Ett sandkorn innehåller kungariken – eller inte C.G. Jungs svarta böcker i ljuset av brottet med Freud
A sandgrain contains kingdoms – or it may not C.G. Jung’s Black books in the light of the break with Freud
Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung started to write his Black books, in which he saw himself analyzing unconscious fantasies, during the same time that he leaved the psychoanalytical movement and broke off his personal relations with Sigmund Freud. This thesis sees the interpretation of these books through a wider contextualization. The purpose is to contribute to the understanding of the breakup between the two. The therapeutic work will be highlighted where the black books will be seen through the lens of three of Jung’s more known patients as well as through the interest in mythology and fantasy that Jung showed during this time. The theoretic framework stems from Claude Lévi- Strauss’s structuralism, his understanding of the savage mind, and the way the so called bricoleur handles symbols. Through a description of borderline as a psychological category it is suggested that Jung in his work within a psychiatric context met a different group of patients from that of Freuds and that he therefore might have sought to modify his method of therapy. A modification that, it seems, he felt was met with misunderstanding within the psychoanalytical movement, and from Freud, thus leading to the eventual split. The black books are shown to portray the experimentation concerning this change of method. Next to, for Jung known, concepts such as the Oedipus complex and libido, the material can also, through the activities of the bricoleur, be seen to correlate with psychoanalytical theory on borderline, as it was later developed.
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Date
2024-02-14Author
Liljeäng, Svante
Keywords
Jung
Freud
Psykoanalys
Analytisk psykologi
Black Books
Mytologi
Borderline
Brikolör
Det vilda tänkandet
Lévi-Strauss
Psychoanalysis
Black Books
Mythology
The savage mind
Bricoleur
Analytical psychology
Language
swe