Jungian and Interdisciplinary Analyses of Emotions Method and Imagery

Edited By Elizabeth Brodersen, Isabelle Meier, Valeria Céspedes Musso

Dear IAJS Friends and Colleagues,

We’re very pleased to send you the links to the two vols on Emotions that are due to published 9th April. The material originates from the 3 day Jungian and interdisciplinary conference held in Küsnacht, Zürich, 2023. Many of the contributors and the endorsers are members of IAJS so we hope that you will be interested and also pass the links on to other Jungian groups.

This comprehensive collection of chapters concentrates on the multifaceted theme of emotions, and deepens our understanding of the role emotions play within the psyche.

Leading international psychoanalysts and academics offer broad interdisciplinary dimensions using their own unique perspectives on the topic of emotions. Delineating into five parts, this volume focuses on key themes such as emotions, imagination, and method; the emotional basis of archetypes and complexes; relational trauma; mapping contagion across cultures; the contribution from neuroscience; and, finally, dreams and the transcendent. Clinical cases presented underline the important role unconscious, disassociated emotions play in the formation of symptomatology and how wholeness is facilitated through their acceptance.

This collection offers a timely contribution to the interdisciplinary study of emotions placing Jungian psychology firmly within that framework. It will be of great interest to Jungian analysts, trainees, and psychotherapists, as well as interdisciplinary academic researchers interested in methodology, unconscious processes, transference, and dreams.

Editorial Introduction

Part I: Emotions, Imagination, and Method

1. Emotions and Imagination

Verena Kast

2. Emotions, Subtle Body-Somatic Unconscious, Sandplay Therapy

Paolo Ferliga

3. A Frontline Report

Michael Glock

4. The Empty Chair

Susan E. Schwartz

Part II: Emotions, Archetypes, Complexes, Imagery

5. Current Emotion Theories and Analytical Psychology

Christian Roesler

6. Treating Complex Episodes through Bilateral Stimulation: An integration of the Theory of Complexes and EMDR in the Analytical Setting

Angela Andolfo Filippini

7. Between Heaven and Hell There is No-Thing: A Case Study of a Patient with BPD

Hugo Iglesias Torres de Moraes

Part III: Emotions, Relational Trauma, Mapping, Contagion

8. “I Feel, Therefore We Are”: The Body as an Emotional Map of the World Between Individual and Collective States of Mind

Monica Luci

9. Adelphos or the Anxiolytic Function of the Self

Niccoló Florentino Polipo

10. Jung, DID, and AID: Clinical Considerations between Jung, Dissociative Identity Disorder, and Active Internal Dialogue as a Modified Active Imagination Approach

Neil Schecker

Part IV:Emotions, Neuroscience, Developmental Processes, Imaging

11. Spirit of Our Time: Adolescence Between Body, Time, and Affectivity

Chiara Capri

12. Emotions, Cognition, Images, and the Development of the Personality

Stefano Carta

13. Emotion and Constellation from the Viewpoint of Buddhism

Yasuhiro Suzuki

Part V: Emotions, Dreams, Symbol, Transcendent

14. Memory, Affect, and Meaning in the Transcendent Function: Dreams in a Patient with Dissociative Amnesia

Erik Goodwyn

15. Jung, Dada, and the Discussion and Painting of Dreams