Too Much Too Jung?
Having established that 61% of you are "life's administrators" I'm not entirely sure that you would have taken this morning's lecture in the spirit intended. But for the two of you willing to "give life an extra squeeze" I hope you enjoyed it. As for you "smooth talking persuader" and "life's natural leader", I'm sure you will both find application for the idea of archaic residues at some stage in your exciting journeys through life. And I myself will continue performing that "noble service to helping society" when I find out what it is...
I have been struggling with technical blog difficulties and an ear infection for a couple of weeks, so apologies for the lack of posting. Jeff is also struggling to make contact, but watch this space for a forthcoming posting and a request for feedback on your museum trips.
Today you have drifted through the library's texts on/by Jung and selected three that appealed to your 'type'. Tell us what they were (give the references - do a link for it you can) and what they said that might be useful to boost our geographic imagination. Make it a useful revision source for other readers...
posted by Sara @ 10:14 am
9 Comments:
At 6:32 pm,
Anonymous said…
The first journal I read was entitled, “The dreaming mind-brain: a Jungian perspective and it was by Margaret Wilkinson. In this paper, the author explores the nature and role of dreaming with reference to Jungian theory. The two main points that I drew out that were in some way concerned with geography were:
1/ Dreaming as being regionally different to experiences in an awake state. This I believe can be linked back to the ideas of space and place. The journal talks of dreaming as an act where through brain activity, the mind is allowed, or is able to enter a space or place which cannot be otherwise entered.
2/ The second point is linked to the first, and it is that dreaming is a guardian for memory. In other words, dreaming encodes and organizes memory of experiences one has encountered at a given time at a given place. Dreaming therefore allows previous experiences to be played out in a different order or different ways in a different place or space which cannot otherwise be entered.
The second journal is entitled, “The reception of Holocaust research in the
world of psychology” by Joanne Wieland-Burston. In essence this journal discusses the issue of collective trauma amongst a survivor population. This journal was interesting to read but very difficult to link back to geographical issues. The only real issue that crossed my mind was that of exclusion. I.e. those who have not experienced the trauma of the holocaust cannot begin to understand what those who did went through, and because they cannot understand the Jewish heritage and history which is embedded within the Jewish culture some may brand this race as an ‘other’ within British society. This however I would argue as a very blinkered, narrow minded point of view.
At 7:13 pm,
Anonymous said…
I couldn’t really pick out any direct links to geography so I looked more the approaches used.
My first journal was entitled “Jung, the trickster writer, or what literary research can do for the clinician” by Susan Rowland. The article highlights the importance of literary scholarship in reading and interpreting works, in this case those of Jung. In terms of applying the journal to geography, perhaps the most pertinent parallel that can be drawn is to the processes by which we ourselves analyse texts and the various methods of reading and interpretation employed, constructing and deconstructing rational knowledge.
The second article I found, “Rereading/misreading Jung: post-Jungian theory” by James Baumlin. This journal acts more as a critique of re-reading dated texts through ‘the lenses of poststructuralism’, probing the works of Rowland (first journal) and Jensen (an American composition theorist). He comments on how both have manipulated the works of Jung, and attempted to in effect ‘modernise’ his theories by placing them in modern paradigms. We as geographers must be aware of the times and context in which the articles we digest were conceived, though I would argue that it is not always appropriate to ‘pick apart’ existing theories from a modern standpoint, in effect altering their meaning. Maybe…
I may have missed the point with this one :-S
At 10:44 pm,
Anonymous said…
Jung books by michael h
These three works by Jung deal mainly with religion and possibly his own beliefs which he imparts onto man in general and the desire to believe in God. For example within Synchronicity: C.G. Jung, Psychoanalysis, and Religion (1960). Synchronicity as a concept describes the meaningful paralleling of inner and outer events manifested by an ordered-ness in nature. These synchronistic events can be explained fully in such naturalistic terms as they comprise an instance of the "uncanny" by which they return the individual subjectively to a period when the world was sympathetically attuned to said individual's wishes and requirements. Jung invoked the spiritual, or the supernatural, or the paranormal to explain synchronicity rather than exploring the early stages of human existence and evolution within his work on psychoanalysis and religion. This can also been seen as a similar theme in Jungs Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) by which he details man's need for a God and the mechanics of dream analysis, which is further explored in; The Nature of the Psyche (1969) where Jung's discovery of the 'collective unconscious', which he describes as a psychic inheritance common to all humankind, arguably transformed the understanding of the self and the way we relate to the environment and its manifestation in the conscious mind of the individual
At 12:41 am,
Anonymous said…
The first journal I read: Eisold, K. (2001) ‘Institutional conflicts in Jungian Analysis’ Journal of Analytical Psychology, 46: 335-353.
Although it was difficult to extract the geography from this article, it did show that psychoanalysis has come about through various conflicts between academics and institutions. I chose this to highlight the situated creation of knowledge; in this case highlighting how different places (London and Zurich) can establish different prescriptions for Jungian analysis. Zurich, taking a traditional Jungian approach and London pushing for the creation of a professional body of psychotherapy and analysis. The geography in this article can be seen as the inseparable nature of space and place from the creation of knowledge, and that social creations running through place, for example power relations, play an important role in how we construct this knowledge.
