Analytical Psychology in Exile by C. G. Jung, Erich Neumann

Two giants of twentieth-century psychology in dialogue C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann first met in 1933, at a seminar Jung was conducting in Berlin. Jung was fifty-seven years old and internationally acclaimed for his own brand of psychotherapy. Neumann, twenty-eight, had just finished his studies in medicine. The two men struck up a correspondence that would continue until Neumann's death in 1960. A lifelong Zionist, Neumann fled Nazi Germany with his family and settled in Palestine in 1934, where he would become the founding father of analytical psychology in the future state of Israel. Presented here in English for the first time are letters that provide a rare look at the development of Jung’s psychological theories from the 1930s onward as well as the emerging self-confidence of another towering twentieth-century intellectual who was often described as Jung’s most talented student. Neumann was one of the few correspondence partners of Jung’s who was able to challenge him intellectually and personally. These letters shed light on not only Jung’s political attitude toward Nazi Germany, his alleged anti-Semitism, and his psychological theory of fascism, but also his understanding of Jewish psychology and mysticism. They affirm Neumann’s importance as a leading psychologist of his time and paint a fascinating picture of the psychological impact of immigration on the German Jewish intellectuals who settled in Palestine and helped to create the state of Israel. Featuring Martin Liebscher’s authoritative introduction and annotations, this volume documents one of the most important intellectual relationships in the history of analytical psychology.

**Source: Wikipedia:** **Erich Neumann** (Hebrew: אריך נוימן‎; 23 January 1905 – 5 November 1960),[2] was a psychologist, philosopher, writer, and student of ***Carl Jung***. **Career** Neumann was born in Berlin to a Jewish family.[1] He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1927 and then continued to study medicine at the University of Berlin, where he acquired his first degree in medicine in 1933. In 1934 Neumann and his wife Julia, who had been Zionists since they were teenagers, moved to Tel Aviv.[1] For many years, he regularly returned to Zürich, Switzerland to give lectures at the C. G. Jung Institute. He also lectured frequently in England, France and the Netherlands, and was a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and president of the Israel Association of Analytical Psychologists. He practiced analytical psychology in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death from kidney cancer in 1960.[1] **Contributions** Neumann contributed to the field of developmental psychology and the psychology of consciousness and creativity. He had a theoretical and philosophical approach to analysis, contrasting with the more clinical concern in England and the United States. His most valuable contribution to psychology was the empirical concept of "centroversion", a synthesis of extra- and introversion. However, he is best known for his theory of feminine development, a theory formulated in numerous publications, most notably The Great Mother. His works also elucidate the way **mythology** throughout history *reveals* aspects of the ***development of consciousness*** that are parallel in both the **individual** and **society** as a whole. **Bibliography** --Tiefenpsychologie und neue Ethik. Rhein, Zürich 1949 --Ursprungsgeschichte des Bewusstseins. Mit einem Vorwort von C.G. Jung. Rascher, Zürich, 1949 --Amor und Psyche. 1952 --Umkreisung der Mitte. 3 Bde., 1953/54 --Die große Mutter. Der Archetyp des großen Weiblichen. Rhein, Zürich 1956 --Der schöpferische Mensch. 1959 --Die archetypische Welt Henry Moores. 1961, posthum veröffentlicht --Krise und Erneuerung. 1961, posthum veröffentlicht --Das Kind. Struktur und Dynamik der werdenden Persönlichkeit. 1963, posthum 1980 veröffentlicht --Jacob et Esaü: L'archétype des frères ennemis, un symbole du judaïsme, posthum 2015. French traduction of Jacob and Esau. Reflection on the Brother Motif, (c) Chiron Publications. **Wikipedia**: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Neumann_(psychologist) Jordan B. Peterson claims Neumann is one of the best analysts and distillers of Carl Jung's works.

Analytical Psychology in Exile

The Correspondence of C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann