Robert Winer, M.D.

Psychoanalyst, Neurologist, and Psychopharmacologist - Boulder Colorado

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I highly recommend “Kaddish” by Leon Wieseltier. The book follows the author’s 11 month journey of saying the “Kaddish” prayer daily after the death of his father. An in-depth look and entry point to feel-into the broader topic of the Jewish grieving process. 

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JCRC and JEWISHcolorado Call for Denunciation of Hatred and Bigotry

The Colorado Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) and JEWISHcolorado strongly believe targeted hatred in any form must be swiftly and unequivocally denounced by our nation’s leaders.  We appreciate the strong actions taken by the leadership of both parties - including all members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation - to denounce these efforts.  There is no justification for people openly quoting Nazi propaganda and chanting spiteful anti-Semitic and racist epithets.  Not condemning these actions in Charlottesville empowers dangerous rhetoric and action against America’s minority populations.

“This recent display of national anti-Semitic activity strikes a startling chord throughout our community and throughout communities across the nation,” said Ben Lusher, Chair of the JCRC. “When the nation gives the slightest bit of oxygen to white supremacy and Nazi demonstrations, the entire country is in danger. There is absolutely no moral equivalency between a Nazi demonstration and those protesting racism and anti-Semitism.”

“Bigotry, racism and anti-Semitism have no place in a free society. Such actions cannot and must not be normalized on any level,” said Diana Anderson, JEWISHcolorado Board Chair, “The fact that these demonstrators openly marched in full view of the country speaks volumes to their emboldened perspective. Their calls for white supremacy must not go unchallenged.”

As Jews, and as minorities, we unfortunately understand the very real consequences of fear, hate speech, hate crimes and bigotry. These actions as displayed in Charlottesville are unacceptable in American society.  The United States was founded on the grounds of equal rights for all people and must continue to be a beacon of freedom, tolerance and diversity for all who dwell in its borders.

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The Two Americas of 2016 - The New York Times

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What are we feeling?

Catching the #mood of the country ... so difficult. Sometimes a picture says it all http://nyti.ms/2f1kwvM

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Aviva Zornberg, #Judaism, #Freud, and the Jewish acceptance of atheism

The reason Aviva Zornberg can superimpose psychoanalytical ideas from Freud (piggybacked to the ideas of the exponents of "object relations" ) onto Jewish midrashic texts is that the largest constituent communities of Jews now accept his overt atheistic and anti-religious positions as being not incompatible with either Judaism or being Jewish. This also suggests that Freud's writings were primarily religious in character rather than empirical psychological texts.

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Narcissism: ‘Selfish,’ by Kim Kardashian West, and More [3 Book Reviews with comment]

By Caitlin Flanagan Illustration by Quentin Vijoux Appeared in the NY Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/books/review/selfish-by-kim-kardashian-west-and-more.html]

[excerpted, edited, formatted, and headers, mine: RIW. It's always easy to take a potshot at a current cultural icon. My hope is that by presenting this article attention might be drawn toward promoting a more reflective and helpful conversation about narcissism in particular and sociopathy in general. My apologies for using Ms. Kardashian as an example.]

SELFISH by Kim Kardashian West. Illustrated. 445 pp. Rizzoli. $19.95. THE NARCISSIST YOU KNOW: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age by Joseph Burgo. 261 pp. Touchstone. $25. RETHINKING NARCISSISM: The Bad — and Surprising Good — About Feeling Special by Craig Malkin. 240 pp. Harper Wave. $25.99.

Kim Kardashian and narcissism: is it sociopathy?

During her reign, Kim Kardashian has proved herself to be a person of towering if brittle self-regard. The brittleness is revealed in the floods of tears that attend even minor affronts to her sense of self: if a family member gently teases her; if she feels in any way misunderstood; if she realizes she may give birth to her third fiancé’s child before her second divorce is final. But the true nature of her self-­regard — river deep and mountain high — is revealed in just about all of her other actions, and particularly in her recently published collection of self-portraits, “Selfish.”

As a physical object, the book is surprisingly elegant: a compact white bible, a thing beckoning to be held. The suggested interpretation of its cover photo — exquisite little head perched atop exquisite massive breasts — is implied by the resonant word that sits beneath it: Rizzoli. This is the post-Calabasas Kim, the Kanye West Kim, the Kim who must be deferred to by the world’s greatest photographers and designers. But it’s still our Kim, taking picture after picture of herself in full makeup or full monte, sticking out her tongue or her naked bottom, the mysteries of her arresting beauty undercut, as ever, by her own inane commentary: “I had one drink and was wasted LOL. Rachel and I met up with friends at a random bar in New York.”

