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Alan G. Vaughan and Andrew Samuels, both Jungian analysts, met earnestly during the Analysis and Activism Conference first held in London in 2014. Impressed with the presentation of new paradigms and applications of principles of analytical psychology beyond the consulting room in communities of ethnically and economically diverse populations, their conversations increased through email exchanges and sharing ideas. In August 2017, they met in person during the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, the birthplace of Nelson Mandela. The exchanges were spirited and rich, the rapport genuine. Analytical psychology, analysis and activism, politics, economics, the African Diaspora, and the prevalence of the psychopathology of racism were discussed. Their conversations continued, in the Oakland hills of California, on December 17, 2017. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An Open Letter signed by an international and diverse group of Jungian analysts, clinicians and academics on the topic of Jung and 'Africans' was published in the British Journal of Psychotherapy in November, 2018. It is presented together with Notes written by Andrew Samuels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In a relatively informal style, Angie Voela interviews Andrew Samuels. In a wide-ranging conversation, they discuss Samuels' perceptions of the relationship between academic life and political activism, and between political activism and psychotherapy and analysis. There is a clinical focus on the management of political material in the therapy session. Samuels explains why he is so concerned that the role of the individual in progressive politics should be emphasised. Spiritual dimensions of socio-political engagements – referred to as 'resacralisation' – also receive attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This contribution from 'the Front Line' comprises a selection of YouTube and other videos that the author has made during the past 6 months in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and the "Africans". The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on "race". Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the "decolonisation" of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitude are provided by the author, one of the signatories of the Open Letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In November 2018, the British Journal of Psychotherapy published an Open Letter on the topic of Jung and 'Africans'. The Open Letter (not a petition) was signed by 35 Jungian clinicians and academics from diverse and international backgrounds. The signatories take responsibility for attending to the many difficulties arising from Jung's writings on 'race'. Rather than proceeding to castigate Jung, the signatories delineate actions which might be taken with regard to the 'decolonialisation' of Jungian psychology. The Open Letter is reprinted here in full. Notes explaining the context and providing examples of Jung's attitudes are provided by the author, one of the signatories to the Open Letter. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper consists of the opening chapter of Andrew Samuels' book The Political Psyche, published in 1993, together with a retrospective introduction. In the chapter, the author discussed the possibilities and limitations of applying depth psychological thinking to social and political problematics. He situates the attempt to make such applications within a wider movement to refresh and reform Western political endeavours. He terms this wider project 'resacralization'. The author cautions against psychological reductionism and a simplistic approach to market-based capitalism, calling for a transformation of the latter to the degree possible. He links sociopolitical criticism and psychological writings on numinous experience, thereby connecting the worlds of politics and depth psychology without losing their separate and unique qualities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is written in the context of a debate within the Jungian clinical and academic communities on whether or not some kind of public statement is required concerning Jung’s writings about ‘Africans’, persons of colour and indigenous people. The author eschews argument in favour of such a public statement, opting instead for a ‘forensic’ discussion of the reasons why it is not a good plan to issue such a statement. By so doing, he creates a level playing field in which the ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ of a public statement may attract equal attention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In his response, Samuels argues that the issues under discussion are more of a work in progress than Bodnar claims and that therapists are more accurately perceived of as construction workers than the philosophers and theorists that Cushman wants them to be. More detail is given on working with political material in the session. Economics is presented as a field for exploration in therapy. Certain philosophers are cited for their relevance to clinical work. Theory asbricolageis suggested. Further material on the role of the arts in connection with progressive therapy practice is introduced. Questions of language are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The idea of the “activist client” is intended to be taken both literally and metaphorically—applying to some extent to a wider range of clients than actual activists. The paper develops a set of ideas about a “political turn” in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, using the tag “the inner politician.” There is a focus on working directly with political material in the session, and the pros and cos of this practice are reviewed. Wider issues such as social responsibility and social spirituality are discussed, as well as an exploration of the limits of individual responsibility. Some specific topics covered in the paper include the political roots of depression, difficulties with the concept of the therapeutic alliance from the point of view of democratic perspectives on clinical work, and a challenge to the unquestioned valuing of empathy (based on a reading of therapy though a Brechtian lens). There are numerous clinical examples. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Using a methodology derived from management and organizational studies, the author reviews the future of Jungian analysis. The methodology is termed SWOT - strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats. A selected list in each of these categories is presented. The author is transparent in allowing for the fact that the paper not only derives from a public lecture on the topic, but also retains the immediacy and the contrarian and opinionated style of such a lecture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on description of opposition by several psychotherapists over the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) conference organization in 2016 at Jerusalem. It states illustration of psychotherapists Andrew Samuels campaign regarding movement of conference location from Jerusalem. It mentions presentation of opposition letter by SPR member Mark Widdowson over condemnation of Zionism along with prevalence of anti-Semitism features at Israel.

