Mario Jacoby

Mario Jacoby was the Swiss Jungian analyst whose The Analytic Encounter: Transference and Human Relationship (1984) stands as one of the most disciplined bridges between classical Jungian analysis and the developmental-relational traditions of British psychoanalysis and self-psychology. Trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, where he later served as a principal training analyst, Jacoby spent his career elaborating the clinical specifics of the Jungian analytic hour — the transference field, the therapeutic relationship, the shame dynamics that govern early-life injury.

His contribution to the Seba lineage is the articulation of the transference as the place where the ego-self-axis is repaired or is not. Against more archaic Jungian formulations that treated the transference as a secondary phenomenon, Jacoby’s work — Shame and the Origins of Self-Esteem, Longing for Paradise — shows that the archetypal material lives in and through the relational specifics, and that analytic healing is not a matter of archetypal interpretation alone but of the sustained containment of the affective field. See jacoby-analytic-encounter-transference.

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