La Psicologia de la Transferencia

by C.G. Jung

Este importante libro del profesor Jung que se publica ahora en una nueva edición en castellano es la aplicación de los últimos descubrimientos y tesis del gran psicólogo suizo al problema de la transferencia, con justa razón calificado como el más arduo de los problemas de la psicoterapia. <> Tal es el tema central del presente libro, donde se traza un paralelismo entre el moderno opus psychologicum y un típico ejemplo de procedimiento alquimista. Los procesos de la transferencia se ilustran e interpretan a la vez que una serie de figuras simbólicas, y se muestra que el vínculo entre médico y paciente es una función de la líbido de parentesco, líbido que asimismo predomina entre el alquimista y su <>, y de la cual depende un complicado sistema matrimonial en ciertas sociedades primitivas.

Genres: Psychology, Alchemy, Philosophy, Nonfiction

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1950

About the author

Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.

Reviews

[Evie · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of the most readable of Jung's immense collection of works. Right up there with Answer to Job in terms of relevance to me. Pushes Freud's concept of the transference to the limit and beyond. Useful, imaginative, and groundbreaking. A must for psych buffs.

[Hon Lady Selene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of course, I can't take any of the alchemical babble seriously, but there is much to learn from Jung, once you strip away the mystical.

He says, a million light years away from Freud's pathological narcissism, that human beings lack wholeness, which can only be achieved through the soul. And the soul cannot exist without its other side, which is always found in a "You."

According to Jung, this is an instinctive force of a spiritual nature, so that man's development becomes a recapitulation of the stages that ultimately lead to the perfection in the rise of the spirit.
He calls this alchemical projection, but what's in a name?

"The specifically a1chemical projection looks at first sight
like a regression: god and goddess are reduced to king and
queen, and these in tum look like mere allegories of chemical
substances which are about to combine. But the regression is
only apparent. In reality it· is a highly remarkable development:
the conscious mind of the medieval investigator was still
under the influence of metaphysical ideas, but because he could
not derive them from nature he projected them into nature.
He sought for them in matter, because he supposed that they
were most likely to be found there. It was really a question
of a transference of numen the converse of that from the king to
the god. The numen seemed to have migrated in some mysterious way
from the world of the spirit to the realm of matter. But
the descent of the projection into matter had led some of the
old alchemists, for example Morienus Romanus, to the clear
realization that this matter was not just the human body (or
something in it) but the human personality itself. These
prescient masters had already got beyond the inevitable stage
of obtuse materialism that had yet to be born from the womb of
time. But it was not until the discoveries of modern psychology
that this human "matter" of the alchemists could be recognized
as the psyche. "

I like Jung, he's a humble bloke who doesn't call his patients demeaning names. He writes rationally, away from the self, on the individual, on historical human experiences that have integrated themselves deeply into our psyche through cultural, moral, religious dogmas throughout our historical past. He speaks of man's longing for transcend wholeness and how deeply important it is to go on this journey with Kindness, Modesty, Humbleness and Self-Love in mind if one's purpose is to succeed. At what? At being human.

"Because they are all from the One, and
of the One, and with the One. which is the root of itself".
(Quia ipsa omnia sunt ex uno et de uno et cum uno, quod est radix ipsius).

[Stephen Monroe Monroe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jung was clearly brilliant and was able to see things others could/would not. I only gave it three stars because the book is difficult to read. In my opinion the most brilliant authors are those who can communicate complex ideas like transference in ways that are easy for the "average person" to understand.

[Simeon]

Transference is essentially another word for projection. Jung again relies on alchemy to flesh out this psychological feature and illustrates man’s inherent projection of their unconscious into reality. This is quite an abstract read and knowledge of his “Psychology and Alchemy” (which I have not read 🙃) is recommended by him.

He comments on the impulse of many doctors to extinguish an emergent transference in a therapeutic setting and warns that this transference is an incredibly powerful feature that a) maybe the lifeline that prevents a patient from regressing into a psychotic state and b) provides a powerful opportunity for the integration of the unconscious in the process of individuation.

[Joseph R.]

From the forward by Jung: "The reader will not find an account of the clinical phenomena of transference in this book. It is not intended for the beginner who would first have to be instructed in such matters, but is addressed exclusively to those who have already gained sufficient experience from their own practice." [p.xii] And on the next page: "I must therefore take it for granted that the reader has some knowledge of my Psychology and Alchemy, otherwise it will be hard for him to gain access to the current volume." [p. xiii] I am not prepared for this volume, and probably never will be, so it's going on the "to donate" pile.

Did not finish (didn't even get past the forward!).

[Alberto Lagomarsini · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excelente!!!!! A través de una continuación de lo explicado en su obra “Psicología y Alquimia”, consolidó su teoría explicando y abundando con ejemplo. Su epílogo es corto pero genial. Simplemente excelente!!!!

[Sam de Pury · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very difficult but not too long. Have a latin translator at hand...

[Adri Vega]

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[Andrea Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Una lectura imprescindible para entender la psicología de Carl G. Jung. A través del inconsciente colectivo y sus respectivos arquetipos, se vale de la filosofía, la mitología, la alquimia y la psicología del momento (principalmente psicoanálisis) para dar sentido a los peligros que esconde el proceso de transferencia dentro del marco terapéutico, en oposición a lo hasta ahora defendido por Sigmund Freud: la transferencia como fenómeno imprescindible hacia la cura.

El libro no es extenso, haciendo que la lectura sea rápida. Sin embargo, es evidente que los contenidos no son aptos para cualquiera, especialmente en relación a aquellas mentes en busca de lo concreto y lo científico. Esa falta de rigidez metodológica puede influir negativamente a la insistencia en la búsqueda de la verdad absoluta dentro del paradigma de la psicología, pero, al mismo tiempo, abre puertas a la espiritualidad que, guste o no, tanta influencia ha tenido en la construcción de la historia y el entendimiento del alma humana.

[Lector · Rating 4 out of 5]

Una de las grandes obras de todos los tiempos.
Lectura imprescindible para todos los profesionales de la psicología. Necesaria y obligada en un tema tan árido como el de la transferencia en psicoterapia.