Life and Work of Erich Neumann

On the Side of the Inner Voice

Angelica Löwe

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781351208697
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice is the first book to discuss Erich Neumann's life, work and relationship with C.G. Jung. Neumann (1905–1960) is considered Jung's most important student, and in this deeply personal and unique volume, Angelica Löwe casts Neumann's comprehensive work in a completely new light.

Based on conversations with Neumann's children, Rali Loewenthal-Neumann and Professor Micha Neumann, Löwe explores Neumann's childhood and adolescent years in Part I, including how he met his wife and muse Julie Blumenfeld. In Part II the book traces their life and work in Tel Aviv, where they moved in the early 1930s amid growing anti-Jewish tensions in Hitler's Germany. Finally, in Part III, Löwe analyses Neumann's most famous works.

This is the first book-length discussion of the existential questions motivating Neumann's work, as well as the socio-historical circumstances pertaining to the problem of Jewish identity formation against rising anti-Semitism in the early 20th century. It will be essential reading for Jungian analysts and analytical psychologists in practice and in training, as well as scholars of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and Jewish studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of figures
• Foreword
• Preface to the 2014 German edition
• Preface to the English edition
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• PART I Germany
• 1 “I am a Jew and hold Prussian citizenship”: The cultural and political reorientation of a generation
• 2 “Our paths will cross again!”: Erich Neumann and Julie Blumenfeld
• 3 “… the wound of isolation beckons” : Neumann’s early writings
• PART II Zurich; Tel Aviv; Moscia–Ascona, Lago Maggiore
• 4 “… the Jews must go to the tzaddikim”: C.G. Jung and Neumann’s early letters and writings
• 5 Excursus: “Motherly Soil” and “Renewal”: Martin Buber’s and C.G. Jung’s metaphors of cultural criticism
• 6 “I must learn to distinguish myself”: Neumann’s correspondence with C.G. Jung on the collective unconscious and individuation
• 7 “… a general and identical revolution of minds” : The pogroms of November 1938 and the Jung–Neumann correspondence
• 8 “… yet still have the feeling of being in the right place”: Life in Tel Aviv
• 9 “…belonging to this island as if to a plot of land”: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and Eranos
• PART III Reading Neumann’s works
• 10 “The Transparency and Transcendence of the Earth” : Spiritualising a problematic concept
• 11 “Actualised messianism”: The theological conceptualisation of crisis, identity and transformation
• 12 “… on the side of the inner voice and against the conscience of his time”: Depth Psychology and a New Ethic in the context of the Jewish reception of Nietzsche
• 13 “… all of a sudden I grasped his innocence”: A vision
• 14 “Oedipus the vanquished, not the victor”: The Origins and History of Human Consciousness and Neumann’s critique of Freud
• 15“… a new principle of love”: Neumann’s Amor and Psyche
• Appendix 1
• Appendix 2: German-Jewish dialogue: Neumann, Jung and the Jungians
• Appendix 3: Documents
• References
• Index