Jung by Phil Goss

Author:Phil Goss
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Tags: Jung: A Complete Introduction
ISBN: 9781473601772
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 2015-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

‘… be the man through whom you wish to influence others… the fourth stage of analytical psychology requires the counter-application to the doctor of whatever system is believed in…’

The analyst therefore needs to adopt within themselves whatever struggle the analysand is engaged in (e.g. becoming more assertive, or more spontaneous) to help them be that, too.

Jungian analysis in practice

In order best to illustrate how the analytic process works, we will explore its application to one fictionalized analysis, which will be referred to again in the following chapters. The analysand concerned is ‘Jolanta’ and she is a young woman of 28 who moved to the UK from Poland five years before she first went for analysis, seeking work opportunities and a new life. She had managed this to some degree, establishing herself in a job in retail which was not very well paid but promised better prospects.

Jolanta is gay and has had a couple of relationships with other women prior to the analysis; but these have not worked out well and both seemed to fall apart unexpectedly after about a year or so. This is the main factor that has brought her into analysis – she wants to understand better why her intimate relationships, which she had so wanted to work out well, have collapsed. She also wants to explore certain experiences from her childhood in Poland, where she says of her family situation ‘all seemed well on the surface, but there was something fragile about it’. There are dreams she wants to bring, too, and one of her friends suggested Jungian analysis because of this. To briefly set the scene, the initial sessions of the work go as far as the confession and elucidation stages.

Confession: Jolanta reports feeling ashamed at how ‘controlling’ she has been with both previous partners, as well as describing how ‘ruthlessly ambitious’ and ‘restless’ she can be.

Elucidation: The analyst is just beginning to identify key themes arising from the above around, for example, her mistrust of others and ‘always having to do tasks herself because other people never do them properly’. The analyst notices impatience and intolerance in her initial countertransference, presumably an echo of what Jolanta describes here. The analysis has not got as far as the education or transformation stages, nor has she brought any dream material into the sessions yet.

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