LOVE INSIDE-OUT: JUNG'S BLACK BOOKS AS THE BASIC OF ANALYTIC ATTITUDE - Katerina Sarafidou

Jung’s Black Books, published in October 2020, form the foundation of all subsequent concepts, techniques, and theoretical formulations of analytical psychology, and provide the source material of Jung’s Red Book, published in 2009. One of the themes emerging from these notebooks is the idea of love as the central experience of being human, but also as the foundational element of the analytic process and psychic change. This seminar will outline Jung’s idiosyncratic presentation of love in the Black Books and explore its significance for the later development of the concept of individuation and for the inner workings of the analytic relationship.

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