This article derives from an interview originally conducted for a webinar on relational psychotherapy. The focus is on relational approaches to political and social issues. The possibilities and limitations of such approaches are discussed in the interview. Attention is paid to ecopsychology and also to the interweave between personal experience and societal dynamics. The ways in which the political is still marginalized in psychotherapy are explored. Ideas about how to work directly in the session with clinical material that is political in nature are introduced. Specific attention is paid to situations where the therapist might be repelled by the viewpoints of the client. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is an attempt to open discussion on the role of the individual, as opposed to the group, in contemporary progressive and radical politics. The phrase making a difference comes to mind. Academic ideas about the contexts and groups in which individuals operate are important yet require extensive revision. Jung’s ideas about the relationship of individuals and the social collective are useful as is Camus’ (1951/1953) book The Rebel. This article presents new thinking about individuals as fractured and broken as distinct from the autonomous unit promulgated by neoliberal thinking. Yet they remain individuals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author reviews the distortions of global politics wrought by US power and also by US vulnerability. It is understandable that many in the West are far from proud of the achievements of their culture. Those whose concern is for the management of climate change via ecopsychology are right to challenge ‘climate change denial’. But it is problematic when ‘salvation’ is sought from other cultures alleged to have a closer connection to ‘nature’ (itself a problematic term). Though well-meaning, this, the author contends, is politically and psychologically damaging. The author charges many Jungian attempts to compare the ‘Western psyche’ and the ‘psyche’ of indigenous peoples such as the Navajo Native Americans with cultural colonialism, Orientalism, and idealisation. He suggests that other political pathways and projects are needed if the desires of analytical psychology and Jungian studies to exercise social responsibility are to be realised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Three seemingly consensual propositions concerning psychotherapy and counselling are examined critically. All turn out to be unreliable, tendentious and even damaging: (i) Psychotherapy and counselling can be free and independent professions provided therapists, acting together, fight for them to be that way. (ii) Psychotherapy and counselling are private and personal activities, operating in the realms of feelings and emotions - the psyche, the unconscious, affects rooted in the body. Above all other factors, the single most important thing is the therapy relationship between two people, (iii) Psychotherapy and counselling, and psychotherapy are vocations, not jobs. Therapists are not only motivated by money. In developing his critiques of these propositions, the author utilizes social, political and economic perspectives. The author reviews new clinical thinking on the active role of the client in therapeutic process and suggests that a turn to the legendary figure of the Trickster might be of benefit to the field. The author locates his arguments in his experience of the politics and practices of psychotherapy and counselling, and engages in self-criticism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Utilizing Jung's idea of theory as a 'personal confession', the author charts his own development as a theorist, establishing links between his personal history and his ideas. Such links include his relationship with both parents, his sexuality, his cultural heritage, and his fascination with Tricksters and with Hermes. There follows a substantial critical interrogation of what the author discerns as the two main lines of clinical theorizing in contemporary analytical psychotherapy: interpretation of transference-countertransference, and the relational approach. His conclusion is that neither is superior to the other and neither is in fact adequate as a basis for clinical work. The focus then shifts to explore a range of political and social aspects of the clinical project of analytical psychology: economic inequality, diversity within the professional field, and Jung's controversial ideas about Jews and Africans. The author calls for an apology from the 'Jungian community' for remarks about Africans analogous to the apology already issued for remarks about Jews. The paper is dedicated to the author's friend Fred Plaut (1913-2009). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the application of ideas derived from psychotherapy to questions of economic and social policy. It is argued that disputes concerning human nature underlie many debates on economic theory. Class is reviewed from internal and emotional perspectives. Psychological obstacles to the achievement of economic inequality are explored and ways of overcoming them critically discussed. Particular attention is paid to the operation of economic sadism in the behaviour of individuals and societies. A range of possible gender differences in relation to money is reviewed. Inherited wealth is explored from the perspective of ‘therapy thinking’. The paper proposes that we reconsider what is deemed to be realistic and what is deemed to be (hopelessly) idealistic in thinking about economics. The paper concludes by proposing a deeper discussion of the problematic of sacrifice in connection with sustainable economics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing as one engaged in the enterprise, the author discusses critically the possibilities and limitations of psychoanalytic and post-Jungian theorizing in connection with consultancy work in the field of organizations and corporations. Slippage between the individual and more collective perspectives is inevitable and, though intellectually inadequate, may turn out to be useful. Often in such work, the paucity of many approaches to leadership available to consultants becomes apparent. The author contributes some ideas of his own concerning the “good-enough leader.” In the next section of his response, the author discusses whether these consultancy interventions are of any use or not, and concludes, broadly speaking, caveat emptor. Finally, specific ethical challenges inherent in psychoanalytic consultancy work are identified and explored. