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In this newsletter:<\/strong> Critique of archetype theory | Sex, gender, and sexuality | Analytical psychology among symbolic disciplines | Paradox-born subjects in \u201cDark\u201d | The programmable Other | Reflective essay on art: Howard Hodgkin’s Spring<\/em>| Book presentation: Deconstructing Archetype Theory<\/p>\n

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Dear subscriber,<\/p>\n

As analytical psychology continues to evolve in dialogue with contemporary culture, theory, and clinical practice, this newsletter brings together a set of articles that revisit and rework some of its central assumptions.<\/p>\n

The first two articles offer a critical reassessment of core Jungian concepts, questioning archetype theory and challenging Jung\u2019s formulations of anima and animus in light of contemporary developments. A third article turns to the intersections of analytical psychology with other symbolic disciplines in a therapeutic framework. Two further articles draw on contemporary television series to explore trauma dynamics and human\u2013AI relations as sites of psychological and relational complexity.<\/p>\n

Finally, a new category of reflective essays on art is inaugurated with an exploration of Howard Hodgkin\u2019s Spring<\/em>, reflecting on the numinous impact of painting and its resonances between image, memory, and dream through motifs of seasonal renewal and symbolic landscape.<\/p>\n

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Articles<\/h1>\n

\"\"Critique of archetype theory: yesterday and today<\/a><\/h2>\n

This article critically reexamines classical Jungian theory. By reframing archetype theory as a theory of cultural symbolization processes of psychological transformations, analytical psychology is positioned as a poetic science that enriches psychotherapy through meaning-making, rather than literal truths.
\nChristian Roesler, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Jung’s pointing finger: Sex, gender, and sexuality<\/a><\/h2>\n

This uncompromising and rigorously argued article offers a systematic critique of Jung\u2019s theories as they relate to sex, gender, and sexuality, challenging their binary assumptions and calling for a re-visioning of analytical psychology in light of contemporary scientific and social developments.
\nClaudette Kulkarni, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Analytical psychology among symbolism, semiotics, iconology, and comparative symbology<\/a><\/h2>\n

This article examines the intersections of symbolic disciplines and analytical psychology within therapy. It positions Jungian psychology as a clearing in this forest: a science of lived symbols. It offers a clinical hermeneutics for individual transformation, adding a crucial fourth dimension: lived experience and forward-looking perspective.
\nRachel Huber<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Paradox-born subjects and Jungian depth psychology in \u201cDark\u201d<\/a><\/h2>\n

The series Dark<\/em> literalizes core Jungian insights by translating psychic structures into ontological conditions. The series\u2019 time loop acts as the narrative correlate of a psychic loop, a compulsion to repeat what cannot be consciously assimilated. What analysis treats as inner figures become literal persons; what analysis treats as relinquished identifications become erased lives.
\nDragana Favre, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"The programmable Other: Ontological ambiguity in AI relations<\/a><\/h2>\n

Focusing on speculative futures of increasingly technologised worlds, this article explores attachment, empathy, relational structure, and personhood in human\u2013AI interactions. Through a framework of mythic amplification, it examines interactions experienced as emotionally real yet technologically constructed, modifiable, and ontologically unstable.
\nPeggy Vermeesch, PhD<\/span><\/p>\n

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Reflective essay on art<\/h1>\n

\"\"Into the woods, beyond the frame<\/a><\/h2>\n

Inaugurating a new series of reflective essays on art, this article explores Howard Hodgkin\u2019s Spring<\/em>, reflecting on the numinous impact of paintings that touch the soul, and tracing resonances between image, memory, and dream through mythological motifs of seasonal renewal, woodland paths, and healing trees.
\nMarilyn Mathew<\/span><\/p>\n

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Book presentation<\/h1>\n

\"\"Deconstructing Archetype Theory: A Critical Analysis of Jungian Ideas<\/a><\/h2>\n

Exploring not only Jung\u2019s original writings but also the range of interpretations used by Jungian scholars today, Christian Roesler<\/strong> argues in this book that Jung\u2019s conceptualization of archetype theory is not a single coherent theory; rather, it is four different theories which must be understood separately.<\/p>\n

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