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Those who read this book with the attention it requires, will find they gain an impression of many new truths. The second edition is issued towards the end of the third year of the Great European war, at a time when much we have valued and held sacred is in the melting-pot. But we believe that out of the crucible new forms will arise. The study of psychoanalysis produces something of the effect of a war in the psyche; indeed, we need to make conscious this war in the[vii] inner things of the mind and soul if we would be delivered in the future from war in the external world. There is a parallelism between individual and international neurosis. In the pain of the upheaval, one recognises the birth-pangs of newer, and let us hope, truer thought, and more natural adaptations. We need a renewal of our philosophy of life to replace much that has perished in the general cataclysm, and it is because I see in the analytical psychology, which grows out of a scientific study of the unconscious, the germs of such a new construction, that I have gathered the following essays together. The translation is the work of various hands, the names of the different translators being given in a footnote at the beginning of each essay; for the editing I am responsible. The essays are, as far as possible, printed in chronological order, and those readers who are sufficiently interested will be able to discern in them the gradual development of Dr. Jung's present position in psychoanalysis.
CONSTANCE E. LONG.
2, Harley Place, W.
June, 1917.
Constance Long was a British doctor working in London who arranged for Jung to deliver his first seminar in Sennen, Cornwall in 1920. She was an important early translator and supporter of Jung's but although she probably arranged for the Sennen seminar there are no records of it. The first recorded seminar with some sort of transcript was held in Polzeath in July 1923. Sadly in March 1923 Contance Long died in New York from pneumonia and others took over from her with the Polzeath seminar mostly organized by Jung's British protégé Helton Godwin Baynes (known as "Peter") (1882-1943). The last British seminar was held in Swanage after Baynes and Jung had returned from their Africa trip in 1925. It rained a lot!
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.
CARL JUNG
"The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or "runs." What I found were "coincidences" which were connected so meaningfully that their "chance" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure."
~CARL JUNG
Unveiling the secrets of Jung's Cornish Seminar! Can you help?
I'm still fascinated by Carl Jung's 1923 seminar in Polzeath, Cornwall, and want to know if anyone can shed light on two key aspects:
**1. The Seminar Venue:**
- Where exactly was the 10 day July seminar held? Was “the Polzeath village hall” location the Methodist chapel, a hall in the Atlantic House Hotel or another location?
**2. Accommodation for the Participants:**
- Did the attendees stay at the Polzeath Lodge Hotel, The Atlantic House Hotel, guest lodges like Tristram and Trevose View on Atlantic Terrace, or elsewhere?
**Here's what we know:**
- Esther Harding documented the seminar, offering valuable insights into what Jung said but not much about Polzeath itself.
- Dr. H.G. Baynes, Jung's "apprentice," was instrumental in organizing the event. His friend Arnold Bax had been inspired by Tintagel in 1917 and possilbly told Baynes about Polzeath.
- Dr. E.H. Hankin likely assisted with arrangements. He was a retired bacteriologist who spent the winters in Newquay.
- The seminar attracted 29 participants from Switzerland, UK and USA. Some went on to be the first Jungian psychoanalysts in the USA
**The Clues:**
- The Atlantic House Hotel offered spacious accommodation and possible seminar facilities but the terrace houses were not joined together at that time and the hotel was smaller than it was later. It was rented off the Lanhydrock estate by Mrs MacMillan and Mr T Williams.
- Dr. H.J. Godwin's may have rented a whole house like "Tristram" for the venue, but connections are unclear and we don’t know who the other doctors in Pentireglaze were but included on the map of 1924 are a Dr Tanner and a Dr H D Everington and Dr H J Godwin. Note that Dr H Godwin Baynes might be a miswritten or misread name on the map.
**Your Expertise Needed:**
Do you have any local knowledge, historical insights, or personal connections that might help pinpoint the exact locations? Any information, however small, could be a valuable piece of the puzzle!
This is a list of the winning Cambridge University crew in The 1906 Boat Race against Harvard
with rowers listed left to right in boat position from bow to stroke. The number following the rower indicates the rower's weight in stones and pounds.
Baynes in the middle of the boat is the heaviest at 14 stone and the lightest the cox at 8.10 . Many of the crew went on to win either a gold medal or a bronze medal for rowing in the Eights race held at Henley-on-Thames 1908 London Olympics.
A B Close-Brooks, 11. 0; J H F Benham, 12. 5½; H M Goldsmith, 12. 6; J S Burn, 12. 9½; H G Baynes, 14. 0; B C Johnstone, 12. 9; E W Powell, 11. 6; D C R Stuart, 11.1; Cox R F R P Boyle, 8.10
In the photo is The Cambridge crew which met Harvard in a race on the River Thames on 8 September, 1906. Standing, from the left: A.B. Close-Brooks, H.G. Baynes, and H. Shimwell (substitute); seated: M. Donaldson, B.C. Johnstone, F.J. Escombe (coach), H.M. Goldsmith, D.C.R. Stuart, and G.H.F. Benham; seated in front: B.G.A. Scott and R.V. Powell.
