Totality in Groddeck's and Jung's Conception:EsandSelbst1

Balenci, Marco

doi:10.1080/19409052.2018.1474127

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“…Indeed, such current of thought led to 'a paradigm shift'4 in psychoanalysis (Wallerstein 1998;Poster 2009), whose beginning up until recently had only been attributed to Ferenczi and the Hungarian school.5 Whereas, this paradigm shift should be linked to 'a dialectic rather than a dogmatic conception of therapy' due to Groddeck's It (Rudnytsky 2002, p. 192). It is worth noting that Jung's Self also led to a dialectical conception of therapy (Balenci 2018).…”

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“…The statement of the second Freudian topography found its main counterweight in Groddeck's Book of the It (Rudnytsky 2002, p. 143). Whereby, a 'theoretical schism' (Poster, Hristeva & Giefer 2016, p. 172) occurred between Freud's one-person paradigm of ego psychology and Groddeck's two-person paradigm, mostly because of their different vision of the unconscious and of das Es Balenci 1993Balenci , 2018. Hence, Groddeck must be considered a 'progenitor' of the relational turn in psychoanalysis, of attachment theory, and of the Independent tradition of object relations theory (Rudnytsky 2002, pp.…”

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“…Georg Groddeck, a German physician, founded modern psychosomatic medicine and was associated with the Psychoanalytic Society of Berlin. In previous papers (Balenci 1993(Balenci , 2018, the closeness of Groddeck and Jung's main concepts-Es and Selbst-was discussed. These concepts are translated in English with the terms It and Self; they constitute the nucleus of a perspective-towards the human being, the psyche, and the unconscious-which is very different from Freud's.…”

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“…He began to be interested in psychoanalysis in 1913-when Jung left the psychoanalytic movement-and started contacting Sigmund Freud in 1917. There is no evidence that Groddeck and Jung knew each other. Nevertheless, two authors (Balenci 1993(Balenci , 2018Dimitrijevic 2008) have shown that they had relevant theoretical aspects in common. Actually, Groddeck and Jung shared a similar cultural background: the strong influence of the theories of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Gustav Carus, Eduard von Hartmann and Friedrich Nietzsche.…”

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“…Actually, Groddeck and Jung shared a similar cultural background: the strong influence of the theories of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Gustav Carus, Eduard von Hartmann and Friedrich Nietzsche. The latter is particularly related to the origins of It and Self (Balenci 2018). Among the other three, Carus was a fundamental figure for the beginning of depth psychology and, at the same time, he was the connection between Goethe and von Hartmann.…”

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This paper shows that Georg Groddeck and Carl Gustav Jung shared a common cultural background, in which Carl Gustav Carus’s theory of the psyche was preeminent. Accordingly, they emphasized symbolization and unconscious creativity. These aspects affected their clinical work, aimed at pioneering therapies: Jung with schizophrenics, Groddeck treating physical diseases. They overcame the limits of the psychoanalysis of their time and, going beyond neurosis, discovered the pre-Oedipal period and the fundamental role of mother-child relationship. While Freud’s technique was based on a one-person paradigm, both Jung and Groddeck considered analytic therapy as a dialectical process, ushering in a two-person paradigm. Therefore, they did not use the couch; a setting that is assessed in the light of recent research on mirror neurons. It is also highlighted that the analytic groups influenced by Groddeck and Jung have developed similar ideas in both theory and technique; a fact that may induce further studies on the history of depth psychology.

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The analytic methods of Groddeck and Jung in light of the philosophy of nature

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The philosophy of nature as Jung's background has been overlooked, despite its relevance for understanding the roots of analytical psychology. The German psychoanalyst Georg Groddeck shared such a background, so that a comparison is possible between his clinical view and Jung's. It is shown that natural philosophers Paracelsus, Johann von Goethe and Carl Gustav Carus had a major impact on Jung and Groddeck. Both of the latter followed Carus's theory of a creative, superindividual, and compensatory unconscious – continuing the Naturphilosophie tradition and rejecting reductionist biophysical medicine. Groddeck and Jung's holistic perspective led them to advocate natural healing, face‐to‐face dialectical analysis, and the uniqueness of each treatment. Thus, they were against using techniques, and instead established general methods for analytic therapy. Groddeck's thinking was closer to Jung's than to Freud's in both theory and practice. Therefore, two alternative strands should be considered within psychoanalysis: Freud's classical drive theory and Groddeck's underground two‐person psychology. Thereby, Jung's analytic descendants and the relational psychoanalysts who stemmed from Groddeck's ideas could be regarded as ‘cousins’ due to the similarities arising from their common origin in the philosophy of nature.

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Totality in Groddeck's and Jung's Conception:EsandSelbst¹

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Jung’s and Groddeck’s Analytic Practice

Jung’s and Groddeck’s Analytic Practice

Lay Analyst Elida Evans in the 1920s United States A Story Never Told

The analytic methods of Groddeck and Jung in light of the philosophy of nature

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