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Erich Neumann and me

My journey with Erich Neumann's writings, began in 2014. During the first five of which, I was repulsed by his poetic and repetitive style. During the last five years of which, I am completely in-love, with his poetic repetitive, creative, challenging, transcending and mind blowing ideas.   What began as an attempted to use a small part of his writings in my planed dissertation research, turned out to be an in-depth doctoral dissertation research of the full volume of Erich Neumann's writings, and its crystallization into articulating the developmental theory emerging from these writings. My current work, theoretical and therapeutic, is based and grounded in Neumann's ideas. I am teaching his theory of early life as well as its zenith, and currently in the process of publishing the book. I am working with mothers and infants while my thinking is strongly supported by his theoretical framework and formulations, and repeatedly find it as extremely accurate to the lived experience. In working with adults, I hold in mind his description of the archetypal psychological stages of development. Also, I am amplifying his theory into my own thinking and working about mothers and infants.  From the many words I write about Erich Neumann, I present here, the final words summarizing my doctoral dissertation:         When I started my research, I thought I would cover only the part of the theory that describes early life development. Soon I was completely hooked and wanted to read and understand more. The more I researched and realized the extent of Neumann’s theory, the more I found myself thinking of therapy in terms of his formulations. I was astonished both by the potential of the theory to promote psychological understanding of therapeutic meaning and by the neglect of his writings in the current Jungian world. Of course, there are many Jungian writers; nevertheless, Neumann had the concrete potential to realize a school of thought of his own, a“Neumannian” branch in Jungian Psychology.          Writing this dissertation has been a long and lonely journey. Spending the time in my study with Erich Neumann, I came to know him in a very intimate way, and although I have no idea of him as a person, I have a strong sense of him as a theoretician and a deep appreciation. I hope that this dissertation will be a fresh breeze blowing on his old pages, a spring bloom to his theory, and the feminine spirit he so called for.

Dr. Lidar Shany 

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