Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice [Hardcover]

Life and Work of Erich Neumann: On the Side of the Inner Voice is the first book to discuss Erich Neumanns life, work and relationship with C.G. Jung. Neumann (19051960) is considered Jungs most important student, and in this deeply personal and unique volume, Angelica L?we casts Neumann's comprehensive work in a completely new light.

Based on conversations with Neumanns children, Rali Loewenthal-Neumann and Professor Micha Neumann, L?we explores Neumanns 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 Hitlers Germany. Finally, in Part III, L?we analyses Neumanns most famous works.

This is the first book-length discussion of the existential questions motivating Neumanns 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.

List of figures; Foreword by Micha Neumann;  Preface to the 2014 German edition; Preface to the English edition; Acknowledgements; 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 : Neumanns Early Writings; Part II: Zurich; Tel Aviv; Moscia-Ascona, Lago Maggiore;  4. ...the Jews must go to the tzaddikim : C.GlS+