The Seba library treats Club in 5 passages, across 4 authors (including Marie-Louise von Franz, James Hillman, Jung, Carl Gustav, Jung, Emma).
When Jung founded the Psychological Club in Zurich, he wanted to find out how a group would work in which the inferior function would not be covered up, but where people would contact each other by it.
Von Franz identifies the Psychological Club as an intentional psychological experiment designed by Jung to expose rather than suppress the inferior function in social interaction.
, Lectures on Jung’s Typology, 2013thesis
For Jung, the aim of the Club was to study the relation of individuals to the group, and to provide a naturalistic setting for psychological observation to overcome the limitations of one-to-one analysis.
The Red Book’s editorial apparatus positions the Psychological Club as a deliberate supplement to individual analysis, designed to observe how persons adapt to social situations and collective dynamics.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009thesis
Members of the Psychological Club were invited to some of the Dada events… Sophie Taeuber, who had studied with Laban, arranged a dance class for members of the Club together with Arp.
This passage documents the Club’s cultural embeddedness within Zurich’s avant-garde milieu, illustrating how the institution served as a site of cross-disciplinary psychological and artistic experimentation.
, The Red Book: Liber Novus, 2009supporting
Originally published: New York: Analytical Psychology Club of New York, 1957.
The publication history of Emma Jung’s foundational essays reveals that Club-affiliated institutions served as primary vehicles for disseminating core analytical-psychology texts.
, Animus and Anima, 1957supporting
‘If you can’t belong to this club,’ I say, ‘you can’t belong to any club.’ There are many volunteers, committed caregivers and support groups in the Downtown Eastside.
Maté frames the street community of addicts as ‘the last club,’ arguing that belonging to any community—however marginal—is psychologically essential to counteract the isolation that both precedes and sustains addiction.
, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, 2008supporting