It is with great sadness that I let you know that Julieta Besquin passed away on November 1, 2023, in Mexico City.

Julie was a clinical psychologist, a couples therapist, and one of the first Jungian Analysts in Mexico. To be a Jungian Analyst in Mexico was not an easy journey.  Julie began in the early 1990s with a small group of women who were first studying Jung and then engaged in the Jungian router program.  She received her Diploma at the end of the 1990s.

With five other Jungian Analysts, Julie was a founding member of the first Jung Society in Mexico, the Asociación Mexicana de Analistas Junguianas AMAJ. She worked hard to fulfill its mission of bringing Jungian thought to Mexico and promoting Jungian theory in the psychology community. Unfortunately that Association dissolved. Years later she was part of another attempt to continue that mission through Amigos de Jung en Mexico AJUM. Julie wanted to create a Jungian society that could do training in Jungian psychology in Mexico.  Julie never gave up, developing new projects that exemplified the symbolic view of everything that happened in the individual and in the collective.

Julie was very engaged and passionate with life.  She enjoyed literature, music, walking in nature, yoga, friends and family. She was closely involved with her grandchildren whom she adored.

Julie was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the spring of 2022. Since then she faced her illness with immense courage and hope. For some months she was quite well, but eventually the cancer metastisized.

When Julie knew she was dying, she expressed an enormous thankfulness for her life. She was surrounded by her husband, her mother, her two sons, her daughters-in-law and her grandchildren who created a sacred space full of love, acceptance and gratitude.  She died peacefully.

The Jungian Community in Mexico lost a great analyst and her friends will truly miss her.

Rocío Ruiz N.

Jungian Analyst.