Enchanting the Unconscious
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Association Of Jungian Analysts
Description
This talk, delivered by Diane Finiello Zervas, will focus on the discovery, research, and writing of Enchanting the Unconscious: Jung, Great Britain and his English Seminars, 1919 and 1920, to be published by Routledge in May 2025. These seminars, reconstructed for the first time from contemporary first-hand notes, give unique insight into Jung’s interests, analytical, supervisory and teaching methods in the aftermath of his revolutionary ‘Confrontation with the Unconscious’ and creation of The Red Book. The notes were taken by Constance Long, Jung’s analysand, colleague, and editor of his Collected Papers on Analytic Psychology, 1916 and 1917. Her journal records her analysis and the experiences of Jung’s first London cohort.
Long’s notes also reveal Jung’s use of visual imagery to instruct the group about active imagination and the transcendent function, highlighting the primacy of the image in analytical psychology. The interpersonal dynamics recorded by Long and others during and after the seminars also chart the apex and decline of Jung’s first English cohort.
Diane Finiello Zervas is an art historian, and a senior member and supervisor at the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, London with a special interest in the interface between creativity and psychology. She has published two books and numerous articles on Florentine medieval and renaissance art, served as a guest editor and author for Harvest, and edited Francesco Donfrancesco, Soul-Making: Interweaving Art and Analysis (Routledge 2009). Together with George Bright and Katerina Sarafidou she is a co-founder of the Circle of Analytical Psychology.
