Becoming Jungian

Abstract

“A Jungian life” in this superbly readable book by Thomas B. Kirsch means meeting Jung, having family connections to the founder of Jungian analysis, becoming an analyst, helping to build the institutions of Jungian psychology, taking on an international leadership role, pioneering Jungian work in new nations and theoretical directions, teaching, writing, publishing, and, importantly, befriending persons, activities, and Jungian communities. Readers are challenged to wonder what of their inner experience constitutes their story—their personal myth—which shapes the development of their own Jungian life.

Keywords::

• analytical psychology
• analytic training
• ethics
• IAAP
• IAAP president
• Jung
• Jungian
• Jungian analysis
• leadership

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Susan Rowland

Susan Rowland, PhD, is Chair of MA Engaged Humanities and the Creative Life at Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, and formerly Professor of English and Jungian Studies at the University of Greenwich, UK. She is the author of a number of books on literary theory, gender, and Jung, including Jung as a Writer (2005), Jung: A Feminist Revision (2002), C. G. Jung in the Humanities (2010), and The Ecocritical Psyche: Literature, Evolutionary Complexity and Jung (2012). She also researches detective fiction in From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell (2001) and, forthcoming in 2015, The Sleuth and the Goddess in Women's Detective Fiction. Correspondence:[email protected].