Kardashian wants us to know that she is leading a beautiful life, that it is peopled by beautiful friends, all of whom reflect or enhance her own beauty, but the question for you and me is:

Are we in any kind of danger here?

Is Kardashian a threat to us?

Or should we look to her, instead, as exemplar, as someone with much to teach us about mastering our own selfish lives?

Opposing positions on these questions are taken by two new books: “The Narcissist You Know: Defending Yourself Against Extreme Narcissists in an All-About-Me Age,” by Joseph Burgo, and “Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad — and Surprising Good — About Feeling Special,” by Craig Malkin.

Narcissism is everywhere

Just when we had girded ourselves against the sociopath next door, Burgo alerts us to the narcissist across the street. What a neighborhood! Burgo, a psychotherapist, instructs us that 5 percent of the population consists of “extreme narcissists,” people who “fall short of the diagnostic threshold for Narcissistic Personality Disorder” but who can still make our lives hell with their whims and rants. We are informed of eight types of the species — the Bullying Narcissist, the Know-It-All Narcissist, the Self-Righteous Narcissist — and invited to apply our newfound knowledge not only to our rotten neighbors but also to our national celebrities. We might consider Kardashian’s tantrums as responses to “narcissistic injuries” — to the fact that deep shame lies underneath all grandiosity, and if that shame is activated (by losing a diamond in the Aegean or by being confronted by her chubby brother’s bitter envy), nothing can contain it.

"Narcissism is good"

Malkin, a therapist and psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, takes a more inspirational attitude toward the subject. “Narcissism isn’t all bad,” he writes. “In fact, some narcissism is good — even vital — for us to lead happy, fulfilled and productive lives.” He writes that “creativity, leadership and high self-esteem” are associated with the feeling that one is better than average. If we began to understand narcissism as yet another spectrum disorder, we might be able to assess our own egos, and maybe even pump them up a bit. “At the heart of narcissism lies an ancient conundrum,” Malkin writes. “How much should we love ourselves, and how much should we love others?”

For Kim it's a settled issue

For Kim Kardashian, this is settled science. Loving herself — extravagantly and in the manner of a grand romance, with fits of anger and remorse and ecstatic forgiveness — is the way to go. Who else could describe a collection of self-portraits as “a candid tribute to my fans”? Although her reach is vast, her beginnings are in reality television, a form so shallow it’s mesmerizing, and that she is talentless — the one unifying assessment of her legion of detractors — is a baseless claim. Like Martha Stewart, she represents affordability and aspiration. Yes, her Sears line of clothing folded; true, her perfume is bewilderingly described as “a tantalizing Oriental gourmand,” but she’s not about Martha Stewart-style perfection. She got started with a sex tape, she has the heartbreak of psoriasis, she’s holding nothing back.

As an "extreme narcissist: she creates around her an unrealistic dream-world

This is not granny-panty feminism; it’s shopgirl feminism. What she’s selling isn’t the dream of a Sarah Lawrence degree, a bold venture into a sustainability-related career and eventual — messy, human, rewarding — co-parenting. She’s selling the idea that any young woman scanning bar codes at Kmart can vault out of that condition not by night school and thrift but by texting enough naked selfies and staging enough tear-filled mini-dramas that she gets discovered and ends up with her own McMansion and a diamond as big as the Ritz.

Could Kim Kardashian have created and capitalized upon this improbable vision if she had worked at achieving Craig Malkin’s sweet spot of “just enough” narcissism?

Would she be the woman she is today if she had taken Joseph Burgo’s advice and severed ties to her narcissistic mother?

She "believes" she's special, "better, and more interesting than anyone else around here"

There’s nothing cynical about Kardashian’s enterprise. What fuels everything — every product and episode and personal appearance — is the honestly held and unshakable conviction that she is special and better and more interesting than anyone else around her. That a trio of spray-tanned shoppers managed to transform themselves into the Mitford sisters of the San Fernando Valley is entirely because of Kim Kardashian — the only Kardashian most of us can reliably recognize — and her fathomless ego.

