Guggenbuhl Craig

The Seba library treats Guggenbuhl Craig in 5 passages, across 5 authors (including Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf, Hillman, James, Sedgwick, David).

In the library 5 passages

The analyst, however, becomes increasingly ossified and entangled in his own shadow by precisely that which can be of help to others — analysis and the knowledge of analytical psychology. The tools with which he can aid others may spell his own psychic doom.

Guggenbuhl-Craig argues that the analyst’s unique professional hazard is that the very instrument of healing — depth-psychological knowledge — becomes the means by which he evades self-confrontation and consolidates shadow.

Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf, Power in the Helping Professions, 1971thesis

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Adolf Guggenbuhl-Craig’s theory calls this missing essential eros. Catholic theology called the absence privatio boni, deprivation of goodness, as we say colloquially, ‘That boy is no good.’

Hillman draws on Guggenbuhl-Craig’s concept of the erotic lacuna — the absence of essential eros — as the depth-psychological analogue of theological privatio boni in explaining extreme moral deficiency.

Hillman, James, The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, 1996thesis

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its archetypal implications have been closely studied in Jungian circles by Kerenyi (1959), Meier (1967), Guggenbuhl-Craig (1971), and Groesbeck (1975), the latter two especially taking a clinical approach.

Sedgwick positions Guggenbuhl-Craig as a key clinical theorist of the wounded-healer archetype within Jungian psychology, emphasizing his practical rather than merely mythological orientation.

Sedgwick, David, An Introduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Relationship, 2001supporting

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Guggenbuhl-Craig, Adolf

Von Franz includes Guggenbuhl-Craig in her index, indicating his presence as a referenced authority within her broader mythological and depth-psychological discussions.

von Franz, Marie-Louise, Creation Myths, 1995aside

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