Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts

Episode 121: Polly Young-Eisendrath

Jun 28, 2023
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ANECDOTE

Finding June Singer

  • Polly recounts finding June Singer's Boundaries of the Soul and entering analysis with her, which redirected her career toward Jungian analysis.
  • Their relationship later included friendship and deep conversations about loss that influenced Polly's work on suffering and individuation.
INSIGHT

Sovereignty Through Story

  • Polly frames Hags & Heroes as a feminist corrective to Jungian accounts that often marginalize women's agency.
  • The Lady Ragnell folktale models sovereignty: a woman claims voice and transforms relationship dynamics.
ANECDOTE

Creating Dialogue Therapy At Home

  • Polly and her husband Ed developed dialogue therapy informally, testing techniques in their living room and incorporating psychodrama elements.
  • The Galway and Ragnell story became a central teaching tool that emotionally prepared trainees for the method.
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