In fact, the advice about narcissism in these two new books will be of more practical use to the army of trolls who live to mock her than it might be to Kardashian herself. The hundreds of people who rushed to Amazon to trash “Selfish” — often at great and considered length, usually without having seen a copy — might take these words from Burgo to heart:

“Managing an Extreme Narcissist depends largely on mastering your own reactions to their behavior, your own defensive responses to their assaults on your self-esteem.”

It’s easy to feel better than Kim Kardashian, and it’s just as easy to sustain your own narcissistic injury by contemplating how much she has accomplished, and how little she cares about what you think of her.

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Presciently and timely 1994 interview with Author Walter Mosley #racism #in America

Introduction to Interview

Crime novelist Walter Mosley writes out of a need to show how race may dominate people's way of seeing life. His portrayal of the detective, Easy Rawlins expresses, in a moving and profound way, the experience of a black man living in the white world of Los Angeles during the beginning years of the second half of the 20th century. Easy, as the narrative's protagonist, acts out of a knowing awareness of how a rigid, racially-narrow social order can rule life. He embodies a compassionate and wise understanding of convention’s unjust realities. And perhaps he also now leaves us a gift: a perceptive, reflective window through which to gaze upon our present, national tragedies of prejudice and racial hatred. Let us together hope that now and in the future we might "seek good, and not evil, that you may live; ... Hate evil, and love good, And establish justice in the gate" (Amos 5:14, 15).

RIW Boulder July, 2015

From:

Interview with Walter Mosley, May 26, 1994, pp. 95-101, in Gross, Terry. "All I Did Was Ask," Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists. Hyperion (New York): 2004.

[Page numbers on the top of each page]

96 WALTER MOSLEY

Describe Easy's best friend, Mouse, who always gets into trouble?

I see Mouse as the hero of the world that Easy is talking about. He's a sociopath. He's very violent. He's willing to kill people, and it does, not affect him. Easy is the hero of these books because these books are about him. But in the world Easy lives in, Mouse is really the hero. He's the man who's willing to stand up and fight and not be pushed down for any reason. Not for a political motive, but just because he's crazy. He's been driven crazy by the world he Itves in.

Did you ever know men like Mouse?

Actually, I based Mouse on a friend of my father's – a man who used to hijack liquor trucks and bring cases of liquor to our house when I was a kid. And he would come over and say, "Well, Roy, why don't you keep these bottles of liquor for a week and I'll come back and get them later." When he would come back of course, my father would have drunk a couple of bottles. So the Guy would say, "Well, you'll have to pay me for those bottles now." Finally, he was in a crap game in a barbershop in downtown LA., and he murdered a guy. The guy owed him a dime, and he didn't want to pay it. So he killed him. He's in jail now.

Did you grow up thinking, "How can a guy kill somebody over a dime?"

Well, actually, I understood that. You know, if it's not worth it to kill somebody over a dime, is it worth it to kill somebody over a million dollars?

If you don't have a dime, or if you come from a place where you have to fight for everything that you have, then you just fight. Its a natural reflex, because when you stop fighting, that's when you're going to lose.

Why do you think an insult can incite somebody to murder?

If you're living in a neighborhood where your rep is the only thing that have •and if people feel that they can insult you and push you around, well, then you're going to lose everything.

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You have to learn to fight for things that seem ridiculous from an external point of view. But internally, they make more sense.

The life that Mouse was living, and the life that Easy is very close to, is a thing where you have to fight over everything. You stop discriminating between when you fight and when you don't fight. You just are always willing to fight.

There's an opening quote in Black. Betty before the narrative of the book begins. It's headed "Ghetto Pedagogy." Would you read it and tell us where it comes from?

This is a conversation I had with my father when I was a little boy.

Ghetto Pedagogy Dad? Yes? Why do black, men always kill each other? Long pause. Practicing.

When your father said "practice," what did that mean to you?

There's a lot of anger and rage in the black community, but at that time, black people couldn't exercise that rage on the people outside the community who had caused it – so they took it out on each other. In a way, it was getting ready for something that might not ever happen. But certainly it's getting ready for something.

Were you exposed to much violence when you were growing up?

I don't think there was as much violence when I was a child as there is now. However, there was a lot of violence in everyday life, a lot of anger, a lot of rage, a lot of despair. I feel that I react more to psychological violence than physical violence. Physical violence is kind of easy to avoid. But there's a psychological violence in every day life that black people, and poor people in general, experience in America.

98 WALTER MOSLEY

What was the psychological violence you were most exposed to when you were young?

People who were angry all the time, people who were upset all the time, people who felt that other people were trying to take advantage of them – sometimes they were right and sometimes they were wrong. Confrontations about everything – about how much something cost, about where you were going.

I remember coming out of a restaurant with my father and my mother when I was about twelve. There was valet parking, and so my father comes out, and he gives the guy his ticket. Then another guy comes out after us, a white guy. He gives the parking guy the ticket. The valet goes directly to get the white guy's car and brings it back. My father goes up to the valet, and he says in a very loud voice. "Well, listen, you know, I want you to understand, I'm not going to give you a tip. And I'm not giving you a tip because you went and got that man's car before you got my car. But I was first." I was twelve. I was very embarrassed by this whole thing. But my father was angry. He needed to express that. I think that went on an awful lot when I was a child.

Do you think he was right in doing that?

Oh, yeah. Absolutely. No question about it.

Is it hard to grow up surrounded by so much anger, seeing slights all around you, and not wind up obsessed with victimization?

One of the things that Easy experiences in the books is that sometimes when he's expecting a slight, it doesn't happen. And sometimes when he least expects it, it does happen. Sometimes it's not from white people – it's from black people. It's very hard to figure out where you stand in the world.

It's hard not to feel you're a victim, especially when you are, in certain ways. But then you have to understand that we're all victims. And that your job is to live your life and to survive, not to worry about what somebody next to you has or doesn't have, or what they're thinking.

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Your father grew up in the segrtgated South. Did he tell you stories about the violence he was exposed to there?

One day my father sat me down and told me about every person he'd ever seen die. It was just amazing. Little children killing each other-black children – black people killing white people, white people killing black people, everybody killing each other, people being hung, people dying because there was not proper protection on their jobs. Then he went to World War II. And he talked about all the people that he saw die in World War II. He worked in statistics, so he typed up the names of all the Americans who had died. After that, he came back to the South and found that most of his old friends who didn't go to war had also died – in these petty and stupid little fights and arguments, and from disease. So he moved to Los Angeles. It took my father a long time to tell me about all of these deaths. At the end of it he said, "So then, Walter, I came to L.A., and I knew I was finally free. I was in a land where these kind of things weren't going to happen anymore." He sits down in a diner, and the guy next to him has a heart attack, keels over, and falls on my father and dies. It was a good way to end it because it was a funny story. But he was trying to tell me there's segregation, there's violence because of racism, and from ignorance and poverty – but also, we all die.

Did your mother also come from the South?

My mother came from New York City. She is Jewish, from Eastern European stock. Her father was a doctor and very dominant in a lot of ways. She needed to get away from him and that family. My father needed to get away from Jim Crow. They were both people looking for new lives, new ways. You notice in LA. that everybody is looking for a new life.

Some white people who haw married black people have been in the absurd situation of finding that their families have disowned them for marrying a black person--

And black people, too.

100 WALTER MOSLEY

Did anything like that happen on either side of your family?

Well, it did to some degree. And it was very funny. The matriarch of my father's side of the family liked my mother, so she could never be completely ostracized. She got along with her, invited her over, and would do things. But some of the family didn't like her. That kind of wore off after a while, and they got along.

On my mother's side of the family, my grandfather just didn't understand. Even though he was a doctor, he didn't really think that black people and white people were the same species – not only not the same race, but the same species.

A very funny thing happened. Once he came to visit to see his grandson because my mother had demanded it. He was taciturn the whole time, and then went back East. In the meantime, my father built a whole house in our backyard, floored it, walled it, plumbed it, wired it. Did everything. My grandfather came back, and he saw this house, and saw that my father had built it. In a funny way, my father proved that he was better than my grandfather, because my grandfather would have loved to do something like that, and couldn't. After that, my grandfather really liked him. It was a very "country thing," you know, because my grandfather was from a rural background, too. They got along great after that.

On the whole, did both families get along?

Oh, yeah. When I was thirteen, I couldn't have a bar mitzvah, so I had a big party. We invited both sides of the family over. My, aunt Fanny, and my uncle Hiram, and my godfather, Hollister P. Fontano, and the Douglas family. Hollister, who was six foot five, and the jokester on my Father's side of the family, and Hiram, who only four foot nine, and the jokester on the other side, would stand in a comer, telling each other jokes. It was wonderful.

