Analytical Psychology Founded by Carl Gustav Jung, the field of analytical psychology is the descendent of the “Zürich School” of psychoanalysis which Jung spearheaded while still the heir apparent to Freud and the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (1910–1914). The first written occurrence of the name “analytical psychology” is in a lecture delivered…
Elijah in Islam In the Koran, Elijah (usually called Ilyas or Idris) is at first mentioned briefly, together with Zechariah, John and Jesus: “and all these We exalted above Our creatures.” A more detailed account of him is given in a later sura (chapter): “We also sent forth Elias, who said to his people: ‘Have…
The Auntification of C. G. Jung Henry Murray often said that all theory is autobiography. André Maurois observed that biography is sometimes disguised autobiography. I’d almost add a dictum of my own: No psychobiography without autobiography. It’s frustrating—if not impossible—to conduct a psychobiographical analysis when your data deal only with the externals of a person’s…
Sources of Japanese Mythology There are two main types of sources from which we get information about Japanese mythology. Both Shintō and Buddhism have textual canons from which myths have been drawn. Few of these written works have the same status of irrefutable truth attributed to, say, the Christian Bible. Nonetheless, like the Bible, they…
Politicizing Magic BABA YAGA Once there lived a peasant and his wife and they had a daughter. The wife died. The husband married again, and had a daughter with the new wife. The wife conceived a dislike for her stepdaughter and made the girl’s life miserable. The peasant thought and thought and finally drove his…