Guest guest Posted December 20, 2007 Report Share Posted December 20, 2007 Get Home Delivery Log In Register Now Home Page My Times Today's Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics U.S. All NYT U.S. World U.S. N.Y. / Region Business Technology Science Health Sports Opinion Arts Style Travel Jobs Real Estate Autos Politics Washington Education ph , an Early Jung Disciple, Dies at 104 Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints Share Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Newsvine Permalink By JEREMY PEARCE Published: December 19, 2007 Dr. ph L. , a psychoanalyst and author who was an early practitioner of methods developed by Carl Jung to explore cultural influences on the unconscious mind, died on Nov. 17 in Greenbrae, Calif., outside San Francisco. He was 104. The cause was pneumonia, his family said. As a young journalist in search of a new direction in the late 1920s, ph traveled to Zurich to undergo analysis with Jung, the pioneering psychological theorist and rival of Sigmund Freud. In Zurich, he studied dream imagery and the significance of colors, symbols and archetypes, all of which Jung believed were recognized across cultures. After attending medical school in London, Dr. opened a psychoanalytical practice in Manhattan in 1938. He then moved to San Francisco, where he helped found the C. G. Jung Institute and served as its president. Dr. became widely known for a notion related to Jung’s idea of a collective unconscious: that of a cultural unconsciousness, in which people’s inherited impulses may be automatically filtered through their culture, sometimes to appear in remarkably varying forms. An example would be the channeling of aggression, in which the impulse might take the form of team sports, dance or warfare. Dr. B. Kirsch, a psychiatrist, former president of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and author of “The Jungians†(2000), said Dr. first explained his idea in 1962, in a “most stimulating paper that added a dimension to Jung’s theory about how we talk about images and emotions coming up from the psyche.†In 1967, in a study that combined religion and anthropology, Dr. looked at psychological aspects of initiation rites. The resulting book, “Thresholds of Initiation,†examined how a person might face and surmount hurdles at different times of life. In 2003, when he was 100, Dr. , with his fellow analyst Dyane N. Sherwood, published a study of the symbolism of alchemy, “Transformation of the Psyche.†It treated the alchemical notion of turning lead into gold as a metaphor for a movement of the unconscious mind toward the conscious. His study of color and alchemy reflected Jung’s own fascination with the subject. While still a medical student, Dr. encountered the “Splendor Solis,†an illuminated manuscript kept in the library of the British Museum. Within the manuscript, which dates from the 16th century, he found color sequences and symbols strikingly similar to what he had previously experienced in dreams. He drew the dream images out for Jung, who confirmed their essentially alchemical nature. From that moment, Dr. was convinced that alchemy’s powerful magic “could express significant stages in any deep process of self-discovery.†ph was born in Elko, Nev. He graduated from Princeton and received his medical degree from St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London in 1938. His wife of 60 years, the former Helena Cornford, died in 1994. He is survived by two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Dr. eventually moved his office from San Francisco to his home in the nearby community of Ross. There, he continued to see patients until he was 102.See AOL's top rated recipes and easy ways to stay in shape for winter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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