Eranos
“Eranos,” a play written by Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch, is about history, ideas and brilliant personalities. It is 1947, and we witness Carl Jung and Aniela Jaffé, his confidant, in discussions with Erich Neumann, Rabbi Leo Baeck and Eranos founder and commanding presence, Olga Fröbe-Kaptyn, all gathered around the famous Round Table.
The Analyst And The Rabbi
A Play by Murray Stein and Henry Abramovitch
A meeting between C.G. Jung and Rabbi Leo Baeck took place in Zurich in October 1946 at the Savoy Hotel Baur en Ville. Very little is actually known about this meeting. There are no extant notes or reports from the principals indicating what was said or discussed. There was no secretary present taking down minutes of the conversation. What is known from the few documents attesting to this meeting is that it took place at Jung’s request and that Baeck did not wish to meet with Jung. This play, The Analyst and the Rabbi, is an imaginative construction of what might have happened in this historic meeting of two great men.
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Jung
Murray Stein, Ph.D.Zurich, Switzerland Jung, Carl G. (1875-1961) is the founder of Analytical Psychology. Born on July 26, 1875, to Johann Paul Jung, a Swiss Reformed pastor, and his wife, Emilie, née Preiswerk, in the Swiss village of Kesswil, he received a classical European education in German speaking Swiss schools. He studied medicine at the…
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Individuation
Murray Stein, Ph.D. INTRODUCTION The theme of individuation sounds through Jung’s writings, like a leitmotiv, from the time of his break with Freud and psychoanalysis onward without pause to his death. All things considered, it is perhaps his major psychological idea, a sort of backbone for the rest of the corpus. Introducing the term in…
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Jung’s Contributions to Psychoanalysis
Murray Stein, Ph.D. Michael Fordham once told me in a private conversation that he considered Jung’s greatest “discovery” was the inner world. I would recast that insight and say that his fundamental idea – his one really Big Idea – was the irreducible reality of the psyche and that this led him to explore and…
Latest Books
JUNG AND ALCHEMY: A PATH TO INDIVIDUATION
This book consists of a series of six lectures on C.G. Jung’s work with alchemy. It is introductory, and it is interpretive. Why did Jung regard the study of alchemy as an essential piece of his life’s work? What does alchemy add to his psychological understanding of the human being and the individuation process? These are questions addressed in this work for the purpose of opening for the general student of analytical psychology the treasures of Jung’s insights as developed in his alchemical writings.
The Collected Writings of Murray Stein: Volume 10 – Psychology and Society
This volume contains essays pertaining to the relationship between individuals and groups. Individuals live in families, tribes, religious communities and nations. Psychology permeates all levels. The essays range from the role of the father in mediating between family and society to psychological reflections on the collective psyche in postmodern times. Jungian psychology recognizes the collective within the individual and the individual within the collective, both in the light of positive and negative dynamics. The process of individuation applies to all dimensions of huma existence.
