Subject: depth psychology
From: Scottie Bowman (rbowman@indigo.ie)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 02:20:30 GMT
I shared rooms in Trinity with a chap called Glyn Bennet
who used to spend a few days each summer in the Swiss family
enclave of his father's friend & colleague, Carl Gustav Jung.
Each time, Glyn would come back electrically charged by
his exposure to the kindly wit & wisdom of this Great Man.
And I was similarly impressed when I watched him in a famous
hour-long television interview with John Freeman a year or two
before his death. He seemed such a wonderful mixture of boyish
cheerfulness & timeless serenity.
For the first year or so of my headshrinking career I fell under
the influence of another Jungian enthusiast who got me to read
about the collective unconscious, typology, individuation & so on.
I even tried to make sense of his more ornate ideas about alchemy,
God & stuff. Father Victor White ('God & the Unconscious')
was very helpful. And, of course, the nuns were always delighted
with my little lectures on the compatability of psychology & religion.
I don't actually remember anything about exorcism or possession
- but I'll bet they were in there somewhere, being absolutely
his thing.
Disillusionment followed when I tried to apply his principles
to the understanding & aid of actual, living patients. Their eyes
kept glazing over. It was only when I began talking dirty -
as, by then, I'd been trained to do by those unpleasant Freudians
- that they began to sit up, take notice & get a hold of their lives.
Scottie B.
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