Anti-Semitism and Analytical Psychology: Jung, Politics and Culture (Focus on Jung, Politics and Culture)

**Winner of the Internationl Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS) Book Award for Best Applied Book 2021** 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. Carl Jung angrily rejected the charge that he was an anti-Semite, yet controversies concerning his attitudes toward Jews, Zionism and the Nazi movement continue to this day. This book explores Jungâ••s ambivalent relationship to Judaism in light of his career-changing relationship and rupture with Sigmund Freud and takes an unflinching look at Jungâ••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 Jungâ••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 Jungâ••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 1 Endorsement 2 Half Title 4 Series Information 5 Title Page 6 Copyright Page 7 Dedication 8 Table of Contents 10 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction 12 1 Anti-Semitism in Historical Context 16 Varieties of Anti-Semitism 16 Sacred History and Cultural Identity: Jews and Christians 21 Sacred History and Cultural Identity: Jews and Muslims 30 Notes 33 References 34 2 Enlightenment, Emancipation and the Birth of Zionism 36 The French Enlightenment 36 The Jewish Enlightenment and Assimilation: From mendelssohn to Dreyfus 38 Capitalism, Socialism and Zionism 41 Psychoanalysis, Politics and Anti-Semitism 45 Note 48 References 48 3 Jung, Freud and the “Aryan Unconscious” 49 A Botched Succession 49 German and Jewish Psychologies: Jung Contra Freud 52 Anti-Semitism, “Anti-Christianism” and “Anti-Christianism”-Neo-Paganism 58 Seven Sermons and The Red Book 63 Note 72 References 73 4 Judaism, Zionism and Analytical Psychology: 1933–1959 75 James Kirsch 75 Erich Neumann 80 Hans Trüb 88 Note 89 References 89 5 Rethinking the Past: Vatican II and Lingering Shadows 90 Confronting Institutional Anti-Semitism: Anti-Semitism:-Post-WWII 90 Lingering Shadows 94 Notes 102 References 103 6 Sacred Ground: Palestine, Israel and the right of Return 105 Self-Betrayal and “Baptism” 105 Zionism, the Soil and the Kibbutz Movement 110 The Mufti, Palestinian Resistance and the Right of Return 117 Notes 126 References 126 7 Anti-Semitism and the Cultural Unconscious 127 References 136 Index 137 "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. Analysing 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"-- Provided by publisher