title: Diffusing the clash of otherness in projective and complex-discharging fields.
abstract: Given the frequent tendencies of our institutional structures to undergo splitting, how does analytical psychology give us some pointers in knowing how to diffuse the "complex-discharging-fields" generated by such, often unconscious, conflicts? How does a Jungian understanding help with suffering the shadow in one's self, become more conscious, explore the places of self-doubt and self-loathing which trigger or are triggered by the shadow projections of others? Can we learn to dis-identify from the "identities" projected onto us by others while, at the same time, withdrawing our projections onto them? Can we honor the democracy of the psyche?
authors.affiliation: C.G. Jung Foundation of New York, New York, NY 10019, USA. maddkc@aol.com
authors.forename: Kathryn C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Madden
mesh_terms: D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007602:Jungian Theory; D012649:Self Concept