On some singularities of Jungian thought and practice in psychoanalysis

The author makes a case for the eccentricity singular to Jungian psychoanalysis, for its utter lack of orthodoxy, from its beginnings to our times. The zigzagging, polycentric course it has followed allows it to navigate a single experience from a variety of directions. Contemporary developments have centered on the experience of relating to the unconscious as a quick, lively reality, largely independent of any conscious control, and deliberately dramatic. Hence the three challenges remaining: thinking this psychoanalysis today, living in the variety of temporalities we encompass, and training the analysts of tomorrow, especially those who are located in histories and contexts other than our own.