“…we are not just bodies — we are somebodies.”
from podcast When Words Lose Their Meaning (No. 161). This Jungian Life. April 29, 2021.
Episode synopsis: “We are joined on the podcast by Dr. Bret Alderman, Ph.D., author of Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language: A Jungian Interpretation of the Linguistic Turn. We discuss alienation and dissociation that results from the Promethean project to deconstruct language and its meaning.”
Psychotherapy outcome studies consistently fail to find a correlation between the therapist’s theoretical perspective and the impact of the therapy; what does affect whether the work prospers or founders is the quality of the relationship (Blatt, 2007). There is nothing surprising about this. In every other situation a person’s growth depends on the way he is being held by the other.
from The Mystery of Analytical Work: Weavings from Jung and Bion, by Barbara Stevens Sullivan
In coming to recognize the existence of other people, we thus come to realize that our own existence is contingent upon their recognition of us.
from Groundwork for a Transpersonal Psychoanalysis: Spirituality, Relationship, and Participation, by Robin S. Brown
Matthew M. Sholler, Psy.D. 
