May 11 2024
From Two Souls to One World: Individuation and the interactive field
Mark Saban
Jung’s experience as a child of having ‘two personalities’ impacted the development of analytical psychology in numerous ways. But its most important influence was upon the emergence of Jung’s notion of individuation. Individuation, the central notion of analytical psychology, is all about the avoidance of one-sidedness. Through the operation of the ‘transcendent function,’ Jung saw individuation as a way to transform creatively in the direction of wholeness.
In his later psychology in particular, Jung became particularly interested in utilising these ideas to overcome the dominant Cartesian split within modern consciousness, and specifically the dichotomy between the psychological dimensions of interiority and exteriority./p>
My goal in this seminar is to explore the notion of the extended psyche that Jung developed in the light of these questions. I will explore how individuation shows up within the analytic vessel and particularly through the energetic field which gets constellated there. I will go on to explore the ways in which these ideas can also provide a way to approach the psychosocial, potentially enabling us to make an authentically Jungian contribution to political and social questions./p>
Mark Saban PhD trained with the Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists, with whom he is a senior analyst, working in London and Oxford. He is also a lecturer in Jungian and post-Jungian studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex.
Publications: Mark co-edited (with Emilija Kiehl and Andrew Samuels) Analysis and Activism - Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology (Routledge 2016) and wrote Two Souls Alas: Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making of Analytical Psychology (Chiron 2019) which won the International Association of Jungian Studies’ Best Book of 2019. Recent papers include ‘Two Jungs: Two Sciences?’ International Journal of Jungian Studies(2022) 1–21.
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