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The author argues that the relational turn in psychotherapy has led to moralism, conformism and hypocrisy on the part of many clinicians. Relationality cannot engage with the phenomenon of solitude in a satisfactory manner leading to a potential flight from the unconscious. The author proposes that there is more than one therapy relationship to sondier and that the key task is to hold their simultaneity in mind. He proposes a methodology by which this might be done. The author argues that what is being discussed will be incomprehensible in terms of the project of state regulation of psychotherapy currently being proposed by the British Government. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Los analistas Jungianos que tomaron parte en la elaboración de este trabajo se refieren explícitamente o implícitamente a situaciones como el estancamiento político, la regresión y el cambio social, a través de su visión personal del concepto de la función trascendente. Singer propone que la función trascendente es un término aplicado generalmente a individuos en quienes el material simbólico parece sugerir el reconciliar de contrarios, que conduce al desarrollo psico‐ espiritual. El observa así mismo que la noción de la función trascendente puede surgir en forma similar en la psique colectiva. Además, él llama la atención sobre el fenómeno opuesto—el cual podría ser llamado la función descendente—tal como aparece en la psique colectiva y su liderazgo, materia en donde su simbólica puede crear la división en grupos de personas, en contrarios, movilizando energías destructivas antes que experiencias transformativas. Meador indica que Jung designó a la función trascendente como el proceso mediador para la asimilación de imágenes e ideas inconscientes al consciente. Así como este proceso sintetizador puede producir concientización en el individuo, también puede ser aplicado a cambios en la sociedad colectiva. Las suposiciones colectivas impresas tienden a cambiar cuándo los contrarios chocan, tal como ocurrió, por ejemplo, en los confusos años sesenta. Su contribución se centra en la reciente revolución, en actitudes raciales y sexuales, producto de una lucha colectiva entre ciertas costumbres sociales arraigadas en el pasado y en conflictivos nuevos puntos de vista. La conclusión de Samuels es que el concepto de la función trascendente tiene poco valor con respecto a problemas políticos. Su contribución se centra en: (I) Las limitaciones de utilizar tales ideas (como la función trascendente). Ella derivó del análisis de individuos para apoyar la comprensión de fenómenos sociales y políticos. (II) El problema específico de una falta de modelos psico‐políticos creíbles para los avances sociales y su retroceso—argumenta que la función trascendente no es útil para esta consideración. (III) En relación a la pregunta sobre agresión política, la violencia y el conflicto en la sociedad explorados desde el punto de vista de la función trascendente para investigar su posible papel en la gestión del conflicto político, Samuels critica severamente lo que él llama "triangulación" e híper‐reflejo por parte de analistas que se comprometen en debates y asuntos políticos. (IV) El liderazgo examinado desde el punto de vista de la función trascendente, no parece pertinente. Más bien, nuevos descubrimientos en la psicología familiar acerca del papel del padre, tienen mayores posibilidades para sentar una base en un nuevo concepto de liderazgo. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This is a reprint of an interview of Fred Plaut (who died in June 2009) conducted by Andrew Samuels in mid-1988 and first published in April 1989 in the Journal, 34, 2, pp. 159–83. The interview covers Plaut's early life, his career, and historical observations of the development of the Society of Analytical Psychology from its beginnings, and of the wider community of Jungian analysis. Plaut reflects uninhibitedly on such topics as the role of leadership in analytical psychology, discussing the parts played by Michael Fordham in London and Hannes Dieckmann in Berlin. Plaut explains his thinking concerning individuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author begins by trying to imagine different models of politics applicable to Western societies. He reflects on the “state we are in” and asks if our present condition of political rupture could ever become political rapture. He asks whether it is possible for citizens to remove themselves from the abusive relationships with heroic, macho leaders. Instead, he states, we might ask where we will find new kinds of leaders who will be “good-enough”. We will need such leaders if we are to manage the staggeringly high levels of conflict and aggression afflicting the political world today. The author suggests that we urgently explore innovative ways to manage conflict in political contexts using new psychological ideas about men, fathers and violence. Finally, he communicates what he has learned from Islam about some hidden aspects of political conflict. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents the author's response to the paper about the future of transference-based therapies written by Lesley Murdin. It states that the possible reason Murdin wrote the paper is her knowledge that those practicing dialectical or dialogical cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) claim that they work with therapy relationship. The author believes that psychoanalytic leadership has indulged in the so called trahison des clercs, a term used in the Middle Ages to castigate the priests or clerics who are against the Pope.

