Creativity and Inspiration: An Interview with Stephen Martin

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I am speaking with Dr. Stephen Martin on the phone, as he is in the Philadelphia area and I am in Santa Monica. He is sitting in his library at home, a room filled with the evidence of his many interests: shelves stacked with books about the decorative arts of the twentieth century; examples of that work in silver and enamel; paintings commissioned from artist friends; and a collection of letters, manuscripts, photographs, and volumes all inscribed or signed by C. G. Jung.Dr. Martin is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst. A graduate of the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich, he completed his training in 1980 when he was quite young. He is the editor of the definitive monograph on Archibald Knox, one of the most important British decorative artists of the twentieth century, as well as the former editor-in-chief of Quadrant, our sister publication. He co-hosted, with Aryeh Maidenbaum, the groundbreaking conference in the late 1980s on Jung and anti-Semitism and coedited with him the sourcebook on that subject, Lingering Shadows: Jungians, Freudians and Anti-Semitism, which has recently been reissued. He is co-founder and President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. With the recent publication of The Red Book and the extensive coverage of this event by the New York Times and news media around the world, the Philemon Foundation, which funded much of The Red Book's editorial preparation and all of its translation, has been a very visible institution indeed. As president, Dr. Martin sought and secured the funds needed for the editorial preparation of The Red Book as well as for other publications funded by the Philemon Foundation, including the Jung-White Letters, published by Routledge, and Jung's Seminar on Children's Dreams, published by Princeton University Press. Since its publication in October 2009 by W. W. Norton, The Red Book has become a sensation in the book world, with its initial print run of 5,000 copies selling out almost before its publication date. Subsequent printings have been selling briskly. The enormous popularity of The Red Book was no surprise to Steve Martin, given that it was his inner certainty of its vital importance to the world that brought him to establish the Philemon Foundation in the first place.View full textDownload full textRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2010.524109