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Episode 112: Craig Stephenson

Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

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Young's Comparative Anatomy of the Psyche

The first book you wrote titled possession, young's comparative anatomy of the psyche was originally published in two thousand nine. You say possession is a lynch pin of young's analytical psychology. But what i noticed was that if you track the word possession through the collected works, you'll see that it's an constant. It's there in his medical dissertation when he's a very young man, just graduating from the university of basle. The word possession is in one of the last essays that he wrote to an audience of medical doctors, and he's talking about scitsophrenia. His question is, what do we do with that experience? Whether it's an inflation, a negative inflation

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