Jungian and Interdisciplinary Interfaces Between Emotions Individual and Collective Trauma

Editorial Introduction

Part 1: Emotions as Somatic Unconscious Embodiment

1. The Core-self Betrayed – When Words and Feelings are Disconnected

Astrid Berg

2. Early Infant Emotions, the Mind/body Interface and Archetypal Imagery: A Case Illustration

John Merchant

3. Engaging the Emotional Self: Affect, Metaphor and Embodiment in Analysis

Mark Winborn

Part 2: Emotions in Psychosocial, Eco Political Emplacement

4. In Nature’s Embrace: Emotional Emplacement and the Search for an ‘Eco-symbolic’

Gillian M. Brown

5. Vulnerability and Moral Injuries of Psychotherapists in Countertransference

Huan Wang

6. Fire of Emotions: Challenges of Working Psychoanalytically in Extreme Times

Jolanta Kowal and Ewa Winkler

7. Dissociation and Posthumanism

Glen Slater

Part 3: Emotions, Gender, Lgbtq+

8. Lgbtq Soul Psychology: A Model of Personal Narrative

Marybeth Carter

9. Living Your Animal: Listening to Wild Gender and Sexuality

George Taxidis

10. How to Not Be Like a Girl: A Queer Therapist’s Dance With Shame

José María Jiménez Orvañanos

11. Jung and the Queer Dialectic: A Heretical Tradition

Douglas Thomas

Part 4: Emotions as Unconscious ‘Shadow’ Phenomenology

12. Come Meet the Dragons! A Jungian Multi Modal Analytic Perspective on the Nature of Coming Out of States of Shutdown

Orit Sônia Waisman

13. Medea as the Modern Mother: An Archetypal Understanding of Maternal Infanticide

Brooke Laufer

14. Swallowed by the Dragon: Integrated Perspectives on Emotion

Lynlee Lyckberg

Part 5: Emotions Within History, Myth and War

15. Maria’s Geometric Tetractys Axiom: Alexandrian Wisdom for an Inaugural Occasion, Eros Emergent, Forged in Fire

Evangeline Rand

16. Mr Spock From Star Trek: A Popular Cultural Icon as Symbol for the Importance of Accepting Eros Within

Margaret Ann Mendenhall

Biography

Elizabeth Brodersen, PhD, is an Accredited Training Analyst and Supervisor at the CGJI Zürich, with an MSc in Social Policy and Social Work Studies from the London School of Economics, UK, and a doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies from the University of Essex. She works in a private practice in Germany and Switzerland and is a member of the CGJIZ Research Commission.

Isabelle Meier, PhD (CH), is an Accredited Training Analyst, Supervisor and lecturer at the CGJIZ with a private practice in Zürich. She is Co-President of the International Network of Research in Analytical Psychology INFAP3 and serves on the editorial board of the German journal “Analytische Psychologie” She has published numerous works on clinical research topics.

Valeria Céspedes Musso, PhD, is an independent researcher in private practice in Washington, DC. She received her doctorate in Psychoanalytic Studies in 2017 from the University of Essex, UK. and a Master’s degree in Political Science from Northeastern University, USA. Valeria is currently a Diploma Candidate at the CGJIZ, and a student member of the Research Commission.

'Think of a universe exploding and expanding into an infant star system of interdisciplinary ideas and transgressive clinical approaches that meet the extraordinary demands of our era. Each chapter in this expansive collection integrates contemporary theories on emotion into analytical psychology but also radically challenges its orthodox social, theoretical and clinical boundaries.'

Robin McCoy Brooks, Jungian Analyst, USA, and co-author of The Healing Power of Community - Mutual Aid, AIDS & Social Transformation in Psychology (Routledge, 2025)

'These volumes contain papers of an outstanding conference which took place at the CGJung Institute Zürich in 2023, at which researchers and practitioners of Jungian psychology presented their contributions from practical and theoretical points of view. A wide range of approaches on neurosciences, gender, culture, religion, trauma, just to name a few, are explored within the current views on emotions, reflecting on and relating them to the core concepts of analytical psychology. A remarkable compilation of experts and perspectives in a must-have publication.'

Vicente L. de Moura, Ph.D. Jungian Training analyst, Supervisor and Author, CGJIZ

'This collection of articles presented at the 2023 Conference at the CGJIZ “I Feel, Therefore I Am” reflect upon the fruitful and innovative interdisciplinary interactions between renowned analysts, academics and therapists. Circumambulating the topic of emotions and their relevance for analytical psychology with input from different fields of contemporary research, the contributions give voice to emotion as an essential part of the human psyche that has not always been recognised for its real value. In the light of C.G. Jung’s lifework, emotions have not only a disturbing influence on consciousness, but are, above all, the vessel for transformation. Messages from the unconscious help us to bridge the inner and the outer world, to encounter the soul and become more balanced. The different chapters of this book encourage the readers to use emotions in their therapeutical and analytical work and be aware of the inner voice that expresses emotions in its own language, whether in images, somatic reactions, creativity or feelings.'

Evy Tausky, Jungian Training Analyst and Supervisor, President of the Curatorium of the C.G. Jung-Institute, Zürich