Deldon Anne McNeely received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Louisiana State University and is certified as a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology through the American Board of Professional Psychology. She studied at the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich and completed her training as an analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts in the United States.
She is a founding member of the New Orleans Jungian Seminar where she is a training analyst, and is a patron of the Baton Rouge Jung Society.
Dr. McNeely is the author of four books on Jungian psychology – Touching: Body Therapy & Depth Psychology; Animus Aeternus: Exploring the Inner Masculine; Mercury Rising: Women, Evil, & the Trickster Gods; and Becoming: An Introduction to Jung’s Concept of Individuation.
She has also written a memoir, A Russian Lullaby, about her three years in the Soviet Union.
Dr. McNeely’s one-act play, Visions of Genius, addresses the relationship between Jung, James Joyce, and his daughter Lucia. It is scheduled to be performed on the evening of March 18, 2016, to benefit the C.G. Jung Society of New Orleans. Click here to purchase tickets to this one-night-only charity event.
This interview was recorded on February 24, 2016. It runs for one hour and nineteen minutes, and is around 76 MB. You can play it right here in your browser or click on the download link to save it to your computer. You can also listen to this episode on iTunes and on Stitcher.
AFTERWORD
“On listening to our interview I wondered, ‘Did I get across the sense that individuating implies that one becomes, not more introverted and self-obsessed, but more aware of one’s responsibility to society?’ I do address this in the book, but I may not have focused much on it in the interview. A consequence of individuating is that one recognizes the importance of contributing to one’s fellow human beings with empathy, compassion, and active participation in society.”
BOOKS BY DELDON ANNE MCNEELY
Touching: Body Therapy & Depth Psychology
Animus Aeternus: Exploring the Inner Masculine There’s also the original edition from Inner City Books
Mercury Rising: Women, Evil, & the Trickster Gods
Becoming: An Introduction to Jung’s Concept of Individuation
A Russian Lullaby Also available in Kindle
The first 3 chapters of Becoming are available as a free PDF from Fisher King Press
Four of Dr. McNeely’s books – Animus Aeternus, Mercury Rising, Becoming, and A Russian Lullaby – are also available as Google Play eBooks, compatible with Apple, Android and eReaders
SHOW NOTES
Graphic about individuation based on questions Dr. McNeely laid out in Chapter 16, “Elitism & Exceptions,” of Becoming
Carolyn Grant Fay The Jung Center of Houston
Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D. The Efficacy of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss
Ulysses: A Monologue, 1934 by C.G. Jung
The Spirit in Man, Art, & Literature by C.G. Jung {This book, Volume 15 of The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, contains “Ulysses: A Monologue.”}
Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung
The poem about the spider is “A Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman. It is quoted in Becoming at the beginning of Chapter 6, and is published in Whitman’s book, Leaves of Grass: The Complete Deathbed Edition.
A Krishnamurti Story “You see, I don’t mind what happens.”
“This Column Will Change Your Life: The Guru Who Didn’t Believe in Gurus” by Oliver Burkeman, The Guardian, Aug. 10, 2013
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell’s ‘Epiphany’ News story at bloomberg.com
The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut’s Journey Through the Material & Mystical Worlds by Dr. Edgar Mitchell
In memory of Dr. Edgar Mitchell (1930-2016)
*This page was updated on Feb. 22, 2021