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Blog postTurbulent Times, Creative MindsEdited: Erel Shalit and Murray Stein
This reviewer of Turbulent Times, Creative Minds was introduced to the work of Erich Neumann decades ago by his close friend, Gerhard Adler, who thought highly of him. In complete contrast, Michael Fordham was critical of Neumann’s thinking on the child and told this reviewer he doubted that Neumann had ever encountered an actual child – thereby enacting an actual experience of the opposites. In ad -
Blog postRequiem: A Tale of Exile and Return
The razor-sharp edge of religious beliefs and national conflict, of shadowy projections and existential anxiety, that characterize Israel and its neighbors, gives rise to a particular blend of archetypal fate and personal destiny, of doubt and conviction, despair and commitment, of collective identity and personal choice.However, I do believe that the essence of my wonderings reach beyond the shores of the eastern Mediterranean or Jewish tradition. -
Blog postJerusalem is the capital of Israel, the center of the Jewish people, whether the American President says so or not, and whether the Palestinians accept it or reject it. Hopefully the Arab part of Jerusalem, what in Arabic is Al-Quds will, one day, also be the capital of a Palestinian State. Not instead of Jewish Jerusalem, but alongside.The Palestinians and other Arab countries have tried to deny the intimate and historic link between the Jewish people and Jerusalem - rather success
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Blog postIn The Cycle of Life: Themes and Tales of the Journey, I mention five pathologies that I relate to the idea of the Archetypal Adult. In this brief presentation I mention an additional one, which Jung speaks about – imitation. In the Red Book he writes, “The new God laughs at imitation and discipleship.”
In Two Essays in Analytical Psychology he writes,"The human being has one faculty which, though it is of the greatest utility from the collective point of view, is -
Blog postThe Sun and the Sword,
The Moon and the Mirror
by Erel Shalit
Besides the more commonly accounted for masculine, solar aspect of the hero’s journey, we may refer to a feminine, lunar attribute as well. They represent different attitudes vis-à-vis the unconscious.
The sun-hero has a dual relationship to the Great Mother, as exemplified by Heracles; his name means Glory of Hera, yet the goddess drives him to madness. He sets out on the mission t -
Blog postA presentation on YouTube by
Yehuda Abramovitch
M.D. Psychiatrist at Beer-Yaakov Mental Health Center and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University. Senior Analyst, Israel Institute of Jungian Psychology.
Jung understood Schizophrenia as an "Abaissement du Niveau Mental", a similar phenomenon to the one encountered in dreams, and caused by a peculiar "Faiblesse de la Volonté". He contested that complexes in Schizophrenia, in -
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Blog post79 years ago, on the night between November 9-10, 1938, pogroms took place during the so called Kristallnacht, in which more than 90 Jews were killed, 30,000 incarcerated in concentration camps, 1,000 synagogues were burned, thousands of Jewish business, schools, homes and buildings damaged and destroyed.
The Eternal Jew exhibition first opened in the Library of the German Museum in Munich on November 8, 1937, and ended on January 31, 1938, thus preceding the Kristalnight by exactly a year -
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Blog post4th of November marks twenty-two years since the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.A gathering is held on that day, 4th of November 2017, end of Sabbath, at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
The blood-stained text of the Song for Peace
found in Rabin's pocket
For most of forty years the right-wing has ruled Israel, and the present Netanyahu government is not only the most extremist of them all, it bears far too many of the insignia of neo-fascism.Netanyahu was one -
Blog postWe mourn the passing of Tom Kirsch, after a long and courageous battle with terminal illness.
Tom was one of the leading torch bearers in the tradition of Jungian psychology. He was a Graduate of Yale Medical School, Stanford Department of Psychiatry and C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco. He was president of the Jung Institute of San Francisco, as well as of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. He wrote The Jungians, and in 2014, Fisher King Press pu -
Blog postJung`s Red Book For Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions by Murray Stein (Editor), Thomas Arzt (Editor) The essays in this volume are geared to the recognition that the posthumous publication of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C. G. Jung in 2009 was a meaningful gift to our contemporary world. Similar to the volatile times Jung confronted with highly turbulent and uncertain conditions of world affairs that found himself in when he created this work a century ago, we today t
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Blog postThis book is so full of life that it should be read by everyone, especially the young, and the leaders of the region, particularly those on both the Israeli and Palestinian side who find and raise every obstacle possible to avoid what Peres so pertinently calls “the necessity of peace.”
"In 1934 eleven-year-old Shimon Peres emigrated to the land of Israel from his native Poland, leaving behind an extended family who would later be murdered in the Holocaust."
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Blog postJoshua Sobol, the outstanding Israeli playwright and director, writes the following, after Benjamin Netanyahu's comment in a Bible class that he hopes Israel will last longer than the rule of the Hasmoneans:
"Bibi compares the life expectancy of the State of Israel with that of the Hasmoneans, which lasted a merely 77 years, while he wishes Israel to be able to celebrate its hundredth birthday.In other words: let’s hope Israel will continue to exist another thirty years.Those w -
Blog postPresident Reuven Rivlin attends the state ceremony
marking 44 years since the Yom Kippur War. (Mark Neyman/GPO)Not a single member of Netanyahu's government saw it fit to honor the memorial service to the fallen soldiers of the Yom Kippur War, held at the military cemetery at Jerusalem's Mount Herzl, on October 1, 2017. When contacted by the organization commemorating the fallen soldiers, the office of the PM responded that the ministers are very busy.
Ehud Barak expressed outrage a -
Blog postA legend tells us that when a person is created, s/he is tied to God with a string. If s/he sins, the string breaks. But repentance during the Days of Awe brings the angel Gabriel down to make a knot in the string, and the person is once again tied to God. Because we all sin once in a while, our strings become full of knots.
