.

Some of you will rush back home into everyday routine, some will fly off to the corners of the world that constitute your reality, and many will continue to explore this land where human ground and archetypal spirit sometimes unite – to form new religions, to reveal profound discoveries, and unique acts of human integrity. At other times, in the shadow under the often cruel, blazing and not always enlightening sun, human weaknesses may seem all too apparent, so dark that gods become demons, and ploughshares turn into swords of rivalry and animosity.

In olden times, the jubilee was celebrated every fiftieth year, with the emancipation of slaves and restoration of the land, with the possibility of turning the face inward, to the night and to the internal depths, to the wisdom from below, the domains of the Great Mother, that Neumann speaks about. The word jubilee comes from yovel, originally meaning bellwether – i.e., taking the lead, the initiative, intuiting future trends.

Neurosis is intimately bound up with the problems of our time, says Jung – and from what I have gathered during these days, I will hold on to the great gift of sitting with you all around this bonfire of mind and meeting, of the wisdom of the heart, which holds the promise that from this jubilee and jubilation we shall bring our individual contributions into an unruly world.

I want to thank all of you, all of you, who have come together here, and the members of the advisory board; the Kenes organizers – Na’ama and Liron, Moran and Keren, Adi and Anat; and the staff and the hospitality of kibbutz Shefayim; and the speakers who have inspired us profoundly; Tamar and Murray with whom we created this program; Batya, Yehuda, Tamar, Henry, Avi and Batya Stern, who have worked for more than a year to bring the idea into the fruition of reality.

We would like to end our gathering by reading a poem of Goethe’s, in German and English, and one of Yehuda Amichai, in English and Hebrew, and with that I wish you all well upon your fare.

People in a hall that’s lit so brightly
It hurts
Spoke of religion
In the lives of contemporary people
And on the place of God

People spoke in excited voices
Like in an airport
I left them
I opened an iron door that had written on it
“Emergency״ and I entered within.
Great serenity: Questions and answers

Yehuda Amichai

photo by Odeliya Harel 

Jung Neumann Letters Conference April 24-26, 2015

Official launch of

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

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In just a few days we will be welcoming the many who join us in the Jung-Neumann Celebration of their creative relationship. Having read many of the contributions, I know that they are of tremendous interest, bringing the speakers' creativity, heart and mind; this will be an exceptional treat, spanning many different aspects and fields of analytical psychology - Culture, history, religion, clinic, and much more.

Many have pre-ordered the boxes of unique drawings by Erich Neumann. We are producing an additional number, so that there will be sets available during the conference.

Looking forward to seeing you in Kibbutz Shefayim!

Erel Shalit • Murray Stein • Batya Brosch • Tamar Kron 

Henry Abramovitch • Yehuda Abramovitch • Avi Baumann

עופר אדרת: "צלה של הנפש הציונית" על ההתכתבות בין יונג לנוימן, הארץ, 13 באפריל, 2015

 Official launch of

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An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

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Ofer Aderet writes in Haaretz about the Jung Neumann Correspondence, and the conference

עופר אדרת: כתבה ב'הארץ' על התכתבות יונג נוימן, ועל הכנס שיתקיים בשפיים

ניתן לקרוא את הכתבה בגרסת האינטרנט  

The Jung-Neumann Conference, April 24-26

The Jung-Neumann Letters

An International Conference in Celebration of a Creative Relationship

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More than 250 attendees from 25 countries will take part in the Jung-Neumann Conference at Kibbutz Shefayim, north of Tel Aviv, April 24-26.

A year (or more) of preparations are now in their final stages, lecturers have prepared very interesting talks, rehearsals for Saturday night's performance are under way. Soon suitcases are being packed, posters put up, rooms inspected, and many are in the midst of reading the letters. 

The spirit of Jung and Neumann will be present in what arises from the springs of their creativity, and the depth of their reflections.

In December 1951, Neumann writes, "If one loves people beyond their qualities, how could God’s love, which is also supposed to exist beyond his qualities, become conscious in any other way than by God seeming terrible? … how could it be accomplished in any other way than with the help from Satan?" 

And a month later, Jung responds, "God himself is a contradictio in adjecto, therefore he requires the human being in order to become whole. Sophia is always one step ahead, the demiurge always one step behind. God is an affliction that man should cure."

And on it goes, in a dialogue that we shall take part in, and possibly carry onwards.

For the exciting program, see the conference website. We are looking forward to greeting you at Shefayim!