Henry Goldsmith was killed in action, aged 29, at Fromelles during the Second Battle of Ypres 1915.
Eric Powell served as Squadron Commander in the Royal Flying Corps and went on to be a housemaster and art master at Eton dying during a school holiday in an alpine climbing accident in 1933 aged 47
Banner Johnstone joined the Ceylon Government Surveys and in 1913 joined the Colonial Civil Service in Zanzibar. At the start of World War I he was in the Transport Corps in East Africa, but went to France in 1917 with the 1st Black Watch and 1st Infantry Brigade. Johnstone was the rowing correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and died in Bournemouth at the age of 81
Cambridge crew of 2024 compared with Baynes Cambridge crew where he was the heaviest at 14 stone. Average weight (96.3 kg): Approximately 15 stone 2 lbs
Total weight (770.4 kg): Approximately 121 stone 5 lbs
Heaviest rower (Steve Dudek, 109.6 kg): Approximately 17 stone 3 lbs
Lightest rower (Alex Woods, 77.8kg): Approximately 12 stone 4 lbs
Coxswain Zoe de Toledo (49.6kg): Approximately 7 stone 12 lbs
Coxswain Ed Bosson (55.6kg): Approximately 8 stone 10 lbs
From C.G. Jung Club London: The Club Library archives: This first account comes from an undated typescript, probably written in 1933 by Dr. Godwin Baynes (who may have rented Tristram for the second Cornwall seminar in1923).
The Birthday of the Analytical Psychology Club London (known affectionately as the A.P. Club) was on Sept. 15th 1922, at the house of Dr. Esther Harding at 3, Albany Terrace. Five doctors were present; Drs. Mary Bell, Esther Harding, Helen Shaw, Adela Wharton, and Godwin Baynes. These were joined at the next meeting by Drs. Mackenzie, . Wilson, Mr. J.M. Thorburn, and Miss N.G.R. Taylor.
The original desire which brought the club into being was to further the feeling of community shared by those who had had the privilege of analysis under Dr. Jung and on this basis to attempt some form of group relationsip. At the time we believed that an experiment in 'collective analysis' could be made. Something of the sort was tried, but the results did not repay the analytical efforts expended.
The corporeal and temporal life of the club has known vicissitudes. At one time we had our own club premises in the house of Miss Dorothy Henty, a club member, in Bayswater. This was the most extraverted period of our group experiment. Courses of public lectures were given by our own members and by visiting lecturers and we even discussed the possibility of an analytical clinic. This latter scheme was, however, deferred for lack of funds and a scarcity of analysis.
The vitality of the club has to some extent been impaired by the relative proximity of Zurich; several members preferring the direct arterial connection with Zurich to the more onerous enterprise of independent contribution and research. This attitude is understandable, since it is the logical outcome of the original analytical motive of finding the individual solution of one's psychological make-up. The idea of forming a collectivity with other people who have sought a certain quite noticeable resistance to collective demands came doubtless from this cause. It may have been due to this factor that so many papers in our earlier phase were concerned with the problem of relationship.
"...a new and more human expression of community feeling".
Looking back over the eleven years of the club's life it can fairly be said that the vigour of the group as an organism depended for a long time directly on the navel string attaching it to Zurich, and during this phase its output and general character were very largely contingent upon inspiration derived from its parental source. Of the more recent period this cannot be said to hold to the same extent, and two distinct tendencies have lately appeared which could be likened to the systole and diastole of an independent cardiac activity. The systolic movement is found in a definite interest in research, and several recent contibutions have been thought to merit publication for their general psychological value. The diastolic movement appears in a new and more human expression of community feeling, an esoteric and therefore incommunicable sense of inherent value.
In reviewing the club's activities it must not be forgotten that it supplied not only the executive organization but also demand which brought Dr. Jung over to England and prompted him to his first experiments in his seminar method which he has since developed into a most distinctive and eloquent form of teaching. These experiments took place at Polzeath, Cornwall, in 1923, and at Swanage in 1925, and though success was due entirely to Dr. Jung's genius for group instruction, the initiative that made them possible should be ascribed to the collective unconcscious.
The basis of membership which consisted originally in having been analysed by Dr. Jung or Miss Wolff, was soon modified and anyone who had been analysed by an accredited analyst of the Zurich school became eligible for membership. Our present membership is twenty five, and those who have watched the growth of the club over the years, sometimes not without anxiety, feel that it is now possessed of a mettle and spirit proper to a thriving organism. Perhaps the symbol of individuation was accepted at first in a rather individualistic spirit, and this has given place in more recent times to a community spirit in which the concept of initiation into a fellowship has tended to create an individual response to collective solidarity.
https://www.jungclub-london.org/jung-club-london-club...
"The more you deliberately seek happiness the more sure you are not to find it. It is therefore far better to take things as they come along, with patience and equanimity."
Carl Jung
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl G. Jung
Tristram. A house with a view. There's certainly something sychronistic about a photo I just found on facebook of a picture taken from the top window of this house in May 2019 and to see my Beach Art on the sands below.
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