Creativity and Destruction

Looking back on her experience as a psychoanalyst, the author wonders about her affiliation with the Jungian movement, and the conceptual elements which distinguish this psychoanalytical school from others. She sums them up as follows: Jung’s theories, based on practice; his reflections on commitment to the transference process; the importance granted to real-life experience as well as the ways of consciously perceiving its effects; the emphasis placed on the interplay of opposites, with their creative and destructive powers, in any conscious act; and the concept of individuation. Jung’s commitment, the source of a great body of work and writing, supplies the basis for a productive dialogue with the founders of