Turbulent Times, Creative Minds: Erich Neumann and C.G. Jung in Relationship

This volume of essays by well-known Jungian analysts and scholars provides the most comprehensive comparison to date between the works of C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann. Reflections are based on their extensive correspondence recently published, their differing cultural backgrounds, and the turbulent times surrounding their personal and professional relationship. Among the many specific subjects discussed are Jung and Neumann on art and religion, their views on the problem of evil, and clinical aspects of Neumann’s work. Also included are personal memories of both Jung and Neumann family members.
The book includes exclusive photos from Eranos, and several illustrations in color.

Contents:

Introduction (Erel Shalit and Murray Stein) ix
I. The Correspondence (1933–1960)

Uncertain Friends in Particular Matters: The Relationship between C. G. Jung and

Erich Neumann (Martin Liebscher) 25

Companions on the Way: Consciousness in Conflict (Nancy Swift Furlotti) 45

Neumann and Kirsch in Tel Aviv: A Case of Sibling Rivalry? (Ann Lammers) 71

II. Cultural Backgrounds

German Kultur and the Discovery of the Unconscious: The Promise and Discontents of the German-Jewish Experience (Paul Mendes-Flohr) 83

Basel, Jung’s Cultural Background and the Proto-Zionism of Samuel Preiswerk (Ulrich Hoerni) 95

The Cultural Psyche: From Ancestral Roots to Postmodern Routes (Erel Shalit) 111

III. Troubled Times

Carl Jung and Hans Fierz in Palestine and Egypt: Journey from March 13th to

April 6th, 1933 (Andreas Jung) 131

1933—The Year of Jung’s Journey to Palestine/Israel and Several Beginnings (Thomas Fischer) 135

Jungians in Berlin 1931–1945: Between Therapy, Emigration and Resistance (Jörg Rasche) 151

IV. The Problem of Evil

The Search for a New Ethic: Professional and Clinical Dilemmas (Henry Abramovitch) 167

Erich Neumann and C. G. Jung on “The Problem of Evil” (Murray Stein) 185

V. Neumann and Eranos (1948–1960)

Neumann at Eranos (Riccardo Bernardini) 199

“Dear, dear Olga!” - A Letter to Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (Julie Neumann) 237

VI. On the Arts

The Great Mother in Israeli Art (Gideon Ofrat) 245

Jung, Neumann and Art (Christian Gaillard) 261

The Magic Flute (Tom Kelly) 299

A Brief Comment on Neumann and His Essay “On Mozart’s ‘Magic Flute’” (Debora Kutzinski) 309

VII. Clinical Contributions

Erich Neumann’s Concept of the Distress-ego (Rina Porat) 315

Can You Hear My Voice? (Batya Brosh Palmoni) 333

Neve Tzeelim—A Field of Creation and Development (Rivka Lahav) 347

VIII. On Religion

Erich Neumann and Hasidism (Tamar Kron) 367

Theological Positions in the Correspondence between Jung and Neumann (Angelica Löwe) 385

IX. On Synchronicity

Toward Psychoid Aspects of Evolutionary Theory (Joseph Cambray) 401

X. “Memories from My (Grand)Father’s House”

Introduction 411

Some Memories of My Grandparents (Andreas Jung) 413

Memories (Ulrich Hoerni) 415

Memories (Micha Neumann) 417

Memories (Ralli Loewenthal-Neumann) 421

Memories (Debora Kutzinski) 425

A Response (Thomas B. Kirsch) 429

Remembering the Mamas and Papas (Nomi Kluger Nash) 433

Memories of Max Zeller (1904–1978) (Jacqueline Zeller) 437

Bibliography

About the Contributors

Cover image by Mordecai Ardon

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Jacob and Esau 

On the Collective Symbolism of the Brother Motif (2nd printing)

by Erich Neumann

cover image by Meir Gur Arieh 

Jung and Neumann: The Problem of Evil

The Jung Neumann Letters

An International Conference 

in Celebration of a Creative Relationship 

At the forthcoming historic Jung Neumann Letters Conference, leading Jungian Analysts

Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch will speak on the problem of evil

Murray Stein

Henry Abramovitch

Neumann and Jung on the Problem of Evil

By Murray Stein, Ph.D.

In Depth Psychology and a New Ethic and Answer to Job, Erich Neumann and C.G. Jung deal with the problem of evil. For both thinkers, depth psychology has an obligation to reflect on the problem of evil and to search for ways to contain its destructive effects on human life and the planet. In this lecture I compare and contrast their approaches: Neumann’s based on a further development, sponsored by the insights of depth psychology, toward a more robust and psychologically acute sense of the ethical; Jung’s based on a reading of the Bible and its implications for the future of Western culture. Both thinkers aim at greater shadow awareness but approach this goal in significantly different ways.

The Search for a New Ethic: Professional and Clinical Dilemmas

By Henry Abramovitch, Ph.D.

Jung believed that deep psychotherapeutic healing is an ethical act, and that every ethical act is indirectly therapeutic. Neumann brilliantly envisioned a new ethic based on accepting one’s evil and understood how ethical awareness moved from group morality, to the splitting of right and wrong of the old ethic. After exploring Jung's and Neumann’s view of shadow and evil, this lecture explores how a new ethic may be applied to clinical and professional dilemmas in the group life of analysts, such as understanding how an ethical violation by perpetrators may be dealt with within a framework of the new ethic; or the more personal dilemma of hearing about misdeeds of colleagues in analysis. The lecture concludes with the author's personal experience as participant in an Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group, discussed in terms of Neumann’s theory.

Murray Stein, Ph.D. was president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) from 2001 to 2004 and President of The International School of Analytical Psychology in Zurich (ISAP-Zurich) from 2008-2012. He is the author of Minding the Self and of many other books and articles on Analytical Psychology and Jungian Psychoanalysis. He lives in Switzerland and is a training and supervising analyst with ISAP-Zurich. Website: www.murraystein.com.

HENRY ABRAMOVITCH, Ph.D. is a Jungian analyst, clinical psychologist, anthropologist, and medical educator. He is the founding president of the Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology and a professor in the department of medical education at the Sackler School of Medicine in Tel Aviv University. Website: http://www.henry-a.com/.

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

Yoram Bouzaglo, photographer