Having said that, Neumann (a Jungian and an obvious student of Bachofen) essentially declares the sacred feminine as the source of all spiritual power and the patriarchy as a fear-based usurper of that power (which is pretty dramatic considering the source.and a Jungian.whoa). It's the nature of the partiarchal history that female narratives are usurped in this way-that we have not been empowered to write our own until recently-so it is very hard for me to just "stamp approval" on exposition written by a man about women and which references almost exclusively other men on the subject of women. The only reason I can't give this a solid five stars is that I have a fundamental (perhaps elemental) bias toward any narrative that tries to explain or analyze the position of women that was composed by a man. His works also elucidate the way mythology throughout history reveals aspects of the development of consciousness that are parallel in both the individual and society as a whole. However, he is best known for his theory of feminine development, a theory formulated in numerous publications, most notably The Great Mother. His most valuable contribution to psychology was the empirical concept of "centroversion", a synthesis of extra- and introversion.
Neumann had a theoretical and philosophical approach to analysis, contrasting with the more clinical concern in England and the United States. He also lectured frequently in England, France and the Netherlands, and was a member of the International Association for Analytical Psychology and president of the Israel Association of Analytical Psychologists.Įrich Neumann contributed greatly to the field of developmental psychology and the psychology of consciousness and creativity. For many years, he regularly returned to Zürich, Switzerland to give lectures at the C. He practiced analytical psychology in Tel Aviv from 1934 until his death in 1960. Erich Neumann was a psychologist, writer, and one of Carl Jung's most gifted students.
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