WHAT IS JUNGIAN RESEARCH? - Mark Saban

“No line of research which asserted that its subject was . . . a ‘nothing but’  has ever made any contribution to knowledge” Jung (1944), Psychology and Alchemy, §120.

This seminar will focus on the question of research in depth psychology. How can we find a way to conduct research that is truly in tune with the principles of analytical psychology? How can we do justice to not only the wholeness of the object of the research but also to the subjectivities involved. Such a research needs to be rigorous but without being reductive – but is this possible?

In this seminar our own research will focus primarily upon two depth psychological approaches to the subject, that of Robert Romanyshyn and that of Susan Rowland.

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