Spring #68, Jungian Fundamentalism (And Others) (Spring Journal: A Journal of Archetype and Culture)

Spring 68- Jungian Fundamentalism (and others) starts to approach these questions with a psychological and historical overview of fundamentalism in America by Chicago cultural critic Ben Sells, (fundamentalism here, he claims, is rooted in rational experience). Next we offer an interlude with a delightful memoir of C. A. Meir (the so-called one-time heir designate of Jung) by New York artist Ann McCoy. Then we move on to a polemical essay by the retired Dallas-based analyst James Hall on the present danger of a Jungian fundamentalism (he examines the sexual and political correctness undertones permeating today’s psychology). This is followed by: 1) mythologist William Doty tackling the fundamental fantasies of origins, 2) our favorite Corbinista, Tom Cheetham, looking at the intellectual connections between the work of Islamicist Henry Corbin and C. G. Jung, 3) an interview by Robert Henderson of the maverick Jungian, Robert Johnson, at eighty, and 4) a concluding essay by psychotherapist Tom Martinez on that most difficult of late-Jungian subjects- alchemy. And of course included throughout are others and more.