But a string with many knots is, clearly, shorter than one without knots. Therefore repentance brings a person closer to God and, evidently, there is no repenta -
Blog postיציעים ריקים בטקס ה"ממלכתי"ימאמר בהארץ של אהוד ברק
הטקס בגוש עציון לציון 50 שנה לחזרתנו אל כל ארץ ישראל, ערש לידתנו כאומה וכנושאי שליחות אוניברסלית, הוא הכל מלבד טקס ממלכתי. זהו אירוע שעוצב כניסיון פוליטי זול ובוטה לנכס לימין בישראל את הישגי מלחמת ששת הימים ואת אהבת הארץ, ולעזאזל האמת והעובדות.טקס ממלכתי היה מדגיש את המאחד והמוסכם ולא את המפלג והמפריד, שלא לומר המסית. טקס ממלכתי היה משקף את תרומת כל הזרמים בעם להישגי ההתיישבות ביהודה ושומרון ואף את המחלוקת הלגיטימית ע -
Blog postWith the publication in 2015 of the important correspondence between C.G. Jung and Erich Neumann (edited by Martin Liebscher), there has been something of a Neumann renaissance. A major international conference was held in 2015 at Kibbutz Shefayim, with participants from more than 25 countries, and in 2016 a symposium was held at the Pacifica Institute in California.
Neumann’s slim but brilliant book, Jacob and Esau: On the collective symbolism of the brother -
Blog post“The art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts.” C.G. Jung
Kafka's short story The Next Village illustrates two aspects of the cycle, or the stages, of life - the experience and the memory.
You are invited to watch an 8 minute video on YouTube, excerpted from a lecture on The Cycle of Life.
I am grateful to Adam Kościuk and Karol Domański who have prepared and edited this video, as always in the most wonderful way. (The video can also be watch -
Blog postאני מאחל לכולם שנת בריאות, שלום ויצירה
An excerpt from Enemy, Cripple, Beggar: Shadows in the Hero's Path:....In Egypt the ram was a sign of Amon-Ra, the sun-god. In Jewish symbolism we find it in the Shofar, the ram’s horn, and its call for repentance and freedom, and in the bonding of Isaac, where the ram is sacrificed in exchange of Isaac, in Abraham’s act of submission to the male God. The Shofar, in fact, is a symbol that unites the opposites. It represents freedom as well as repentan -
Blog postOne of the greatest rewards of being a publisher is in reflecting and rejoicing in the many meaningful and timely Fisher King Press publications. It truly is a privilege to be the midwife of these newborns—many of whom arrive far ahead of their time—and to witness their maturing and assimilation into the collective consciousness.
With the wars being fought on many fronts, and with the posturing and possibility of yet more, I reached for Erel Shalit’s Enemy, Cripple, Beggar: Shadows -
Blog postסעיד
/ רן כהןמיהו סעיד הקטן, שהוברח לבדו אחרי הפרעות ביהודי בגדד אל מעבר לנהר שאט־אל־ערב לאיראן? מיהו הילד העירקי שהגיע לבדו לישראל הצעירה והוא רק בן עשר? איך הצליח ילד דובר ערבית, להיטמע ולהתערות באופן מלא כל־כך בלב ליבו של הנוער הישראלי של שנות החמישים? איך צמח עד שהיה מִבן מיעוט נרדף בגולת־בבל למנהיג של ציבור בישראל?
הסיפור המרתק הזה מחיה את דרכו של סעיד כהן הקטן עד שהיה לרן כהןהמוכּר כחבר כנסת ואף כשר בממשלת ישראל. לא סוד הוא שחייו הציבוריים של ר -
Blog postThe English will follow the Hebrew
.קונגרס הציוני הראשון התקיים בין 29 ל31 באוגוסט, 1897, כלומר, לפני 120 שנה:לאחר הקונגרס, הרצל כתב בעיתונו, ב10 לספטמברמסתבר שלרעיון הלאומי היהודי הכח המאחד אנשים בעלי הבדלי שפה, הבדלים חברתיים, פוליטיים ודתיים לשלם אחדבהסתתו, שממשיכה יותר מעשרים שנה, הן כמנהיג האופוזיציה בתקופת רבין בתחילת שנות התשעים, הן כראש הממשלה בהווה, נתניהו עושה כל מאמץ (מוצלח מבחינתו) להפריד בין חלקי העם ולהסית נגד כל מי שחושב אחרת ממנוללא רמז של יושרה או רסן, הוא עושה הכל כ -
Blog postPM. Netanyahu, leader of the most extreme and anti-democratic government that has ever ruled in Israel, has declared that he is no longer Prime Minister of the entire population, inciting against the left, the media, Arabs, and whoever does not directly swear allegiance to him.The police was ordered on August 19 to prevent the demonstrations against his corruption, carried out hundreds of meters from the home of the Attorney General, and the arrest of leaders of the manifestation. One of th
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Blog postThis essay, in the Spring 2017 issue of Quadrant, examines the liminal phase of society and interiority in which we find ourselves today and poses several questions to the irrepressibly optimistic inventors of a techno-utopian future: Can we really be and feel happy if we need to be informed about it by a cellphone app? Do 93 million selfies a day replace a single moment of true reflection? How can we remain relatively integrated individuals in the transiency of the present?
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Blog postThe Polish edition of The Cycle of Life: Themes and Tales of the Journey. Translation by Karol Domanski and Adam Kosciuk.Introduction by Aleksandra SzczepaniakDesign: Marta Rydz
From the introduction by Aleksandra Szczepaniak: This is a journey leading us along the paths of human life. It is also an introduction to the art of amplification that being a method of broadening of the meaning thr
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