The Martin Buber‐Carl Jung disputations

Protecting the sacred in the battle for the boundaries of analytical psychology

Bibliographic Data

ID9056648
AuthorsBarbara D Stephens (corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume46
Issue3
Pages455-491
Publication date2001-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1465-5922.00257
PMID11471334
OpenAlexW2009649306
LanguageEN
Citations received10

The Martin Buber‐C.G.Jung disputations rather than the Freud‐Jung split or Samuels's post‐Jungian categories is considered the more significant paradigm for understanding the conflicts erupting within the Jungian community surrounding clinical practice and candidate training. Looking through the lens of the Freud‐Jung split keeps the conflicts focused on the theoretical and technical differences concerning such concepts as object‐relations, transference‐countertransference, neutrality, clinical boundaries. The Buber‐Jung disputations move the discussion into a different and more foundational arena, namely the vertical and horizontal psychological considerations of the experience of the Sacred and how that dimension is supported or thwarted in clinical practice and candidate training by the respective allegiances of the ‘warriors’ in the ‘Holy Wars’. Experiencing the texture of the Buber‐Jung disputations as well as grappling with their content suggests that a more dialogical approach to actual clinical material may be a more fruitful way to understand the work of analysis and the business of candidate training

Analytical psychology · Battle · Countertransference · Dialogical self · Epistemology · Neutrality · Psychoanalysis · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · History · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Social Psychology

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