From the Heart
In my own middle years, when the documentary of interviews with the then-living Jungian analysts in the West who had been closest to Jung was released, its title，Matter of Heart[1]，was to many viewers a bit mysterious.
Most had grown used to seeing Jung presented in the Kantian frame of an intellectual intuitive, someone who had a weak social attitude and an unreliable feeling that wavered between a snobbish dismissal of the coldness of modernity and a seductive tendency to introduce bursts of sentiment into clinical and teaching situations.That his oeuvre was a lifelong effort to reverse the many schizoid tendencies of the twentieth century and recover the essential relatedness of the psychologically mature individual had escaped even his most devoted readers.And that his own work on himself was a work of conscience throughout, an effort to rescue an appropriate introverted feeling from collective passions and ideologies sailed over the heart of most of his critics.
My generation of analysts learned about a different Jung from elders such as Joseph Henderson, Jo Wheelwright, and Marie-Louise von Franz, all of whom had known Jung well, immersed themselves in the keys ideas of Chinese culture that Jung had introduced to them, and helped me find the Foreword[2] to the Wilhelm/Baynes translation of the I Ching，my favorite of all his writings.
Studying with these seminal, post-“Commentary to the Secret of the Golden Flower”[3]Jungians, analysts in training in the 1960s and 1970s, became acquainted as I did with the deeply integrative grace of the great ethical traditions of China.We learned the Jungian home truth that cultivating the tao meant letting our hearts remain open to the current of feeling that binds all human beings.It is therefore wonderful to discover in this book by the first Jungian analyst working in China to be certified by the International Association for Analytical Psychology a complete explanation of how, for the Chinese mind, the connectedness of the personal self was already evident many centuries ago.What Jungians nowadays persist in referring to with a mystifying imprecision as ‘the psyche’ was conceived by our Chinese psychological ancestors as Xin，and Dr.Heyong Shen has usefully translated their term the ‘heart-mind.’With this most basic formulation of what enables us to engage with ourselves and others, this book returns analytical psychology to one of its essential sources, traditional Chinese wisdom.Its healing pulse, however, is Dr.Shen's own emphasis on finding in the heart of the mind the energy needed to cut through the branches of impasse that would otherwise block an essential stream of relatedness that can nourish us all.
注释
[1] Matter of Heart（1986）.Written and conceived by Suzanne Wagner.Directed by Mark Whitney.Produced by Michael Whitney.
[2] C.G.Jung（1950/1969）.Foreword to the I Ching.In The Collected Works of C.G.Jung, Volume 11, Psychology and Religion：West and East.Princeton：Princeton University Press, pp.589-608.
[3] C.G.Jung（1929/1967）.Commentary on“The Secret of the Golden Flower.”In The Collected Works of C.G.Jung, Volume 13, Alchemical Studies.Princeton：Princeton University Press, pp.20-56.