The author explains the political, psychological and ethical reasons for writing about promiscuity. His previous work on what is ‘more-than-personal’ embraced politics and spirituality in the context of psychotherapy. He sets this inquiry in the historical context of the fortieth anniversary of the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 1960s, reviewing critically the debate as to whether there was or was not a revolution. The manifold connections between sexual promiscuity and political critique are explored. This sets the scene for the location of promiscuous phenomena within a spiritual or transpersonal domain. Promiscuities (in the plural) rather than monolithic promiscuity are surveyed in terms of sex and sexual diversity. Promiscuity is reviewed in terms of imaginative process. Finally, the hypocritical attitudes towards promiscuity on the part of many (but not all) psychotherapists are explored with the intention of discovering the reasons for this phenomenon. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the correspondence between Professor Andrew Samuels of Psychoanalytic Studies at Essex University and David Veale, chairman of the British Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP). The conversation talks on the release of £170 million by secretary Alan Johnson of the Ministry of Health for the National Health Service (NHS) Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) program for people who suffered from anxiety and depression.

The article discusses various reports published within the issue, including the exploration of questions inherent in learning the unknown and learning to speak from unknowing by Julia Cayne and Del Loewenthal and another on the concept of synchronicity between dreams and thoughts by Roderick Main.

Samuels interviewed Dimen in lieu of a book review for her Sexuality, Intimacy, Power. The interview was unstructured and dialogical and covered the following main topics: (a) professional issues in the field of psychoanalysis such as the relation of theory to practice and ref lections on the nature and content of trainings in psychoanalysis; (b) issues in the broad areas of sexuality and gender including the question of moral relativism with respect to sexual behaviors historically designated as "perverse" and considerations of masculinity, femininity, and patriarchy; (c) intellectual considerations such as the relations between anthropology and psychoanalysis and the as yet indeterminate nature of the discipline of psychoanalysis, neither art nor science and not a hybrid of the two; and (d) the political, social, and cultural contexts within which psychoanalytic endeavors including the interview itself are taking place. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I am responding to your welcome request for an update concerning the Open Letter on Jung and "Africans" published by the Journal in October 2018. At the recent IAAP conference in Vienna in August 2019, the Open Letter was a prominent topic of conversation. I conclude with an anecdote: There was a meeting of one of the IAAP group members in London in order to discuss the Open Letter. [Extracted from the article]

The remit of the apparatus of professional ethics in the field of psychotherapy can be appropriately expanded so as to make the profession more socially responsible and thereby contribute to the 'protection of the public' that is said to be the main purpose of statutory regulation. Using ideas culled from the sociology of the professions, political theory and ethical discourse, it is proposed that ethical psychotherapy cannot take place if its overall social framework is itself profoundly unethical. Inclusivity and diversity are reframed as ethical professional practices. Questions of wealth, gender, sexuality and ethnicity are not only 'social' or 'political' - they are also part of a morally imaginative expansion of what we mean by professional ethics. Attention is paid to the dangers of self-righteousness and moral tyranny. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ideas and practices of psychotherapy, together with fresh thinking from many other sources, can help to revitalize Western politics which seem broken and moribund. The author describes various professional experiences of his own at the interface of politics and psychotherapy. These include consulting with mainstream and activist politicians and groupings. He discusses how politics in the West is changing in the general direction of what he calls "transformative politics." He also asks if psychotherapists can make a difference in the political world today, explaining that, though enthusiastic about the prospect, he is also skeptical about it because the record of psychotherapists' involvement in politics is not very good. The paper includes an experiential and personally oriented section ("The Inner Politician") that looks at how the political self is formed in culture, family, and the inner world. The notion of differing political styles as a source of conflict is explained and explored. The author concludes with some reflections on the relations between psychotherapy, politics, and spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I begin with some general issues and problems of defining the 'S' word. Next, I present a contemporary anatomy of spirituality stressing connections to lived experience in society. The third section is on 'responsibility' and how that links to psychological, spiritual and political concerns. Finally, inevitably, given my Jungian background, I discuss the shadow of spirituality. Throughout I make connections to the clinical encounter and dialogue in psychotherapy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a profile of the British health association Psychotherapists and Counselors for Social Responsibility (PCSR). Background on the formation of PCSR; Organizational objectives; Achievements in the field of psychoanalytic practice.

Studies the applicability of transcultural therapy in domestic psychotherapy. Factors that are indispensable for personal transformation in the experience of transcultural therapy; Information on sexual misconduct as an example of power within psychotherapy; Problems encountered in integrative psychotherapy.

ABSTRACT Without collapsing distinct discourses into each other, the paper considers the linkages between spirituality, psychotherapy and politics. Changes are raking place in all three areas. Therapists who focus on the spiritual dimension as part of their ordinary work still tend to be marginalized. Similarly, the political dimensions of the client's experience often receive insufficient attention. The author offers an initial sketch of a new 'anatomy of spirituality': into social spirituality, democratic spirituality, craft spirituality, profane spirituality and spiritual sodality, He criticizes the practice of 'safe therapy', meaning therapy based on an object relations paradigm that represses the (incestuous) sexuality that lies at the heart both of the therapy encounter and the domain of spiritual values. The paper concludes with some thoughts about justice and an account of pertinent grassroots political developments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses (1) the history of a cluster of unusual institutions — analytical psychology clubs — which started in 1961 and by 1934 had become established in many of the countries in the world in which there was interest in the analytical psychology of Carl G. Jung; (2) the conflicts involved in trying to unite the relatively informal earlier ‘Jung Clubs’ with the more formal societies being established by the increasing numbers of professionally trained analysts; and (3) the wider cultural and social issues included in the professionalization of analytical psychology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores what psychology and psychotherapies can offer as part of the much needed transformation of western politics. Basis for suggestion that psychotherapists could transform self-concern into social and political concern; Introduction of the `political energy' concept; Proposition of a multidisciplinary approach to establish psychological delimeters; Operation of `political energy' on an individual level.

