Anxiety and the Postmodern Condition

Turbulent Times, Creative Minds Edited: 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 addition, the profound Jung thinker, Wolfgang Giegerich, has also written critically on Neumann.  In order to experience Neumann’s thinking at first-hand, this reviewer participated in the 2015 conference held at Kibbutz Shefayim to mark the publication of the correspondence between Jung and Neumann edited by Martin Liebscher. The current skillfully edited book arising from that conference is an  homage  to the exceptional personal and professional relationship betw...

Jung`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 too are threaten any sense of coherent meaning, personally and collectively. The Red Book promises to become an epochal opus for the 21st century in that it offers  us guidance for finding soul under postmodern conditions. This is the first volume of a three-volume series set up on a global and multicultural level and compiling essays from distinguished Jungian analysts and scholars.   Contributions by:   Murray Stein: Introduction Thomas Arzt: “The Way o...

In these late essays, Murray Stein circles around familiar Jungian themes such as synchronicity, individuation, archetypal image and symbol with a view to bringing these ideas into today’s largely globalized cultural space. These are reflections for our time, drawing importantly on the works of C.G. Jung, Erich Neumann, Wolfgang Pauli and a wide range of contemporary Jungian psychoanalytic wri ters. The general thesis is that all of humanity is connected – to one another, to nature and to the cosmos – and no human being should be left out of the picture of postmodern consciousness. Table of Contents Chapter 1 – Outside Inside and All Around Chapter 2 – Synchronizing Time and Eternity: A Matter of Practice Chapter 3 – Music for a Later Age: Wolfgang Pauli’s “Piano Lesson” Chapter 4 – A Lecture for the End of Time Chapter 5 – “The Problem of Evil” Chapter 6 – On Psyche’s Creativity Chapter 7 – At the Brink of Transformation Chapter 8 – Failure in the Crucible of Ind...

Should clinicians and mental health professionals remain with in the closed vessel of the consulting room, or should they step outside these confines and express themselves regarding trends that are taking place in society and the world, about elections and candidates, about democracy and the characteristics of different regimes? Psychoanalysts such as Freud, Jung, Winnicott, Erik Erikson, Erich Fromm, Erich Neumann and others have often stepped outside the consulting room and looked at the world and society around them. C.G. Jung  writes in his preface to "Essays on Contemporary Events," The storm of events does not sweep down upon him [the doctor] only from the great world outside; he feels the violence of its impact even in the quiet of his consulting-room ...  As he has a responsibility towards his patients, he cannot afford to withdraw to the peaceful island of undisturbed scientific work, but must constantly descend into the arena of world events, in order...