John Layard

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John Willoughby Layard (born 1891 ; died November 26, 1974 in Oxford ) was an English anthropologist and psychologist . He was a prominent supporter of Carl Gustav Jung's psychoanalysis .

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John Layard was born in 1891. He and his mother often watched archaeological excavations. John Layard studied in his youth with the prehistorian Ludwig Pfeiffer (1842–1921) in Weimar . He was later introduced to Alfred C. Haddon and studied at Cambridge . He earned a degree in anthropology from Cambridge University and lived in Berlin , Zurich , Edinburgh and eventually Oxford . He read Medieval and Modern Languages at Cambridge and did fieldwork in the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu ) with WHR Rivers . In 1914 and 1915 he lived on the small islands off the Malakula . The materials and documents brought back from his field research are now in the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge . Because of a nervous breakdown he was in therapeutic treatment with the American Homer Lane and became his student. He was President of the Oxford University Anthropology Society and "was at one time running three Jungian discussion groups". He is the author of various articles for ethnological and anthropological journals and also wrote articles for the Eranos yearbooks . He has been described as one of the "oddest characters" British Social Anthropology has ever produced. The British anthropologist Sir Evans-Pritchard is said to have said in a personal communication to J. Pitt-Rivers about his survival from a failed suicide attempt in which he shot himself in the mouth :

"Of course John Layard's mad. He put a bullet through his head and it made no difference. He must be mad. "

In the work of Christopher Isherwood , episodes from Layard's life are processed poetically.

Publications (selection)

  • The Journey of the Dead from the Small Islands of North-Eastern Malekula. In: Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard , Raymond Firth , Bronisław Malinowski , Isaac Schapera (Eds.): Essays Presented to CG Seligman . Kegan Paul, London 1934 ( digitized version ).
  • Stone Men of Malekula: Vao (Chatto and Windus, London, 1942) - digitized .
  • The Lady of the Hare. A study in the Healing Power of Dreams. London, Faber and Faber 1944
  • The incest Taboo and the Virgin Archetype (1945)
  • A Celtic Quest. Sexuality and Soul in Individuation. Spring Publ .; Zurich, 1975
  • Maze-Dances And The Ritual Of The Labyrinth in Malekula , folklore. 47 (2). 1936. pp. 123-170.
  • Labyrinth Ritual In South India: Threshold And Tattoo Designs , Folklore. 48 (2). 1937. pp. 115-182.
  • Family and relatives. In: Institutions in Primitive Societies. From the Engl. Michael Bärmann. (Suhrkamp), Frankfurt, 1967 ( The Institutions of Primitive Society . Oxford 1956 ( digitized ), Ger.); 2nd edition, under the title Family and Family , ibid 1968.
  • "The incest Taboo and the Virgin Archetype" in: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn (Ed.): Studies on the problem of the archetypal. Ceremony for CG Jung on his seventieth birthday on July 26, 1945 . Rhein-Verl., Zurich, 1945
  • The Snake, the Dragon and the Tree , Kitchener, Carisbrooke Press, 2008 ( Review by Joel Weishaus, 2010)

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References and footnotes

  1. ^ The English prehistorian Nina Frances Layard (1853-1935) was his aunt.
  2. ↑ The author of The Stone Age Technology , 1912 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ William Davies, Ruth Charles, p. 399
  4. ↑ He was friends with the young English writers WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood . - see. David Clay Large: Berlin: Biography of a City. 2002, p. 217 ( partial online view )
  5. ↑ Review ( memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on The Snake, the Dragon and the Tree (2008) by Joel Weishaus, 2010 - accessed June 30, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cddc.vt.edu
  6. ↑ Ch. Isherwood, 2012, p. 967 (Glossary)
  7. ^ Robert Kugelmann: Psychology and Catholicism: Contested Boundaries. 2011, p. 239 ( partial online view ), there based on Cunningham (1992)
  8. ↑ Including JRAI , Man , Ethnologica u. a.
  9. ^ Judith M. Heimann: The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life. 1998, p. 116
  10. ↑ Review ( memento of the original from October 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on The Snake, the Dragon and the Tree (2008) by Joel Weishaus, 2010, p. 1 (unnumbered) - (accessed June 30, 2017). Quoted there from: J. MacClancy (1986) 'Unconventional Character and Disciplinary Convention: John Layard, Jungian and Anthropologist', in GW Stocking, Jr. (ed.): Malinowski , Rivers , Benedict and Others. Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, p. 65 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cddc.vt.edu
  11. ↑ See also his diaries .
  12. ↑ cf. Haidy Geismar: " Ethnos.pdf Stone Men of Malekulaon Malakula: An Ethnography of an Ethnography  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. "@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / haidygeismar.com  
personal data
SURNAME Layard, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Layard, John Willoughby (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English anthropologist and psychologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1891
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1974
Place of death Oxford