Focuses on the new historical materials presented concerning Jung, anti-Semitism and the Nazis. Opinion of Matthias Göring and Carl Jung on Robert Sommer's book "Family Studies, Hereditology and Raceology"; Publication of the book "Mein Kampf" from Goring; Translation of the book "Collected Works," by Jung.

The paper is a critical study of the intellectual relations of analytical psychology and national socialism. I try to show that it was Jung's attempt to establish a psychology of nations that brought him into the same frame as Nazi anti-semitic ideology. In addition, Jung was absorbed by the question of leadership, also a pressing issue during the 1930s. Exploring these ideas as thoroughly as possible leads to a kind of reparation, for I think that post-Jungians do have reparation to make. Then it is possible to revalue Jung's overall project in more positive terms. By coupling a less simplistic methodology and a more sensitive set of values to Jung's basic intuitions about the importance of a psychology of cultural difference, analytical psychology has something to offer a depth psychology that is concerned with processes of political and social transformation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the intellectual relations of analytical psychology and National Socialism. Information on Carl Jung's attempt to establish a psychology of nations; Criticisms on Carl Jung's work in the general area of national psychology; Discussion on the Jung's intuitions about the importance of a psychology of cultural difference.

The article presents the author's views on author Marvin Spiegelman's paper published in a previous issue of the journal. Despite the thematic overlap, Marvin Spiegelman's paper and the author's own, "Analysis and Pluralism: The Politics of Psyche," both published in the January 1989 issue of this Journal, were written quite separately. The author found so often when he was writing "Jung and the Post-Jungians" that there was much in common to be found in relation to Jung's work on the part of analysts who would not otherwise be much in agremeent. He puzzled for some time over how to reply to Spiegelman's paper, for it is written in a rather unusual style for the Journal. In the end, he has opted for a low-key, even pedestrian, offering. This is because he has already responded in a more passionate manner in a public setting.

This article presents a conversation between Fred Plaut and Andrew Samuels. Plaut told Samuels that he is well-known in the analytical world for a variety of reasons, but two that he would like to mention is interest in maps and the process of discovery, and the fact that he has moved a lot in his life from Germany to South Africa, to England, to Germany. He was wondering if he would talk about possible connections between these two aspects of himself. He can speak about connections which he saw only very recently. When he came to England in 1946, just after the war, he wasn't at all sure whether he would be staying.

Focuses on pluralism, an attitude to conflict which tries to reconcile differences without imposing a false resolution. Pluralism as an ideology; Definition of political pluralism; Role of pluralism in the evaluation of tensions and oscillation within the psyche.

The article presents information on developments in the understanding of countertransference in psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It is concluded that there is a consensus that some countertransference reactions are usable communications from the patient. Countertransferences are grouped as bodily; behavioural, feeling and phantasy reactions. Body and image emerge as key themes. This research leads to an examination of the "mundus imaginalis" in terms of countertransference and to the proposal of additional terms, analytical visions and bodily visions.

Presents the emergence of schools of post-jungian analytical psychology. Classification of analytical psychology; Common in the developments within the various schools of analytical psychology; Limits of analytical psychology.

Argues that imagery around the parents in bed can be seen as a conjunction of the divine and the grotesque. Examination of the images and experiences of parental intercourse and the parental marriage; Role of parental images in the development of personality; Study of the conjunction of the grotesque and the divine.

Focuses on the existence of incest and omnipotence involved in the patient's internal family. Development of the idea of the internal marriage; Connection between infancy and adult married life; Influence on the identification of the same sex parent on partner choice.