Erel Shalit

 The Conference is sponsored by

The Swiss Embassy in Israel

Princeton University Press

FAJP

Recollections

Digital Fusion

The Philemon Foundation

Israel Institute of Analytical Psychology

International Association of Analytical Psychology

together with the Jung Foundation and the Neumann Heirs

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

A tribute to Neve Tze'elim - a Jungian Neumannian Treatment Center

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Neve Tze'elim 

A treatment center based on Jungian and Neumannian Principles

This talk, by Rivka Lahav, will bring the story of "Neve Tze'elim", an institute for the long term treatment, development and education of emotionally disturbed children and teenagers, mostly from kibbutzim.

The children resided in Neve Tze'elim during the course of their treatment, and education, and eventually return back to their homes.

The founder and director of Neve Tze'elim was Marion Baderian, who studied with and was inspired by Erich Neumann, and who modeled and ran the institute - the “Maon” in Hebrew - in the spirit of the works of Erich Neumann.

In this talk I will focus on the structure and dynamics of Neve Tze'elim , and will try to convey the special spirit of the place, which worked as a unitary reality for the children, the workers and all that surround them.

Rivka Lahav is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst.  She worked for 12 years in " Neve Tzeelim", and 10 years in the mental clinic of "Ramat Chen". She is now in private practice.

Her talk is part of a session on 'Clinical Aspects of Neumann's Work':

Chair: Yehuda Abramovitch
Rina Porat: "The Distress Ego"
Batia Brosh: "'Do you hear my call?'" – Two aspects of the feminine: A clinical example of Neumann's theory"
Rivka Lahav: "Neve Zeelim: Treatment center based on Jungian and Neumannian Principles” Sunday, April 26, at the Jung Neumann Conference in Shefayim

The Conference is sponsored by

The Swiss Embassy in Israel

Princeton University Press

FAJP

Recollections

Digital Fusion

The Philemon Foundation

Israel Institute of Analytical Psychology

International Association of Analytical Psychology

together with the Jung Foundation and the Neumann Heirs

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

The Correspondence of Jung and Neumann reviewed in Publishers Weekly

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An excellent review in Publishers Weekly of

 Analytical Psychology in Exile:

The Correspondence of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann        

Martin Liebscher, Editor,

Heather McCartney, Translator

                

                  

Erich Neumann’s place in the history of analytical psychology may finally find the positive reassessment it deserves via this collection of his correspondence with Carl Jung.

The letters run from 1933, when the two first met, to 1959, shortly before Neumann’s death in 1960. Neumann proves an able interlocutor of his famous correspondent, critically engaged with both theory and practice while thoughtfully reconsidering the relation of Jung’s thought to Jewish identity.

Editor Liebscher’s introduction sees Neumann’s theories as realigning familiar Jungian archetypes, in particular that of the Great Mother, which Neumann positions as a counterweight against the “Platonic-Christian hostility toward the body and sexuality.”

The correspondences also illuminate institutional politics among Jung’s disciples, exploring issues of anti-Semitism (of which Jung was accused) and Zionism (Neumann left Germany for Palestine in 1934). Perhaps most importantly, these letters allow us to see a mutually enriching exchange of ideas that formed a significant, though underappreciated, passage of intellectual history. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the theoretical origins of psychoanalysis. (Apr.)

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Analytical Psychology in Exile: 

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

edited and with an introduction by Martin Liebscher,

is 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

1933 – The year of Jung’s journey to Palestine/Israel

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You are welcome to join us for a lecture by 

Thomas Fischer, together with Andreas Jung:

In 1933 Jung not only travelled to Palestine/Israel, it is also the year Jung and Erich Neumann met for the first time at a seminar in Berlin. The same year Jung is appointed professor at ETH Zurich, and the Eranos conferences in Ascona, Switzerland, started. With the publication of “Modern Man in Search of a Soul” his works become widely popularized in the Anglo-Saxon world, while Jung on the backdrop of the national-socialist grip to power in Germany as a neutral Swiss is asked to become president of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy, which led to much controversy.

As part of this lecture, Andreas Jung will share undisclosed material about Jung's visit to Jerusalem, end of March 1933.

Thomas Fischer
born 1971, PhD, studied History, Political Science, Public and International Law at the Universities of Zurich and Brussels. Since 2013 he is director of the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, Zurich. He currently lives with his wife, a Swiss career diplomat, and their two young sons in Ottawa, Canada. He is a great-grandson of C.G. and Emma Jung.

