Temporality, Shame, and the Problem of Evil in Jungian Psychology : An Exchange of Ideas

In a unique epistolary style, authors Murray Stein and Elena Caramazza share their rich and reflective conversations surrounding the themes of temporality, shame, and evil through letters, essays, and email correspondence. Ignited by Wolfgang Pauli’s "The Piano Lesson," Stein and Caramazza study the function of temporality and consider the importance of shame and evil to this relationship. In this book Stein shows how Pauli, as a result of his contact with C.G. Jung and analytical psychology, embarked on a thought experiment to merge two currents of scientific thought: quantum physics and depth psychology. In his work of active imagination "The Piano Lesson," Pauli playfully brings together the former, which supplies a causal explanation of the mechanics of the material world, and the latter, which supplies an approach to meaning. The problem of how to merge the two currents in one language is presented in Pauli’s symbolic solution, piano music, which combines the black and white keys in a single harmony. This music symbolizes a unified theory that combines the explanations of causality and the meaning delivered by synchronicity. Presenting an original approach to synchronicity and dis-synchronicity, this interdisciplinary and innovative exchange concludes with a script written by Murray Stein, inspired by Pauli, as well as an afterword by influential Jungian scholars. This book will be a key reference for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars in Jungian and post-Jungian studies, philosophy, psychoanalytic studies, psychology, and the social sciences. "In a unique epistolary style, authors Murray Stein and Elena Caramazza share their rich and reflective conversations surrounding the themes of temporality, shame, and evil through letters, essays, and email correspondence. Ignited by Wolfang Pauli's The Piano Lesson, Stein and Caramazza study the function of temporality and consider the importance of shame and evil to this relationship. In this book Murray Stein shows how Wolfgang Pauli, as a result of his contact with C.G. Jung and analytical psychology, embarked on a thought experiment to merge two currents of scientific thought: Quantum Physics and Depth Psychology. In his work of active imagination, "The Piano Lesson," Pauli playfully brings together the former, which supplies a causal explanation of the mechanics of the material world, and the latter, which supplies an approach to meaning. The problem of how to merge the two currents in one language is presented in Pauli's symbolic solution, piano music, which combines the black and white keys in a single harmony. This music symbolizes a unified theory that combines the explanations of causality and the meaning delivered by synchronicity. Presenting an original approach to synchronicity and dis-synchronicity, this interdisciplinary and innovative exchange concludes with a script written by Murray Stein, inspired by Pauli, as well as an afterword by influential Jungian scholars. This book will be a key reference for undergraduate and postgraduate courses and seminars in Jungian and post-Jungian studies, philosophy, psychoanalytic studies, psychology, and the social sciences"-- Provided by publisher In this unique work Murray Stein and Elena Caramazza share their rich and reflective conversations on several key themes through an exchange of letters, essays, and emails. This rich discussion, ignited by Stein's 2016 lecture on Wolfgang Pauli's The Piano Lesson, moves from the function of temporality to shame and the problem of evil, touching on the work of C. G. Jung, Raimon Panikkar, Erich Neumann and Marie-Louise von Franz. Stein's contributions detail how Pauli's contact with Jung inspired a thought experiment which attempted to merge quantum physics and depth psychology, and how Neumann and Jung compare on 'the problem of evil', while Caramazza shares clinical case studies and personal reflections to illustrate her points. The book concludes with a script inspired by Pauli, and an afterword which expands on the insights of the main text. Temporality, Shame, and the Problem of Evil in Jungian Psychologywill be of great interest to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas and to analytical psychologists in practice and in training. Cover Endorsements Half Title Title Page Copyright page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Foreword Premise 1. Music for another age: Wolfgang Pauli’s “The Piano Lesson” – Rome, April 2016 2. Outline of a question for Murray Stein: The time dimensions: a comparison between Panikkar and Jung, 20 January 2018 3. The four modalities of temporality and the problem of shame 4. Reflections on Murray Stein's paper "The four modalities of temporality and the problem of shame": Synchronicity as the bridge between achronicity and chronicity 5. Erich Neumann and C.G. Jung on "the problem of evil" 6. The problem of evil Afterword Appendix Index