Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology: Jung, Politics and Culture

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Carl Jung angrily rejected the charge that he was an anti-Semite, yet controversies concerning his attitudes towards Jews, Zionism and the Nazi movement continue to this day. This book explores Jung’s ambivalent relationship to Judaism in light of his career-changing relationship and rupture with Sigmund Freud and takes an unflinching look at Jung’s publications, public pronouncements and private correspondence with Freud, James Kirsch and Erich Neumann from 1908 to 1960. Analyzing the religious and racial, Christian and Muslim, high-brow and low-brow varieties of anti-Semitism that were characteristic of Jung’s time and place, this book examines how Muslim anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism intensified following the Balfour Declaration (1917), fostering the resurgence of anti-Semitism on the Left since the fall of the Soviet Empire. It urges readers to be mindful of the new and growing threats to the safety and security of Jewish people posed by the resurgence of anti-Semitism around the world today. This book explores the history of the controversy concerning Jung’s anti-Semitism both before and after the publication of Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism (1991), and invites readers to reflect on the relationships between Judaism, Christianity and Zionism, and between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology, in new and challenging ways. It will be of considerable interest to psychoanalysts, historians and all those interested in the history of analytical psychology, anti-Semitism and interfaith dialogue. Cover Endorsement Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Anti-Semitism in Historical Context Varieties of Anti-Semitism Sacred History and Cultural Identity: Jews and Christians Sacred History and Cultural Identity: Jews and Muslims Notes References 2 Enlightenment, Emancipation and the Birth of Zionism The French Enlightenment The Jewish Enlightenment and Assimilation: From mendelssohn to Dreyfus Capitalism, Socialism and Zionism Psychoanalysis, Politics and Anti-Semitism Note References 3 Jung, Freud and the “Aryan Unconscious” A Botched Succession German and Jewish Psychologies: Jung Contra Freud Anti-Semitism, “Anti-Christianism” and “Anti-Christianism”-Neo-Paganism Seven Sermons and The Red Book Note References 4 Judaism, Zionism and Analytical Psychology: 1933–1959 James Kirsch Erich Neumann Hans Trüb Note References 5 Rethinking the Past: Vatican II and Lingering Shadows Confronting Institutional Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism:-Post-WWII Lingering Shadows Notes References 6 Sacred Ground: Palestine, Israel and the right of Return Self-Betrayal and “Baptism” Zionism, the Soil and the Kibbutz Movement The Mufti, Palestinian Resistance and the Right of Return Notes References 7 Anti-Semitism and the Cultural Unconscious References Index