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Graham Jackson

Disciplines:
music
jungian psychology
africa/south africa

Summary

South African Jungian analyst who wrote The Living Symbol — a Jungian analysis of music — connecting the analytical psychology of symbols to the experience and meaning of musical composition and performance.

Core Contribution

Develops the Jungian analysis of music — arguing that music expresses archetypal patterns that the visual and verbal arts cannot — extending Jungian symbolic analysis into the acoustic dimension of human experience.

Notable Works & Achievements

The Living Symbol

Historical Influences

C.G. Jung Van der Post

Intellectual Lineage

South Africa

Contemporaries & Peers

Van der Post Jungian community

Minds Influenced

Jungian music psychology Jungian tradition

Intellectual Posterity

The Living Symbol

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