Sense of place is central in your fiction, LA. is treated almost as a character in your Easy Rawlins series. How did you happen to choose Greenwich Village as the place you want to llve?

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Well, you know, it's interesting. There are a lot of reasons, social reasons. One, it's a pretty safe place to live. It's nice. It's easy. Different kinds of people live there. Asians, hispanics, blacks, whites, straight people, gay people. But also, the classes live together. One of the wonderful things about Manhattan that's different from LA, and other places in the country is that it's not separated by class so much. You could have somebody who's living in a rent-controlled apartment –an old Italian lady, maybe ninety years-old – And next door, Charles Kuralt. Down the street, Roy Lichtensteln lives. I like that.

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Will-Power and #habit: the effects of a resource that’s limited #in

the problem

Psychologists tell us that ”… most people rate themselves above average on all manner of measures including intelligence, looks, health, [… etc.]." ^1 This includes an overestimation of their ability to control themselves, an over-rating of their own and, in general, people's ability to exert their will power to abolish, control, or modify desires, bodily urges, or habits.

Over-estimations may lead to inadequate assessment and evaluation resulting in poor judgment: people “… assume they'll be able to control themselves in situations in which, it turns out, they can’t.” ^2

habit

As a result, most find stopping an unwanted habit leads to extreme frustration. Initial resolve to change fades as the entrenched habit seems to perform itself despite our heart-felt desire to wrestle it into submission.

Perhaps it’s better to view self-control as a resource with limits or limitations, something that may at times be replenished with rest or read as a psychological study on persistence in performing a frustrating task shows. Those who could reward themselves with chocolate as opposed to radishes more than doubled their time in persisting on the frustrating task.^3 This shows that the more frustrating a task is, the more will-power is needed and the more rest and reward are important factors in bringing eventual success.

excerpted from Jeremy Dean. “Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why We Do Things, Why We Don't, and How to Make Any Change Stick,” pp. 161-162, (Da Capo Lifelong Books): 2013.

Ibid

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/04/the-chocolate-and-radish-experiment-that-birthed-the-modern-conception-of-willpower/255544/

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Challenges of Faith in Our Time: Rabbi Eugene B. Borowitz, Ph.D. and Rabbi Aaron D. Panken, Ph.D. from HUC-JIR on Vimeo.

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Video of personal story: he calls it schizophrenia. IMO perhaps #fluid #psychosis, a very diff entity. Any thoughts

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Read these newly posted titles on Psychotherapy Training @ the C.G. Jung Center of Boulder

"Learning Psychotherapy" - Hilda Bruch, M.D.

"Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective" - Edward Edinger, M.D.

"Power in the Helping Professions" - Adolph Guggenbühl-Craig, M.D.

"Psychoanalytic Therapy" - Karen Horney, M.D.

"Jungian Perspective on Clinical Supervision" - Paul Kugler, Ph.D., Editor

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“Applied Dream Analysis" by Mary Ann Mattoon, Ph.D. 

"Jungian Psychology after Jung" by Mary Ann Mattoon, Ph.D. 

"The Art of Psychotherapy" - Anthony Storr, M.D.

"Profession and Vocation" - Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D.

"Practical Jung: Nuts and Bolts of Jungian Psychotherapy" - Harry Wilmer, M.D.

http://www.jungboulder.org/training.html

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Book Review by Robert Winer

See my review of Elain Pagel's book "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity" http://ow.ly/ua1Ja 

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Web-based discussions with Dr. Winer

Today, we had a very nice web-based discussion on Lecture One of Jung's 1935 lecture series called the Tavistock. We only got to paragraph eight of the first lecture.

