Steven B Herrmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 5445591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven B Herrmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven B |
| FAMILY NAME | Herrmann |
| SIGNATURE | HERRMANN S B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Mountain Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Letters from Katherine
I was sent on a knight’s errand by my Spiritual Mother, the former Jungian psychologist Katherine Whiteside Taylor, almost five decades ago in 1976. I was to go out in search of the Holy Grail at t
A Dream from the Pacific
I find myself with my brother at a large fish market near a dock by the ocean, near where we grew up, up the street from Lover’s Point in Pacific Grove. Two women with fish knives are cutting off f
The Hypothesis of Psychic Antibodies
This paper explores the author’s clinical work with a young boy between the ages of four and eleven. The author postulates that there are, in addition to “defenses of the self” that develop in a pathological, indeed, toxic way to isolate the child by alienating others and making the child emotionally sick, healthier defenses of the self, which are described as image-producing antibodies that work to undo the toxic effects of morbid defenses. Thes…
Melville’s Portrait of Same-Sex Marriage in Moby-Dick
Herman Melville’s writings include portrayals of same-sex eros. In his own life, he encountered socially acceptable homosexuality when he lived on the Island of Nukakiva in the Marquesas in 1842. There he encountered a tayo, a homosexual who cared for him and shared his bed. In a number of novels prior to Moby-Dick, Melville provided fictional sketches of tayo figures. In Moby-Dick, Melville describes Ishmael’s “wedding” with Queequeg, his “bosom…
Colloquy with the Inner Friend
This paper considers Marie-Louise von Franz’s use of the words love, differentiated feeling, eros, and civilization in her lecture “C. G. Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our Civilization.” and explores how we might begin to acknowledge the reality of the Self, when the world-embracing spirit of God insists upon an awareness of the shadow and evil. What did Jung’s grappling with the God-function—feeling—have to do with Islam? Jung…
Luigi Zoja
Steven B. Herrmann . 2007. “Luigi Zoja: Cultivating the Soul.” Review of Luigi Zoja, Cultivating the Soul. London: Free Association, 2005, Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 1:4, 83-90. The follows an interconnected thread between the notions of Némesis and hýbris in Luigi Zoja's major books and papers. Herrmann argues that for Zoja, true (tragic) narratives are necessary for psychotherapists and analysts as well as for culture generally; for withou…
Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination
Steven B. Herrmann, “Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination,” Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 2007, 1:2, 16-47. This essay examines the meaning of the homoerotic imagination in the poetry and prose works of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s imaginative penetration by the archetype he termed “Fierce Wrestler” led him to develop a political theory of same-sex eros, or “adhesiveness,” that anticipated the gay liberation movement in America by over 100 ye…
Emergence of the bipolar cultural complex in Walt Whitman
My main hypothesis in this paper(1) is that America's seminal poet, Walt Whitman, was trapped--like so many of his contemporaries--in 'cultural complexes' (Singer & Kimbles 2004) that he internalized, but that he found a way to transcend the splits inherent in these 'bipolar' (Perry 1970) organizations through his art. One way he accomplished this was through his aesthetic method of 'holding the opposites' between two poles of a slavery is wrong/…
Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination
Steven B. Herrmann, “Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination,” Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 2007, 1:2, 16-47. This essay examines the meaning of the homoerotic imagination in the poetry and prose works of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s imaginative penetration by the archetype he termed “Fierce Wrestler” led him to develop a political theory of same-sex eros, or “adhesiveness,” that anticipated the gay liberation movement in America by over 100 ye…
Luigi Zoja
Steven B. Herrmann . 2007. “Luigi Zoja: Cultivating the Soul.” Review of Luigi Zoja, Cultivating the Soul. London: Free Association, 2005, Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 1:4, 83-90. The follows an interconnected thread between the notions of Némesis and hýbris in Luigi Zoja's major books and papers. Herrmann argues that for Zoja, true (tragic) narratives are necessary for psychotherapists and analysts as well as for culture generally; for withou…
Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination
Steven B. Herrmann, “Walt Whitman and the Homoerotic Imagination,” Jung Journal: culture & psyche, 2007, 1:2, 16-47. This essay examines the meaning of the homoerotic imagination in the poetry and prose works of Walt Whitman. Whitman’s imaginative penetration by the archetype he termed “Fierce Wrestler” led him to develop a political theory of same-sex eros, or “adhesiveness,” that anticipated the gay liberation movement in America by over 100 ye…
Emergence of the bipolar cultural complex in Walt Whitman
My main hypothesis in this paper(1) is that America's seminal poet, Walt Whitman, was trapped--like so many of his contemporaries--in 'cultural complexes' (Singer & Kimbles 2004) that he internalized, but that he found a way to transcend the splits inherent in these 'bipolar' (Perry 1970) organizations through his art. One way he accomplished this was through his aesthetic method of 'holding the opposites' between two poles of a slavery is wrong/…
Colloquy with the Inner Friend
This paper considers Marie-Louise von Franz’s use of the words love, differentiated feeling, eros, and civilization in her lecture “C. G. Jung’s Rehabilitation of the Feeling Function in Our Civilization.” and explores how we might begin to acknowledge the reality of the Self, when the world-embracing spirit of God insists upon an awareness of the shadow and evil. What did Jung’s grappling with the God-function—feeling—have to do with Islam? Jung…
Melville’s Portrait of Same-Sex Marriage in Moby-Dick
Herman Melville’s writings include portrayals of same-sex eros. In his own life, he encountered socially acceptable homosexuality when he lived on the Island of Nukakiva in the Marquesas in 1842. There he encountered a tayo, a homosexual who cared for him and shared his bed. In a number of novels prior to Moby-Dick, Melville provided fictional sketches of tayo figures. In Moby-Dick, Melville describes Ishmael’s “wedding” with Queequeg, his “bosom…
The Hypothesis of Psychic Antibodies
This paper explores the author’s clinical work with a young boy between the ages of four and eleven. The author postulates that there are, in addition to “defenses of the self” that develop in a pathological, indeed, toxic way to isolate the child by alienating others and making the child emotionally sick, healthier defenses of the self, which are described as image-producing antibodies that work to undo the toxic effects of morbid defenses. Thes…
Letters from Katherine
I was sent on a knight’s errand by my Spiritual Mother, the former Jungian psychologist Katherine Whiteside Taylor, almost five decades ago in 1976. I was to go out in search of the Holy Grail at t
A Dream from the Pacific
I find myself with my brother at a large fish market near a dock by the ocean, near where we grew up, up the street from Lover’s Point in Pacific Grove. Two women with fish knives are cutting off f
Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (4 works) · History (3 works) · Poetry (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Archetype (2 works)