A Contemporary Jungian Lens on Temporality and Shame

ABSTRACT

The book Temporality and Shame: Perspectives in Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (2018) includes eleven beautifully crafted, interdisciplinary chapters on shame and its relationship to time, ethics, culture, religion, morality, human nature, and clinical work. It is edited by two Jungian analysts, both editors of the Journal of Analytical Psychology (JAP), Drs. Ladson Hinton and Hessel Willemsen. The chapters are written by contemporary Jungian analysts, philosophers, a filmmaker, and an anthropologist who was a witness at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Each chapter teaches us about shame in our lives, from a reflection on shame and technology to an astute analysis of new ways to help those suffering from both personal and ontological shame.

KEY WORDS:

• Antigone, C. G. Jung
• Khmer Rouge
• Jacques Lacan
• ontological shame
• shame
• Bernard Stiegler
• technology
• temporality
• trauma

Notes

References to The Collected Works of C. G. Jung are cited in the text as CW, volume number, and paragraph number. The Collected Works are published in English by Routledge (UK) and Princeton University Press (USA).

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Betsy Cohen

BETSY COHEN, PhD, is on the faculty of the C. G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and Sonoma State University in Sonoma, California. Her full-time private practice is in Albany, California. She is the author of the bestseller The Snow White Syndrome: All About Envy (Macmillan Publishing, 1986), which has been published in six languages. She is also the author of “The Intimate Self-Disclosure” (The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, 2004) and several articles that have been published in Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche, including “The Trace of the Face of God: Emmanuel Levinas and Depth Psychotherapy” (2008), “Jung’s Answer to Jews” (2012), “Dr. Jung and His Patients” (2015), and “A Flexible Frame: Holding the Patient in Mind” (2017). “Tangled Up in Blue: A Revision of Complex Theory” appeared in How and Why We Still Read Jung (Routledge, 2013). Her current interests include Plato and the Song of Songs, regarding love in analysis. Correspondence: [email protected].