Collected Writings of Giles Clark

Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana

Judith Pickering, Geoffrey Samuel

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040114728
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychoanalysis
• Index: Psychology

This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947–2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Clark's work influenced generations of analytical psychologists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees in England, Australia and elsewhere. His oeuvre covers important themes such as psychoanalysis as a deeply relational, mutually transformative and intersubjective endeavor; how, as wounded healers, analysts learn the art of recycling their own madness so as better to assist their patients; the clinical treatment of borderline and narcissistic disturbances and personality disorders; and psychosomatic issues as manifest and experienced in transference and countertransference relations in the analytic field. The book also explores the relevance of Spinoza, Santayana, Jung and German Romantic philosophers to analytical psychology and psychoanalysis, not merely in historical or theoretical terms but as a vital resource to guide clinical practice as demonstrated through a series of compelling case studies.

The Collected Writings of Giles Clark is of great interest to Jungian analysts, analytical psychologists and psychotherapists in practice and in training, as well as anyone interested in understanding the interface between depth psychology, philosophy and neuropsychology, and in the mind-body problem more generally.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction to Collected Writings of Giles Clark
• 1 A process of transformation: Spiritual puer, instinctual shadow and instinctual spirit
• 2 A black hole in psyche
• 3 Animation through the analytical relationship: The embodiment of self in the transference and countertransference
• 4 How much Jungian theory is there in my practice?
• 5 The animating body: Psychoid substance as a mutual experience of psychosomatic disorder
• 6 Mind-body intimacies and pains
• 7 A Spinozan lens onto the confusions of borderline relations
• 8 A Jungian inheritance of lack and loss: Reflections on my Jungian ancestry
• 9 The active use of the analyst’s bodymind: As it is informed by psychic disturbances
• 10 Symbolising and not-symbolising
• 11 Romantic catastrophes and other vital realities
• 12 Embodied countertransference and recycling the mad matter of symbolic equivalence
• 13 Unconscious structures and defences
• 14 On psychosis
• 15 Herder’s force: Pluralism, expressivism, mind-body relations and empathy
• 16 Psychoid relations in the transferential/countertransferential field of personality disorders
• 17 Towards a psychoanalytic Spinoza: Reflections on his philosophy and the psychotherapeutic mind
• 18 Why (and how) psychoid relations matter
• 19 The matter of an oddly embodied mind: My spiritual travels with a faithful but savage ‘pet dog’
• Last jottings
• A Bibliography of works by Giles Clark
• Index