Saturday, January 29, 2005

Erich Neumann is 100 years old


Haaretz published a long article about Erich Neuman: Psychologist Erich Neumann - designated heir to the great Carl Jung - would have been 100 years old this week. Despite his renown abroad, Neumann lived in relative obscurity in Israel, enveloped in Tel Aviv's 'yekke' culture.

I spend few years thinking about Jungian legacy and ideas. Among his talmidim there were two giants - Erich Neuman and Marie-Louise von Franz. I recommend The Fear of the Feminine by Neuman and Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man by Marie-Louise von Franz, and actually everything else written by the authors. That reminds me that my "project" of reading the book about Alchemy by von Franz is still incomplete.