The Trustees of the Kristine Mann Library are pleased to announce the Kristine Mann Award presentations that advance research in Analytical Psychology. Its aim is to encourage research in all scholarly, historical, and theoretical (non-clinical) areas of Jungian studies. This award is open to all certified Jungian analysts, analysts-in-training, doctoral students and others engaged in research and scholarship that is of interest to the Jungian community.

The Library is located at the Jung Center of New York and contains an internationally-known collection of books and other materials related to Analytical Psychology. The mission of the Library is to disseminate this knowledge to a broad public constituency and to assist scholarship in the field.

“Encounters with the Socio-Political Other: A Jungian Phenomenological Analysis of Individuation through Conflict”

Carly Larson Solome is a doctoral candidate at Fielding Graduate University. Carly is in her second year of training with the Heartland Association for Jungian Analysts, with a personal study focused on the relationships between the imaginal, somatic responses, and the phenomenology of the interpersonal field. This research project was inspired by existential-integrative psychotherapy training with the Existential Humanistic Institute where she learned from Dr. Kirk Schneider's work on inner depolarization and Experiential Democracy.

This project upholds the research process as a form of social activism in service to emerging aspects of personal and collective consciousness. The intent was a radical act of hope: If the investigator looked deeply into social division, could creative potential be found within the destruction? The results of this research answer that question through the lived experiences of people across the United States who sought to engage, human to human, with their sociopolitical other. The themes that emerged illuminate movements in awareness that occurred during conflict: self and other, personal and collective, past and future. Together, the themes tell a story of what happens when a choice is made to wrestle with social angst and division.