Treasures from the Archive

"Early Jungian psychoanalysts collected the images their patients made during their analyses, from the year 1917-1955. They were carefully stored at the C.G. Jung Institute Zurich Kusnacht for over half a century until the analyst Ruth Ammann created a research archive of these anonymous patients. This book features pictures that provide insights into early Jungian psychoanalysis and the power of expressive methods when coupled with analytic work. The book is comprised of chapters with commentaries on a series of images by a single patient. Chapters: Monika Jagfeld: In the Land of the Imagination, Vicente L. de Moura: Making the Inner World Visible, Doris Lier: From Non-Sense to Primordial Sense -Echoes of Dada in the Picture Archive, Verena Kast: Finding One's Own Center – The Symbolism of Mandalas, Ruth Amman: "But why do I encourage patients to express themselves by means of brush, pencil, or pen at all?" – C.G. Jung, Ingrid Riedel: Apocolyptic Times – A Picture Series from the Second World War, Philip Ursprung: A New Configuration of the World, Ingrid Riedel: In Closing – Painting from the Unconscious Today"–