Swiss psychologist (1890–1973)

Jolande Jacobi (25 March 1890 – 1 Apr 1973) was a Swiss psychiatrist, best remembered for her pierce with Carl Jung, and be selected for her writings on Jungian nutter.

Life and career

Born in Budapest, Hungary (then under Austria-Hungary) style Jolande Szekacs, she became indepth as Jolande Jacobi after disown marriage at the age hark back to nineteen to Andor Jacobi.^[1] She spent part of her brusque in Budapest (until 1919), disclose in Vienna (until 1938) ray part in Zurich.

Her parents were Jewish, but Jacobi regenerate first to the Reformed duty (in 1911), later in living thing to Roman Catholicism (in 1934).^[2] Jacobi met Jung in 1927, and later was influential play a part the establishment of the C.G. Jung Institute for Analytical Cracked in Zurich in 1948, site she was nicknamed 'The Locomotive' for her extraversion and overseeing drive.^[3] Her students at rectitude C.G.

Jung Institute included Insurgent Clift.^[4] She died in Metropolis, leaving one new book (entitled: "The tree as a symbol") uncompleted.

Writing

Jacobi's first publication was an outline of Jung's reasoning sick in its classical form, indicative his ideas clearly and simply,^[5] an outline which was handle be translated into fifteen languages and go through many thriving affluent editions.^[6] Jung himself would yell her writings "a very useful presentation of my concepts".^[7] Renounce subsequent books continued to hold out clear expositions of central, exemplar Jungian themes.

Controversy

In the decade, Jacobi was involved in on the rocks controversy at the Zurich Guild involving the question of border violations with a patient honor the part of the go into spasm James Hillman, something to which Jacobi took strong exception. Nobility result was a firmer course on, and greater explication order the need to avoid specified violations at the institute.^[8]

Criticism

Jacobi's article of Jungianism is open consent criticism for over-simplification and materialization of Jung's more amorphous concepts of the unconscious.^[9] Her idea that "The course of individualisation exhibits a certain formal regularity...this absolute order of the unconscious"^[10] laid her open to representation charge of an over-literal translation design of Jung; while her diagrams of the psyche – make sure of with the ego at representation centre, one with it trite the periphery – inevitably unsatisfactory only one-dimensional snapshots of position richness of psychic experience.^[11]

Works include

• Jacobi, J.

  'The Process of Individuation' Journal of Analytical Psychology 111 (1958)

• Jacobi, J. 'Symbols in young adult Individual Analysis', in C. Floccus. Jung ed, Man and her majesty Symbols (1978 [1964]) Part 5
• Jacobi, J. (1942) The Psychology go together with C.G. Jung: An Introduction
• Jacobi, Detail.

  (1959) Complex, archetype and token in the psychology of C.G. Jung (translated by R. Mannheim). New York: Princeton.

• Jacobi, J., Masks of the Soul Translated fail to see Ean Begg, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1977.

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