Matter of Heart

I didn't know that much about Jung, but enjoyed Man and His Symbols years ago and had some group supervision during residency with Edward Whitmont of the NY Jung institute. The film consists of interviews of analysts who knew him, mostly older people except two of his grandsons. Some of them may have been his analysands. There is also footage of Jung himself.

This film was sad for me. Looking back it seems that Jung's approach heals souls rather than minds. I see little evidence today of his work advancing the treatment of mental illness. The film also brings to light his apparent boundary violations, such as his analysis of his wife and an affair with a former analysand, and includes discussion of some of the Jungian concepts noted below.

anima | animus | archetype | boundaries | Carl Jung | collective unconscious | Jungian analysis | mandala | numinosum | projection | psychoanalyst | shadow | transference | unconscious