ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY IN CONTEXT: READING AND INTERPRETING PRIMARY TEXTS IN PRESENT TIMES - Katerina Sarafidou

“The more you advance in the understanding of the psyche the more careful you will have to be with terminology, because it is historically coined and prejudiced. The more you penetrate the basic problems of psychology the more you approach ideas which are philosophically, religiously, and morally prejudiced. Therefore, certain things should be handled with the utmost care.”

C.G. Jung, Tavistock Lectures 1935, CW 18, para 116

Primary texts in the field of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis have often aroused controversy to the sensibilities of 20^th and 21^st century readers. This workshop will aim to introduce the principles and method of intellectual charity when reading and interpreting primary texts from outside the contemporary era or context. The main focus of the sessions will be the practical application of these principles on primary texts of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis and will include interactive activities. It will cover broadly the following areas:

• How to read a text
• Why be charitable, and when not to be charitable
• Identifying contentious statements
• Disentangling language from emotion
• Reconstructing a statement

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