CONTENTS
- Introduction:
An Overview of Participation Mystique - Mark
Winborn
Section
I Clinical Applications
1 Negative Coniunctio: Envy and Sadomasochism in Analysis - Pamela Power
2 Trauma, Participation Mystique, Projective Identification and Analytic Attitude - Marcus West
3 Watching Clouds Together: Analytic Reverie and Participation Mystique - Mark Winborn
4 Modern Kleinian Therapy, Jung's Participation Mystique, and the Projective Identification Process - Robert Waska
1 Negative Coniunctio: Envy and Sadomasochism in Analysis - Pamela Power
2 Trauma, Participation Mystique, Projective Identification and Analytic Attitude - Marcus West
3 Watching Clouds Together: Analytic Reverie and Participation Mystique - Mark Winborn
4 Modern Kleinian Therapy, Jung's Participation Mystique, and the Projective Identification Process - Robert Waska
Section II Experiential
Narratives
5 Songs Never Heard Before: Listening and Living Differently In Shared Realities - Dianne Braden
6 Variants of Mystical Participation - Michael Eigen
7 Participation Mystique in Peruvian Shamanism - Deborah Bryon
5 Songs Never Heard Before: Listening and Living Differently In Shared Realities - Dianne Braden
6 Variants of Mystical Participation - Michael Eigen
7 Participation Mystique in Peruvian Shamanism - Deborah Bryon
Section III Theoretical Discussions
8 Healing Our Split: Participation Mystique and C. G. Jung - Jerome Bernstein
9 The Transferential Chimera and Neuroscience - François Martin-Vallas
10 Toward a Phenomenology of Participation Mystique and a Reformulation of
Jungian Philosophical Anthropology - John White
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Conclusion - Mark Winborn
Praise for Shared Realities:
Participation Mystique and Beyond
Jung's use of the concept participation mystique has always struck me as among his most
original ideas and I could vaguely intuit its relevance to many contemporary
developments in psychoanalysis, from projective identification to
intersubjectivity to the mysteries of transitional space. Now, thanks to the extraordinary essays in
this book, one no longer has to "intuit" this relevance. It is spelled out in beautiful detail by
writers with expertise in many facets of our field. The breadth of these essays is truly
extraordinary. Reading them has enriched
both my personal and professional life.
I highly recommend this book.
Donald Kalsched, Ph.D. author of The
Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit
(Routledge, 1996) and Trauma and the
Soul: A Psycho-spiritual Approach to Human Development and its Interruption
(Routledge, 2013).
The concept of “participation
mystique” is one that is often considered a somewhat arcane notion disparagingly
equated with an unconscious, undifferentiated or “primitive” dynamic. This collection of outstanding articles from
Jungian analysts of different theoretical perspectives and analysts from
different schools of depth psychology redeems this concept and locates it as
central to depth work, regardless of one’s theoretical orientation. What may seem like an ethereal notion
becomes grounded when explored from the perspective of the clinical, the
experiential and the theoretical.
Linking participation mystique to the more clinical concepts of
projective identification, unitary reality, empathy, the intersubjective field
and the neurosciences and locating this dynamic in the field of the transference
and counter-transference, brings this concept to life in a refreshingly clear
and related manner. In addition, each
author does so in a very personal manner.
This book provides the
reader with a wonderful example of amplification of participation mystique,
linking many diverse threads and fibers to form an image, which, while it
reveals its depth and usefulness, nevertheless maintains its sense of
mystery. This book is a true delight for
anyone intrigued by those “moments of meeting”, moments of awe, when the
ineffable becomes manifest, when we feel the shiver down our spine, be it in
our work or in a moment of grace as we sit quietly in nature. Shared Realities offers
nourishment for the clinician, for the intellect and, most importantly, for the
soul. I highly recommend it!
Tom Kelly, President –
International Association for Analytical Psychology and Past-President – Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts