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- Title
The egg, the vessels and the words.From Izdubar to Answer to Job<sup>1</sup> For an imaging thinking.
- Authors
Gaillard, Christian
- Abstract
This essay on The Red Book seeks to underscore a characteristic specific to Jung's approach to psychoanalysis. In this book, and more generally, in all of his writings, Jung's thinking is based on his personal experience of the unconscious, in which he leaves himself open to progressive encounters. Some of them, in the years 1913-14 and 1929-30, particularly his meeting with the giant Izdubar, were quite threatening. As a result, he forged an original way of thinking that is qualified here as 'imaging' and 'emergent'. The Red Book served as the first vessel for theories Jung would later express. His way of thinking, with its failures and semi-successes, all of which are always temporary, of course, is compared to the art of the potter. The author shows the kinship between the formation of the main Jungian concepts and the teachings of the French poet, professor, and art critic Yves Bonnefoy. He also considers certain recurrent formal themes in the work of contemporary German painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer. Lastly, this epistemological study, constantly aware of the demands of Jungian clinical practice, demonstrates the continuity in Jung's work, from The Red Book to Answer to Job, where Jung ultimately elaborated a conception of history that defines our ethical position today.
- Subjects
PSYCHOANALYSIS; FRENCH poets; EMERGENCE (Philosophy); ETHICS; KINSHIP; KIEFER, Anselm, 1945-; THEORY of knowledge
- Publication
Journal of Analytical Psychology, 2012, Vol 57, Issue 3, p299
- ISSN
0021-8774
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01973.x