1st Edition

Contemporary Voices on Individuation C.G. Jung’s Legacy for the Modern World

Edited By Giorgio Tricarico Copyright 2025
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

This new collection of essays by a range of Jungian analysts and scholars seeks to address the concept of individuation in contemporary times, and reflects on its meaning within the 21st century. The concept of individuation is at the core of Analytical Psychology, and can be considered the main legacy of C.G. Jung’s body of work. And yet, in the collective culture, Jung seems to be mostly... Read more

1. Introduction

Giorgio Tricarico

2. A Conversation with Sonu Shamdasani

Giorgio Tricarico

3. Individuation: the Three Main Decisions in Life Require Taking Risk

Martin Schmidt

4. “I did the best I could at the time”. An Invitation to Individuate?

Kerrie Kirkwood

5. Individuation: Clinical Process or Romantic Ideal?

Mark Winborn

6. Synchronicity and Individuation: Meaningful Coincidences as Turning Points in Human Development

Marina Conti

7. Individuation beyond the Individual: From Atrial Fibrillation to the Biopolitics of Empathy

Antonio Lanfranchi

8. How to Be in the Presence of Bounty

Barbara H. Miller

9. Lesbian Identity as a Path to Individuation

Carolina Guíñez

10. At the Intersection of Identity Politics and Individuation

Barry Miller

11. Individuation and Polyamory

Giorgio Tricarico

12. Temporality, Meaning, Wholeness: Revisiting C.G. Jung’s Notion of Individuation

Marco H. Barreto

Biography

Giorgio Tricarico is a psychologist, psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and supervisor, member of the IAAP. He has worked with adult patients since 1998. He is an international lecturer on relevant issues in Analytical Psychology, a writer of articles and books (published by Routledge: The Labyrinth of Possibility, and Lost Goddesses: A Kaleidoscope on Porn), and is an independent researcher on porn and ethical non-monogamy.