Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis

by Susan M. Tiberghien

The author relates an experience that belongs to everyone – the experience of soul. Susan Tiberghien shares a year of dreams, analysis, daily life. A writer, mother, woman in love, she enters her inner world, experiencing vertigo and breathlessness until she lets the light and darkness fuse within her. Each of the chapters marks a turn, with a dream and an epiphany. They build upon one another, as the reader enters cyclical time, discovering that dreams, too, have their seasons.

Genres: Psychology

192 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1998

About the author

After marrying a Frenchman, following him around Europe with a growing family, I started to write more or less full time at the age of 50 when we settled down in Geneva, Switzerland. I published my first book, Looking for Gold: A Year in Jungian Analysis, at the age of 60.

I continued to publish, two more memoirs and numerous narrative essays in journals and anthologies. Then the widely read One Year to a Writing Life, and spring 2015, Side by Side: Writing your Love Story and Footsteps: In Love with a Frenchman.

I have been teaching writing for over 20 years, here in Geneva where I direct the Geneva Writers' Group (an association of writers, with presently over 230 members), around Europe, and in the States for the International Women's Writing Guild, at Writers Centers, and at CG Jung Societies.

I feel extremely fortunate at the age of 80 to still be in love with the same Frenchman, to enjoy visits from our six children and spouses and sixteen grandkids...and to write and teach and read and dream.

Reviews

[Phyllis Ring · Rating 5 out of 5]

A companion I return to over and over for its unfailing insight. I always have a new recognition when I peruse these pages. The author is a gifted writing teacher, and has a new book focused on mining spiritual depths in the writing (and living) process, a title that releases in March of this year.

[Marjorie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some food for thought here though from a Christian point of view.I'd be interested in reading something by a committed Jew doing Jungian analysis.