The second journal I read: Castellana, F & Donfrancesco, A (2005) ‘Sandplay in Jungian Analysis: Matter and symbolic integration’. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 50: 367-382.
I thought the geography in this journal can be found in how we all experience place. The journal talks about psychotherapy and how through giving people a sand tray in order to create their feelings, analysts can gain a more rounded image of the person mentally. I think the journal also highlights the importance of the body in space, after all we experience space through our bodies. Through talking about the interaction between materiality and expression, the journal led me to think, are the two separable? A tangent coming off from this that I thought was of interest, is that it has been well documented how space and time are inseparable but maybe the time has come to recognise the integrated and maybe inseparable nature of experience into space / time.
At 12:48 pm,
Anonymous said…
I looked primarily at two critiques on Jung's work. The first one is by J Pennachio 1992 journal of Religion and Health titled ' Gnostic Inner Illumination and Carl Jung's Individuation'.The second text is by Raya, A Jones 'The Relevance of C. G .Jung' Theory Psychology journal, (2001). Both texts outline Jung's hypothesis on sybolism as a residue of the collective unconscious mind, and how the path of inner fulfilment and need for personal meaning is characteristic of all cultures.
In the former text, his take on individuation ( the inward journey of the self)is described through processes of pain, suffering and rebirth, this can be applied to how geographers cumulation of knowege progressess, via failure, grappling with unfamiliar concepts that ultimately lead to growth.
We can also draw paralelles to what constitutes as 'knowlege'; in the latter text it is outlined how Jung feels meaning is created by 'lived' bodily experiences that become embedded in the mind. This can be linked back to the social construction of knowlege and how eveyone interprets knowlege differently so there is no universal 'truth'.
At 1:13 pm,
Anonymous said…
Hostie, R. (1957) Religion and the Psychology of Jung.
This book began by examining Jung’s empirical method, his fundamental ideas and his attempts to reconcile conflicting views. It then goes on to assess the psychology of religion. Jung suggests that religion is an integral part to the development of Western culture, creating a path of which many people choose to follow. This thus links to cultural geography in that religious beliefs can affect behaviour, actions and attitudes of individuals. Religion also affects how different people use different spaces.
Dry, A. (1961) The Psychology of Jung.
A leader of his field, Jung’s dynamic approach and his continual probing of the depths of the psyche has made him famous. His thirst for the identification of unknown territory, exploration, and possibilities of discovery in the human mind can be likened to the quest of geography as a way of understanding the world in which we live. Like leading geographers, Jung explored many different scientific paths, after each returning to his fundamental basis greatly strengthened. His new knowledge influenced his future work, linking to Livingstone’s (2005) proposal that meaning and understanding is shaped by the past texts, theories and practices in which the individual has engaged.
At 2:44 pm,
Anonymous said…
The first book I read by Jung was Memories, Dreams and Reflections (1983) which was based upon an account of his personal life and the memories he has. Such reflections looked at his experiences spanning early memories until his student years and detailed his perceptions of various places as he moved around. Such accounts suggested ideas of how experiences of place link to the images we hold within our memory. I feel this links to the ideas of alternative geographies as covered in the first lecture along with 'ghosts of place' which we covered in the previous lecture as it suggests that the memories we hold of a place taint this place forever, we will always hold a 'ghost' of that place, of what is was.
The second book by Jung is Aspects of the Masculine (1989) and details the development of masculinity throughout life. This is considerably harder to link to the wider issues in geography as it appears to concern more the personal struggles man has throughout stages in life. One link however is reflected through Jung's attempt to analyse the progress through the successive stages of life and the demands of life and of environment generally experienced. Jung himself suggests that it is 'the demands of life which harshly put an end to the dream of childhood' (27). This highlights how it is life and existance within the environment which impacts upon the individual and through this links to many aspects within geography, particularly social and cultural geography.
I did also look at Aspects of the Feminine by Jung (1982) however this was far more psychologically based with no apparent links to geography.
At 3:14 pm,
Anonymous said…
The first book I read was an 'Introduction to Jung's Psychology', by Fordham, 1953. This gave a good description of Jung's theories concerned with dreams, the unconscious and psychological types; introvert and extrovert. The inner and outer psychic processes can link to geography in the way that people perceive how important their surrounding environment is to them, and how influential it has been in shaping their personality.
The second book I looked at was titled 'Carl Gustav Jung' by Casement, 2001. This tended to put more emphasis on Jung's dream theory. The link to geography here could be that a place can appear different and evoke alternative feelings in a dream than if it were visited in real life. The person's knowledge and opinion of a place may thus alter depending on what exists in reality and what exists in their dream.
The main themes I can identify after reading about Jung's work are that people can experience place differently according to their psychological type, and conceptions of the environment can be influenced by imaginary thoughts as well.
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