This lecture will be part of the Saturday, April 25 afternoon session

13:00 Jung and Neumann: Culture and History, part I

Erel Shalit (chair): The cultural psyche: roots and routes 

Ulrich Hoerni: Jung's cultural background and the proto-Zionism of Samuel Preiswerk 

Andreas Jung and Thomas Fischer: 1933 -The year of Jung's journey to Palestine/Israel

14:45 Coffee Break

Joerg Rasche: Neumann's analytical background in Berlin and resistance against the Nazis

Avi Baumann: Erich Neumann and Eretz Israel: Tension and confusion between the craving for the Great Mother

15:00 Jung and Neumann: Culture and History, part II 

Joerg Rasche: Neumann's analytical background in Berlin and resistance against the Nazis

Avi Baumann: Erich Neumann and Eretz Israel: Tension and confusion between the craving for the Great Mother vs. the yearning for the Self

Don’t miss this historical event!

The Conference is sponsored by
The Swiss Embassy in Israel
FAJP
International Association of Analytical Psychology
The Philemon Foundation
Digital Fusion
Recollections
Israel Institute of Analytical Psychology
Princeton University Press
together with the Jung Foundation and the Neumann Heirs

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

Jung Neumann Letters Conference - Early Registration till March 20

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Early registration rate is available till March 20th.

 

 

 

Don’t miss this historical event!

The Conference is sponsored by
The Swiss Embassy in Israel
FAJP
International Association of Analytical Psychology
The Philemon Foundation
Digital Fusion
Recollections
Israel Institute of Analytical Psychology
Princeton University Press
together with the Jung Foundation and the Neumann Heirs

 

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

Jung, Neumann and Religion

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Attendees from all continents, twenty-five countries

will join this historical event!

Jerome Bernstein will chair a session on

Jung, Neumann and Religion

Tamar Kron will present 

Neumann and Hassidism 

based on an unpublished manuscript of Neumann's

In an unpublished manuscript on the topic of the depth psychology of the Jew, Neumann writes: "There are Hasidic formulations which express exactly my thoughts, thus it can be assumed that Hasidism is at the basis of my own formulations."

In my presentation, I will trace the impact of Hasidism on Neumann's innovative theoretical thinking: ‘The Ego-Self Axis as the God-Man relationship, as described in Hasidism, and as the I-Thou relationship described by Martin Buber’; ‘The Great Individual as the Tzaddik’; ‘The Unitary Reality as the Divine Unity in reality’ (divine immanence); as well as ‘The New Ethic’ values of wholeness and integration of ‘Good and Evil,’ which can be found in a Hasidic interpretation of the text “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" as "Thou shalt love thine evil as thyself."

Tamar Kron, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus of the Hebrew University and head of the clinical psychology graduate program at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yafo. She is a clinical psychologist and a Jungian analyst. Prof. Kron integrates her clinical-analytical work with teaching and research. She has published numerous articles, chapters and books, and presented at international conferences. One of her main areas of interest is the metapsychology of Erich Neumann. Together with David Wieler she has translated three of Neumann's Eranos papers from German to Hebrew.

Angelica Loewe will present 

Under the sign of 'Actualized Messianism’– 

Religious topics in the correspondence between Neumann and Jung 

A considerable part of the correspondence between Jung and Neumann contains implicit references to theological questions or discusses them explicitly.

First, this presentation focuses on the intensive intellectual struggle of the young Erich Neumann with Jung regarding his own return to the spiritual roots of Jewish Culture. Neumann’s position is characterised in this context inasmuch as it is obligated to the Hasidic tradition.

The question to which extent the unfolding change of cultural history, in light of political events, may be assessed in a religious or general/secular context constitutes another significant facet of the presentation.

The vitality of the correspondence and the intellectual autonomy of the two personalities are apparent throughout. This became apparent, for example, in the non-conformance of the respective positions on the occasion of Jung’s Answer to Job.

Jungian analyst Angelica Loewe studied Philosophy, German Language Studies and History in Heidelberg, Tübingen and Vienna. She has lived in Vienna since 1977.

She lectures in literature and philosophy and is the editor in chief of the Journal Analytische Psychologie.

Her book On the Part of the Inner Voice. Erich Neumann – Life and Oeuvre was published in 2014 by the Karl Alber Publishing House, Freiburg.

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