The Post-Jungians

This chapter contemplates how the publication in 2009 of Jung’s Red Book, which contains his active imagination process over many years, has affected the post-Jungian community. Exposure to his self-experimentation clearly demonstrates for the first time both his conceptual shift from a scientific to a hermeneutic approach and his own personal experience of the symbolic process that is individuation. Such publication has revolutionised the way that the post-Jungians envisage Jung, emphasising the process-oriented nature of his model of the psyche and the ways in which the analytic process addresses the dialectic tension arising between conscious and unconscious. Important advances by post-Jungians, such as Atmanspacher, Aziz, Cambray, Fordham, Hogenson, Jacoby, Kirsch, Main, Neumann, Samuels, Singer and Stein, are also mentioned to supplement the discussion.