C G Jung Analytical Psychology Club - London

EDITORIAL 2010

(Front cover) Lorenzo Lotto, Annunciation of 1535. The reproduction is part of a collection of reproductions compiled by the Yorck Project.

In The Red Book Jung writes: 'The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them in the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical. He robbed me of speech and of writing for everything that was not in his service'.

'My speech is imperfect', he goes on a little later. 'Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images'.

It was 1913. He had reached the top of his profession but was only now making his first steps into a solitary destiny, to lead us into image as the language of the dream and the folk-tale, the language of nature and of the soul. It would mean that all nature would become for us a 'un for& de symboles', as Baudelaire had said, and the manifestation of the eternal psyche. This is quintessentially the territory of Harvest.

Our debt to those who have brought us so recently The Red Book, is incalculable and it has come at the right time. They include the new generation of the Jung family who allowed it to be published as their elders had not quite dared, the team who took it into this truly great translation, especially Sonu Shamdasani for whom it has been a life-work, and the Philemon Foundation who managed the project and raised the money.

There is much more to come and more for them to manage, for the world is ready as it was not before. 'Being well known not to say famous', wrote Jung in a letter near the end of his life, 'means little when one realizes that those who mouth my name have fundamentally no idea of what it is all about'. The world is never ready for the truly great. It could not ignore him, yet the masking of 'what it is all about' because of the sheer inability to take in its revolutionary importance, has spread throughout the world.

The organs of government continue serenely untouched, as if Jung had never existed. But the grassroots want him and they want the image. Jung knew, at the end of his life that it was they who would carry on his work, not the professionals. In them is Hopkins's 'dearest freshness deep down things' and it is really that that it is 'all about'. This is the territory of Harvest, and we hope you will find it represented by this issue.

CONTENTS OF 2010 ISSUE

Editorial
- Julian David

Symbolism as the Language of the Imagination
- Jules Cashford

The Tragedy of Patriarchy
- Julian David

Thoughts on Reading Memories, Dreams, Reflections
- Roger Jospe

Apocalypse Now: A Psychology of Conception in Lorenzo Lotto's Annunciation of 1535
- Irene Cioffi Whitfield

C. G. Jung and Ancient Egypt
- Michael Rice

Mind, Matter, Quantum Physics and the Embodied Observer
- Shantena Augusto Sabbadini

The Lares and Penates of the Inner Landscape
- Brenda Crowther

The Emergence of Gold in Alchemy and in Jungian Analysis
- Eva Chadwick

C. G. Jung (1875 - 196l): Radio 3 Interview, 1975
- Ean Begg

Rudolf Ritserna (1918 - 2006)
- In Memoriam

Book Reviews
- Ann Colcord

Harvest Contributors 2010

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