Noted Jungian analyst and author Eugene Monick died at the age of 78 on Christmas Eve, 2007, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A member of AGAP and the IRSJA, Gene was a highly sought-after speaker and beloved teacher who wrote Phallos: Sacred Image of the Masculine and Potency: Masculine Aggression as a Path to the Soul, among other titles. To learn more about Gene's life, click the title link above.
Obituary : Eugene Monick, 1929-2007
Our dear friend and colleague Gene Monick died at the age of 78 on
Christmas Eve, 2007, in Scranton, Pennsylvania. A member of the
Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA) and the Association
of Graduate Analytical Psychologists (AGAP), he graduated from the C.G.
Jung Institute-Zurich in 1977, after having been a prominent, active,
and politically outspoken Episcopalian priest for many years in
Minnesota and New York City (USA). He never lost that energy and
involvement. He authored a number of books on masculinity, male
spirituality, sexuality and aggression, including: Phallos: Sacred
Image of the Masculine, published in 1987, Castration and Male Rage, in
1991; Evil, Sexuality and Disease in Grunewald's Body of Christ, in
1993; and Potency: Masculine Aggression as a Path to the Soul," in
2006. Gene was a highly sought-after speaker on these and other
subjects in the US, Canada and Europe. With the IRSJA, in addition to
having served as Vice-President for two terms, he prized mentoring
training candidates, and was adviser to many on their theses. He
founded and sponsored a conference, which he called Tertullia, in
Scranton, which gave the small gathering of attendees an entire weekend
to explore in depth the thinking of one analyst-presenter in an
informal and relaxed environment. Gene practiced analysis in New York
City and Scranton, and was still seeing analysands until he became
seriously ill in the weeks before his death.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, a son, Stephen Blair Monick, Hong Kong; a daughter, Katherine Monick Hogarth, London; a brother, Bruce Robert Monick, Minneapolis; and four grandchildren, William, Charlotte and Alec Hogarth, and Eliot Yang Monick.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Central Park Conservancy, 14
E. 60th St., New York, NY 10022, Attn: Stephanie Donley, or by phone at
212-310-6613, and indicate that the contribution is to be made for the
endowment of a tree in memory of the Rev. Eugene Monick.
Obituary submitted by:
John A. Desteian