There will be other opportunities if you missed it. I will make the URL for the meeting permanent at: http://fuze.me/18408927 DAY OF WEEK: I will pick a weekday late morning, or lunch time US TIME: Probably to begin at 11:30 AM, 12 NOON, or 12:30 PM Mountain Standard Time (Colorado) That way my UK, European, Eastern European, South African, and Middle Eastern friends can conveniently join us: In the meantime, I'll keep LECTURE 1 posted on line at: http://www.jungboulder.org/education.html or buy the book locally or through Amazon (prob. < $10.00 USD) http://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Psychology-Practice-Tavistock-Lectures/dp/0394708628 Watch for notices on: FB Twitter @jungboulder and @robertwinermd Linkedin feed if you are "friends" with me Wordpress: http://rwinermd.wordpress.com/ Tumblr: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/rwinermd Web @ www.jungboulder.org and http://rwinermd.com

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Attend a free webinar / discussion

FREE WEBINAR W ROBERT WINER, M.D. ON TAVISTOCK LECTURES OF C.G. JUNG Tuesday, 2/18/2014 10:30 AM MST. MORE INFO FB: http://ow.ly/3hjevN

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UPCOMING FUZE DISCUSSIONS AND WEBINARS THE TAVISTOCK LECTURES OF C.G. JUNG: DISCUSSION WITH DR. ROBERT WINER

UPCOMING FUZE DISCUSSIONS AND WEBINARS THE TAVISTOCK LECTURES OF C.G. JUNG:  DISCUSSION WITH DR. ROBERT WINER

When: Tuesday Morning, February 18, 2014 Time:

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM Pacific Standard Time (California) 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM Mountain Standard Time (Colorado) 12:30 AM - 1:30 AM Eastern Standard Time (New York)

http://www.jungboulder.org/education.html

http://on.fb.me/1eXcd0C

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On twisting a content psychologically

"My way of working is to take something already in place and twisting it, turning it, give it your own turn. They say about Bach, "He left no form as he found it," and what I want to do with Jung or with Freud is to leave no form as I found it. Therefore, people say I'm twisting Jung – I think that the spirit in Jung's work gets another shape each time you pick it up, and different people pick it up differently. I picked it up my way. Some have never put their own hands on it, really ... they have played it back like a gramophone. Without Jung I would not have been able to think any of the things I thought. Pupils make a founder. Pupils take you literally and turn you into a founder. They take your thought and write theses about it, explanations, interpretations, and they want to practice it according to rules; they read what you said and they say, "That is what he said and I am going to do it that way"; and they stop twisting it!"(Hillman, J.H. (1983). Inter Views, Spring Publications (Woodstock): p. 27. Comment,11/15/2012 On first reflection, by "twist" Hillman means to alter the psychological meanings in his own personal way. Yet his twists also seek to avoid becoming literal about Jungian psychology so as to pull something out of a concept or turn it by either isolating or fastening down some aspect, which adds to the original meaning a nuance or variation. To attempt to "twist" a meaning gives it a non-linear or non-directional push, so that the process sets something in motion, but the caveat is to avoid the ego desire to get from point a to point b. Hillman-type twisted concepts attempt to spiralize the original idea, that is to hopefully enliven and expand them by giving it a more vegetal shape. Twisting, as a psychological process, takes one on the snake-like saurian winding road of amplification and association where one can more easily give a concept a chance to re-shape and also it shifts the momentum away from linear interpretation. Twisting a concept becomes an internal "betracten" (Jung, 1997, p. 661) or brooding process that imaginally squirms and writhes, in the serpentine dance within the darkness. It becomes the devious rotating of an idea – the devolution of progressive thinking to enable something new to arise. If one is not satisfied, desiring a further imaginal possibility, one may take on the move of process from twist to turn, which changes the motion from serpentine to rotary. Now we leave the reptilian analogy (domain?) and enter the imaginal world of warm-blooded mammalian function. This upsets the regular balance and order that we habitually use in everyday life process to move or even reverse the vantage point. Jung, C.G. (1997). Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934, Vol. 2, Princeton Univ. Press: Princeton. — at Boulder, Colorado.

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First English Language Translation (1928) of Jung's Two Essays

Amazon Reviews

"Two Essays on Analytical Psychology" 1928 Translation by Carl Gustav Jung

  First English Language Translation of Jung's Two Essays

August 28, 2012

This is the Baynes translation. In my opinion, Baynes, a medical doctor, analytical psychologist who trained under Jung, gives a translations that has quite a different feel from the Collected Works of Jung (translator most of the volumes is Hull). Hull wasn't a medical doctor and so, though his knowledge of Jung was encyclopedic, lacked the clinical feel that is retained in the Baynes translation. So my suggestion, particularly for all who maintain a clinical practice and want to incorporate Jung's ideas into their practice or for all Jungian analysts or trainees, is that this book is a must have for your library and education.